Grants Funded at San Antonio College
VOLARÉ Institute 2025–2026
TEAM: Esther Metcalf, Director of College Grant Development, Dr. Lee, Dean for Academic Success, Dr. Griffith, Department Chair of Mathematics and Engineering (currently Dean for Academic Success, Northwest Vista College)
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities has announced the second cohort of the Visioning, Organizing, Leading, and Advancing the Research Enterprise (VOLARÉ) Institute, which supports capacity-building for innovative research at Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs). SAC was selected among twenty-five institutions to begin the yearlong VOLARÉ Institute this fall. The Institute broadens participation in STEM and cultivates a new research workforce at IHEs, leveraging the Association’s network to provide accessible tools and information for a robust and inclusive national research system. The VOLARÉ Institute focuses on the pre-award period, catalyzing the research enterprise by bringing together faculty and staff from the selected institutions to engage in a series of research capacity-building activities that enhance skills and each institution’s ability to compete for NSF funding.
The VOLARÉ Institute project, led by Oralia De los Reyes, Ph.D., assistant vice president of programs and services at HACU, aims to establish VOLARÉ Institutes, a series of research capacity-building institutes for IHEs, encompassing three cohorts of institutions over three years. Each Institute will span a year-long program of activities. The VOLARÉ Institutes will train a new research workforce at IHEs through a deliberate, systematic approach by providing accessible, actionable information and tools to build a strong, inclusive national research system.
The VOLARÉ Institute is made possible by a grant funded by the National Science Foundation's Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity initiative.
Texas Reskilling and Upskilling Through Education (TRUE) 2025–2027 – Workforce Education
Funding Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $800,000
Performance Period: December 2025 – December 2027
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
The TRUE 2025–27 Grant Program is established to support public lower-division higher education institutions and their regional partners in creating new, revising existing, or expanding short-term career and technical education (CTE) programs in high-demand, high-earning occupations. Developed and delivered in collaboration with workforce stakeholders, these programs support the attainment of valuable credentials and strong employment outcomes.
The Nursing Shortage Reduction Program
Funding Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $1,317,683.89
Performance Period: July 2025 – July 2027
PI/Director: Tonya Maunsell, DPN, RN
The grant will assist San Antonio College in enhancing the capacity of our nursing education program to enroll, retain, and graduate more nursing students. This initiative is a vital part of addressing the ongoing nursing shortage in the state, ensuring the availability of skilled nurses to meet public health needs.
TRIO STEM Student Support Services Project
Funding Source: Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,361,820
Performance Period: Sept. 2025 – Aug. 2030
PI/Director: Erica Alvarez
San Antonio College (SAC)’s Student Support Services STEM and Health Sciences provides services to at least 120 low-income, first-generation students or individuals with disabilities pursuing disciplines in the following areas as well as other related fields including physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, math (e.g., number properties and operations, measurement, geometry, data analysis and probability, and algebra), and technology, including technology literacy, hands-on workshops, technological innovations, scientific research, biotechnology, electronics, health sciences, communications and health research.
TRIO Veterans Student Support Services
Funding Source: Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,361,820
Performance Period: Sept. 2025 – Aug. 2030
PI/Director: Erica Alvarez
San Antonio College (SAC)'s TRIO Student Support Services Program is designed to serve at least 120 low-income, first-generation, and/or disabled veterans through Project VALOR. The grant motivates and supports veterans in developing the academic and other skills required for admission and success in postsecondary education programs. The program provides assessment and enhancement of basic skills through counseling, mentoring, tutoring, and academic instruction in the core subject areas. The target population for this grant includes low-income, first-generation, and disabled veterans/students.
NAHP Nursing and Allied Health Program & Other Related Education Programs
Funding Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $150,000
Performance Period: June 2025 – July 2027
PI/Director: Tonya Maunsell, DPN, RN
The grant will assist San Antonio College in addressing the shortage of registered nurses (RNs) in Texas by developing and expanding initiatives that promote innovation in preparing students for initial RN licensure and in developing faculty for RN licensure programs. The grant supports eligible initial RN Licensure programs in their efforts to mitigate ongoing challenges in the state’s nursing pipeline and promotes innovation in education, recruitment, and retention.
