Our Mission

The Black Student Alliance (BSA) serves as the representative  voice of the Black student body academically, politically, and socially to promote unity, success and involvement, not only in the Black community but across UT's Forty Acres and beyond!

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BSA TODAY

The Black Student Alliance is open to the general population of the University of Texas of Austin. Our primary goal is to uplift the African American community in its entirety socially, politically, and academically. We strive to become the voice for all African American students. Currently meetings are held every Monday in the Business building  GSB 2.122 at 7 PM.

FUTURE PLANS

Despite the fact that UT Austin has the largest population of any university in the nation at over 50,000 students, African American comprise merely 3.8 percent of those numbers. That is a population of 1500 students!! As an organization, we see the need for a better representation of African Americans and other minority groups on campus. In efforts to combat this problem, we have minority recruitment and retention programs.

It is our hope to educate those socially within the community who are not being formally educated at any of the institutions of higher learning in the Greater Austin Area. We plan to host voter registration drives and awareness workshops, health awareness workshops, targeting illnesses that affect African Americans such as hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and AIDS, just to name a few, throughout the community.

BIG XII COUNCIL

BSA is also a member of the Big XII Council on Black Student Government. This is a council that currently comprises student leaders from nine of the twelve Big XII Conference schools with extensive leadership training.

About the Big 12 Council on Black Student Government

The Big Twelve Council on Black Student Government is a regional Black Student Governing Body which consists of the Black Student Governments from institutions in the Big Twelve conference. Those schools include University of Missouri ; University of Oklahoma; ; Kansas State University; University of Colorado; Iowa State University; ; University of Nebraska;Oklahoma State University; ; University of Kansas; Baylor University; University of Texas; Texas Tech University; and Texas A&M University.

History of the Big 12 Council on Black Student Government

The council was created in 1977 when Black students from all the schools in the Big Eight Conference came together in recognition that all were suffering from similar problems at their respective institutions. The next year, the University of Missouri students formally created the Big Eight Council and Conference on Black Student Government. The 1997 the Big Eight Conference was expanded to include four Texas institutions. Forming the new Big Twelve Conference. The Big Eight Council on Black Student Government officially changed their name to the Big Twelve Council on Black Student Government and included the four Texas schools into the structure of the organization. Each year, an institute member of the Big Twelve Council on Black Student Government hosts the Annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government.

Mission Statement

To provide strong, determined, and courageous leadership and advocacy to affect our social and academic environments toward consideration of this community's collective concerns and issues where it pertains to the educational, socio-cultural, economic, and spiritual well-being of this community.

Goals and Objectives

The Big Twelve Council on Black Student Government shall:

assist in the recruitment efforts to bring Black student, faculty, and staff to the respective member institutions. assist in the efforts or retention of Black students, faculty, and staff at the member institutions. provide programs for community outreach that will strengthen the Black community. use administration panels comprised of Black Studies, Black Students, Black Faculty, and Black Staff as a means to assist in campus communication and participation require Member Institution to work conjunctively with all Black organizations. have forums, political think tanks, and voter registration drives to constitute political awareness within the region.

use all monetary, sponsored, and donated funds to provide for financial empowerment.

Composed by Obi Ihekweazu and Stephanie Eason

Contact Information

If you have any comments or questions you can contact us all email addresses are located on the officer link. If you have a specific question pertaining to a committee then direct your questions to that committee head.

Postal address

Black Student Alliance 1 University Station A6220 Soc # 64 Austin, Texas 78712

Electronic mail

General Information: anthonyd.williams@gmail.com
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