The College Access program is intended to provide equitable access for high school seniors who wish to pursue higher education. We provide a comprehensive framework for access and recruitment of seniors in Tarrant County.

Overview of all sessions conducted at the high school:
TCC 101 - deliver information during either English or Government classes regarding general information about TCC and they can opt-in. Students complete an interest card/form and become part of the cohort group that will complete the steps below to get them to enrollment.

Admissions Application - provide step-by-step assistance with completing the TCC admissions application.

Pre-Assessment Activity (PAA) – administer the State-required activity for students who need to take the TSI Assessment which provides students with instruction on how to prepare for the test.

TSI Assessment (administered at one of the TCC Campuses or at the high school) – coordinate with testing center staff to offer an opportunity for students to complete the assessment in the areas of Math, Reading, and Writing, as needed. Students get to test for free.

Financial Aid Assistance – Coordinate presentation with Financial Aid staff to go out to the high schools and inform students about financial aid and scholarship information to include completion of FAFSA/TASFA.

Case-Management/- Interpret TSI Assessment scores and support students throughout their senior year with on-going general advisement and parent information sessions.

Parent Nights (conducted at TCC campus) – Parents are invited to attend an information session and find out the status of their student and what they have completed and what they still lack.

Summer follow-up – continue to communicate with students via post-cards, phone, chat, text, in-person to remind them to complete any of the steps they need in order to register (meningitis, re-test, transcripts, orientation, see an advisor, etc.).

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.

PROGRAM SCALE: Large-scale (reaches more than 25 percent of its intended target population)

PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Historically students who participate in our program have had higher success rates compared to the general FTIC population. Data from the past 10 years show fall to fall retention, on average, is about 11% higher than the general FTIC students; fall to spring about 6% higher, and 4-year graduation rate average is 3% higher.

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Office of Student Recruitment & Outreach

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Noemi Vela at noemi.vela@tccd.edu or 8175151520

Dual credit biology course is a course that is taught on our high school campus, Arlington College and Career High School. Our campus is an early college high school partnered with the Tarrant County College Southeast Campus. Offering a dual credit biology course on our campus allows our students to take the course in a familiar environment and to easily access extra supports provided by the instructor. The instructor, an embedded dual credit faculty member, meets all SACS requirements to teach the course but is employed by the ISD. She teaches high school science courses as well as dual credit biology.
The goal and objective for offering this course on our campus is to help our students establish a love for science and to continue to pursue courses and career pathways in STEM fields, which is a high needs employment field in Texas.
Our target population are first generation, low income, high school students (dual credit students) who sometimes need a great deal of support and encouragement to help them believe they can achieve. Our dual credit embedded biology instructor, Jennifer Meador, is able to provide the perfect balance of support and rigor that enables students to learn the college readiness skills required to help them succeed. We have seen a large increase in the amount of students who want to pursue STEM careers after taking her course. The impact she has on their progress is creating generational change that will help to further build a talent strong Texas.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program is in-person only.

PROGRAM SCALE: Large-scale (reaches more than 25 percent of its intended target population)

PROGRAM OUTCOMES: In both the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters, 96 percent of students enrolled in the embedded dual credit biology course successfully completed the course, earning a C or higher.

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Tarrant County College Southeast Campus

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Ben Bholan at bbholan1@aisd.net or 682-867-9600

The Engaged Learning Institute (ELI) is a robust by-faculty, for-faculty cohort-based program that cultivates the uncovering, sharing, and implementation of engaged learning practices to impact student success. It focuses on transforming student learning in and beyond the instructional space, employing relevant technology to facilitate engaging, inclusive, and accessible student-centered teaching across all modalities. Institute participants share their experiences and build on their expertise through practice, self-reflection, discussion, and redesign.

The Engaged Learning Institute frontloads a contextual framework focused on three core lenses:

ENGAGEMENT is the broad lens through which ELI focuses content to encourage faculty to think about how to intentionally create environments and facilitate opportunities that help students to become world-ready, emphasizing Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) core skills. The ELI is centered on four dimensions of engaged learning suggested by the Associate of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U): classroom, multidisciplinary and contextual, civic and social, and technological and experiential. Engaged learning strategies center students as active participants in their own learning, maintaining essential focus on learners so that they may take ownership of their learning processes.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING serves ELI faculty as a framework grounded in neuroscience to advance consideration of ways to intentionally build in multiple means of content representation, skill demonstration, and overall engagement throughout course curriculum and delivery to ensure activation of brain networks essential to student learning.

