San Antonio College continues to be awarded a five-year $2.1 million Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund strategies to improve grades and retention rates, graduation, and transfer to four-year colleges and universities for high-risk Hispanic students. Pending continued funding from the Department of Education, the college may receive over five years a total of $2,100,093.

"Included in the grant is $391,000 in endowment funds, to be matched by college fundraising over the five-year period, for scholarships and faculty and program development," Susan B. Espinoza, SAC Director of College Resource/Dev/Grants Mgt. The total project cost is $3,023,510, with 69 percent derived from the $2,100,093 grant and 31 percent from San Antonio College's $923,417 contribution in personnel, salaries, equipment, and endowment-matching. The grant will fund six areas to help at-risk Hispanic Student succeed:

• Strategies for Success: intervention program to help students improve time management, study skills, assessment skills, and connect them with college resources.
  
  
• Supplemental Instruction: review, study in student role model-guided environment.
  
  
• Faculty Instruction in Learning Styles and Problem-Based Learning: to help professors adapt teaching styles to match students' learning styles and improve students' critical thinking skills.
  
  
• Learning Communities: student cohort attends cooperatively-organized and taught courses to give at-risk students social and support system.
  
  
• Computer Literacy/Web-based Learning Center: computer lab to give students computer literacy and web-based research classes, with volunteer peer instructors.
  
  
• Decision Support System Integration: business intelligence software tailored to student information. Systems to help administrators, faculty, & evaluators assess better student outcomes, target areas for improvement, intervene with students who fail or drop out.

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