Category Archives: Organization

Walker Fellowship

The Walker Fellowship is excited to announce that the application for the Fall 2024 Fellows has opened. Guided by student and advisory board members, including Professor Lee Walker (first president of Dell Technologies), the Fellowship exists to provide UT students with a holistic set of tools to collaborate alongside community leaders and develop comprehensive solutions for sustainable social impact. Fellows collaborate as a cohort on initiatives of their choice and receive personalized resources, including interactive sessions with experts in civic engagement, group tours and volunteering events with local Austin organizations, and personalized mentorship relationships with renowned UT faculty and other community leaders.

Check out the Fellowship’s website (linked here) or Instagram for more information (@thewalkerfellowship). The application is due Wednesday, September 25th at 5pm and can be accessed here! Please email the Fellowship if you have any questions.

Black and Brown Academic Mentorship

We are BBAM, a program centered around Black and Brown academic mentorship. We are a non-profit organization based at The University of Texas at Austin that has been providing mentorship since August of 2021. Our goal is to connect minority high school students to a college mentor who has a similar background and can help guide them through their high school journey and college application process.

Our mentors are also top students at UT Austin, many being featured in the Dean’s List, Honors Programs, and the Distinguished Scholar List. We accept mentors from all majors in order to cater to the interest of a variety of students.

Our deadline for mentor applications is September 20th, 2024 at 11:59pm. If you’re interested, consider checking out our Instagram here or our application here!

Student Org Leadership Event

Student organization leaders are invited to the 2024 Longhorn Playbook for Successful Student Organizations event on Thursday, September 12th, from 5:30pm – 8:30pm at the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom at the Texas Union. The Office of the Dean of Students appreciates your work towards building successful and healthy communities among the student body.  This event is designed to give you the tools, inspiration, and resources you need to continue driving your organization’s success.

Here is what you can expect:

  • A pep-talk from Coach Vic Schaefer, Head Coach of the University of Texas Women’s Basketball Team
  • Team huddles with fellow student leaders and staff in engaging discussions
  • Learn about resources on campus to support you in your role
  • Enjoy a team timeout with catered dinner
  • Halftime show exclusive giveaways
  • Post event happier hour featuring mocktails and conversations with campus leaders

Think this might be of interest to you? Just register at the link here!

Texas Mock Trial has been the university’s official undergraduate Mock Trial team since 1991 and is one of the most competitive programs in the country. Every year, we compete in multiple tournaments in courthouses across the country. We empower the newest generation of scholars to take on the legal field and beyond.

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting info sessions and tryouts from September 5th-8th. If you’re curious to learn more, we invite you to fill out our interest form here!

Liberal Arts Honors Music Ensemble Recruiting New Leaders

The Liberal Arts Honors Music Ensemble has vacancies for President (Spring 2023), Secretary (Spring 2023), and Treasurer (Spring 2023). These are great opportunities to learn how to lead rehearsals and performances, encourage participation, manage repertoire and instruments, and manage a bank account, all in a low-stress and flexible environment. Key takeaways include improved leadership, communication, organization, and teamwork skills. Consider these positions valuable additions to your resume, for any field. Please contact gauravagrawal@utexas.edu by 11/18/2022 if you are interested in holding one of these positions. Prior music experience, as well as experience composing pieces, is preferred but not required.

Refugee Student Mentor Program – Call for volunteers!

Don’t miss the chance to help refugees right here in Austin!

The Refugee Student Mentor Program (RSMP) brings members of the UT community who speak various languages into Austin public schools, where they mentor refugee and asylee students. The program has been running continuously since 2015, beginning in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Our other partners on campus include the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies; The South Asia Institute; and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Please contact Erin Kelleher at ekell@utexas.edu as soon as possible if you are interested in volunteering. We will be holding an orientation on Zoom this coming week, time and date TBD.

Partners in Health Recruitment

Dear Professor,

My name is Izzy Richards, and I am a third-year student at UT Austin. I am also a student organizer with Partners in Health, a UT student organization.

Partners in Health (PIH) is a nonprofit that seeks to bring high quality, sustainable healthcare to vulnerable populations by hiring from within local communities and establishing training hospitals. PIH Engage members work to educate themselves and their community about the impact of historical oppression on access to healthcare, raise money for PIH, and advocate for equitable legislation. We are open to all undergraduate and graduate students from all majors and backgrounds.

I would really appreciate any help finding passionate and motivated individuals to apply as PIH Engage at UT is currently recruiting student organizers for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here is the link to a video (1.5 minutes in length) about PIH Engage at UT Austin, and a graphic with a QR code linking important information is attached.

If you would be willing to share this information with your students, we would be very grateful for the exposure. If you have any questions, or would like a student organizer to visit your class to present the information themselves, please feel free to reach out!

Thank you in advance for any support,

Izzy Richards

Liberal Arts Pre Med Society

Liberal Arts Pre Med Society is an organization that focuses on helping and guiding members through the confusing pre-med process. Our officers are all pre meds following the non-traditional route of pre meds as liberal arts majors.  We cover aspects of pre med life such as courses to take, med school/career choices, MCAT prep and advice, study materials, volunteer opportunities, social opportunities, mentorship and interaction with other fellow pre-med students.  

Our focus is on the non-traditional liberal arts majors but we also help all pre-meds, both traditional and non-traditional. 

We have around 20 members with 5 officers. 

Our next meeting is August 31st from 6pm to 7pm in RLP 0.120

Here is our Hornslink link: https://utexas.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/liberalartspremedsociety