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Chancellor Cigarroa to visit Rio Grande Valley Thursday

UT System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D. will visit with students, staff and faculty at La Joya High School and UT Pan American Thursday, Oct. 24 to continue conversations about the new university and medical school in South Texas.

Cigarroa’s first stop will be La Joya High School, where he will meet with students and teachers from 10 to 11:15 a.m. to hear their thoughts on educational opportunity in the Rio Grande Valley and what the new UT institution will mean for them. La Joya High School is located at 604 Coyote Dr. in La Joya.

Cigarroa then will travel to UT Pan American in Edinburg to meet with faculty and staff from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. and then with students from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Both meetings will be held at the UT Pan American Student Union Theater, 1201 W. University Dr.

Cigarroa recently visited the Rio Grande Valley Sept. 24, when he met with students, staff and faculty at UT Brownsville and Dr. Abraham P. Cano Freshman Academy in Harlingen. His next visit to the South Texas is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 20.

The university will be bicultural, biliterate and bilingual and is being created to transform educational, economic and health opportunities for South Texas.

For more information about the Project South Texas initiative, please visit www.ProjectSouthTexas.com.

About The University of Texas System

Educating students, providing care for patients, conducting groundbreaking research and serving the needs of Texans and the nation for more than 130 years, The University of Texas System is one of the largest public university systems in the United States, with nine academic universities, six health institutions and a fall 2013 enrollment of more than 213,000. The UT System confers more than one-third of the state’s undergraduate degrees, educates two-thirds of the state’s health care professionals annually and accounts for almost 70 percent of all research funds awarded to public universities in Texas. The UT System has an annual operating budget of $14.6 billion (FY 2014) including $3 billion in sponsored programs funded by federal, state, local and private sources. With more than 87,000 employees, the UT System is one of the largest employers in the state.

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