¡Viva Mariachi! Concert set for Sunday

Alamo City Arts and OLLU will present “¡Viva Mariachi!,” a concert featuring Alamo City Symphony Viva and Mariachi Campanas de America on Sunday at 4 p.m. in Thiry Auditorium.

One hundred free general admission tickets are available to OLLU students, faculty, staff and alumni. Contact Jessica C. Hajek at music@ollusa.edu to reserve your ticket while supplies last and for more information.

Additional tickets can be purchased from Alamo City Arts (via TicketPeak) at:

https://ticketpeak.co/acpaa/events/8083-Viva%20Mariachi%20-%20Alamo%20City%20Arts%20presents%20V

Dr. Hajek named Chair for Humanities and Social Sciences

Jessica Hajek, Assistant Professor and Program Head for Music, has been named interim Chair for the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HuSS). The department includes History, Comparative Mexican American Studies, Music, Political Science, Theology, Philosophy, Spanish and BCP, Sociology and Visual Arts.

Dr. Hajek, who began teaching at OLLU in 2020, will remain interim chair through the end of the summer. She fills the position held by Maribel Lárraga, PhD, Professor of Spanish, who stepped down at the end of 2021.