UT Health San Antonio’s Office of Marketing, Communications and Media does not handle death notices of current or former employees. A brief story for publication in the university’s internal newsletter, This Week, or the university’s external news source, Newsroom, is limited to longstanding executive leadership — deans, vice presidents, members of the executive committee — whose impact across the university was major and continuing over a number of years. These occasionally include founding faculty and other members of the university community known throughout the region or country.
The decision to share death notices is handled by each of the deans’ offices; in this way, these announcements/tributes are sent directly to the schools’ particular faculties and staffs, the audiences that would be most aware of, and appreciative for, the contributions of the deceased. The university’s intranet homepage, My UT Health, features a section entitled “Salutes & Sentiments” that is available for any member of the university to self-publish notices of deaths or celebrations.