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING offers ELI faculty a framework to help us craft inclusive environments that honor the whole student. ELI actively works to break down assumptions that Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) is reductionist and only about race. ELI supports achievement Title V to facilitate student access and success, specifically focused on developing and enhancing culturally competent faculty and staff through professional development.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.

PROGRAM SCALE: Medium-scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Organizational Excellence and Development

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Sha-shonda Porter at sha-shonda.porter@tccd.edu or 8175151208

The Intercultural Network's goal is to encourage intercultural awareness, inclusiveness, and academic achievement on and off campus. The mentoring component is one aspect of our overall approach of creating a safe & collaborative space for students of color in order to help them successfully complete their educational goals at TCC.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.

PROGRAM SCALE: Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: The Intercultural Network

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Dr. Sean Madison at SEAN.MADISON@TCCD.EDU or 817-515-1002

The Stay the Course (STC) program is designed to help low-income community college students overcome barriers to college completion. STC provides comprehensive case management services to low-income community college students with the goal of helping them persist in school and obtain their degree or certificate. The program provides one-on-one support to aid in the development of academic goals, use of services within the learning ecosystem and support/assistance to identify and mitigate barriers outside the scope of services provided by the institution that negatively impact students learning and success.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.

PROGRAM SCALE: Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)

PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Data provided for Stay the Course is collected an analyzed external to TCC. Reports provided by Stay the Course for Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 highlight a total of 463 students participated in the program. Of these, more than 250 were students who were new to the program in 2022-2023 academic year. Reports noted that a majority of students in the program earned less than $21,000 annually. A total of 59 credentials were earned, participants had a nearly 90% course success rate and an 85% persistence rate.

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Tarrant County College, Office of Student Affairs

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Dr. Renetta Wright at renetta.wright@tccd.edu or 817-515-5255

Tarrant County College District has developed a summer bridge program for T3 Scholars to fulfill a requirement of the Tarrant To & Through (T3) Partnership. The goal of the summer bridge program is to empower scholars with the tools and skills needed to succeed as first-year students with the aim of reducing summer melt. Core features of the Summer Bridge Program include an Academic Pathways presentation, new student orientation, new student group advising, enrollment support, and interactive games and icebreakers. Peer leaders are hired to deliver a College 101 presentation, which highlights transitional skills, strategies, and resources. Peer leaders also facilitate games and icebreakers and serve on a student panel. Students also complete the College Student Inventory before the program; during the program, Coordinators of Special Services help students to interpret their scores and identify tailored resources based on these scores. The target audience are Graduating seniors from local high schools who have completed T3 Pledge agreements and are admitted to Tarrant County College.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format.

APPROXIMATE PARTICIPANTS SERVED IN 2021-22: 150

HOW TO ENROLL: Participants must sign up to attend the program. There is not a formal application process, but they do need to register to attend for planning purposes.

EVALUATION STATUS: Data related to program outcomes are currently being internally collected

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: TCC T3 Program

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Angela White at angela.white2@tccd.edu or 817-515-7604

The TRIO Student Support Services program is a federally funded student success program. TRIO SSS serves first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities. The program aims to increase participants' college retention, graduation, and transfer rates. TRIO SSS offers the following resources to program participants: proactive academic advisement, transfer advisement, academic tutoring, career planning, academic workshops, grant aid (when designated by the department of education), financial literacy and life skills workshops, financial aid assistance, scholarship assistance, mentorship, and cultural activities.

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format.

PROGRAM SCALE: Large-scale (reaches more than 25 percent of its intended target population)

APPROXIMATE PARTICIPANTS SERVED IN 2021-22: 170

HOW TO ENROLL: Participants must apply to enroll in this program

WEBSITE TO APPLY: https://tccdforms.tccd.edu/Forms/TRIOApplication

EVALUATION STATUS: Data related to program outcomes are currently being internally and externally collected

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Student Affairs

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Trichele Davenport at trichele.davenport@tccd.edu or 8175154266