Mujeres a Traves del Tiempo

Abigayle Hayden | Senior Reporter

As the university reflects on Women’s History Month and its impact, a reminder of powerful women in South Texas hangs proud on campus.

Celebrando Mujeres A Travez Del Tiempo, a book release and celebration held in the MSUB ballrooms on March 22, honored the mural of some of South Texas’ most renowned women by Arnold Gonzales and the book it inspired.

After seeing another mural of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War, Gonzales was inspired to create one honoring women such as Dr. Irma Rangel, Henrietta King and many more.

student organizations at their booths as they promote themselves.

Eric Robles said this was his first-time attending Spring Fling and he enjoyed it.

“I think it definitely brings the community of the students together and really get that spirit of what it’s like being in Javelina nation, and it’ll help to promote and continue the growth of the university as it goes along,” Robles said.

Each organization along the Boulevard had the chance to fundraise at Spring Fling for their association by selling food, drinks, other items and playing games.

“The ROTC program decided to participate to help raise funds that’ll go to different events and trainings that will do such [things] as going to the range to go shoot or to go to the field to go do some land naviga- tion,” ROTC member Henry Molina said. Molina said he did his share with helping his organization by barbecuing briskets all night, in preparation for Spring Fling.

Ronni Reyna | Editor-in-Chief chief.editor@thesouthtexan.com

Since the rise of COVID-19 but prior to the pandemic, Texas A&M University Kingsville has seen a steady decline in enrollment.

Through this decline, the university has maintained an average retention rate, which is the rate of students returning to the university, of 66.8 percent from the fall 2012 to the fall of 2021.

“When we look at fall to fall [retention hovers] around 60 percent, and we want it to be higher. This isn’t so different from our other peers, or other universities. We’re all kind of in the same boat, but we want to make sure we’re giving students the support so these numbers go higher. Just because we’re aligned with our peers doesn’t mean we just want to be like our peers, we want to be better,” Inaugural Chief of Performance Excellence and Strategy

Dr.

Kristina Ramirez Wilson

See Retention, Pg 7