Digital Badge Opportunity

The Assessment and Data Analytics Team, within the Division of Student Affairs, is proud to offer Longhorns the opportunity to earn a digital badge in survey design with the new Survey Design: Foundations course. This unique skill will be valuable throughout your educational journey and beyond, across a spectrum of career fields, including but not limited to marketing, data analytics, user experience research and more! Enhance your research skills and impress future employers by adding this badge to your LinkedIn profile.

This foundational badge provides information on survey purpose, institutional review board requirements, informed consent, security/confidentiality, and will provide earners the opportunity to practice identifying and writing different types of survey questions.

To earn your badge:

  1. Follow this link to access the Canvas course.
  2. Complete the five Canvas modules by watching each video and scoring at least 80% on the corresponding quiz.
  3. This robust course will take approximately 2 hours to complete, however you can navigate the modules at your own pace and are not required to finish all modules in one session.

For questions, please email vpsa-assessdata@austin.utexas.edu.

Longhorn SHARE Project

Looking for alternative mental health support options or just craving genuine connection with peers? Check out the Longhorn SHARE Project (Support, Healing, Active listening, Reciprocity, Empowerment), a peer support program focused on mental health and social connection! A team of trained peer ‘SHARE Support Specialists’ facilitate non-clinical, non-hierarchical opportunities for students to open up and find validation around shared struggles and exchange support and resources using the combined wisdom of their lived experiences. The following are open to all UT undergraduate and graduate students:

  • SHARE Communities: Weekly peer-led communities for support & connection around specific concerns or identities.
  • SHARE Circles: An impactful group activity for student orgs, classes, and res halls! Increase community, empathy, and understanding in your group with a turn-taking structure that ensures everyone’s voices are heard.

Check out our website for more information or consider filling out a no-commitment interest form for the SHARE Communities!

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.

Gilman Scholarship for Pell Students

The Gilman Scholarship is a generous federal scholarship for study abroad and a great opportunity for U.S. citizens receiving a Federal Pell Grant to fund their international experience. UT Austin is consistently a top producer of Gilman Scholars.

Education Abroad is hosting two virtual information sessions to help students prepare a competitive application. During the information sessions, we will cover scholarship details, selection criteria, and tips for submitting a competitive application. We will also host an in-person writing workshop for essay review.

Information Sessions:

  • Tuesday, September 17, 5:00-6:30 pm via Zoom
  • Friday, September 27, 12:00-1:30 pm via Zoom

Writing Workshop:

  • Friday, October 4, 12:00-3:00 pm in UTC 1.130

The online application is now open for applicants whose in-person programs or internships start between December 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025. This cycle encompasses Winter or January term 2025, Spring 2025, May term 2025, Summer 2025, Fall 2025, and academic year 2025-2026 abroad programs. The application deadline is Thursday, October 10, 2024. For more information, consider visiting the link here!

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!

Psychology Study Abroad

UT Psychology is holding its first faculty-led study-abroad program! Dr. Franco Pestilli will take students to Geneva, Switzerland for a May term in 2025. The course is PSY 355N, cognitive neuroscience.

Dr. Pestilli has incorporated many visits to famous places in the Geneva area, as well as several guest speakers, so experiential learning will be a key part of this program.

If you might be interested in learning more about scholarships and grants for this experience, click the link here!

LAH-Humanities Email

The LAH Office is shifting from the old email (liberalartshonors@utexas.edu) to a new one supported by Microsoft Outlook! To support us in this transition, please aim to use lah-hmn@austin.utexas.edu in all future correspondence with us. We will still be monitoring the old inbox as we begin to phase it out but we appreciate your efforts during this time :) Thank you!