The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) takes pride in always striving to better serve Latinx students and bring that success into the community.
Excelencia in Education’s Seal of Excelencia reflects an institution’s core values of ensuring student success for a diverse and inclusive student body. This national certification reflects not just institutional policies, but a clear manifestation of those policies in practices that show data-proven results.
“You can intentionally serve Hispanic students and make a positive difference in their education and career,” says CEO of Excelencia in Education Deborah A. Santiago, of the message that the Seal sends. “You have to be intentional in enrolling them and serve them meaningfully, which means meeting students where they’re at.”
There are three core components that drive student success: data, practice and leadership
“Demographically, San Antonio is the city of the future here in the United States,” says Dr. Taylor Eighmy, who became president of UTSA in 2017. “As the largest public research university here in San Antonio, we will become the university of the future.”
Building diversity and success
“The demography of our city is obviously minority-majority and there’s a very keen desire within our community that UTSA become exemplary as an institution,” says Eighmy. “It’s not that we will become exemplary automatically upon receipt of the Seal. It’s more a state of being that we continue to work towards going forward.
