Annual Faculty/Staff Downtown
Campus Update
November 30, 2010
View of Downtown from Downtown Campus
Enrollment Highlights
Fall 2010
• Enrollment is 6,668 students, a 3.86%
increase over Fall 2009
• Enrollments are 20% of total UTSA
enrollments
• UG enrollment (5,248) is 20% of UTSA’s
overall UG enrollment
• Graduate enrollment (1,420) is 33% of
UTSA’s overall graduate enrollment
Enrollment Highlights
Fall 2010
• Credit hours generated are 43,505, a 9.4%
increase over Fall 2009
• COPP and COA fastest growing colleges at
the DT Campus
• 143 Early College students are enrolled
Enrollment Highlights:
Majors by College
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Architecture---1,116 (total--1,182)
Business---733
Education---1,730
Engineering---103
Liberal & Fine Arts---944
Public Policy---1,132 (total--1,341)
Sciences---549
Highlights from 2009-2010
•
•
•
•
•
Enriching Educational Experiences
Serving Society
Promoting Access & Affordability
Community Engagement
Expanding Resources & Infrastructure
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COA)
• BS in Interior Design and Master of
Architecture accredited
• (with COPP) MS in Urban and Regional
Planning implemented
• New Bachelor of Science in Construction
Science and Management achieved
“Candidate Program Status”
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COPP)
• SW students worked with recovering
heroine addicts in Project Carino—and with
HIV clients in collaboration with UT Health
Science Center
• Demography produced its first Ph.D.
graduate
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COPP)
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration
approved
• Nonprofit Administration and Leadership
enrolled over 60 participants
• 2nd Annual Student Research Paper
Competition conducted
• “Law and Criminology without Borders”
hosted by CRJ & Mexico Center
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COEHD)
• New Master’s in School Psychology started
with 50 new students
• SPSY program added 8 new courses
• Psychological Assessment and Consultation
Center has a library, conference room,
assessment materials and video equipment
for supervision
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COLFA)
• Graduate students organized the “Wild
Tongues: Concepts of the Untamed in
Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and
Beyond” conference
• Sponsored “El Mundo Zurdo: An
International Conference on the Life and
Work of Gloria Anzaldua”
Enriching Educational
Experiences (COLFA)
• Sponsored “Decolonial Subject Formations
at the Limits of Impunity: A Metareading of
Making a Killing”
Enriching Educational
Experiences (CS)
• Mexico Center hosted/sponsored a number
of important conferences and presentations
on international migration, assimilation and
race
• Mexico Center co-sponsored presentations
on doing business in the U.S. (with IED),
the architecture of Tatiana Bilbao (with
COA)
Enriching Educational
Experiences (CS)
• IED provided internships and service
learning opportunities to more than 100
students
• IED and COB partnered with San Antonio
SBDC to match senior-level accounting
students with SBDC clients
Enriching Educational
Experiences (Student Affairs)
• Sports Court being built and aerobics and
ballet dance floor being installed in
Aerobics Room
• Student Activities initiated the Graduate
Students & Faculty Social Hour
Enriching Educational
Experiences (Student Affairs)
• Student Activities held Constitution Day,
Tournament Tuesdays, Brown Bag
Matinees (13), Coffee House Performances
(4), Cultural Programming (6); 4th Annual
Family Fest
Enriching Educational
Experiences
• TRC initiated Investigating Career Options
• TRC provided additional academic support
to COPP’s academic reinstatement students
• 34 freshman selected for the ACE Scholarship Program
Serving Society (COPP)
• IDSER conducted needs assessment for the
City of San Antonio’s Early Childhood
Head Start Program
• IDSER produced projections for the
overweight and obese population for Texas
(with the Texas Comptroller’s Office)
Serving Society (COPP)
• SW (with the CAPRI Center) is conducting
a project to help foster youth transfer into
higher education
