Taylor Eighmy

Taylor Eighmy, PhD, is the president of The University of Texas at San Antonio and is the inaugural holder of the Carlos Alvarez Distinguished Presidential Chair. Now the third-largest research university in Texas and a nationally recognized, Carnegie R1-designated institution and Carnegie Opportunity University, UT San Antonio includes the UT San Antonio Health Science Center — South Texas’s only academic health center and the region’s leading producer of health professionals — as well as UT Health San Antonio, an expansive clinical practice. Under Eighmy’s leadership, UT San Antonio serves over 42,000 students with 17,000 employees, including more than 4,000 faculty. He is passionate about the critical role that research universities play in creating and applying knowledge to improve the world, and he believes deeply in higher education as a great opportunity provider, especially when grounded in student success.