When you ask Gary Gurwitz about South Texas College’s greatest accomplishments, he doesn’t talk about 2013’s $159-million bond measure; he doesn’t talk about the 564,548 square feet of new facilities that have just been added; and he doesn’t talk about the millions of dollars in endowments he and his colleagues have helped secure. Instead, he talks about students.
“It’s the number of people that STC has trained or introduced to higher education that would not otherwise have gotten their degrees or a certificate that I think about,” said Gurwitz, who has been on STC’s Board of Trustees since its inception. “Think ...