Consortium: PAC THECB SSAP 2.0 Grant – Emergency Aid (SAC)
Funding Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $250,000
Performance Period: Feb. 2025 – Aug. 2026
PI/Director: Carmen Velazquez-Avila and Jillian Denman, MS, LPC-S
The grant is to expand wraparound services across five colleges to increase persistence rates among full-time, part-time, and parenting students. Parenting support is provided to students through the college Advocacy Centers to boost persistence rates and student success.
Alamo Colleges Advocacy Consortium Project: DOE Advocacy Grant Basic Needs Program – Supporting Student Success – District Program
Department of Education
Award Amount: $900,000 ($660,000 SAC, SPC, PAC, NVC, NLC $66,000)
Performance Period: Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2027
PI/Director: Jillian Denman, MS, LPC-S
The grant supports a “One Stop Shop” intervention model that addresses students' basic needs insecurity, including emergency aid, food pantry services, childcare assistance, mental health services, housing assistance, and referrals to community safety-net providers. The grant serves a high percentage of low-income/Pell, underserved, disabled, parent-students, part-time, and other underserved students.
THECB MMA Bridge College Readiness and Success Models CRSM
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $125,000
Performance Period: Nov. 2024 – Aug. 2026
PI/Director: Dean Jonathan Lee, PhD
The College Readiness and Success Models Program is established to continue scaling effective strategies that promote systemic reforms, improve student outcomes, and provide professional development opportunities for faculty. Staff focused on improving advising, acceleration strategies, and completion/transfers of underprepared students.
South Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Award Amount: $17,000
Performance Period: Sept. 2024 – Sept. 2029
PI/Director: Suzanne Davis-Thomas, LPC-S, NCC, AADC
The grant is to perform all required functions as a participating member of the South Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center educational consortium and conduct activities in at least one of the following categories: enrich course offerings and materials with evidence-based, culturally informed, and promising SUD treatment and recovery-oriented practices; mentor and support students entering the addiction treatment and recovery workforce; provide continuing education and technical assistance to existing behavioral health workforce; provide technical assistance and support to community provider organizations, with an emphasis on development of quality improvement infrastructure; connect educational workforce training systems and employers to address workforce needs and overcome barriers, participate in SSW ATTC project and expand and improve behavioral health supervision by participating in project planning sessions, providing training and education to potential supervisors and offer licensing preparation.
SAC TWC JOBS and Education for Texas (JET) Grant
Texas Workforce Commission
Award Amount: $350,000
Performance Period: Aug. 2024 – Aug. 2025
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
The TWC Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant provides funds to purchase equipment to support new academic programming through the AAS degree and integrated workforce awards in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI). Approximately 250 students will benefit from this program annually (75 students in the DSAI AAS Degree Program and integrated awards, 175 in associated short-term upskilling opportunities offered via our newly established Skills Lab). Eligible occupations are Software Developers, Software Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers. State-of-the-art computing resources are essential to establish the on-premises infrastructure required to train students in market-relevant DSAI skills.
The Prison Education Project of San Antonio (PEPSA) Academic Program
The Sunshine Lady Foundation
Award Amount: $24,525
Performance Period: Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2025
PI/Director: Dean Christina Horton & Dr. Webb
The Prison Education Project of San Antonio (PEPSA) is a joint effort between San Antonio College (SAC) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to offer college-accredited courses and degree programs at facilities operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). SAC is the contracting college for the grant. PEPSA offers high-quality post-secondary educational programming, including 15 credits of Core Curriculum Courses, to 15 students at the Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, TX. Courses will meet the state-mandated Core Curriculum Requirements and are transferable to any Texas college or university. The grant ensures that people who are currently and formerly incarcerated have access to opportunities that affirm their dignity, humanity, and potential as lifelong learners and active members of their communities.
