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Hilltop Views
The Student News Site of St. Edward's University

Hilltop Views
During the Know Your Rights workshop, Karen Green of Catholic Charities of Central Texas presents a slide explaining different immigration statuses. The presentation breaks down the spectrum from undocumented persons (those with expired visas or who entered without permission) to visa holders (both immigrant and non-immigrant categories), legal permanent residents (including conditional status) and U.S. citizens.

Catholic Charities of Central Texas’ “Know Your Rights” Workshop Offers Immigration Insights Amid Policy Changes

Nicole Williams-Quezada, Intern
April 8, 2025
Students Lily Grant and Elon Parker have created an American Sign Language (ASL) club on campus to encourage fellow students to become more involved in the process of trying to get ASL to become a foreign language credit. Parker and Grant have expressed concerns in regards to the fact that St. Edward’s has a lot of students come into the school with ASL credits that are not able to be used towards language credits, but instead towards special topics credits.

American Sign Language club pushes for subject to be foreign language credit

Raveena Devjee, Staff Writer
April 7, 2025
Doug Martin of the Cherokee culture group (left) gestures while speaking with Roy Johnson, campus sustainability coordinator and arborist, at the Cherokee corn celebration on March 8.

Cherokee corn celebration brings Indigenous culture to the campus garden, food forest

Nicole Williams-Quezada, Staff Writer
March 24, 2025
Molly McPherson shares insights into her PR job in crisis communication with St. Edward’s faculty and students. “You have to have thick skin. You have to have integrity. You have to have character.”

Fear, Fallout and Fixes: Molly McPherson breaks down crisis communication strategy

Michaela Fallon, Reporter
March 24, 2025
Macy Zander, Luke Metzger and Sean Winn were all a part of a panel held by the Kozmetsky Center here at St. Edward’s. The panel was meant to allow students to hear some solutions to the issue of single-use plastic, rather than just hearing about the problem.

Kozmetsky Center holds panel about the politics of plastic

Raveena Devjee, Staff Writer
March 14, 2025
With all of the wide-ranging orders from President Trump, Hilltop Views reporters Nicole Williams-Quezada and Raveena Devjee had a round table talk with Lisa Kirkpatrick, Erika Zamora and Gwen Schuler to gain more clarity and insight into what this means for the university and how these policies and actions may affect St. Edward’s students.

Q&A: St. Edward’s University admin speak on impact of changing Title IX, Immigration, DEI policies

Raveena Devjee and Nicole Williams-Quezada
March 10, 2025
The Munday Library lounge hosted the Kozmetsky Center’s first of its kind “Civic Entrepreneurs in Austin” event. Students and guests also earned food truck vouchers for engaging with presenters.

Kozmetsky Center showcase highlights student-led community projects in Austin

Nicole Williams-Quezada, Intern
February 19, 2025
The Health and Counseling Center’s outreach initiatives include informational displays with resources ranging from 'What is Counseling?' guides to faculty mental health support materials.

A guide to mental health resources on the hilltop

Nicole Williams Quezada, Reporter
November 18, 2024
Faculty members from St. Edward's University's new nursing program look on as a student receives her white coat during the inaugural White Coat Ceremony. The historic event, held in Jones Auditorium, marks the beginning of clinical training for the university's first-ever nursing cohort.

St. Edward’s inaugural nursing cohort dons white coats in historic ceremony

Nicole Williams Quezada, Reporter
November 14, 2024
The 2024 Homecoming parade kicked off on Nov. 2, with multiple organizations on campus showcasing their school spirit.

Hilltopper community displays school spirit, pride at annual homecoming celebration

Zemira Recio, Staff Writer
November 12, 2024
Amy Concilio, Ph.D., (left) Desiree Lugo-Marquez and Margaux Ordeveza collect soil samples from a covered sample site intended to simulate extreme drought conditions for the grasses being studied.

St. Edward’s University students break ground on restoring the Texas Hill Country through ecological research

Julia Klein, Reporter
October 21, 2024
A vibrant display of Cherokee heirloom corn, showcasing a variety of colors and textures. These kernels, cultivated on campus, are part of a larger effort to preserve indigenous agricultural traditions and promote biodiversity.

Ancient seeds, new roots: Cherokee corn thrives at St. Edward’s University’s food forest

Nicole Williams Quezada, Reporter
October 7, 2024
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