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(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Instructors in the Vocational Nursing program at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus have seen an increase in the number of male students enrolled in the program this year. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2023, men represent nearly 12% of all licensed practical nurses, registered nurses and nurse...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus hosted the annual Texas High School Welding Series (TXHSWS) regional welding competition on Friday, Oct. 4. A total of 181 high school students signed up to compete, nearly doubling last year’s entries. Jim Baxter, the TXHSWS state/regional event coordinator and a TSTC graduate, said the organization’s...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College took Felicia Pruitt on a journey she never could have imagined. It began when she traded her patient care technician job to begin studying Biomedical Equipment Technology. “I decided I couldn’t do patient care because I got too attached to the patients. I wanted to help them in...

(RED OAK, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s North Texas campus has record enrollment for the fall semester. “It is a really cool term to say,” said Marcus Balch, provost of TSTC’s North Texas campus. More than 400 students had enrolled in classes as of the college’s official census date of Tuesday, Sept. 17. It...

(SWEETWATER, Texas) – Three Sweetwater High School graduates hope that more of their former classmates will take advantage of a new Texas State Technical College scholarship. Each one of the three, who are now TSTC students, was awarded a $1,000 Hometown High School Opportunity Scholarship made available to 2024 graduates of the Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – As a full-time admissions advisor at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus, TSTC alumnus Carlos Ortega helps prospective students find career pathways. But his own path to his current job was somewhat circuitous. “I started this job when I was a work-study student,” the Harlingen resident said. After earning his Associate of...

(ABILENE, Texas) – The lights will be on during the evenings at Texas State Technical College’s Industrial Technology Center in Abilene. Night classes will be offered in Electrical Power and Controls, Industrial Systems, and Welding Technology this fall. The fall semester begins Tuesday, Sept. 3. “We have talked to many of our industry partners about...

(ABILENE, Texas) – Texas State Technical College is offering financial assistance to students from four West Texas school districts. The Hometown High School Opportunity Scholarship focuses on 2024 graduates of the Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood and Sweetwater school districts.  Once an eligible student completes the enrollment process, funds will be put into the student’s bank account....

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Marshall location has employed many hardworking mothers over the years. Several of them have children who have chosen to continue their legacies. Campus enrollment executive Michelle Atkinson said she always knew that her son Isaiah Lozano was tech savvy. Already familiar with chemical plants thanks to his father’s...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus opened its doors to East Texas high schoolers on Thursday, March 7, for TechXperience Day, the college’s open house.  Guided by the campus’s instructors and recruitment staff, the high schoolers discovered how successful their futures could be with a TSTC education. Sarah Jane Walker, a career...

(ABILENE, Texas) – From learning how to set up a welding machine to treating a medical manikin, some high school students and residents of the Big Country participated in Texas State Technical College’s TechXperience open house on Thursday, Feb. 29. “This was our chance to open the campus to showcase what we have to offer...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – The recruitment team of Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus recently traveled to Quitman High School to present information to a group of 21 students and parents about what the college offers. The high school’s CTE (career and technical education) director, Sherrie Callahan, and engineering teacher, David Cross, have taken students to...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Eastman Chemical Co. in Longview, a producer of chemical and polymer products, awarded 16 high school seniors with technical scholarships to attend one of the six Eastman partner technical colleges. Six recipients selected Texas State Technical College’s Process Operations program offered exclusively at the Marshall campus. Marcus Hooper, a learning services technologist...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Out of all the questions that Laura Kelner gets as the student accounting coordinator at Texas State Technical College’s Fort Bend County campus, the most common is “How do I pay for school?” TSTC operates with the ideology that a good education can, and should, land you a high-paying job. To get...

