Create the Future. Be Bold.
The University of Texas at San Antonio believes that society’s grandest challenges require our greatest minds working at their highest potential. As a Tier One research university, we are at the forefront of knowledge, leadership, social mobility, and economic development in San Antonio and beyond. We are advancing a future where all students thrive, our research is world-changing, and our growth is transformative. Nothing less than this level of boldness is required to keep UTSA as the catalyst that drives our students, our faculty, our community, and our world toward ever brighter futures.
There is no time to wait.
Great futures begin with the bold steps we take today. That is why we have launched Be Bold: A Campaign for our Future to support a 10year strategic plan that will take UTSA to new levels of excellence. With a goal of $500 million, it is the largest campaign in our history. But a journey this ambitious can never succeed alone. We need you to be bold with us. See our comprehensive vision of a community elevated by the next generation of scientists, researchers, and leaders. Be a part of an engine that drives sustained prosperity for San Antonio, the State of Texas, and beyond.
We are bolder together.
Research University
Goldwater Scholars for STEM research, the most in Texas Research centers and institutes in the nation for degrees awarded to Hispanic students in the nation for Top 50 young universities in life sciences in the nation for Best Bang for the Buck
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UTSA IS SAN ANTONIO’S TIER ONE UNIVERSITY AND ON A TRAJECTORY TOWARDS EVEN GREATER HEIGHTS. OUR FACULTY’S COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND STUDENT SUCCESS ONLY CONTINUES TO ELEVATE UTSA’S CAPABILITIES TO TACKLE SOCIETY’S GRANDEST CHALLENGES ON LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL SCALES. PRESIDENT TAYLOR EIGHMY
UTSA continuously competes with exemplary universities to recruit and retain the brightest students and world-class faculty. Strong private support is imperative if UTSA is to ensure programs and facilities of the highest caliber to attract a strong talent pool. Our bold vision includes a campus serving 45,000 students led by 2,000 faculty, and 3,250 staff members by 2028. This coupling of high-performing students with the finest faculty working in state-of-the-art facilities will produce life-changing research and a workforce pipeline prepared to transform the world.
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Be Bold launches a transformational period for UTSA. The impact of the gifts made to the campaign will drive our future in three key areas: Student Success, Research Excellence, and Strategic Growth. Our $500 million goal will provide improved infrastructure and resources for our exceptional students and faculty and strengthen UTSA’s position as a cornerstone of San Antonio’s advancement toward sustained greatness.
The Be Bold campaign is dedicated to achieving sustained student success, research excellence, and strategic growth. For students, we will provide generous scholarship support, transformative learning opportunities with direct impact on workforce readiness, and a rich campus life that adds to the UTSA experience. Faculty endowments will open pathways for attracting the world’s leading researchers in highly competitive fields to San Antonio. And our strategic growth will include improved and enriched student spaces and cutting-edge laboratories for ground-breaking research.
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TAKING SAN ANTONIO TO NEW HEIGHTS:
STUDENT
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THE CHALLENGE:
By focusing on enrollment, academic success, experiential learning, career services, and removing financial barriers, we strive to: Recruit the nation’s most high-performing students. Cultivate a welcoming environment.
Elevate graduation rates. Enhance current programs and build new ones.
THE GOALS:
Grow strategically to 45,000 students and over 2,000 faculty. Provide Classroom to Career experiential learning opportunities for at least 75% of students.
UTSA PUTS STUDENTS FIRST BY CULTIVATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOCUSED ON SUCCESS.
UTSA WILL MAINTAIN TIER ONE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY STATUS BY CONTINUING TO CONDUCT WORLD-CHANGING RESEARCH.
THE CHALLENGE:
Ensure that all programs and facilities are of the highest caliber. Meet specific targets for research expenditures, faculty awards, doctoral graduates, and more. Create more opportunities for students and faculty to collaborate on life-changing research.
THE GOALS:
Maintain R1 Carnegie Classification. Gain international recognition in 6-8 areas of scholarly distinction.
Increase the number of endowed chairs and professorships to over 300.
Increase the university endowment to $400 million.
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
STRATEGIC GROWTH
THE CHALLENGE:
Construct spaces that serve as the foundation of student life and a robust campus.
Develop state-of-the-art laboratories to prepare students for careers in research.
Develop mixed-use commercial and residential spaces to blend time between studying, relaxing, and re-energizing.
THE GOALS:
Cultivate the excellence of its people by enhancing the environments in which they learn, research, teach, collaborate, and grow.
Build over five million square feet of new facilities and space.
UTSA WILL REALIZE ITS FULL POTENTIAL BY GROWING ITS ENROLLMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE WHILE FOCUSING ON INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT.