Texas Reskilling and Upskilling Through Education (TRUE)
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $500,000
Performance Period: Jan. 2024-Dec. 2025
PI/Director: Eve Rodriguez, PhD, RN
The TRUE Grant Program supports public higher education institutions in creating, redesigning, and expanding short-term workforce education and training programs for high-demand occupations. The grant delivers education and workforce training that leads to postsecondary industry certifications or other workforce credentials required for high-demand occupations. Through collaboration, San Antonio College (SAC) and two rural colleges, Southwest Texas Junior College (SWTJC) and Wharton County Junior College (WCJC), increased the number of healthcare workers by offering credentials and/or micro-credential pathways for medical training programs to upskill students in healthcare pathways. Together, the consortium’s vision is the Strengthening Technical Excellence for Professional Upskill Programs in Healthcare (STEP UP in Healthcare). The consortium serves economically disadvantaged populations, many of whom are first-generation students, with the opportunity to earn credentials in various medical training programs.
Alamo College OER Consortium Project: “Open Textbooks Pilot Program”
Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,963,747
Performance Period: Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2026
PI/Director: Beatrice Canales, MLS, and Lisa Coronado, MA
The grant serves at least 10,052 students and 75 faculty members, withing 15% of the top five enrollment course sections crossing the consortium colleges: Palo Alto College, St. Philip’s College, Northwest Vista College, and Northeast Lakeview College. San Antonio College is the lead institution. The Open Textbooks Pilot program supports projects at eligible institutions of higher education to create new open textbooks and expand the use of open textbooks in courses within degree-granting programs, particularly those with high enrollments. This pilot program emphasizes developing projects with the most significant potential to deliver the highest savings for students through the sustainable, expanded use of open textbooks in high-enrollment courses or programs that prepare individuals for in-demand fields. The project will deliver an estimated $2.2 million in cost savings through OER course development/adoption. The Alamo Colleges OER Consortium Project (Project) designs high-demand pathways, increases Professional Development, and maintains an OER repository to support OER adoption by Consortium Faculty.
Ready for Pell Implementation Grant - Jobs for the Future/Ascendium
Ascendium
Award Amount: $120,000
Performance Period: Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2024
PI/Director: Dean Christina Horton
The JFF/Ascendium grant is to provide professional development for employees and support for incarcerated students at Dominguez State Jail. Through a Ready for Pell Implementation grant of $120,000 from the Ascendium Foundation (2022-2024), San Antonio College’s team of enrollment coaches, academic advisors, and tutors received coaching and professional development workshops from the Jamii Sisterhood team and the college acquired a professional grade printing and binding machine to produce program materials (handbook, course readers, etc.) that fit the specifications of materials permitted by the TDCJ. In addition, with funds from the Ascendium Foundation grant, San Antonio College purchased TSI licenses that will last the duration of the grant period, as well as a state-of-the-art printer; program printing costs are also covered.
Google HSI Career Readiness Program (HACU)
Award Amount: $12,760.57
Performance Period: Oct. 2023-Jan. 2025
PI/Director: Sabrina Macal-Polasek, MAA, CNP
The Student Enrichment Center will use the requested funding to support a dedicated Grow with Google (GwG) Hispanic-Serving Institutions Career Readiness Program cohort of 250 students, targeting the College’s first time-in-college (FTIC) student population. The Center will coordinate with ongoing first-year experience programming to recruit FTIC students and orient them to the Grow with Google Hispanic-Serving Institutions Career Readiness Program, the Career Readiness curriculum, and learning paths. The existing Career Navigators will assist students through group and one-on-one meetings to identify the career path most aligned with their goals. Project funding will support the Student Enrichment Center’s existing computer laboratory and expand its infrastructure to provide students who lack access to technology or a dedicated study space with greater access. A post-initiative qualitative survey will capture students’ experiences with the material and the impact they expect it to have on their academic and career goals.
