Area middle and high school students will have a
chance to improve their technological skills through
distance learning classes such as this one at the
1604 Campus.
UTSA awarded $406,000 in technology funds
(Sept. 30, 2002)-- The University of Texas San Antonio received a $406,000
grant from the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) Board of Texas
that will be used to help increase the participation rate of minority students
attending college by using distance learning technology.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s plan “Closing the
Gaps” established goals for all of the state’s higher education
institutions emphasizing four major themes: participation, success, excellence
and research. The grant initiative recommended strategies in which distance
learning technology can help accomplish some of these goals.
UTSA will use the grant to create an on-line “Introduction to Technology”
course to expose high school students to the benefits of a college education,
while helping to close the gap in participation rates among chronically under-represented
populations in Texas. The grant project builds on the success of “College
101,” the UTSA distance learning course developed as part of the 2001
TIF Discovery Grant “Increasing Technology Utilization: Closing the Distance
to College Entrance” that connected UTSA to 10 middle and high schools
throughout the San Antonio region.
“The course focuses on understanding the technology behind computers
and teaches the necessary computational skills that lead to technology literacy,”
said Bill Angrove, project director. “As a result, students will
be prepared to use the information technology tools that are necessary for
success in higher education.”
Since its creation by the 74th Legislature in 1995, TIF has awarded approximately
$1.2 billion in telecommunications grants to school districts and charter
schools, two and four-year colleges and universities, public libraries and
branches, public and not-for-profit healthcare facilities, innnovative Discovery
collaboratives, and community network collaborations.
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Housekeepers
saluted for hard work, 'master caretaking'
GLBT
Pride Week set for Oct. 7-11 at UTSA
Touring
actors to portray life of artist Frida Kahlo
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UTSA
honor society sponsors voter registration drive
UTSA awarded $406,000 in technology funds
Office
of Graduate Studies hosts recruitment fair
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© The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2002