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Title V Grant Award

Learn about our five-year project, Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions, funded by a Title V grant to improve the higher education of Hispanic students and other under-represented groups.

Integrated Planning and Advising System (IPAS) Title V Grant

San Jac is proposing a Title V Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions project that aligns with the college’s new strategic priorities for the next five years. The Title V grant empowers colleges to improve the higher education of Hispanic students in the United States.

Project Goal

We will reform institutional advising capacity and delivery by using bilingual and evidence-based intrusive student success strategies. We’ll support these strategies with technology-mediated solutions, streamlining communication and access to information across campus. The goal is to create an integrated planning and advising system (IPAS).

Key Activities 

  • Redesign the advising model to include virtual advising and additional advisors
  • Use a new student portal to optimize and extend the use of existing IT and software 
  • Improve student/faculty communication with a customer relationship management (CRM) platform funded by San Jacinto College
  • Develop faculty and staff training with a new advising model, curricula restructure (funded by San Jacinto College), and new IT capacities

Measurable Objectives

  1. By September 30, 2024, increase the number of academic advisors by 30
  2. By September 30, 2024, increase the number/percent of Spanish-speaking academic advisors by 15 (to 40%)
  3. By September 30, 2024, increase the number/percent of students with degree plans in Degree Works™ by 42.5% percentage points
  4. By September 30, 2024, increase the admit-to-enroll rate from 66.5% to 80%
  5. Increase fall-to-fall persistence for all FTIC students from 63.1% to 73% through September 30, 2024
  6. Increase fall-to-fall persistence for all Hispanic FTIC students from 62.7% to 73%, through September 30, 2024
  7. Increase fall-to-fall persistence for all Low-Income FTIC students from 23% to 43%, through September 30, 2024
  8. Increase fall-to-fall persistence for all First-Generation FTIC students from 28% to 48%, through September 30, 2024
  9. Increase graduation rates (3-year) for all FTIC students from 21.4% to 35%, through September 30, 2024
  10. Increase the percent of full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty/staff engaged in professional development around new advising model, curriculum restructure, and/or IT capacities to 80% by September 30, 2024