First-generation pupil assistance announcement
First-generation pupil assistance announcement
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In November, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and Borderplex autochthonal Juan Nevarez announced a $150,000 acquisition benefiting first-generation aesculapian and nursing students.
Nevarez understands the difficulties of attending assemblage and moving afloat time.
In the aboriginal 1990s, Nevarez, a first-generation assemblage student, worked astatine a market store portion studying toward his Bachelor of Science successful petroleum engineering astatine Texas Tech University. Working doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic others wasn't caller to him.
When the family's tortilleria concern successful his hometown of Ciudad Juárez wasn't making arsenic overmuch money, Nevarez, inactive successful inferior precocious school, decided to assistance by moving nights successful a maquiladora factory.
At 15, helium came to the U.S. instilled with his family's beardown enactment ethic. Encouraged by his godmother and a information to succeed, helium enrolled astatine Texas Tech University.
Years later, and aft touring the TTUHSC El Paso field this past spring, helium was impressed by the state-of-the-art facilities but floored by students and their enactment ethic.
"I talked to first-generation students who told maine they were struggling, counting connected loans and antithetic programs," Nevarez said. "I truly saw myself successful them: They were moving hard, they're Hispanic kids, and they're trying to get done aesculapian schoolhouse similar erstwhile I was trying to get done my petroleum engineering program."
Nevarez decided past helium wanted to bash thing to assistance first-generation students from the Borderplex, a portion encompassing Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. During a peculiar luncheon connected the TTUHSC El Paso campus, helium announced 2 large gifts successful enactment of pupil scholarships.
Nevarez talented $50,000 to the Hunt School of Nursing for a assistance money named successful grant of his precocious mother, Guadalupe "Lupe" Sanchez De Nevarez. Recipients of this assistance volition beryllium first-generation students from the Borderplex region.
Nevarez besides talented $75,000 for Foster School of Medicine scholarships. The fund, the Juan J. Nevarez Sanchez Medical Student Scholarship, volition besides assistance first-generation students from the Borderplex with goals of becoming the community's aboriginal physicians.
Inspired by the afternoon's events and aft proceeding astir the challenges students faced, Nevarez contributed an further $25,000 to the Hunt School of Nursing, remembering his parent who passed distant from complications owed to diabetes and who continues to beryllium an inspiration for the Nevarez family.
The acquisition to first-generation students astatine TTUHSC El Paso volition person a resounding impact, changing their beingness trajectories. It besides volition assistance trim wellness inequities locally, ensuring students conscionable their goals, postgraduate connected clip and participate the workforce wherever they're needed much than ever.
Currently, El Paso faces a 60% shortage of physicians and a 20% shortage of registered nurses erstwhile compared to nationalist averages. In particular, the authorities of Texas is projected to look a shortfall of astir 16,000 registered nurses by 2030, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition, the U.S. Census Bureau predicts Hispanics volition relationship for 25% of the U.S. colonisation successful 10 years. However, little than 6% of physicians successful the U.S. place arsenic Hispanic. To capable the gap, TTUHSC El Paso is educating aboriginal bilingual, Hispanic wellness attraction providers, acknowledgment to required aesculapian Spanish courses for aesculapian and dental students. In 2021-2022, 57% of the university's graduates, including M.D. recipients, identified arsenic Hispanic.
Nevarez's acquisition besides carries retired a bequest of kindness helium attributes to his mother.
"This is my mode to grant my parent due to the fact that she was a caring idiosyncratic who thought astir everybody else," Nevarez said. "She ever looked retired for different people, and that's what nurses do. They person that giving spirit."
Humble Beginnings
Nevarez lived from property 5 to 15 successful Ciudad Juárez's Pancho Villa Colonia, 1 of the poorest areas of the city.
"We were fortunate we had capable to eat," Nevarez said. "We lived successful a two-bedroom location and astatine 1 constituent had six radical successful the house. You don't recognize you're mediocre astatine that property due to the fact that you're surrounded by a close, loving family."
Nevarez has dedicated implicit 25 years moving successful the lipid and state business, presently serving arsenic elder vice president of Scout Energy Partners. He serves connected the Texas Tech Foundation Board of Directors, the Texas Tech University Petroleum Industry Advisory Executive Board and the Texas Tech College of Engineering Dean's Council.
Scholarships Crucial successful Helping Students
Community leaders and TTUHSC El Paso donors besides successful attendance met with assistance recipients and the region's aboriginal wellness attraction professionals.
Support from the section assemblage is captious successful keeping talented students from the Borderplex adjacent to location arsenic they person their education. In the past 10 years, the region's donors person assisted students with fiscal challenges, relieving the load of taking connected aggregate jobs extracurricular of schoolhouse to wage bills and spend necessities.
In 2021-2022, 44% of students attending TTUHSC El Paso schools received scholarships totaling $2,174,150. For the archetypal clip successful the Hunt School of Nursing's 10-year history, gifts from donors person made it imaginable for the assemblage to grant 3 nursing students with afloat tuition for unmet fiscal need.
El Pasoan Alexia Campos knows however adjuvant scholarships tin be. Campos is enrolled successful the Hunt School of Nursing's Accelerated B.S.N. programme and works astatine a movie theatre to marque ends meet. A assistance from assemblage leaders Bob and Jane Snow has helped lessen fiscal burdens.
"I didn't privation my household to interest astir me, and I wanted to supply for myself arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. The assistance has helped with that," Campos said. "I proceed to enactment passim nursing school, but the assistance has helped to chopped down connected my hours truthful I tin ore connected schoolwork."
Campos ever knew her wellness attraction vocation would statesman astatine the Hunt School of Nursing. But her tenacity didn't halt there. She enlisted successful the U.S. Navy with goals of serving the state arsenic a caregiver and an officer.
"In my heart, I cognize that becoming a caregiver is my eventual dream," Campos said. "I ever felt a large calling for helping others. That thrust has ne'er wavered and being capable to marque a quality successful someone's beingness is imaginable acknowledgment to assemblage supporters who judge successful students similar me."
About the Hunt School of Nursing
The Hunt School of Nursing is location to the lone accelerated programme successful the portion wherever students tin gain a Bachelor of Science successful Nursing successful conscionable 16 months. Since opening successful 2011, much than 1,140 nurses person graduated from the Hunt School of Nursing, with 90% staying successful the region.
The Hunt School of Nursing has partnerships with each infirmary successful the El Paso community, which includes some objective rotation opportunities and occupation placements post-graduation, helping to capable the captious request for nurses. The school's program besides prepares students for enactment positions successful hospitals and clinics.
About the Foster School of Medicine
Since opening successful 2009, astir 800 graduates of the Foster School of Medicine person go oregon are connected their mode to becoming practicing physicians. The school's module trains students successful culturally competent attraction with the extremity of keeping aboriginal physicians successful West Texas to dainty patients successful metropolitan and agrarian areas. The school's graduates person helped trim local, determination and state-wide doc shortages.
About TTUHSC El Paso
TTUHSC El Paso is the lone wellness sciences halfway connected the U.S.-Mexico borderline and serves 108 counties successful West Texas that person been historically underserved. It's designated arsenic a Title V Hispanic-Serving Institution, preparing the adjacent procreation of wellness attraction leaders, 48% of whom place arsenic Hispanic and are often first-generation assemblage students.
Contact Information:
Marty Otero
Media Relations Specialist - National Media
maotero@ttuhsc.edu
915-215-6017
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