Taylor Eighmy, PhD, is the sixth president of The University of Texas at San Antonio and is the acting president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. On Sept. 1, 2025, the two universities will officially merge to create the third-largest public research university in Texas, and Eighmy will serve as its president.
In addition to serving as university president, Eighmy holds faculty appointments in the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design’s Department of Civil and Environmental Science and Ecology.
Eighmy is passionate about the critical role that research universities play in creating and applying knowledge to improve the world. He believes deeply in higher education as a great opportunity provider, especially when grounded in student success. He is a vigorous advocate for experiential learning, including robust research and discovery, as foundational to such success.
Eighmy has made great strides toward linking educational attainment to San Antonio’s economic development. He is nationally recognized for advancing top research universities through strategic government-university-industry collaborations, public-private partnerships and community engagement. These principles are at the heart of his conviction that the merged university will be a unified premier powerhouse that will shape the future of education, research, health care and service nationally and globally.