Virtual Reality Career Exploration and Training for Healthcare in the San Angelo Region
To support a public-private partnership that includes Howard College, Shannon Health, TRANSFR, with other support from Region 15 Education Service Center, Concho Valley Workforce Development Board, and Local Education Agencies (LEA)s to provide healthcare education and training in the San Angelo region by equipping students with innovative virtual reality (VR) technology. The activities seek to …
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.
UTeach at Prairie View A&M: Diversifying the STEM Teacher Workforce
To support the development of a UTeach secondary STEM teacher preparation program at Prairie View A&M University which will address both the need to produce more, highly qualified secondary STEM teachers for Texas students and to diversify the STEM teacher workforce by establishing a UTeach secondary STEM teacher preparation program at PVAMU.
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.
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 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 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.
Texas CBE Collaboratory for Talent Strong
To support C-BEN in providing technical assistance and support to 7 programs at 6 institutions to build and implement CBE programs. In addition, lessons learned will be captured to inform other Texas schools, including documenting state policy barriers and incentives that would allow CBE to scale in Texas.
Telling the Right Stories: How Narratives Can Shift Apprenticeship in Texas
To support a research project aimed at providing employers, workforce development organizations, community colleges, other educational institutions, and community-based organizations with new messages and narrative frameworks to develop targeted messaging and outreach practices to bring more young people into an earn-while-you-learn pathway.
