Virtual Advising Program Improves Texas Higher Education
Texas is launching ANDi, an innovative virtual advising project to improve college access and completion, reach individuals via a simple text message or online chat.
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Texas Upends Traditional Developmental Education
Developmental education costs tens of millions of dollars each year for Texas, its public higher education institutions, and our students and their families. The Texas Co-requisite Project is intended to provide more efficient services, saving time and money.
Texas Program Helps Adults With Some College, But No Degree
GradTX aims to help near completer and stop-outs who have some college, no degree. The aim is to help them finish what they started.
Lessons Learned: Informing and Inspiring Action Through Data
How does your organization use its data? Are you sitting on a goldmine that is not being used? Are you in data-overload mode? Or are you optimizing the value of your data to achieve agency goals and priorities?
This Internship Challenge Links Employers with Students
Internships are an important bridge as student move from education to the workforce.
Expanding Graduate Medical Education in Texas
Texas is working hard to strike a balance between funding new and existing medical schools and supporting ample graduate medical education opportunities for the state’s physician graduates.
Upending Traditional Education to Save Time and Money in Texas
Texas launched the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate as a bold solution to reduce the cost of higher education for the state and for students and families.
Generation Texas Inspires a College-Going Movement
This special day helps to create a college-going culture for all students as they take their next steps toward a brighter future.
How College Emergency Aid Helps Students Graduate
College emergency aid programs help students meet unexpected financial needs that may prevent them from completing their degrees.
Making Courses Count During a College Transfer
Making courses count during college transfer is essential to student success and college affordability.