12:45 p.m., Jan. 7: This story has been updated to include comment from the Texas Faculty Association. In less than two weeks, El Paso college and university students will be returning to in-person classes despite ...
In 2014, Dr. Richard Lange was named founding president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. The university has been pivotal in increasing El Pasoans’ health knowledge. Most recently, TTUHSC El Paso opened ...
El Paso Community College President William Serrata is seemingly everywhere. Since 2012, Serrata has been the school’s president but also juggles other leadership roles that include president of the Texas Association of Community Colleges, board ...
In 2015, the state of Texas launched an ambitious plan aimed at having 60% of its young adult population earn a higher education degree or two-year certificate by the year 2030. But lawmakers could not ...
A newly formed state commission created to address the funding of community colleges will be the first to undertake the effort in nearly 50 years. Created during the 87th Texas Legislature by state Sen. Larry ...
At 7 years old, Wilbur Coleman III, commonly known as “Bookie,” can say he is the founder of his own company. “This was all his idea,” said Chereè Coleman, Bookie’s mother and co-founder of Bookie ...
After being featured at this year’s New York Fashion Week in September, Imperial Legacy Clothing, an El Paso-based, Black-owned business, is experiencing an increase in growth and recognition. “It was amazing, it was crazy. We ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has the highest percentage of Hispanic tenured faculty among the nation’s largest research universities, according to the most recent national data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. ...
A new classroom building at El Paso Community College’s Mission del Paso campus will provide students with increased learning space and resources to accommodate the anticipated growing population of East El Paso. The new building, ...
For two years, Victor Hurtado studied and researched the Italian Doge’s Palace as an undergraduate art history major at the University of Texas at El Paso. And in the summer of 2018, he saw the ...
The University of Texas at El Paso celebrated its former president, Diana Natalicio, in a Celebration of Life event on Sunday. The event included the release of 200 lanterns into the night sky and a ...
For the second year in a row, the University of Texas at El Paso has seen a decrease in enrollment after more than two decades of growth. Overall enrollment at UTEP dropped 3.5% — or ...
Texas lawmakers passed a bill this week that provides $3.3 billion to fund capital projects at several public universities and colleges, including the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Tech University Health Sciences ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has approved a formal acknowledgement that recognizes that the campus resides on Indigenous lands. The official announcement is expected Monday, said Jeffrey Shepherd, a history professor at UTEP ...
Despite classes resuming last month for the new academic school year, El Paso Community College is still working on bringing students back. “We saw excellent gains in enrollment (but) we’re not exactly where we want ...
An El Paso-based Black-owned business is getting national recognition this week during the iconic New York Fashion Week. Owned by brother-and-sister duo Faith and Marcus Smith, Imperial Legacy Clothing is featured in the “Emerging Artist” ...
In 2004, August was nationally recognized as Black Business Month after historian John William Timpleton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan Sr. led an effort to raise awareness about Black-owned businesses and their contributions to the ...
In 2019, four college students from El Paso met at a Starbucks because they wanted to give back to their community, but weren’t sure how to do so. “We sat down and we started talking ...
When Paulina del Pozo graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in industrial engineering, she knew she would have to leave her hometown in order to start her career. “I ...
El Paso Community College will require students and staff to follow local mask mandates and will enlist campus police to enforce the policy if necessary, officials said. The announcement was made by college President William ...
In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 among its student body, the University of Texas at El Paso will provide financial compensation to students who get vaccinated. The effort begins next week and ...
It has been a year since Derek Hernandez, a senior at the University of Texas at El Paso, paused his studies because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide transition to online classes. But ...
For almost 20 years, Professor Jeffrey Shepherd has been teaching history at the University of Texas at El Paso. As the chair of the department and a professor with a keen knowledge of Native American ...
When one first sees Didi Lopez walking or standing, it’s easy to assume she is not living with a disability. But after an hour, Lopez said, her walk starts to look different. “My disability isn’t ...
El Paso native Abeni Merriweather has become the youngest composer for major music publishing company Carl Fischer Music Company. “Everyone that does music obviously knows who Carl Fischer is. … It’s one of the most ...
Just weeks before Helen Bonds graduated from El Paso Community College, she was unsure if she’d be able to reach that milestone because she was short on money and had already exhausted her financial aid. ...
As the city of El Paso continues to see a decrease in COVID-19 cases, there is renewed attention towards diabetes and alcohol addiction within the local community. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a large number ...
In March 2019, Michael Gutierrez was one of the nearly 60 students who stood outside the Union building on the University of Texas at El Paso campus to protest the appointment of then-UTEP president finalist ...
Next month, Texas Tech University Heath Sciences Center will welcome its inaugural class into the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. The dental school will be the first of its kind in a border ...
More than 90 medical school students are one step closer to donning their white doctor coats after graduating from Texas Tech University of Health and Science Center on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. The in-person ...
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