of Tennessee at Knoxville, began serving as UTSA's sixth president.
On June 9, 2017, UTSA introduced the largest construction project in its history with the announcement of a $95 million science and engineering building which opened in fall 2020. On September 6, 2018, UTSA announced it had received a $15 million gift from San Antonio business leader Graham Weston and $70 million commitment from The University of Texas System Board of Regents for construction of two new facilities at its Downtown Campus for a National Security Collaboration Center and a proposed School of Data Science which opened January 9, 2023 and became the first and only Data Science school in the state of Texas.
Following an incident in 2018 where a student was escorted from a lecture hall, a professor was suspended for a separate classroom management issue, and later was not reinstated despite a petition from over 900 students.
=== Modern university (2021–present) ===
In 2021, the College of Engineering and College of Architecture, …
