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Honor a special woman through the OLLU Mother’s Day Fund

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A gift to the OLLU Mother’s Day Fund is a special way to pay tribute to any extraordinary woman in your life – mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, teacher, etc. – while giving the gift of higher education to the next generation.

All gifts benefit the OLLU Annual Fund which supports student scholarships, technology, and more. Your support inspires OLLU students to discover their purpose and reach their fullest potential.

Mother’s Day Giving Levels:

  • Gifts of $250 or more*
    • Donor and Honoree will be acknowledged in the SA Express News (Sunday, May 12 issue), Today’s Catholic (Friday, May 24 issue), and listed on the OLLU website.*Gifts must be received by May 9, 2024, for public acknowledgement.
  • Gifts of $100-$249
    • Donor and Honoree names will be acknowledged on the OLLU website.

To give, click here:

https://securelb.imodules.com/s/888/lg21/form.aspx?sid=888&gid=1&pgid=1881&cid=5171

Students encouraged to ‘Get It Done by May 1’

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The Center for Student Involvement and Residence Life have partnered together to help all students “Get It Done By May 1!” Students are encouraged to get advised, register, apply for financial aid and select a payment plan option before depart campus for the summer.

Join the Center for Student Development and Residence Life for a series of events, beginning today with “Snack Pack Monday” from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Renaissance Parlor. Learn what you need to do in order to Get It Done!

In order to receive a Snack Pack, returning students must show proof of fall 2024 registration and FAFSA completion. Graduating students must show they have no holds.

For information about Tuesday and Wednesday events, see the flyer below. For questions, contact csi@ollusa.edu

OLLU to mark ‘Earth Day’ with third annual SuSAINTSability Day

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To mark Earth Day, the university will hold its third annual “OLLU SuSAINTSability” Day today at noon in the Mall Area with an unusual event that will answer this question:

How many cockroaches does it take to cover a professor?

Students will find out by purchasing cockroaches and dumping them in a box which holds Biology professor Adam Bynum. One dollar buys one cockroach, $3 gets five roaches and  $5 gets 10 roaches. 

Hosted by TexasFast, the proceeds will benefit Sigma Zeta, OLLU’s Math and Science National Honor Society.

The two-hour event will include Environmental Science and Sustainability students playing table bingo for free lunches, TExAS FAST students making seed bombs, Criminal Justice Society students doing waste audit demonstrations and first-generation/McNair Scholars upcycling t-shirts with bleach.

U.S. News & World Report ranks MSW 95th in U.S., No. 6 in Texas

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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Master of Social Work program in a tie for No. 95 in the nation and No. 6 in the state of Texas for 2024.

OLLU shared the No. 95 position with several prominent schools, such as Louisiana State University, Seton Hall, DePaul, Auburn, North Carolina State and the University of Oklahoma.

To compile its ranking, U.S. News & World Report surveyed 319 social work programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education Board of Accreditation.

OLLU improved its ranking from last year. In 2023, OLLU was ranked No. 7 in Texas and No. 116 in the U.S. New & World Report rankings.

“The rankings reflect the peer assessments of academic quality,” U.S. News & World Report wrote, “but other considerations involving location, environment, strength of different fields, cost after tuition and financial aid, and job placement are also very important.”

Sueltenfuss Library to hold reception for Professor Quintanilla

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The Sueltenfuss Library will hold a reception on Tuesday at 4 p.m. to celebrate the work of OLLU English professor and poet Octavio Quintanilla, PhD., during National Poetry Month.

Sueltenfuss Library Director Maria Cabaniss will welcome everyone to the event. OLLU Dean of Academics Candace Zepeda, PhD, will introduce Dr. Quintanilla, who will read poems and discuss his FRONTEXTOS exhibit on the third floor library loft. 

The two-hour reception also will feature the visual poems of OLLU students and music from the Holmes High School Mariachis. Wine and light appetizers will be served, along with Tehuacan Mineral water.

Quintanilla’s FRONTEXTOS exhibit went on display April 9. The exhibit will continue through April 30. A former San Antonio Poet Laureate, Dr. Quintanilla was honored earlier this month with a solo exhibit at the Mexican Cultural Institute. He also participated in Urban-15’s annual Mega Corazón’s annual poetry event.

Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, “If I Go Missing” (Slough Press, 2014) and “The Book of Wounded Sparrows” (Texas Review Press, 2024). 

8th Annual Confetti 5K Run and Walk a big success 

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OLLU concluded its 8th annual Confetti 5K Run & Walk on Saturday with Forest Isenhour and Bethany Iniguez winning top overall medal honors amid a shower of confetti at the finish line.

Isenhour, a former track and cross country runner at Western Michigan University, finished with the top overall time of 15 minutes and 52 seconds. Iniguez, a competitive local runner, finished first overall among women in 22:42.

An official Fiesta event, the 5K race featured music, food and drink vendors and runners from across the metropolitan area, who started and finished the race in front of OLLU’s historic Main Building.

“We had another amazing Confetti 5K that brought together so many people from across Bexar County,” said OLLU president Abel Chávez, PhD, MBA. “This was a fantastic way to start Fiesta! Best of all, we were able to raise money for student scholarships.”

Construction begins today on fourth floor of Metz Hall 

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Alpha Construction will begin work today on the STEM/Makers lab on the fourth floor of Metz Hall. The work includes demolition, which will produce considerable noise.

Alpha Construction plans to begin work at 5 p.m. today and each day this week through Friday. Work will continue until approximately 4 a.m. the next day. Alpha Construction also plans to work on Saturday during the day and will set up negative air machines in the lab for dust control.

In addition, Alpha will set up a temporary ramp in place at the northwest entry/exit of Metz (facing Casa Caritas) and use it to wheelbarrow debris to a trailer that will be parked just north of the stairs.  The trailer will be hauled away each morning and brought back at 5 p.m.  

Moody Professorship Lecture Series set for Thursday

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The Office of Academic Affairs cordially invites all faculty, staff, and students to the 2023-2024 Moody Professorship Lecture Series on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. in the Library Community Room, located on the first floor of the Sueltenfuss Library. Light Refreshments will be provided. 

We hope you can join us in celebrating the scholarship and research endeavors of Dr. Alfredo Ortiz (UIW) and Professor Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez (OLLU) in person; however, you may also participate via Webex.

Join from the meeting link
https://ollusa.webex.com/ollusa/j.php?MTID=m8441a942131140c137bed0d7c96b7f6fJoin by meeting number (access code): 2483 469 1159. Meeting password: GMcRFVi4u32
  

USDA expanding egret deferment activities in Elmendorf Park

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services is expanding egret deferment activities in Elmendorf Park. The use of pyrotechnics will be expanded to longer periods throughout the day. The pyrotechnics sound like fireworks. Activities will take place daily over the next few months.

This is part of an effort that began in 2019 to thin the population of egrets in the park because of the threat of bird strikes to aircraft from nearby Kelly Airfield/Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

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