{"id":200169,"date":"2025-09-04T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:07:14","slug":"san-antonios-college-presidents-say-they-arent-competing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200169\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio\u2019s college presidents say they aren&#8217;t competing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of higher education across San Antonio looks bright, said seven of the city\u2019s top higher education leaders during a panel discussion on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite upheaval stemming from state and federal policies aimed at higher ed, the presidents said that they\u2019re optimistic about what\u2019s ahead for their institutions \u2014 and for San Antonio. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve worked together to address the area\u2019s college attainment rate, raising it to 42% over the last several years. That\u2019s one example of the forward momentum they\u2019re achieving by working together, instead of competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all stand for more access,\u201d said Vanessa Beasley, president of Trinity University. \u201cMore education for more people is good, full stop, wherever you go to school. And all of us have programs where we are thinking differently about how we provide access and how we promote awareness of that access.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stage_PresidentsPanel_02_09.04.2025_DiegoMedel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5414489\"  \/>University leaders including presidents of public and private institutions speak about higher education during the San Antonio Report\u2019s Presidents\u2019 Panel on Thursday at the Witte Museum. Credit: Diego Medel \/ San Antonio Report<\/p>\n<p>The panel, hosted by the San Antonio Report, gathered all of the city\u2019s college presidents:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hector Ochoa of Texas A&amp;M San Antonio<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Eighmy of the University of Texas at San Antonio<\/li>\n<li>Abel Antonio Ch\u00e1vez of Our Lady of the Lake University<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Beasley of Trinity University<\/li>\n<li>Winston Erevelles of St. Mary\u2019s University<\/li>\n<li>Tom Evans of University of the Incarnate Word<\/li>\n<li>Mike Flores, chancellor of Alamo Colleges District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editor in Chief Leigh Munsil asked the college presidents about their takes on big regional changes, such as the recent merger of UTSA and UT Health San Antonio into <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/anatomy-of-a-merger-texas-third-largest-university-is-now-right-here-in-san-antonio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UT San Antonio<\/a> and recent budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents said they\u2019re preparing for a future where the city continues to grow \u2014 and they\u2019re training the workforce needed to support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstitutions and they are now measured in terms of the opportunity that we afford our students,\u201d Eighmy said. \u201cHow quickly you graduate, how much debt you have upon graduation and the job that you land after graduation and how quickly you can pay off your debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Report partners with\u00a0Open Campus\u00a0on higher education coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of higher education across San Antonio looks bright, said seven of the city\u2019s top higher education&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,8734,97527,7202,7203,75579,33866,358,7453,42091,3187,7815,36615,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7817,11887],"class_list":{"0":"post-200169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-higher-education","10":"tag-ollu","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-st-marys","14":"tag-tamusa","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-trinity","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-typedaily","20":"tag-uiw","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-utsa","28":"tag-wc-less-than-500"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}