Education
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
Higher Education Guide
2025
Readers, welcome to your CI Higher Education Edition! This annual guide features the latest updates and resources about local higher education institutions in and around your community. In this year’s edition, read about updates from Collin College including a training partnership with Toyota, planned new degree programs and pay raises coming to the college’s staff, as well as updates from other North Texas colleges. Our cover story focuses on workforce development initiatives from Collin College and local leaders. All the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission to provide free, useful news.
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UNT Frisco looks to collaborate with industry partners (Page 20)
Read about Collin College’s new partnership with Toyota (Page 21)
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Collin College to offer 2 new associate degree programs
The degree program in law enforcement, public administration and supervision will offer a Level 2 certificate of 42 semester credit hours in foun- dational public administration and supervision coursework. The degree program is expected to cost the college $924,700 during its first five years of operations. Costs include paying the salaries of full-time and adjunct faculty. The anticipated revenue for the college during the first five years is $2.22 million, according to the program budget. The cosmetology program will offer two pro- gram tracks within the associate of applied science degree: general track and barber track. The barber track will also include training to sit for a barber license. The degree program will also include a Level 1 certificate in foundational cosmetology coursework along with two Level 2 certificates, one aligned to the general track and one aligned with the barber track, officials said. The certificate
Collin College will soon be rolling out two new degree programs. The two programs—associate of applied science in law enforcement, public administration and supervision and associate of applied science in cosmetology—were approved by the board of trustees in August. District officials have not announced when the programs would begin. About the program Both programs include 15 semester credit hours of general education requirements as well as 45 semester credit hours of workforce education coursework. Students on each associate track are required by Texas law to complete 60 semester credit hours, college officials said. Labor market trends have shown a demand for college educated law enforcement officers in order to meet the leadership needs of law enforcement agencies across the region, officials said.
Program requirements
60 total credit hours
2 cosmetology focused certificates available
1 available certificate for public administration and supervision
SOURCE: COLLIN COLLEGE/COMMUNITY IMPACT
tracks are 45 semester credit hours each. The cumulative cost for the program’s first five years is $3.69 million. “Cosmetology will always be needed, so I’m happy to support it,” board member Raj Menon said.
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