Texas A&M - San Antonio

A one-day training provided by the university is equipping staff at schools and colleges with first-aid skills for mental health.

The South Side native will visit the campus and speak with students on Wednesday.

Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the Alamo Colleges District reported record enrollment for the Fall 2024 semester, despite problems with the new federal financial aid form.

A coalition of student groups from six campuses in San Antonio and San Marcos sent letters to their college presidents on Wednesday, calling on them to stand against Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent antisemitism executive order, which they said conflates supporting Palestinians with antisemitism.

A&M-San Antonio got a $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to open the childcare program, which has space for 50 children from preschool through sixth grade.

A&M-San Antonio’s Jaguar Promise covers tuition, fees, and a book stipend, for Texas residents in the top 35% of their class if their family makes $70,000 or less.

A University Health hospital and an Institute of Public Health will be built along the west entrance to A&M-San Antonio, and A&M-San Antonio is building a new public health building on campus, adding a new graduate degree in public health and a new research unit on genomes.

For the second year in a row, the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio is providing funding for scholarships to Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s counseling program.

The Transparency for Transfer Students Act would require all U.S. colleges and universities to post on their websites more details about their transfer policies to help more students complete degrees.

COVID-19 testing clinics around the country are closing, and federal funding for free clinical testing is drying up. But wastewater surveillance could step in to play a crucial role in keeping track of where the virus is and just how much is really circulating out there. In this episode, host Bonnie Petrie takes us to a wastewater treatment plant in Converse, Texas and talks to scientists trying to build a surveillance and sequencing program in South Texas.