San Antonio College Empowerment Center for Community and Veteran Outreach
Congressman Greg Casar, 35th Congressional District, Community Project Funding
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Performance Period: Oct. 2023-Sept. 2024
PI/Director: Melissa Flores-Valencia
This grant, secured by Congressman Greg Casar and funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will upgrade a facility that brings resources tailored to learners seeking a pathway back to education. The grant will assist San Antonio College in expanding the Empowerment Center's footprint to provide one-stop, comprehensive services and vital resources to meet the needs of at-risk, non-traditional adult learners who often have limited access to education. Services are designed to address barriers that prevent many at-risk, non-traditional populations from reaching their educational goals and acquiring the skills needed to compete in today’s job market. The San Antonio College Empowerment Center (formerly known as the Women’s Center) delivers an award-winning, comprehensive system of services, including high-quality academic advisement, scholarship assistance to help low-income students stay in school after enrollment, and a General Educational Development (GED) program that provides test preparation and vouchers.
Perkins Basic Grant
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $875,440
Performance Period: Sept. 2023 – Aug. 2024
PI/Director: W. Tyler Savage
The goal of this grant is to educate students enrolled in Career and Technical Education courses and programs to prepare them for high-skilled, high-wage, or high-demand occupations. Perkins V aims to enhance the academic knowledge, technical skills, and employability of students in postsecondary education who enroll in career and technical education (CTE) programs and programs of study. It challenges institutions to enhance their programs to prepare individuals for the demands of a technologically advanced society. Perkins funding is designed to support improvements in CTE programs, improve program quality, and strengthen institutions’ efforts to prepare CTE participants for successful careers.
Title III Project "Tenaces"
Department of Education
Award Amount: $3,915,951
Performance Period: Sept. 2023 – Jan. 2024 or Oct 2020 to Sept 2021
PI/Director: Barbara Knotts, EdD, and Jymece Seward
Tenaces is a U.S. Department of Education-funded HSI grant project of San Antonio College. This Title III grant is designed to “increase the number of Hispanic and other low-income students attaining degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.” As a Hispanic-serving institution of higher education, SAC provides opportunities for underrepresented students to pursue higher-paying STEM careers. To increase the number of Hispanic and low-income students who attain degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). At least 1,500 students will participate in grant-funded student support programs or services. 85% of students who participate in grant-supported services or programs will be in good academic standing. At least 20% of STEM majors who participate in at least three grant-supported services or programs will complete a degree or credential within 6 years.
Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Award Amount: $15,000
Performance Period: Sept. 2023 – Sept. 2024
PI/Director: Dr. Suzanne Davis-Thomas, LPC-S, NCC, AADC
The purpose of the Technology Transfer Centers (TTC) is to develop and strengthen the specialized behavioral healthcare and primary healthcare workforce that provides prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for substance use disorders (SUD).
DIS DOE Career and Technical Education - Basic Grants to States
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $2,562,390
Performance Period: Sept. 2023 – Aug. 2024
PI/Director: Roxanne M. Diaz
Perkins Grants provide federal funding to support and improve workforce education. Basic grants are awarded to eligible community and state technical colleges. There are also funds available to support efforts to strengthen CTE in Texas through the State Leadership grant program.
The Nursing Shortage Reduction Program
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $279,483.06
Performance Period: Sept. 2023 - Aug. 2028
PI/Director: Tonya Maunsell, DPN, RN
The Nursing Shortage Reduction Program’s purpose is to positively impact the significant shortage of registered nurses and increase the total number of nursing graduates at the associate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degree levels. The grant will assist San Antonio College in enhancing the capacity of our nursing education program to enroll, retain, and graduate more nursing students. This initiative is a vital part of addressing the ongoing nursing shortage in the state, ensuring the availability of skilled nurses to meet public health needs.