(RED OAK, Texas) – Texas State Technical College recognizes mentorship as an important part of a student’s experience in college and provides resources from when they enroll all the way to when they join the workforce.  When a student first applies to TSTC, their first point of contact is their enrollment coach, and their support...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – In 2023 a total of 25 different high schools toured Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus — some more than once. Why do so many high schools bring their students to TSTC? Elysian Fields High School in Waskom, Texas, has brought students to the Marshall campus for four years, oftentimes from welding...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Equipment and showcases were on display in each of the programs at Texas State Technical College’s Discovery Day event at the Fort Bend County campus on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Hundreds of high school students were invited to see what the college had to offer, ask questions of staff and TSTC students, and...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – The website militaryfriendly.com ranks Texas State Technical College as a Top 10 school for military veterans in its 2023-24 Large Community College category. Many members of the college’s staff are United States military veterans themselves, and helping other veterans transfer into the workforce is especially important to them. TSTC’s Marshall campus provost...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College welcomed roughly 500 high school students and visitors to the Marshall campus on Thursday, Nov. 2, for Discovery Day — its biannual open house. Every visitor was allowed an extensive self-guided tour of the campus and given program overviews from the campus’s instructors. In the three years since...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – The instructors and staff at Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus are there because they believe in the school’s mission. In more personal cases, some of them want to offer students the same high-quality education that they were given at the college. Terri Dreesen, a TSTC enrollment coach and winner of a...

(WACO, Texas) – Texas State Technical College has been awarded the Title V Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions (DHSI) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant assists low-income and Hispanic students, ensuring they will have access to an equal opportunity in higher education. “To become a Hispanic serving institution, you have to have at...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College recently welcomed 11 visiting seniors from Jefferson High School in Jefferson, Texas, to the Marshall campus. The students were divided into two groups and given an extensive tour of the campus and all of the programs it has to offer.  Students from Jefferson High School have been taking...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Instructors in the Mechatronics Technology program at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus are looking forward to Aug. 28, the first day of the fall semester, because the college’s recruitment efforts have resulted in an enrollment increase in the program. Carlos Reyes, TSTC’s Mechatronics Technology program director in Harlingen, said the number...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – On Aug. 11, a total of 74 new students arrived at Texas State Technical College’s Marshall campus for new student orientation. The army of recruits was met by an army of instructors and staff, who were eager to welcome and assist them in the next step of their lives. After receiving their...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Imagine sitting in traffic, trying to get home. Hundreds of cars are lined up, all making their way toward a single exit. The road may be wide enough to fit them, but the exit is far from adequate. They are trapped because of a bottleneck. The same idea can be applied to...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Taking the first step toward a postsecondary education at Texas State Technical College is an exciting moment for new students, but choosing a dream career can be daunting. Xchel Valdez, of Harlingen, is an assistant director of enrollment at TSTC who leads a passionate team that provides that assistance. “Creating a culture...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Alyssa Lehnen loves working as an enrollment coach for the HVAC Technology program at Texas State Technical College’s Fort Bend County campus. “My role as an enrollment coach is to assist students, traditional or nontraditional, coming into the HVAC program,” Lehnen said. “They are with me from the very beginning to the...

(RED OAK, Texas) – Some high school seniors who are planning to attend Texas State Technical College’s North Texas campus beginning in the fall signed letters of intent on April 20, which was National CTE (career and technical education) Letter of Intent Signing Day.  In all, 13 future TSTC students visited the campus to affirm...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Texas State Technical College welcomed around 300 high school seniors at a National CTE (career and technical education) Letter of Intent Signing Day event on Thursday, April 20, at the Harlingen campus. School representatives from Brownsville, Donna, Edcouch-Elsa, Edinburg, Harlingen, IDEA Public Schools, La Feria, Los Fresnos, Lyford, Mercedes, Monte Alto, Palmview,...

(RED OAK, Texas) – With Texas State Technical College’s spring semester coming to a close, the deadline is fast approaching for prospective students to enroll for the summer semester. Enrollment closes May 5 for TSTC’s summer semester and August 25 for the fall semester, or when programs reach full capacity.  For students still considering where...