Alamo Colleges District
CVTI Empowers The Alamo Colleges District with Robust, Proven Curriculum
CVTI’s partnership with the The Alamo Colleges District began in 2019 when their Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Success expressed interest in our academic success resources for veterans.
In 2020, the Alamo team worked with CVTI to incorporate our University Studies curriculum – a set of courses specifically designed to help active duty and transitioning service members and veterans succeed in the college classroom – into their proprietary student services interface, Alamo Experience. Alamo then introduced those resources to approximately 4,000 veterans and military-connected students, with a focus on working closely with a small cohort of approximately 400 students who were at that time identified as struggling with their studies.
After receiving positive feedback from student veterans, Alamo decided to make CVTI’s academic-success content available to all students. Today, students across the five community colleges that comprise the Alamo Colleges District (San Antonio College, St. Philip’s College, Palo Alto College, Northwest Vista College, and Northeast Lakeview College) have completed 38,307 individual support modules.
As a result:
79%
- of surveyed students have reported improvement in their GPAs (in some cases, by as much as 3.0 points)
81%
- reported that the content changed their learning strategies in a positive way
68%
- reported that the content was either “very” or “extremely” helpful in reaching their class completion goals
95%
- reported that they would recommend the training to a friend or classmate
The Director of Student Accessibility Services at San Antonio College describes these outcomes as “remarkable.”
Representatives from Alamo were invited to CVTI on Columbia's Morningside campus in November of 2024 to attend our Community College Roundtable convening and share with other schools about their experience collaborating with us to build their capacity to provide more robust academic support
This collaboration is a quintessential example of how CVTI works with aspirational partners to co-create stronger outcomes for veterans.