Campeones de STEM
National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $181,800
Performance Period: Aug. 2023 – July 2024
PI/Director: Deana Apple, PhD, and Dr. Jianxia Zhang
The Campeones de STEM initiative aims to enhance college student recruitment, participation, and course retention in STEM by developing mentorship opportunities and scholarships. The program includes establishing a SAC Campeones de STEM Academy, a two-day institute designed to strengthen SAC’s existing STEM programs. San Antonio College (SAC) proposes to increase student participation and retention in STEM by developing a “Campeones de STEM” (or STEM Champions in Spanish) initiative. This event will also provide scholarships for selected STEM majors who are currently enrolled in their first year at the college. This opportunity will pair the selected Campeones de STEM participants with selected general science courses at an inner-city middle school in SAC’s service area. Project activities include on- and off-site events, such as visits with local and renowned STEM leaders, hands-on science experiments, and field trips to local STEM centers and museums.
The Nursing Innovation Grant Program
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $200,000
Performance Period: Aug. 2023 - Jan. 2026
PI/Director: Eve Rodriguez, PhD, RN
This grant will fund a full-time social worker to provide counseling, case management, study-skills support, and other services to nursing students. The social worker will also serve as a key, additional team member, assisting and advocating for students throughout the program. Student support strategies are imperative to meet the community's demand for more practicing nurses. Collaboration and coordination with nursing students and faculty will reduce the incidence of nursing students needing help who go unrecognized or inadvertently slip through the cracks due to a lack of follow-up intervention.
Subaward: Cyber/Electromagnetic Spectrum
Griffiss Institute
Award Amount: $270,000
Performance Period: May 2023 – Dec 2025
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
The grant advances and establishes workforce development and training initiatives that support the domestic cybersecurity and electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) workforce. The grant focuses on K-12 outreach, traditional college coursework, continuing education, and professional development. The CIVIC Program will advance and establish workforce development and training initiatives that support the domestic cybersecurity and electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) workforce. CIVIC is a collaboration between three institutions: 1) The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2) Morgan State University, and 3) San Antonio College (SAC), each of which has experience establishing cyber-related education programs and possesses at least one of the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) designations. Project efforts are focused on achieving these objectives through the following focus areas: - 1) K-12 outreach programs, 2) traditional college coursework, 3) continuing education/professional development offerings. San Antonio College will perform the following activities as part of its subaward:
- Experiential Learning Activities: SAC will conduct at least 15 experiential learning activities, including guest speaker presentations and relevant technical workshops.
- Internship Program: SAC will support the participation of at least 20 students in relevant cyber/EMS 320-hour internships throughout the project period. These internships may be used to fulfill capstone requirements within SAC’s relevant Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree programs.
- Scholarship Program: SAC will provide scholarships to 10 students pursuing degrees in majors relevant to the grant program (e.g., AAS in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, AAS in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, AS with engineering or computer science transfer focus, etc.).
TV Ed Station (ILA)
City of San Antonio
Award Amount: $400,000
Performance Period: Jan. 2023 – Sept. 2027
PI/Director: Seabrook Jones, PhD, MA
ACCD operates the City’s Educational Access Channel. The grant assists in the daily operations and management of the educational access channel. ACCD has historically served as the point of distribution for the Educational Access Channel for the incumbent cable company; has equipped a studio for developing and cable-casting original educational programming; has coordinated with other local academic institutions for the purpose of airing their educational programming; and has contributed significant original educational programming, including distance learning college courses.
TRHT Microsoft Grant
Microsoft
Award Amount: $37,000
Performance Period: Jan. 2023 – May 2024
PI/Director:
Microsoft funding will support the implementation of a visionary action plan with a shared goal of eliminating barriers to equal treatment and opportunity on campuses, in our communities, and across our nation. The effort is centered around the pillars of the TRHT Framework: narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy. Centers will focus on acknowledging, honoring, and celebrating the unique cultures, challenges, and advantages of each institution to establish equity-minded practices that advance our students and communities by dismantling the hierarchy of human values and confronting racism in our society.
