UTEP is reporting an enrollment of 24,879 students for the Fall 2020 semester which is a 1.2% decrease in head-count enrollment from Fall 2019, but the university is also reporting an increase in its retention rate. According to a news release, the...

Dr. Karen Fowler, assistant professor of nursing at UTEP, is researching the effects of childhood trauma on Hispanic nursing students during their years of study with the help of a $5,000 grant she received this year. Funding from the grant began in early...

UTEP’s Office of International Programs and Study Abroad is now accepting applications for trips departing in the Spring 2021 semester, but what’s different now amid the COVID-19 pandemic? Even though the program is not sending anyone anywhere...

Oscar Gomez, a UTEP alumnus, said he had to take out the maximum amount of student loans each semester while he attended UTEP because he had so many things to pay for. “I had already exhausted my Pell Grant and I had to start getting student loans...

UTEP officially reopened its Student Recreation Center on Sept. 1 after it was shuttered for months because of the coronavirus pandemic and many modifications have been put in place to ensure safety. The Recreation Center will only be operating at...

UTEP’s new data science doctoral degree program is expected to be in full swing by the fall 2021 semester, opening up a slew of opportunities for students and the El Paso community. “This is so important for UTEP,” said Dr. Amy Wagler, the program’s...

With millions of jobs lost because of the pandemic, starting a career has become more of a challenge for graduates barely entering the job market. UTEP’s University Career Center has been helping students adapt to these tough times through guidance...

A grant of $318,383 was recently awarded to UTEP's Department of Sociology & Anthropology by the National Science Foundation to explore the emotional experience of pregnancy among first and second generation Mexican-origin immigrants in the El Paso,...

In replacement of the in-person graduation ceremony that was supposed to happen in May, UTEP is instead hosting a virtual one at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Elias Chevalier, freshman history major at UTEP, said that the graduating...

The college experience is going to be very different this semester for students everywhere because classes are now mostly online. But despite this new reality, here’s how some student organizations at UTEP have adapted to the COVID-19 era. The...

UTEP is projecting a loss of $17.2 million for the 2020 fiscal year, but officials say funding from the federal Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, has provided some relief to the institution and its students. The university...