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Daniel Perez covers higher education. Email him at dperez@elpasomatters.org.
State’s new funding formula benefits EPCC, region’s industry, workforce
Texas has adopted a new funding model for its community colleges, including El Paso Community College.
Survey says college freshmen need mental, financial, academic support
For some El Pasoans who are part of the 2023-24 freshman class, affordability is the main concern.
UTEP on ChatGPT: ‘Strategize, don’t demonize’ to curtail academic dishonesty
The growing power of AI has raised questions about how professors will handle writing assignments in their classes.
The University of Texas at El Paso put on ‘warning’ status by its accrediting commission
This UTEP's second warning letter in five years.
UTEP’s business dean leaves to lead Oklahoma State’s business school
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.
UTEP’s engineering summer program benefits organizers as much as campers
More than 500 students from the College of Engineering have served as ExciTES team members since the 1990s.
UTEP, El Paso Community College seek to re-engage stopped-out students
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.
UTEP, EPCC on the clock to spend millions in COVID relief money
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.
UTEP professors preach how academic failure is part of learning process
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.
Hunt Foundation’s $500,000 gift ‘life changing’ for UTHealth El Paso students
The scholarship, which could have a monetary value of up to $20,000 for tuition and fees.