UTRGV hosted its Family Day event Friday in Brownsville, offering students and their families the chance to connect and experience campus life.
Giovanna Granados said the event aimed to provide students with quality time alongside their families and opportunities to meet other vaquero families.
“Pretty much what these days are meant to do is meant to, like, bring families together, have families meet each other, get to collaborate, and get to meet the UTRGV community, UTRGV staff,” she said.
Elixamaris Ortiz, a UTRGV student, said family bonding is an essential part of her college experience.
“I [came] because I think it’s really important to stay with my family here at the university,” Oritz said.
Family Day also helps parents feel included in their students’ college journey, Granados said.
“It’s just a big way to say thank you and celebrating, like, those vaquero families for all the support that, you know, they give our students because we know that it’s very important to have that support for families,” he said.
Lymari Ortiz, a UTRGV parent, said she attended the event to create memories with her daughter.
“I think that it was important for us to spend some time with family,” Ortiz said. “This [is a] great opportunity to just be together and do something fun.”
Granados emphasized the importance of involving families in students’ campus experiences.
“Wanting to bring our families together and have more of our families and our parents and grandparents, siblings, you know, partake in the vaquero experience at the campus,” she said. “So being a part of, like, you know, their students journey, not just, you know, giving them the support, but also, you know, inviting them over to come to campus, have some fun, get to see, like, what campus life is like, and to be able to visit and to bond with their students.”
For more information, contact the Center for Student Involvement at (956) 882-8438 or email csi@utrgv.edu.
This is Jasmin Espinosa for Vaquero Radio.
