began serving as UTSA's sixth president. UTSA has become a nationally ranked research university with US$68.1 million delegated toward research expenditures for fiscal year 2017. A stated goal of the UTSA Master Plan is the enhancement of the university's research infrastructure. On June 9, 2017, UTSA introduced the largest construction project in its history with the announcement of a $95 Million Science And Engineering Building which opened in Fall 2020. On September 6, 2018, UTSA announced it had received a $15 million gift from San Antonio business leader Graham Weston and $70 million commitment from The University of Texas System Board of Regents for construction of two new facilities at its Downtown Campus for a National Security Collaboration Center and a proposed School of Data Science which opened January 9, 2023 and became the first and only Data Science school in the state of Texas. In November 2018, a video emerged online of a Black student being escorted out of an A&P lecture by uniformed officers. The student had allegedly been resting her feet on the chair in front of her and when her professor asked her to sit properly, she purportedly refused. The professor then called campus police. Reaction to the video led the university's President Taylor Eighmy to issue a statement saying the university needed to "take a hard look at our campus climate — especially for students of color — and enact systemic change to make UTSA a more inclusive campus." The University conducted an investigation into the incident, with the professor suspended for the remainder of the semester. The investigation found that racial bias was not a factor in the incident, and the professor completed classroom management training through the university's Teaching and Learning Services. After returning to the classroom in 2019, the professor was suspended again and a second investigation conducted by the university. A petition saying she had been "ousted unfairly", and requesting her reinstatement was signed by over 900 students, however the she was not asked to return to the university. It was announced on June 29, 2021, that the departments and programs under both The College of Engineering and the College of Architecture, Construction and Planning were to be combined to form the new College of Engineering and Integrated Design (CEID) at UTSA which was officially launched on September 1, 2021. Soon after CEID's announcement, UTSA revealed that it would be acquiring