Title V - Project Apoyo
Funding Source: Department of Education
Award Amount: $2,511,072
Performance Period: Oct. 2022 – Sept. 2027
PI/Director: Joan Jaimes, PhD
The Title V Grant – Project Apoyo aims to increase overall student enrollment and retention through the Ascender program, which supports underserved first-time college and low-income students. It provides academic, emotional-social, and community support for community college students to increase the number of students who complete developmental coursework, increase the number of students who complete first-year college-level coursework in gatekeeper courses such as English and Math, and increase the number of students who graduate from the community college and transfer to a four-year college or university.
More than half of all SAC students in Fall 2021 were Hispanic, low-income, and/or first-generation-in-college, and approximately 26% graduate within three years because of the many barriers they face, perpetuating low educational attainment and poverty in San Antonio. The Apoyo project will help reverse this trend by significantly increasing our institution’s capacity to provide the guidance, engagement, and academic support Hispanic and low-income students need to succeed in higher education. Funding will allow SAC to: stand up a first-year experience that is comprehensive and provides educational and social support, and is inclusive and culturally responsive to our student population; offer a comprehensive peer advising model to include academic advising and financial literacy that increases support at every step (pre-college, entrance, retention, and completion) in a student’s community college experience; and, increase enrollment by seeking the large number of college “stop outs” in San Antonio, Texas, by providing specialized outreach and additional services and referrals.
CIMA LS-AMP
National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $235,716
Performance Period: Oct. 2022 – Sept. 2023
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) – a support program for minority students majoring in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or any other STEM program. It is a partnership between UTSA and Alamo Colleges that provides community college students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in top-tier research laboratories during a 10-week summer program at UTSA. Alamo Colleges students are paired with faculty mentors from UTSA's College of Sciences, College of Engineering, and College of Liberal and Fine Arts to work on a variety of research projects in biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, computer science, geological sciences, physics, and psychology. The five CIMA Alliance partners, St. Philip’s College (SPC), San Antonio College (SAC), Palo Alto College (PAC), Northwest Vista College (NVC) and Northeast Lakeview College (NLC), have been working together through our LSAMP B2B alliance for five years to increase the number of underrepresented minority students (URMs) who transfer into bachelor’s degree programs in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM).
TRIO Edison and Highlands Upward Bound Math and Science
Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,535,279
Performance Period: Sept. 2022 – Sept. 2028
PI/Director: Esmeralda Nandin, MA
TRIO – Upward Bound Math and Science (TRIO – UBMS) is a program that encourages and supports high school students interested in college and majoring in STEM fields. TRIO UBMS works with Edison High School and Highlands High School in the San Antonio Independent School District. The program offers numerous opportunities to help high school students, particularly low-income and first-generation college-bound students, maximize their academic experiences and succeed in college. UBMS provides student services programs for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including first-generation and low-income students. UBMS delivers up to four years of additional academic support through summer instruction in math, language arts, composition, foreign language, and lab science, with curricula aligned with state exams and readiness standards. The grant spans five years and serves 56 students who meet the federal eligibility criteria annually. The SAC UBMS Edison Project provides participants with academic instruction, including summer hands-on, college-level STEM research; tutoring and advising; information on financial aid programs; assistance with completing financial aid applications; financial literacy; and support for college enrollment applications. Moreover, participants receive support for their diverse academic and non-cognitive needs to ensure they persist, succeed, and graduate from high school, complete a rigorous secondary school program of study focused on upper-level math and science, and enroll in college and graduate with a college degree.
NSA Gen Cyber 2022
National Security Agency
Award Amount: $77,457.34
Performance Period: Aug. 2022 – Aug. 2024
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
San Antonio College will be hosting a cybersecurity summer camp for 40 middle/high school students from the surrounding area.
