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University Earns Prestigious Business Accreditation
A&M-SA has earned accreditation for its College of Business by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. Less than 6% of the world's schools offering business degree programs hold AACSB business accreditation. With the AACSB accreditation, A&M-SA’s College of Business will develop and implement new, state-of-the-art undergraduate and graduate degree programs as well as maintain and increase resources for students. Read more.
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In A Social Mood
Associate Professor Awarded Inaugural Grant Named in His Honor
Does social mood influence our social attitudes and actions? What part does social mood play in influencing our social behavior, particularly in areas such as politics, pop culture, financial markets and the economy? How do societal ethics, philosophies and norms impact economics?
Dr. Dennis Elam, an associate professor of accounting, explores these key questions and the interconnectedness of economics and social behavior in his Accounting Ethics classes at A&M-San Antonio. Read more.
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University Awards Scholarships to Southwest Legacy High School Students
A&M-SA kicked off the financial aid awarding season with an event at Southwest Legacy High School, an ASPIRE Network school. The University presented a check for $125,000 to the school for scholarships to be awarded to more than 100 students. Each senior in the top 25% received a scholarship of $1,000. View student testimonials aired on KENS 5 News. Read more.
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University Receives Funding for Autism Mobile Unit
A&M-SA received $300,000 for a project as part of the fiscal year 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act that will fund the federal government through September 30, 2023. Submitted as part of the Community Project Funding process by Congressman Joaquin Castro, the funds will support the University’s Autism Mobile Assessment Bus and Learning Environment (AMABLE). Read more.
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University Receives Funding for Public Health Genetics and Genomics
A&M-SA received $1.9 million for a project as part of the fiscal year 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act that will fund the federal government through September 30, 2023. Championed by Congressman Tony Gonzales as part of the Community Project Funding process, the funds will support A&M-SA’s Public Health Genomics Laboratories. Read more.
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CAB Coordinators Presented at the National Association for Campus Activities National Convention
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On February 21, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) coordinators presented at the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) national conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
CAB Director Joe Kamunu, Marketing Coordinator Yanellie Chapa, and CAB Graduate Assistant Richard Villarreal Jr. presented on programming, event management and marketing. During this presentation, attendees learned the basics of creating Instagram Reels, Canva and the importance of incorporating a marketing team into your board. CAB had 127 students from universities across the nation attend their presentation.
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Kinesiology Students Travel to TACSM Conference
Dr. John Smith, a professor in the College of Education and Human Performance, took 18 Kinesiology students to the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (TACSM) 2023 Annual Meeting in Waco, TX on February 23-24. This regional meeting focused on the promotion and advancement of medical and other scientific knowledge related to sport and exercise.
This year’s conference included more than 170 presentations from students at Universities across the region, with Vania Gonzalez (Difference between wrist and chest-worn heart rate monitors) and Isaiah Jackson (Repetition differences between three curl-up tests for abdominal strength) representing the A&M-SA Health & Kinesiology Program.
Jordan Kappmeyer, Damiana Hernandez and Jasmin Brown formed the Student Bowl team for A&M-SA, which is a jeopardy-style academic event that included 35 teams of students from colleges and universities across Texas. At the Recognition and Awards Ceremony, Jordan was recognized by TACSM as the A&M-SA Kinesiology Major of the Year for 2022
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Alumna to Attend University of New England Dental School in Fall 2023 | 2021 alumna Carla Muzquiz has been recently accepted at a number of dental schools and has chosen to attend University of New England Dental School beginning in Fall 2023. Congratulations, Carla! | |
Celebrate National Women's History Month & Irish-American Heritage Month
Celebrate Women's History and Irish-American Heritage with University events through out the month. Click below to view the full calendar.
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Vote on University's New Well-being Hashtag
The Student Wellness Committee would like your assistance voting on the University’s new campus well-being hashtag. Click the button below to vote.
