Jewél Jackson

The return of in-person classes suggests some progress has been made against the COVID-19 pandemic. But many students still have concerns about masks mandates, social distancing, and COVID-19 variants.

The campus primarily resides on Apache and Ysleta del Sur Pueblo lands but also on various other Indigenious nation’s lands. 

“Structurally within institutions, within our society folks with disabilities have often been set aside, put in the shadows, made invisible many times,” one professor says.

Abeni Merriweather’s piece is an arrangement of Black spirituals that date back to the time of legal slavery in America. She said she was inspired to use spirituals after hearing them in a video game.

The federal aid helped students like Helen Bonds stay enrolled at El Paso Community College.

Conservative lawmakers wasted no time answering Gov. Greg Abbott’s call to enact further restrictions on how race is taught in relation to the nation’s history in public and charter school classrooms.

Three years in to her appointment, some groups have given Wilson a chance at redemption. Others have not.

More than half of the state’s dentists practice in the five most populous counties. “So the rest of Texas is underserved,”the school’s dean says.

“My parents never told me I had to go to school or do this and that,” said Victoria Almaguer, “but I put it onto myself because I know what they have sacrificed.”

Graduates included parents, first-generation students, and students who enlisted the help of the university and federal agencies to ensure their families were able to witness their accomplishments.