The Nursing Shortage Reduction Program
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Award Amount: $277,184.45
Performance Period: Sept. 2022 - Aug. 2026
PI/Director: Tonya Maunsell, DPN, RN
This grant will fund compensation for faculty release time to support curriculum development and accreditation compliance; outreach and recruitment to target a diverse student population; and travel and registration fees for accreditation and national nursing conferences.
San Antonio College's Registered Nurse to Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing
U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, 37th District of Texas, Community Project Funding
Award Amount: $1,055,728.15
Performance Period: Sept. 2022 - Nov. 2025
PI/Director: Eve Rodriguez, PhD, RN
Over $1 million in federal funding was secured by U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett through the Community Project Funding initiative on behalf of San Antonio College (SAC). This request supports SAC’s effort to enhance the educational preparation of nursing students to provide safe and effective patient care upon completion of the newly established "Registered Nurse to Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing" program. The grant provides additional equipment and management systems, enabling the institution to prepare its students better to address the expanding and complex needs of the San Antonio community and the surrounding healthcare system.
DOD Awards National Defense Education Program Cooperative Agreements
Department of Defense
Award Amount: $646,461
Performance Period: Sept. 2022 – Aug. 2025
PI/Director: Henry Griffith, PhD, MS, MBA
The Military City USA (MCUSA) consortium will follow a Recruit, Prepare, Place, and Succeed (RPPS) model to ensure the success and sustainability of a strong DIB base. The MCUSA consortium includes all five 2YI/CCs, both four-year public universities in the San Antonio area, six Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and one Historically Black College and University (HBCU), providing a unified approach to strengthening the region's diverse STEM Ecosystem. Palo Alto is the lead organization.
SAC ACF Writing & Thinking Institute
Alamo College Foundation
Award Amount: $117,600
Performance Period: Sept. 2022 – Aug. 2026
PI/Director: Lawrence Irvin, PhD, MA
SAC Writing and Thinking Institute (WTI) promotes writing as an instructional tool for learning and critical thinking across the curriculum at San Antonio College. It supports Student Success in Disciplinary Learning and the Marketable Skills of Communication and Critical Thinking. The WTI Program Fund will provide underwriting support for faculty professional development that supports Student Success.
NASA Community Anchor Grant: La Fiesta del Sol
NASA Office of STEM Engagement
Award Amount: $24,993.50
Performance Period: June 2022 – May 2024
PI/Director: Rick Varner, Scobee Education Center
La Fiesta Del Sol is designed to provide professional development and resources for educators, both formal and informal, leading up to the Annular and total eclipses during the 2023-24 academic year.
San Antonio College’s 2022-2027 Access and Learning for Advancement and Success (ALAS) Upward Bound Project
Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,515,184
Performance Period: Jun. 2022 – May 2027
PI/Director: Antony Perez
Upward Bound is a college access grant funding preparation activities and experiences to help first-generation/low-income students from Burbank High School gain the knowledge and understanding behind getting into and graduating from college within six years of graduating high school.
Whataburger Corporate Gift Agreement
Whataburger Restaurants LLC
Award Amount: $25,000
Performance Period: Dec. 2021 – Dec. 2024
PI/Director: Jillian Denman, MS, LPC-S
The San Antonio College Advocacy Resource Room is partnering with Whataburger to make food and everyday essentials accessible to the college's 18,000 students. This resource room provides year-round access to nutritious food options at no cost. Students will also find Whataburger-branded school supplies for their educational journeys. The grant addresses the food pantry's immediate need to provide food and non-food items.
Title III Project BUILD (Bolstering Undergraduate Inquiry, Learning, and Determination)
Department of Education
Award Amount: $4,997,128
Performance Period: Oct. 2021 – Sept. 2026
PI/Director: Dean Clare Iannelli & W. Tyler Savage
The grant is to improve the College’s capacity to provide academic support to underrepresented STEM majors enrolled in high-challenge STEM courses through embedded course tutoring and course-based undergraduate experiences (CURE).
Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program
Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,432,588
Performance Period: May 2021 – Sept. 2026
PI/Director: Lisa Coronado, MA & Ann Coldwater, MA
The SAC CCAMPIS Project serves low-income student parents by providing access to high-quality childcare, helping them earn a college degree, and enabling them to realize their full potential.
CyberSkills2Work
National Security Agency
Award Amount: $465,154.43
Performance Period: Sept. 2020 – March 2024
PI/Director: Kim Muschalek, MS
The University of West Florida and a coalition of institutions designated as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) have established a nationally scalable and sustainable, certificate-based cybersecurity workforce development program, CyberSkills2Work. The coalition comprises 10 CAE-designated colleges and universities in cybersecurity education, research, and operations, as well as numerous industries, government, and non-profit partners. The National Security Agency funds the program under the NCAE-C-003-2020 Program.
TRIO STEM Student Support Services
Department of Education
Award Amount: $1,330,345
Performance Period: Sept. 2020 – Aug. 2025
PI/Director: Erica Alvarez
San Antonio College (SAC)’s Project R.I.S.E. (Ready, Inspired, Successful, Engaged) provides Services to low-income, first-generation students or individuals with disabilities pursuing disciplines in the following areas as well as other related fields including physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, math (e.g., number properties and operations, measurement, geometry, data analysis and probability, and algebra), and technology, including technology literacy, hands-on workshops, technological innovations, scientific research, biotechnology, electronics, health sciences, communications and health research.
San Antonio College (SAC) ARP Emergency Institutional Funds Project
Department of Education
Award Amount: $15,555,927
Performance Period: May 2020 – May 2024
PI/Director: Leticia Adams
Funds were spent on institutional costs related to significant changes in instructional delivery resulting from COVID-19, including expenses associated with campus operations disruptions.
San Antonio College (SAC) ARP Emergency Student Funds Project
Department of Education
Award Amount: $15,555,927
Performance Period: May 2020 – May 2024
PI/Director: Jillian Denman, MS, LPC-S
Funds were allocated to student costs for emergency financial aid grants to cover expenses resulting from the COVID-19 disruption of campus operations.
San Antonio History GO!
National Endowment for the Humanities
Award Amount: $99,659
Performance Period: Feb. 2020 – Jan. 2024
PI/Director: Erik Anderson, PhD
San Antonio College proposes "San Antonio History GO!": a humanities initiative that uses ArcGIS Online to build location-based learning and augmented-reality mobile applications that connect students and the community to marginalized historical places and histories in and around San Antonio. Supporting the NEH area of interest, “Protecting Our Cultural Heritage,” "San Anto History GO!" seeks to empower students at both the college and middle school levels to document, share, and preserve the history of the spaces they inhabit, which reflects their lives and their own community’s history.
Alamo Colleges Student Helpline
United Way
Award Amount: $783,325
Performance Period: July 2019 – June 2025
PI/Director: Maya Rivarola, LMSW
The Student Advocacy Centers provide integrated case management/mental health support services to students at the Alamo Colleges District. Case management models use in-person, long-term approaches. The Alamo Colleges District Student Helpline provides telephone support for SAC and students from all five colleges through the following strategies.
- Help students apply for public assistance (WIC, TANF, Medicaid, etc.)
- Triage and support students in need of emergency assistance.
- Provide information and referrals.
South Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Award Amount: $17,000
Performance Period: Sept. 2017 – Sept. 2024
PI/Director: Suzanne Davis-Thomas, LPC-S, NCC, AADC
The grant will provide individuals in addiction counseling and related fields with information on best practices for working with patients/clients. This will be accomplished through classroom and internet academic course offerings, as well as training workshops offered throughout the year. The grant will fund activities that promote SAMHSA's guiding principles in addiction studies, recovery, and wellness within our community. Enrich course offerings and materials with evidence-based and promising practices; Mentor and support students; Provide continuing education and technical assistance to existing behavioral health workforce; Provide technical assistance and support to community organizations and systems; Connect educational workforce training systems and employers to address workforce needs and overcome barriers.