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COEHDnews -- Week of Thu, December 22, 2016
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Steve
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by YVONNE
ZAMORA BYRD, UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT| Pub: 12/21 |
 How
one couple is honoring their mothers |
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Announcements
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Civic
Engagement Summit |
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Carolina Canizales, Program Coordinator Center for Civic Engagement |
The Civic Engagement Summit is an opportunity to celebrate and showcase
UTSA's commitment to civic engagement through a myriad of efforts by students, faculty, and staff. In keeping with our climb to Tier One and our strategic vision to promote community engagement, this summit provides us with an opportunity to highlight the
significant ways our university impacts the local community.
Interested in submitting a workshop proposal? Deadline is December 21, 2016. Poster proposals are due by January 13, 2017. Visit http://bit.ly/CCEsummit to
submit workshop or poster proposal. |
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Events Calendar
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MLK
March |
 8:30 a.m. |
 Main Campus - Convocation Center |
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External News
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College
food pantries offer lifeline |
by EXPRESS-NEWS
EDITORIAL BOARD - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 12/20
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Food insecurity is a growing problem among college students trying
to juggle rapidly rising tuition rates, high-priced textbooks and rent on limited resources. Food insecurity covers a wide spectrum of students and includes 25 percent of community college students and 20 percent of those in four-year universities. Many of
them are not what we would consider traditional college students, those who enroll right out of high school and are supported by Mom and Dad. Hunger was found to be more prevalent among students of color and first-generation college students, according to
“Hunger on Campus,” a recently released study conducted by the National Student Campaign.
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Institute
of Texan Cultures’ first gala set for Jan. 19 |
by SCOTT
HUDDLESTON - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 12/20
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Sikh leader G.P. Singh, small business advocate Janie Barrera and
the OCI Group, a consulting firm with a focus on social responsibility, will be honored at the Institute of Texan Cultures’ first-ever Texas Star Heritage Award Gala in January. The formal dinner, silent auction and entertainment event, to be held Jan. 19
under the institute’s 26-screen projection dome, is an official San Antonio tricentennial event and a “turning point, in a sense, for the museum,” said James Benavides, senior communications specialist at the institute, which is run by the University of Texas
at San Antonio.
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14
UTSA players make the walk at unique graduation |
by TIM
GRIFFIN - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 12/20
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UTSA president Ricardo Romo has been involved in more than 250 graduations
during his educational career. But the ceremony he administered late Friday afternoon in a gazebo at Old Town in Albuquerque might have his most memorable one yet. Romo provided degrees for 14 UTSA players who will graduate in December. Because of their obligations
in Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl, they wouldn’t be able to walk the stage at the Alamodome with their classmates. Romo flew to New Mexico to “hang out,” as he called it, on Friday before graduation.
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Students
Who Get Better Career Guidance Remember College More Fondly |
by MAYRA
LINARES - NPR | Pub: 12/20
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A new survey of 11,483 college graduates, for the Gallup-Purdue
Index, found graduates who reported "very helpful" campus career-services experiences were 5.8 times more likely to say their university prepared them for life after college, 3.4 times more likely to recommend their school and 2.6 times more likely to donate
to their alma mater than graduates who found their campus career help "not at all helpful."
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Getting
Students With Autism Through High School, To College And Beyond |
by YASMEEN
KHAN - NPR | Pub: 12/20
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Colin Ozeki, 17, doesn't like to sugarcoat how autism spectrum disorder
has affected his interactions with others, his emotions and his own self-confidence. He sees it as an issue to confront, something about himself to work on and improve in order to fully participate in life around him.
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Great
Books To Inspire English Language Learners |
by MAYRA
LINARES - NPR | Pub: 12/20
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I grew up speaking Spanish, and I didn't start learning English
until I was in preschool. When it came to books, I struggled — like many ELL students — to connect with characters that didn't look like me or speak my language.
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Publications
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Place
consciousness as a pathway towards campus sustainability |
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MOSELEY,
CHRISTINE - Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching | The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities, World Sustainability Series: 12/12 |
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Moseley, C., Kharod, D, & Shelden, W. (2016). Place consciousness as a pathway towards campus sustainability. In W. Leal Filho and M. Zint (eds.), The Contribution of Social Sciences
to Sustainable Development at Universities, World Sustainability Series. Switzerland.: Springer International Publishing.
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