Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Sombrilla Magazine, Fall 2000
A year ago [in 1999] President Ricardo Romo appointed a committee to gather faculty input on remaking the academic structure of the university. This fall a sweeping reorganization of the university’s academic structure—bearing the UT System’s stamp of approval—is well under way.
To date, UTSA has reconfigured its division-based academic structure by renaming and reorganizing all but one college, resulting in the creation of six colleges and a School of Architecture [within the new College of Liberal and Fine Arts]. Only the College of Business remains relatively unaffected by this round of reorganization; its name and divisions are intact.
This academic year’s students are the first to take classes in the…
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