Weekend Schedule

Family & Founders Weekend Check-In Opens  |  UATX Scarbrough Campus

522 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701

Welcome Reception  |  UATX Scarbrough Campus  |  Business Casual

Join students, parents, faculty, and administrators for a community meet-and-greet. Welcome our new faculty, hear updates from UATX leadership, pick up your welcome packet, tour the campus, and enjoy light bites and beverages together.

6:00 - 6:30 PM   |  Welcome Remarks   |   Atrium, Third Floor

Campus Opens

UATX Scarbrough Campus   |  Second & Third Floors

Parents, guests, faculty, and staff are all invited to enjoy a cup of coffee, tour through our Building America's Next Great University exhibit, and check out the new UATX Merchandise Store.

Michael Shellenberger's Report on the State of Free Speech in America & Around the Globe 

UATX Scarbrough Campus   |  Cicero Forum, Second Floor

The Student Experience: Seminar Options for Our Parents and Friends   |  Scarbrough Campus  |  Comfortable Attire 

Dive into the UATX experience as a student and choose from a selection of engaging seminar options led by our faculty and executive staff members.  

• What is the Gospel of Mark? by Carson Bay, Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Studies    |   Seminar Room 313, Third Floor

• Music and Morality: 200 Years of Great Classic Hits by Ben Crocker, University Dean   |   Seminar Room 209, Second Floor

• Jane Austen's Lady Susan by Kirsten Herlin, Assistant Professor of Literature   |   Seminar Room 210, Second Floor

• The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: On Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address by J. Michael Hoffpauir, Assistant Professor of Political Theory   |   Seminar Room 312, Third Floor 

• Introduction to Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency by Thomas Hogan, Associate Professor of Economics   |   Seminar Room 310, Third Floor

• Chocolate Auction Economics by Tim Kane, Dean of the Center for Economics, Politics, and History   |   Large Lecture Hall 326, Third Floor 

• Transhumanism by Allen Porter, Assistant Professor of Philosophy   |  Seminar Room 305, Third Floor

• Sampling Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus' Agamemnon by Isabella Reinhardt, Assistant Professor of Classics   |   Seminar Room 311, Third Floor

• Liberalism and Conservatism by Loren Rotner, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Executive Director of Admissions   |   Seminar Room 202, Second Floor

• Student Seminar led by staff in our Student Life & Community and Admissions Departments   |   Faculty Lounge, Third Floor

UATX Cornhole Tournament |  Auditorium Shores at Town Lake  | Casual Attire or Team Uniform 

204 E. 4th Street, Austin, TX 78701 - THIS IS A NEW LOCATION!

EVERYONE IS INVITED!  Grab your friends, family, and fellow UATX fans and join us for a lively cornhole tournament at Auditorium Shores! Parents, students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to compete. Team spirit is the name of the game.  If you have not registered your team yet, please email Will Varnell at wvarnell@uaustin.org.

Let’s see who will be crowned the Inaugural UATX Cornhole Champions!

UATX Moms' Club Meet-Up  |  Casual Attire or Team Uniform 

All UATX moms are invited to this opportunity to visit and get acquainted!  Let's meet at the Cornhole Tournament for the toss of the first bag, and then we will go find a place to visit and get better acquainted! Please email Carmen McAlister (Mom of Everett McAlister, '28) at menacita@gmail.com.