El Paso

“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.

This was the nursing department’s first in-person graduation since 2019.

“Things have radically shifted in the past 20 years and there’s much more attention to the fact that people need to change course because the world is changing.”

The agreement is a prominent departure from U.S. and Mexican policies that have closed the 2,000-mile land border to all but essential travel since March 21, 2020.

A UTEP graduate got help from the school’s career center but says he struggled to get interviews until he paid $200 to a resume service. A national expert says university career services need an overhaul.

A recent survey of El Paso Community College students found that two out of five experienced food insecurity.

After three weeks of its network systems not fully being restored, the University of Texas at El Paso has yet to provide details about what caused the networks to fail.

“They make you feel like you are doing something bad when the only thing you are trying to do is going to school,” said a student from Mexico who attends the University of Texas at El Paso.