CC receives $300k grant

By Ashlee Estlack, Clarendon College

Clarendon College was awarded $300,000 in grant funding recently from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to assist the college in expanding the scope and reach of its Developmental Education program.

The new grant funding will assist the college in improving the success of its developmental students by redesigning the developmental program and associated courses at the College. This includes restructuring assessment and placement, improving content and delivery using new technology and software, and transforming academic and career advising.

“We are very excited about this grant,” said Clarendon College Dean of Students and Institutional Research Tex Buckhaults. “Through the use of student advocates, a revised advising and placement process, supplemental tutorial labs, and meetings with advisors, we look forward to an increase in the overall success of our developmental students.”

“Developmental education has been greatly assisted through this program,” CC President Phil Shirley said. “It has long been felt that developmental education needs assistance from as many sources as possible in order to assure that fewer and fewer students are developmentally impaired. I am very grateful for the support that this grant provides and we will not fail to use its resources wisely.”

Established in 2012, the Developmental Education Scaling and Sustaining Success (S3) Grant is designed to inspire and enhance the efforts of institutions of higher education to significantly boost student success and college completion of underprepared students. Twelve two-year grants were awarded to institutions producing comprehensive plans to increase the number of students impacted by promising practices.