Education
BY GABBY BAILEY & MARK FADDEN
Higher Education Guide
2024
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Education Edition! This guide features the latest updates and resources about local Higher Education school options in the community, ranging from campus updates to informational graphics, all written by our local team of journalists. In this year’s education guide, we see how nearby community colleges are moving back to pre-pandemic enrollment rates and how campuses are expanding to better serve students. On behalf of your Community Impact team, we look forward to continuing to provide the latest news and information surrounding our local colleges!
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UT Arlington to add new Fort Worth campus (Page 22)
Take a look at local higher education statistics (Page 23)
Learn more about what nearby colleges have to offer (Page 24)
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County college sees enrollment increase
UNT launches health science grad school The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth officials announced Aug. 29 they are launching a new graduate school. Zooming in According to a news release, the graduate school will be led by Dr. Tom Cunningham, interim vice provost, and serve as the central support hub for the following programs:
TCC fall enrollment
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Tarrant County College’s 2024 fall enrollment has increased by nearly 6,000 students over fall 2023, marking the school’s largest enrollment recovery since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a TCC release from Sept 9. The details Enrollment across the six campuses in the TCC system now consists of 47,351 students, including 12,500 dual-enrolled students. Dual enrollment includes students who are taking college courses through their high schools and for those who already have earned dual credits. “For 60 years, we have been the community col- lege of choice for people living in Tarrant County,” Chancellor Elva LeBlanc said in the release. “TCC prepares students of all ages and backgrounds to continue their education at our state’s four-year institutions or to enter the Texas workforce in
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SOURCE: TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE/COMMUNITY IMPACT *ESTIMATED, AS OF SEPT. 16
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high-demand, high-wage careers.” Also of note
The news release states the school will focus on aligning graduate education with HSC’s research enterprise by coordinating administrative services across various programs.
The release states the enrollment number is expected to grow during the 2024 fall semester since there are different start dates across TCC’s locations.
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