About the Title V Grant
Mt. SAC’s new Title V: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant, “Building Pathways
of Persistence and Completion,” is a five-year, $3,.2 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The
grant’s overarching goal is to develop curriculum design models and support structures
that accelerate students’ certificate completion, graduation, and/or transfer rates.
The grant focuses on five integrated components critical to improving the success
of Hispanic and at-risk populations as they move through Mt. SAC’s educational pipeline:
- Enable students to make more informed educational goals;
- Provide support services that accelerate students into and promote retention in college-level coursework;
- Create sustainable and scalable cohort models that move students quickly into college-level coursework and promote faster completion of certificate/ degree/transfer programs in specific disciplines;
- Increase and enhance communication with students; and
- Provide faculty with professional development opportunities and resources that promote student success and completion.
