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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
The only thing that interrupted the sounds of laughter on Saturday in the Almaguer backyard was the sizzle of a grill and the sound of music as relatives and friends celebrated a family milestone. Victoria ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has reached an agreement with Customs and Border Protection to allow parents of spring and summer graduates to cross the Juarez border so they can attend in-person commencement ...
When Miguel Venegas graduated from UTEP in December 2020 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he knew he was entering a job market as the world was grappling with a world-wide pandemic. But he was ...
Both El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso are among the nation’s top institutions for granting degrees to Latinos according to a recent research study. The report produced by Excelenia ...
After three weeks of its network systems not fully being restored, the University of Texas at El Paso has yet to provide details about the “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion” that caused the networks to ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniela would cross the border every day from her home in Ciudad Juárez to attend the University of Texas at El Paso. “It was a normal crossing. I only had to ...
The University of Texas at El Paso will have in-person commencement ceremonies in May, the first time the university has been able to do so since the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020. The ...
A week after its computer networks appear to have been attacked, the University of Texas at El Paso is warning employees to stay off of campus computers as it struggles to bring systems back online. ...
Last spring, Derek Hernandez sat his parents down and drew a two-column chart. On one side he listed what life would look like if he continued his education as a political science major at the ...
For almost 30 years, El Paso has not had a dedicated reporter to the topic of higher education. This means there has been an accumulating gray area as to what higher education means for El ...
The University of Texas at El Paso is one of just 17 higher education institutions nationwide to join a new $6.5 million NBCUniversal News Group initiative to diversify newsrooms. UTEP’s Department of Communication will receive ...
Students and instructors who are involved with El Paso-area career and technical education courses have had to change their approaches to course work in light of schools and laboratories dealing with COVID-19 restrictions. Career and ...
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By Clifton Tanabe, Ph.D., J.D. The disruption to our education system caused by COVID-19 has been a historic challenge for the El Paso community. We have witnessed dedicated educators rise to meet this challenge, and ...