Texas Regional Collaborative
About Us
The Texas Aspire Initiative is comprised of two regional collaboratives (RCs), West Texas and North/East Texas, working in collaboration with the APLU and other organizations to prepare a more diverse STEM faculty workforce at two-year higher education institutions (community and junior colleges).
The Texas Regional Alliances have two specific objectives:
(1) To foster the engagement of four-year institutions and partnering two-year institutions for the purpose of creating a diversified and well prepared pool of future STEM faculty; and
(2) To develop programs that will allow graduate STEM students from UTEP, UT Arlington, UT Tyler, and UT Permian Basin to explore the possibility of a rewarding career at two-year institutions through meaningful and intensive mentoring relationships.
Participating Institutions
University of Texas at Arlington - www.uta.edu
The University of Texas at El Paso - www.utep.edu
University of Texas of the Permian Basin - www.utpb.edu
University of Texas at Tyler - www.uttyler.edu
El Paso Community College - www.epcc.edu
Midland College - www.midland.edu
Howard College - www.howardcollege.edu
Tarrant County College - www.tccd.edu
Tyler Junior College - www.tjc.edu
Odessa College - www.odessa.edu/
Texas Regional Collaborative Leadership Team
West Texas Representatives
Carlos Amaya, El Paso Community College
Agniprava Banerjee, The University of Texas at El Paso
Thomas Ready, Midland College
Tim Contreras, Odessa College
Benjamin C. Flores, The University of Texas at El Paso
Stephen Hobbs, Howard College
Milka Montes, University of Texas Permian Basin
Sara Rodriguez, The University of Texas at El Paso
North/East Texas Representatives
Gigi Delk, Tyler Junior College
James Grover, University of Texas Arlington
Jean Maines, Tarrant County College
Stephen Rainwater, University of Texas Tyler