• AH students conducted “7 in Seven” service
project during Spring Break
Serving Society (COA)
• 300 STAR students participated in the
City’s Historic Preservation Office on the
clean-up of the Dignowity neighborhood
Promoting Access &
Affordability
• SW received three years of funding for
scholarships for bilingual students
• SW enrollments grew to 190 students
• COA and the Construction Industry
Advisory Council established 14 annual
scholarships established for Construction
Science and Management majors
Promoting Access &
Affordability
• P-20 continued Early College Program and
various school projects
• Student Affairs offered campus tours; Visit
Fridays
Community Engagement (COA)
• COA: The College and the City of San
Antonio hosted a two-day Charrette
focusing on the Frio Street Corridor
Community Engagement (COPP)
• Presented The Great Cities Dialogue:
“Great Cities in Dark Times”
• Sponsored a forum entitled “Public Policy
and San Antonio’s Urban Landscape:
Sustaining our Natural Heritage”
• Sponsored Senator Van De Putte’s forum
on “Human Trafficking”
Community Engagement (COPP)
• PAD hosted “Conversation Starters”
• CRJ hosted 3rd Annual Community
Breakfast
Community Engagement (COEHD)
• Psychological Assessment and Consultation
Center provided community services
• Counseling faculty provided
workshops/presentations on multi-student
suicide, student substance abuse, and
bullying
• Counseling conducted weekly substance
abuse counseling groups in Harlandale
Community Engagement (COEHD)
• Counseling faculty provided counseling
services to adjudicated youth and their
families at Judge Bull’s Juvenile Court
• Hosted the Texas Licensed Professional
Counselor Board Meeting
Community Engagement
(COLFA)
• Presented The Crucible
• Implemented “Downtown Campus Strings
Program”
Community Engagement
• TRC hosted their annual High School
Counselors Breakfast
• Student Activities provided a once a month
personality assessment for 25 juvenile girls
and family members at the Municipal Court
Community Engagement (CS)
• IED served more than 37,000 clients, a
16% increase than served in 2009
• P-20 established Mentoring Matters
• TRIO (with the SPURS) hosted the TRIO
Day TEXAS at the AT&T Center
• Extended Education conducted Advanced
Placement Seminar Institute
Expanding Resources &
Infrastructure
• DT Campus: GIS Research Lab established
by Vice Provost, IDSER, COPP, & COA
• DT Campus: Significant hiring of faculty,
administrators, and staff
• Student Affairs: DTC Technology Store
opened; Transcript Service enhanced;
Career Services relocated and expanded
• COPP: Dr. Lloyd Potter named the Texas
State Demographer in March 2010
Expanding Resources &
Infrastructure (CS)
• IED established 2 new programs – the Rural
Business Program and the Sustainable
Business Program
• The International Trade Center created an
SBDC model in Columbia and El Salvador.
• A website, SBDCglobal.com, is under
development
Expanding Resources &
Infrastructure (CS)
• Extended Education: Acquired technology
to create a web portal for continuing
education activities throughout UTSA
• P-20 (with Academy for Teacher
Excellence) awarded a 3-year grant from
DE for $750,000
Recognized Excellence
• COPP: AH received the Outstanding
Certifications Benchmark Award
• COPP: AH is in the top five of American
Humanics national certifying institutions
Recognized Excellence
• COPP: Criminal Justice was awarded over
½ million dollars in federal grants and
contracts
• IED: The Minority Business Enterprise
Center was ranked #1 nationwide for its
access to markets and capital, job creation,
new clients and sales increases
Downtown Campus Traditions
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Family Fest
Coffee House
Dia de los Muertos
NIUTSA Jazzed Up
La Despedida
Holiday Luncheon
Holiday Saxophones
Major Developments
• Review of undergraduate degree
programming
• Food Court upgrades & expanded hours
• Monterey Building Cafe
• Lighting and landscaping on Bill Miller
Plaza
• DXS Card Readers in Durango Building
Major Developments
• Farewell to Friends and Colleagues
– Powell Trotti
– Mark McGregor
– Pat Morehead
Major Developments
• Welcome to all new faculty and staff