I ENVISION UTSA BECOMING A MODEL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY THAT ATTRACTS THE MOST TALENTED STUDENTS AND FACULTY FROM AROUND THE WORLD, AND I ENVISION AN UNPARALLELED ECONOMIC ENGINE THAT DRIVES INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
SAM DAWSON Inaugural Campaign Leadership Council Chair
34K+ 1,300+ 8,500 14 45% 145K 75% Students Faculty and staff Degrees awarded annually first generation undergraduate students Roadrunner alumni around the world Undergrads receiving financial aid Faculty researchers who are National Academy members As of Fall 2022
Bold is dreaming of helping others through medicine since you were in elementary school.
Indiana native, ALANAH PENN, is blazing a career path in Biomedical Engineering at the UTSA Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design. Her excellence in academics and leadership in the UTSA chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers has earned Alanah financial support from the Margie and Bill Klesse Endowed Scholarship in Chemical Engineering and a National Society of Black Engineers Academic Excellence Scholarship. “I have grown into a person I never thought I could be,” says Alanah. As she builds her bold future in cutting-edge medical technology at UTSA, Alanah just may change the future for all of us.
CHRIS COMBS, PH.D., is living his childhood dream of a career in rockets and space exploration. Sought after by many universities, Dr. Combs chose a faculty position at UTSA’s Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, enticed by the Dee Howard Memorial Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering. “There was clearly a commitment and resources available on par with top universities out there that were making offers,” says Dr. Combs. One of his greatest accomplishments at UTSA is constructing the Mach 7 Ludwieg Tube Wind Tunnel, a unique experimental facility that is only available at a select number of American universities, the Department of Defense, and NASA. His endowment funds also help pay students as interns, providing invaluable learning experiences while working in his lab. UTSA’s bold investments in worldclass faculty and facilities are crucial to preparing the next generation of scientists. According to Dr. Combs, “As students graduate, they are going to go off and do great things with UTSA on their resumes.”
Bold is creating highly competitive graduates through innovative research.
Bold is staying true to your roots and helping the world become a kinder and more equitable place.
First in his family to attend college, ZACHARY NEPOTE found a place to explore his lifelong love of learning while embracing his own heritage at UTSA. The diverse student population allayed his initial anxiety about attending college and has allowed him to thrive. As the Executive Director of the Student Government Association, a member of the President’s Student Advisory Council, and a member of the Dean’s Student Advisory Council for the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Zachary has an exceptionally active campus life. His boldness has been fueled as the recipient of the Hewitt
Family Scholarship and the Sue Jockusch Endowed Scholarship. “My scholarships have made me realize that as I achieve success, I can also give back to first-gen Hispanic students like me,” says Zachary.
Enrolling as a student while a grandmother of two, ABIGAIL RHODES ’19 was not your typical undergrad. After a 25-year career in finance, Abigail made the bold decision to follow her ambition to become a teacher. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Education from UTSA and is now pursuing her graduate degree in Special Education. Abigail was awarded the Samjatha Govindaraju Endowed Graduate Scholarship, which supports her research on language development and the ways in which children with autism learn to read. Abigail credits her scholarship for giving her the encouragement she needs to keep going as she continues to work and parent full-time. “To have someone who is a stranger show they believe in you and what you bring to the table––it means so much to me and shows me it’s all worth it,” says Abigail.
Bold is never giving up and pursuing your passion for helping children with special needs.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPORT.
UTSA offers multiple philanthropic opportunities for you to make a lasting impact. Across every division, school, department, and institute, our growth potential is unlimited.
Annual Gifts are often combined to achieve bold things, such as fund scholarships, support student success programs, equip classrooms and labs, or hire thought-leaders to teach. Such generosity helps keep higher education at UTSA affordable and accessible and provides the exceptional opportunities that fully prepare students to graduate career-ready.
Scholarships make a tremendous difference in helping UTSA attract and recognize high-achieving students. As one of the most meaningful gifts a donor can make to UTSA, scholarships reward deserving students and help them reach their educational goals. Consider establishing an annual or endowed scholarship.
Endowed Faculty Positions foster excellence in research and support efforts to recruit and retain highly qualified educators, researchers, and administrators. An increased number of endowed positions will create greater opportunities for high-quality faculty recruitment, allowing UTSA to align with America’s leading research universities and contribute to global research. There are three principal categories of endowments used in support of faculty scholars including endowed chairs, endowed professorships, and endowed faculty fellowships.
Capital Projects provide the necessary spaces to stimulate learning, research, creativity, and collaboration among students and faculty. There are a multitude of opportunities to create cutting-edge and high-caliber spaces and facilities that will continue to foster our knowledge enterprise at UTSA.
Other Ways to Give include gifts made through certain assets. These include stock, IRAs, donor advised funds, real estate, life insurance, intellectual property, collectibles, matching gifts, in-kind gifts, estate gifts, and more.
BOLD HAS YOUR NAME ON IT.
UTSA welcomes the chance to discuss a naming opportunity that can provide support beyond bricks and mortar. A naming opportunity allows for major academic and programmatic transformations that will elevate UTSA to greater levels of excellence and increase its competitiveness on a global scale.