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Review Findings from Healthy Minds Study
Last spring, the University launched it’s first baseline wellness study – the Healthy Minds Study.
To request a presentation at your departmental or student organization meetings, please contact either Mary Buzzetta or Blaire Wyatt-Cruzan .
| Neuro-diversity Inclusion UDL workshop for Instructors and Professors | |
UndocuAlly Workshop
Want to learn practical skills while understanding the issues Dreamers face at A&M-San Antonio? UndocuAlly workshops are open to all faculty, staff and students to provide skills to foster a campus environment that is inclusive for Dreamers.
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The University Library, Women's History Month Committee and Feminist Advocacy and Empowerment invite you to a film screening of "Real Women Have Curves."
Embrace Women's History Month with a movie about embracing your body and image. Delve into the life of Ana, a young girl transitioning into womanhood, and overcoming her parents' outdated views. Should Ana leave home, go to college and experience life? Or should she stay home, get married and keep working in her sister's garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life. At home, she is bound to a mother who wants her to become someone she's not. At school, she's encouraged by a teacher who sees her potential and is adored by a boyfriend who loves her for who she is. Right now, Ana may be making clothes for less shapely women; however, she's about to discover that real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life and above all, have curves!
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The TU CASA program at Texas A&M-San Antonio would like to invite you to the Spring Open House event.
- April 20 from 11a.m.-4p.m.
The TU CASA model is designed to allow students with intellectual disabilities to receive a true university experience while gaining the skills and knowledge needed to transition to independent adult lives.
The event is open to the community, students, families, educators and organizations who may be interested in learning more about the program.
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Attend a Safe Space Training this Spring!
Rainbow P.A.W.S. (Pride at Work and School) is hosting several Safe Space training workshops for the Spring semester. Each workshop is two hours long and features a Q&A at the end.
Through education and advocacy, the Safe Space program seeks to make A&M–SA a more welcoming, safe and inclusive campus for LGBTQ+ individuals. A term that includes but is not limited to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer individuals.
Safe Space workshops prepare members of the University community to support and advocate for those who identify as LGBTQ+.
Safe Spaces are people, not places. Through this training, you will become a Safe Space for our LGBTQ+ students, staff and faculty.
Once the workshop has been completed, you will receive a Safe Space sticker, which you can display to signal your status as an advocate.
- Tuesday, March 21, 3-5 p.m
- SciTech 161
- RSVP
For questions, please contact: Lgbtqtaskforce
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Notice of University Library Closure and Reduced Online Services
The University Library, including Archives and Special Collections, will begin the process of packing and moving into the new building on Wednesday, March 8.
All locations will therefore be physically closed with reduced online services starting on that date. You may still call the Library’s main number at (210) 784-1500, text (210) 802-2275, or email library@tamusa.edu. Staff will respond as quickly as possible. Interlibrary loan of electronic material (e.g., chapters, articles) will remain available, although with a slightly delayed turnaround.
If you have requested an item before March 8, but it arrives during the move, Library staff will process it with the shortest delay possible. You may also return material to the book drop by the Auditorium while the Library is closed. The Library will reopen on Wednesday, March 22.
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Common Read Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 Nominations | |
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The Office of First-Year Experience is calling for nominations for our Fall 2024 Common Read, a book that all first-year students at A&M-San Antonio will read as they enter college. The Common Read is part of Common Experience, which is a yearlong initiative designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation on a theme and facilitate increased interactions among faculty, staff and students.
- Provide a book suggestion by Friday, March 10, 2023.
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Athletics Online Store Launched | |
Spurs Celebrate Black History Month with Black Heritage Night
The Spurs’ Black Heritage Night honored three community leaders with the Leaders and Legacy award, an award that recognizes leaders who create access, inspire belonging and foster healing and wellness. Honorees included Dr. Lawrence Scott a professor of education leadership at A&M-San Antonio among others. Read more.
