UTSA Cost of Experience
To support UTSA’s Cost of Experience (COE) Project which will provide students with peer mentoring, faculty coaching, and career mentoring/development and experiential learning opportunities for 100 first-generation and Pell eligible juniors to improve third year retention rates and four-year graduation rates as well as increasing marketable skill and career-readiness development for these students.
UTRGV Greater Texas Foundation Scholars Program 3.0
To support the GTF Scholars Program which aims to increase the number of Texas early college high school (ECHS) graduates who successfully transition to a four-year institution of higher education and complete a baccalaureate degree.
UpSkill Coastal Bend Partnership
To support continued expansion of the UpSkill Coastal Bend Partnership into six targeted counties of the Coastal Bend – Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, and San Patricio – to provide rural residents with greater access to education and career opportunities.
University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 2+2 Pathways
To support a pilot 2+2 program to facilitate the seamless transfer of students from Texas community colleges to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (or CLASS) at the University of Houston.
Understanding the Architecture of Policies that Identify, Assess, and Place English Language Learners in the Community College
To support an empirical mixed methods research study centered on English language learners (ELs) in community college.
The Untapped Potential of Noncredit Education at Community Colleges: Restructuring Programs and Pathways to Meet Texas’ Postsecondary and Workforce Goals
To support the execution of a research-to-practice project aimed at improving postsecondary outcomes and economic opportunities for students in noncredit education programs in the Texas Gulf Coast Region.
The Texas Transformation Initiative Phase I — Transforming the Foundational Postsecondary Experience
To support the Gardner Institute in work with 4-to-6 four-year postsecondary institutions in the state of Texas to create and implement plans that transform the foundational postsecondary experience, leading to systems-level change that, in turn, significantly improves retention and completion outcomes.
The Aspen Opportunity Youth Forum and Texas OY Network Innovation Fund
To support the launch of the Aspen Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) and Texas Opportunity Youth Network (TOYN) Innovation Fund designed to increase community and program expertise and capacity to leverage state policy and public/private funding partnerships to build sustainable and scalable opportunity youth pathways statewide.
Texas Work-Based Learning Consortium
To support the Texas Work-Based Learning Consortium, a three-year initiative to integrate work-based learning opportunities into the curriculum at 10 independent colleges and universities across Texas.
Texas College Access Network
Funding from Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) will provide support for the first year of a three-year phase of programmatic work for Texas College Access Network (TxCAN) as they progress in their trajectory towards systems-level improvements of college access and advising.