Student Affairs

Our Student Affairs team in the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) is here to empower undergraduate student success and thriving across sixty-plus majors and minors, research centers, and programs.  Through our Offices of Student Engagement, Academic Advising, and Student Division, we help students navigate their journey from prospective to incoming COLA student at orientation, through their entire degree plan, and ultimately to graduation and life beyond UT.  As students write their story with us in COLA, we are here to demystify academic life and success and help students define their own unique path.

Our team endeavors to guide Liberal Arts students as they cultivate the values of the human-centered disciplines across Humanities, World Languages, and Social Sciences to address leading-edge challenges of the future.  Our students develop their talents in lucid speaking and writing, research and analysis, fact and evidence-based argumentation, cultural breadth and depth, flexibility and adaptability, multilingualism, historical and social acuity, philosophical and spiritual inquiry, and civic dedication.

Student Affairs is here to partner with students, staff, and faculty across UT as well as employers and surrounding communities to celebrate our Liberal Arts students and animate the change they make in the world.

Student Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts serves our undergraduate students from its sixty-plus majors and minors, research centers, and programs. All Academic Advising and the Office of Student Engagement make up the heart of Student Affairs. Our multifaceted staff is dedicated to helping Liberal Arts and Humanities students to own and proudly adhere to the values of the Humanist disciplines, some of which are lucid speaking and writing; research and analysis; fact and evidence-based argumentation; cultural breadth and depth; flexibility and adaptability; multilingualism; historical and social acuity; philosophical and spiritual inquiry; and civic dedication.

Our Student Division staff conducts final year degree audits, and prepares students for commencement and graduation. They also organize Explore UT, the annual public event that welcomes the citizens of Texas to the campus, and highlights the College’s and University’s research culture and its traditions of excellence.

The College of Liberal Art’s faculty, advisors, and staff are committed to celebrating CoLA students, while enabling them to fluently speak about the Liberal Arts and Humanities’ multiple currencies of value. The mission of the Student Affairs is to guide students as they navigate their roles from students, to citizens and professionals. We are so glad you are here.

Student Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts serves our undergraduate students from its sixty-plus majors and minors, research centers, and programs. All Academic Advising, the Office of Student Success, and Liberal Arts Career Services (LACS) make up the heart of Student Affairs. Our multifaceted staff is dedicated to helping Liberal Arts and Humanities students to own and proudly adhere to the values of the Humanist disciplines, some of which are lucid speaking and writing; research and analysis; fact and evidence-based argumentation; cultural breadth and depth; flexibility and adaptability; multilingualism; historical and social acuity; philosophical and spiritual inquiry; and civic dedication.

Before they arrive on The University’s Forty Acres, Liberal Arts advisors welcome CoLA students with comprehensive orientation support, and counsel students as they advance through their major and minor degree plans. The College’s Care Counselors teach students to recognize their inherent resiliency and maintain well-being as they achieve. Liberal Arts Career Services’ course to career support includes helping students to gain access to internship and service learning opportunities, and to refine resumes and prepare for interviews; LACS also offers students guidance for graduate and professional school admissions.

We are the home of two distinguished honors programs: the interdisciplinary Plan II Honors Program and Liberal Arts Honors. Most of the College’s Departments offer students the opportunity to conduct independent research with faculty members who are renowned in their specializations and fields. Several Merit Awards and Research and Study Abroad Scholarships are disbursed by the College of Liberal Arts. These include the Rapoport Service Scholarship, the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award, the Randy Diehl Prize in Liberal Arts, and the Dean’s Distinguished Graduates.

Our Student Division staff conducts final year degree audits, and prepares students for commencement and graduation. They also organize Explore UT, the annual public event that welcomes the citizens of Texas to the campus, and highlights the College’s and University’s research culture and its traditions of excellence.

The College of Liberal Art’s faculty, advisors, and staff are committed to celebrating CoLA students, while enabling them to fluently speak about the Liberal Arts and Humanities’ multiple currencies of value. The mission of the Student Affairs is to guide students as they navigate their roles from students, to citizens and professionals. We are so glad you are here.