UHV Donor Recognition Display adds new plaques, updates

UHV President Bob Glenn and Jesse Pisors, UHV vice president for advancement & external relations, discuss on Monday the four new plaques and names added to the UHV Donor Recognition Display in University North, 3007 N. Ben Wilson St. The steel plaques permanently honor the Trull Foundation, Rebuild Texas Fund, Bennett-Wood Family, and Claud and Mary Virginia Jacobs for their cumulative gifts of $50,000 or more to the university. Also added to the wall was a donor feature highlighting UHV alumna Josie Rivera and information about her. In addition, updates were made to the display’s Cornerstone Circle with the names of those who donated $1,000 or more during 2017-2018, as well as a section dedicated to faculty and staff donations made to UHV during the 2018 fiscal year.

The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 80 academic programs in the schools of Arts & Sciences; Business Administration; and Education, Health Professions & Human Development. UHV provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as an instructional site in Katy, Texas, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. UHV supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.