Galveston College Today
The college serves an ethnically diverse population of approximately 2,400 students each semester in credit programs and nearly 8,000 individuals annually in continuing education and workforce development programs. It has a full-time staff and faculty of over 150 employees and nearly 90 reserve faculty members.
Galveston College has taken an innovative approach towards education and has worked with many local businesses and organizations in developing specialized programs that fulfill the needs of the local economy. It has also partnered with the Galveston-based University of Texas Medical Branch in creating specialized certificate programs and education tracks.
In the late 1990s interest was shown in creating an endowment that would encourage high school graduates in the community to attend college. This led to the creation of the Galveston College Universal Access Foundation. Students who graduate from one of the Island's two high schools (Ball High School and O'Connell Consolidated High School) and fulfill certain requirements are eligible to have their tuition and fees paid for by the foundation.
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