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El Paso Matters

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Posted inEl Paso

State’s new funding formula benefits EPCC, region’s industry, workforce

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersSeptember 11, 2023September 11, 2023

Texas has adopted a new funding model for its community colleges, including El Paso Community College.

Posted inEl Paso

Survey says college freshmen need mental, financial, academic support

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersAugust 10, 2023August 11, 2023

For some El Pasoans who are part of the 2023-24 freshman class, affordability is the main concern.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP on ChatGPT: ‘Strategize, don’t demonize’ to curtail academic dishonesty

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersJuly 25, 2023July 25, 2023

The growing power of AI has raised questions about how professors will handle writing assignments in their classes.

Posted inEl Paso

The University of Texas at El Paso put on ‘warning’ status by its accrediting commission

By Daniel Perez, El Paso Matters and Ramon BracamontesJuly 6, 2023July 7, 2023

This UTEP’s second warning letter in five years.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP’s business dean leaves to lead Oklahoma State’s business school

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersJune 16, 2023June 21, 2023

Under Payne’s watch, the college made substantial changes to its curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate levels and introduced some online programs to serve the community.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP’s engineering summer program benefits organizers as much as campers

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersJune 1, 2023June 1, 2023

More than 500 students from the College of Engineering have served as ExciTES team members since the 1990s.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP, El Paso Community College seek to re-engage stopped-out students

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersMay 25, 2023May 25, 2023

The number of adult Texans in July 2021 with some college credits but no credential rose to more than 2.6 million, a 4.5% increase from the previous year.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP, EPCC on the clock to spend millions in COVID relief money

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersMay 15, 2023May 17, 2023

The college used some of its remaining federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund money to prepare Student-Parent Resource Centers at each of its campuses.

Posted inEl Paso

UTEP professors preach how academic failure is part of learning process

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersMay 2, 2023May 2, 2023

Professors at the University of Texas at El Paso share their personal academic failures with their students to let them know that a bad grade is not the end of the world, and through desire and diligence, will become little more than a memory.

Posted inEl Paso

Hunt Foundation’s $500,000 gift ‘life changing’ for UTHealth El Paso students

By Daniel Perez, El Paso MattersApril 5, 2023April 5, 2023

The scholarship, which could have a monetary value of up to $20,000 for tuition and fees.

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