The gift to TAMUSanAntonio from the Hector and Gloria López Foundation aims to help reduce financial barriers and other obstacles for Latino students. Story by broocrum.
Sergio Rodriguez, CEO of the Hector and Gloria López Foundation , is joined by Texas A&M University-San Antonio President Cynthia Teniente-Matson , and Elaine Mendoza with the Board of Regents for the Texas A&M University System, during an announcement Wednesday that the López Foundation is providing a $2.1 million grant that will benefit 15 TAMU-SA students.
This is the second-largest gift TAMU-SA has received since the university was established in 2009. The Mays Family madein 2017 to launch and name the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement. The grant will help students like sophomore Yirha Navarrete, who is studying biology and is the first person in her family to graduate from high school and attend college. Born in Mexico, Navarrete acknowledged the challenges and obstacles her parents faced, working long hours every day and moving their family to Austin when she was 6 so she could start school in the U.S. They would take her to a babysitter at 5 a.m. each morning, and then she wouldn’t see them for the rest of the day.
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