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2005-2006 Factbook :
Outreach
LETTING EDUCATION ACHIEVE DREAMS
Letting Education Achieve Dreams
(LEAD) is a comprehensive higher education awareness and
participation campaign, which UHV began in 1999. The LEAD mission
is to increase the educational attainment rate in our service region
by creating within students and communities a Pre-K – 14/16 mindset
and by facilitating a seamless transition from high school to
college or technical school. Strategies for the LEAD program
include creating awareness of the value and accessibility of higher
education through presentations to community, workplace, and parent
groups; sending LEAD Ambassadors to area schools to talk with Pre-K
– 12th graders about the importance of higher education; arranging
visits to UHV and community colleges for 4th, 7th, and 10th graders;
and, developing and supporting mentoring programs. This past year
over 12,000 students and 500 adults participated in the LEAD
program.
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2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
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Campus
Visit |
12 visits / 1200 students |
22 visits / 2000 students |
31 visits/ 3100 students |
32 visits/
3800 students |
32 visits/
3000 students |
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Ambassador
Visit |
7 visits |
20 visits |
95 |
28 visits / 13,000 students |
26 visits/
13,100 students |
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Mentoring
Trained |
82 |
150 |
36 |
96 |
138 |
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Awareness
Presentation |
75 |
35 |
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20 |
21 |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2002-2004
The Office of Professional
Development provides non-college credit courses and learning events
that enable students, alumni and other residents to continue their
professional growth. This unit provides Continuing Education Units
(CEUs), CEU transcript maintenance, conference style training, and
customized training.
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2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
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Course
Offered |
34 |
28 |
26 |
38 |
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# of
Participants |
600 |
503 |
400 |
800 |
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Training
Hours |
3000 |
16979 |
2645 |
5000 |
COMMUNITY & ALUMNI RELATIONS
2001-2005
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2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
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Public
Events & Exhibits |
29 |
27 |
20 |
19 |
17 |
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Employee
Events & Activities |
8 |
6 |
9 |
9 |
11 |
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News
Impressions |
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780 |
764 |
934 |
722 |
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Student/Alumni Events |
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8 |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The Office of Community Development,
along with UHV’s other outreach units, focuses on overcoming
barriers to educational attainment, providing support to communities
for increasing educational attainment levels. Activities specific
to this unit include program evaluation services, support for
community educational collaborations, data reports, and grant search
services.
CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TECHNOLOGY
The University
of Houston-Victoria’s Center for Professional Development and
Technology (CPDT) represents the collaborative efforts of the
University, the Victoria Independent School District, the Region III
Education Service Center, the community, and a partnership with 12
other teacher certification institutions in this area, to prepare
teachers for the classrooms of tomorrow. The Center provides
field-based learning experiences for students seeking to reach their
educational goals of becoming certified teachers. In addition to the
field-based learning experience, the Center also provides these
pre-service teachers, as well as currently certified teachers, with
training that assists in incorporating new technologies into their
teaching repertoire.
MINORITY MATHEMATICS &
SCIENCE EDUCATION COOPERATIVE
The Minority
Mathematics and Science Education Cooperative (MMSEC) project is a
collaborative effort of teacher professional development between the
University of Houston-Victoria, the Victoria Independent School
District, Bloomington Independent School District, Bloomington
Elementary School, Placedo Elementary School, Smith Elementary
School, DeLeon Elementary School, and Shields Elementary School.
This program is designed to strengthen the mathematics and science
background of teachers of underserved populations so that teacher
content knowledge, teaching practices, and instructional skills
improve in the areas of life science/earth science, physical
science, and mathematics. The program emphasizes the development of
teachers in both the affective and cognitive domains.
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