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in Disruption: Review of Jon McGee’s Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education” in Higher Education in 2016. Jasinski received a national Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award to support the completion of her doctoral dissertation. Scholar Awards are given to women in doctoral programs who have shown leadership potential. She gave the talk “Undercover Innovator” at South by Southwest (SXSWedu) in Austin, Texas, in March 2017, and she presented “A Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Approach to Understanding Off-Campus Program Leaders” at the American Association of Colleges & Universities conference in San Francisco in January 2017. Additionally, Jasinski co-presented “Fostering and Sustaining Vocational Exploration Among Faculty and Staff” at the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education National Conference sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges in Charlotte, N.C., in March 2017. With a team of collaborators, she presented “Faculty as Global Learners: The Transformative Impact of Leading Off-Campus Programs” at Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience, hosted by Elon University in North Carolina in June 2017.

KRTU 91.7FM STAFF achieved fundraising goals for the KRTU Tower Initiative, going live with a new, stronger terrestrial broadcast signal in April 2017. MEGAN KRUSE / Office of the Dean of Students and David Tuttle / Associate Vice President and Dean of Students presented “CAS 101: Assessing and Adjusting Student Conduct Programs in Private Universities” at the 2017 Association for Student Conduct Administrators (ASCA) annual conference.

THE MEXICO, THE AMERICAS, AND SPAIN (MAS) PROGRAM was awarded a record 21 Alvarez Internship Grants (AIG) in 2016-17.

These grants work to strengthen community relationships while encouraging experiential learning. Additionally, MAS helped organize the first Latinos Heritage Month at Trinity in Fall 2016.

MIKE PATTERSON / Planned Giving won an Award of Excellence in feature writing presented by the National Episcopal Communicators organization.

TOM PAYTON / Trinity University Press participated on the panels “Better Content, More Prestige: Original Acquisitions and Evaluation​” ​at the Feria Internacional del Libro ​in Guadalajara, Mexico, and “Get Creative: The Challenges (and Opportunities) of Working with Authors of Creative Works​” at the annual conference of the American Association of University Press in Austin, Texas. Additionally, Payton delivered the keynote address “On the Need for Disruption in the Book Business” at the Gemini Ink Writers Conference​i​ n San Antonio and spoke on “Celebrating Independent Publishing” for the Texas Writers League.

DAVID PERALES / Information Technology Services and Andrea Jones / Business Office presented “IT Administrative Governance: Trinity’s Roadmap Toward Implementation” in March 2017 at Ellucian Live in Orlando, Fla.

RICHARD REAMS / Counseling Services gave the professional development presentation “Taking LGBQ-Affirmative Therapy to the Next Level” for the Fort Bend Psychological Association, the Houston Psychoanalytic Society, and the UT Health San Antonio.

SHARON JONES SCHWEITZER ’75 / Strategic Communications & Marketing was nominated and selected to participate in Class XIII of the Masters Leadership Program (MLP). MLP provides proven leaders with an in-

depth understanding of the political, economic, cultural, civic, and governmental fabric of San Antonio while securing their commitment to serve the community through board service and volunteerism.

TAYLOR STAKES / Strategic Communications & Marketing and Joshua Moczygemba / Strategic Communications & Marketing gave a webinar on the making of and success of Trinity University’s live-streaming service, the Tiger Network. THE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING TEAM received awards for marketing and creative projects from MarComm. The Trinity magazine and the Parent Perspective blog received platinum awards, the “This is Trinity Athletics” video received the gold award, and the STEM landing page and the fine arts video received honorable mention.

BURGIN STREETMAN / Trinity University Press served on the storyboard for Texas Public Radio’s “Worth Repeating” event series, where she also performed in 2016.

EMILY STUMME / Strategic Communications & Marketing earned her user experience (UX) certification with a concentration in design, which highlights mastery in UX fundamentals, research, interaction, and testing. JAMIE THOMPSON / Student Involvement , Twyla Hough / Career Services, Melissa Flowers / Residential Life, and Jacob Tingle ’95 / Business Administration received a NetVUE Program Development Grant by the Council of Independent Colleges. The purpose of the grant is to deepen the intellectual and theological exploration of vocation among undergraduate students. Additionally, Thompson and Flowers presented the pre-conference workshop “Facilitating Coordinated MAGAZINE.TRINITY.EDU/IMPACT IMPACT

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