What is Title V?

Title V is a five year initiative partially funded by the Department of Education (DOE) Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) grant that improves upon institutional goals.

College Goals 1, 2, and 6, and objectives 6.1.3 through 6.1.8 (marked with an asterisk) are addressed by the Title V Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) below. This plan was developed though an exhaustively comprehensive and inclusive process. A Title V Working Group made up of faculty, staff, administrators, students, a community member and the Executive Vice President met bi-weekly for three months to determine the goals and design the objectives and implementation plans most likely to achieve successful academic outcomes for the Hispanics who constitute the majority of our students, and which would be the most likely to bring long-term stability and strength to the institution.

Members of this group meet quarterly with the Institutional Effectiveness Steering Committee to present drafts and receive guidance and input from the 25 key college planners present, and at the same time to build consensus and support for the changes contemplated for the Title V Project.

Title V embodies the following activities/projects:

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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What is Endowment?

The San Antonio College Endowment an opportunity for San Antonio College to build an endowment fund through Title V matching funds during the five years of the grant. Funds through the Alamo Community College District Foundation Major Gifts Campaign will be used as a match for grant funds. After five years San Antonio College can utilize one-half of the interest earned from the fund. After twenty years San Antonio College can utilize both interest and principal.

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Who wrote or developed this grant?

This grant was written by Committee members who developed the successful proposal are: Susan Espinoza, Thomas Hoy, Ed.D., Nina Lopez, Rose Rosales, Emma Mendiola, Helen Torres, Barbara Knotts, Betty Gonzales, and Robert Zeigler, Ph.D.

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Who is part of San Antonio College’s Title V?

Title V Contacts

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How can Title V benefit me?

Title V with its three major activities (Academic Improvement, Decision Support System, and the Endowment) will serve the institution and its clients (administration, faculty, students, and staff) by increasing retention, improving decision making with the development of a decision support system, offering professional development with alternative methods of instruction, and improving fiscal capabilities at San Antonio College. Title V has a major goal to continue to serve students, and to improve the capacity of our institution to provide on-going, up-to-date quality education in targeted areas of higher education.

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Do other Texas Community Colleges have a Title V?

Here are just a few of the institutions within Texas that have Title V initiative.

Coastal Bend College
http://vct.coastalbend.edu/content/index.cfm/fa/viewpage/category_id/118.htm

Del Mar College
http://www.delmar.edu/titlev/home.html

El Paso Community College

Houston Community College
http://ccollege.hccs.cc.tx.us/instru/cic/titlev.htm

Howard College
http://www.howardcollege.edu/titlev/

Midland College
http://www.midland.edu/%7Etitlev/

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