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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The University of Texas at El Paso’s computer systems have been disrupted since Friday by an “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion,” UTEP officials said. The intrusion forced the school to turn off servers for email ...
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 at UTEP will present their documentary photography projects to the public virtually on Wednesday evening. Working all semester, students in Corrie Boudreaux’s digital photography class visually documented the impact of the pandemic in the ...
You can listen to 91 years of El Paso music history via Youtube, or with fewer ads/interruptions on Mixcloud: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 “I always refer to El Paso as a port city ...
El Paso health officials and their North Texas colleagues have shared information about possible coronavirus exposure during the Conference USA basketball tournaments in Frisco earlier this month. The men’s and women’s basketball teams played in ...
A 10-month investigation by El Paso Matters shows that UTEP was slow to answer Olivas’ concerns and those responses were incomplete and inaccurate at times. The investigation found that errors by the university’s Office of ...
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