Key To Higher Learning: Prepare Students Early

EL PASO — Leaders of El Paso’s three major higher education institutions delivered a state of higher education address, the first ofits kindforEl Paso.

The El Paso Chamber of Commerce organized this event in order to give the business community better understanding of the available partnership opportunities.

Hundreds from the business community gathered for the the eventat theconvention center in Downtown El Paso.

Speakers included Diana Natalicio, president of U.T. El Paso, Richard Rhodes, president of El Paso Community College and founding dean of the Paul Foster School of Medicine, Dr. Jose Manuel de la Rosa.

Their comments focused on some of the contributions the institutions are making to the community, and how partnerships at all different education levels is vital to drawing and keeping students from the region.

De la Rosa said the value of education should be stressed for younger students. “We rely on the school districts as feeder institutions for EPCC, UTEP or the school of medicine,” he said.

“We have to rely on the high schools as our entry point for all of our product,” de la Rosa said.