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Dr. Edward Westermann Cited in Forbes Article
After Losing An Eighth Of Their Helicopters, Russian Attack Regiments Are Switching Up Their Tactics
The Afghanistan war “demonstrated the disproportionate impact that can occur when insurgencies obtain modest technological upgrades to their weapons arsenals,” Dr. Edward Westermann explained in a 1999 edition of Journal of Conflict Studies. Read more.
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Community Wind Ensemble Brings ‘Polarizing’ Music to A&M-San Antonio
San Antonio Community Wind Ensemble (SACWE) performed its second free public concert of the 2022-2023 season at the Texas A&M University-San Antonio auditorium. The concert featured various music styles by composers Jack Stamp, William Pitts, Karl L. King, Steven Bryant, Jacques Press, Aaron Copland and Anton Dvorak.
About 320 people attended the event, according to SACWE Music Director Albert Aguilar. The first performance, which was performed on campus just before winter break, attracted 280 people. Read more.
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Communication Lecturer Shines Light on Mental Health Awareness, Meditation
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In her early 20s, Megan Pope had just graduated from college experiencing a major depressive episode. She questioned the purpose of life and her own purpose as well.
Now, Pope, a communication lecturer at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, is helping people by receiving her certification to teach mindfulness meditation classes, creating her own website aimed at mental health, and creating a club for students to talk about mental health. Read more.
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REC Sports Launches New Workout Classes for Students, Faculty and Staff
The Department of Recreational Sports is offering two new workout classes to promote fitness, strengthen lower body muscles and complement a popular yoga class at A&M-San Antonio. Launched this semester, the new classes are Quad Aesthetics and Fitness Trifecta, which is listed as Fitness Tri”F”ECTA in JagSync, said Andrew Bush, the instructor for that class. Bush said the Trifecta class will focus on three fitness modalities: cardio, calisthenics and weightlifting. Participants will do exercises such as push-ups, squats and lifting dumbbells. Read more.
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Art, Activism, and Access: An Interview with Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos
Interview by Andrea Zamora Chavez in conversation with Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos, editors of The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1 (ACMRS Press, 2023). Read more.
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FRIENDLY REMINDERS
Reminder: ITS Thursday Updates
Please remember to leave your desktop computers on Thursday evenings as Information Technology Services (ITS) conducts its routine updates. Contact ITS at (210) 784-4357 or helpdesk@tamusa.edu with questions.
Updated Student Business Services Hours
The Student Business Services Office is reminding the campus community about its hours of operation:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Updated Welcome Center Hours
- Monday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Tuesday: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
- Wednesday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Thursday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Student Counseling Center: 24/7 Service, Updated Contact Protocols
The preferred method of contact has changed, along with the advent of a 24/7 option for students. Here are the updated contact protocols:
- Student Counseling Center: (210) 784-1331 (available 24/7). For after-hours support, please select option “2.”
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To keep up with the latest A&M-San Antonio events and activities,
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LEGEND
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CAB: Central Academic Building
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CASA: Patriots' Casa
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Ceremony Room: Patriots' Casa, Room 109
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HALL: Classroom Hall
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MDLA: Madla or Senator Frank L. Madla Building
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STEM: Sci-Tech or Science and Technology Building
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Vista Room: Central Academic Building, Room 402
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ABOUT THE GROWLER
The Growler publishes the first and third Mondays of each month. The Growler promotes events and announcements intended for the full campus community, replacing one-off promotional emails sent to all faculty, staff, and students. The Growler will not replace: 1) the web calendar of events, print flyers, and digital screen slides, or 2) emails targeting specific audiences, such as faculty, staff, or students. If you would like to promote a University-wide event or announcement that is public facing or for all members of the campus community in The Growler, submit this form by 5 p.m. CT on a Wednesday before you want it to appear.
Be in the know wherever you go! To keep up-to-date on the latest campus events and information, don't forget to download the Jaguar App.
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