Subject: Message from the President: UT Institute of the Americas
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Summer 2014
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![JVG B&W]() Dear friends and colleagues,
This year marks 22 years since I began serving as President of UT Brownsville. It has been my most sincere privilege to serve the people of the Rio Grande Valley, to help tell the myriad of stories that each dream for themselves and for their families, to witness their struggles against great odds to earn a degree and launch a career and to understand the vast potential of the people of this region that for too long have been denied the opportunities that come from a college degree. I have been honored to work side-by-side expert and committed faculty, and dedicated and selfless staff. With Dr. Guy Bailey now selected as the inaugural president of the new UT Rio Grande Valley, I will step down as President of UT Brownsville on August 31, 2014. As the Chancellor announced last week, I have accepted a new position as Executive Director of the UT Institute of the Americas. The Institute will focus on helping develop the next generation of leadership rooted in the values of a democratic society and providing a non-partisan venue for convening discussions of critical issues with global significance. The Institute will be UT System’s mechanism to serve as a convening voice to help resolve issues facing the Americas and the Global South and serve as a nexus for interdisciplinary groups to come together and focus on creating core competencies in leadership on critical issues. It will accomplish this through sponsorship of seminars, next generation leadership programs, public conferences and events and policy programs for consensus building and problem solving. Located in the Rio Grande Valley, the Institute will operate throughout the UT System, making use of the vast amount of expertise found on each of the individual campuses and positioning UT to become the gateway to the Global South. For me, there is no greater pleasure than having the opportunity to live and work in the place I was born and where my family is rooted. I look forward to beginning this new adventure strengthened by the legacy we have built together, one that honors the heritage of the people in our region and inspires learning, creativity, innovation and free thinking. Soon you will be receiving an invitation for a Despedida, a farewell party, on the evening of August 14th. Please join me in celebrating our work together. Juliet V. GarcΓa |
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BRHP, 2ND FLOOR • ONE WEST UNIVERSITY BLVD • BROWNSVILLE TEXAS, 78520
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Wow, this is the equivalent of throwing your own surprise party, no? "Global South", what the hell is that? Does it include Antarctica and Tasmania? As has been reported here, there already is an "Institute of the Americas" housed at the UC-San Diego campus that has been around for 30 years with heavy weights in charge. I liked the to be located in the "Valley" part. I guess that means McAllen. More to be pitied than laughed at. By the way, the syntax in this missive is less than fluent.
ReplyDeleteNo shit right, was she high when she wrote this or what? This little tidbit does not flow well which is the minimum I would expect from a PhD. Just go away Julieta, just go away.
Delete"I have been honored to work side-by-side expert and committed faculty, and dedicated and selfless staff."
ReplyDeleteHUH? What a bunch of crapola!
August 31 can not get here soon enough.
ReplyDeleteWe note that Julieta never mentions TSC; the organization she flim-flammed out of millions of tax dollars to keep her ego inflated. She used the TSC funds to serve UT System while she conveniently forgot about the mission of TSC. She was only focused on her on legacy....one of deceipt, manipulation, dictatorial management and personal enrichment. We should re-name the BISD school named after her and give her a powerful send off by ignoring her August party. Like the party recently, the guest list for her farewell invitations will be interesting.
ReplyDeleteShe's already using the "UT Institute of the Americas"......how pithy of her. Juliet is a self-promoter and always will be. It is really tacky of her to announce her own farewell......unfortunately for the citizens of Brownsville....she ain't going anywhere. Juliet is our "bad penny"; like the energizer rabbit, she keeps showing up and shouting her own name to the heavens. We should all boycott her party and demand that she return some of the millions of tax dollars that she wasted during her days with the UTB-TSC "Partnership".......which she seems to disavow these days.
ReplyDeleteHer legacy is nothing more than a shitty little satellite campus with all the guts and glory up the Valley. She is delusional with her self-promotion. The saddest part of this spectacle is that Brownsville has produced outstanding academics such as AmΓ©rico Paredes and Carlos CastaΓ±eda, world class scholars, but they are unheard of in her little world. Would someone please sight a single work she has produced that even remotely reaches the level of Paredes and CastaΓ±eda. I know, she is not a scholar, she is a manager and leader. Que falta de vergΓΌenza.
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