Officials see no down side, call timing right to integrate university and health science center into a Texas “powerhouse” to serve nation’s seventh largest city
The University of Texas System next year will merge the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health San Antonio into “one unified institution” to compete with leading U.S. research centers and serve a growing city and state. Following an executive session Thursday morning to discuss “strategic alignment” involving the two schools, the UT System Board of Regents approved a measure Thursday authorizing them to begin work on the merger.
held its first dedication ceremony at the Alamo in 1969 and began construction on its Northwest Side campus the following year. A plan for the merger could be submitted by March 2025 to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and effectively approved by June, pending a final report in 2026 following site visits by the regional accrediting body.
President Taylor Eighmy will lead the integrated institution and work with a steering committee, task forces and working groups to achieve what Eighmy predicted will be a “relatively easy merger process.” The two schools have separate information systems, pay structures and ways of managing human resources, but are both financially secure and “incredibly well run,” he said. “We’re building for the future. We’re building the foundation of a great, world-class university,” Eighmy said.
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