'Home' Takes on New Meaning With UMHB's Recent HSI Designation

March 5, 2025

By Christi Mays

When freshman Yazmin Hernandez packed up and moved to Belton to attend UMHB, it was one of only a handful of times she had left her hometown deep in the Rio Grande Valley. Born in McAllen and growing up in nearby Donna, Texas, her whole world revolved around a 20-mile radius. Her very tight-knit family and all her high school friends were Hispanic and spoke Spanish, or "Spanglish," as she calls it, which is a hybrid of Spanish and English. The farthest she'd ve...