 He announced his retirement as rector of the ITESM on June 21, 2010.On September 12, 2011, Salvador Alva Gómez was announced as the next rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).Rangel was born in Parral, Chihuahua, into a family formed by Rafael Rangel Romo, a mining engineer from Aguascalientes and co-proprietor of  (a flour mill) and Josefina Sostmann, he has a sister Josefina Rangel Sostman who is a painter.