The Regional Economic Impact

of the

University of Houston System

Produced by the Institute for Regional Forecasting

Principal Analyst Barton A. Smith, Ph.D. Economics Professor, Emeritus University of Houston

2013

Table of Contents

Executive Summary ...... 4 I. INTRODUCTION ...... 1 The Influence of Institutions of Higher Education ...... 1 The Many Roles of Universities within an Urban Community ...... 1 Expanding a Region’s Human Capital Base ...... 2 Community Service ...... 3 Synergies Between Academia and Area Businesses...... 5 The Demand-Side Macroeconomic Impact of Institutions of Higher Education ...... 5 Jobs and Spending Created on Campus ...... 5 The Spread of Initial Impacts to the Rest of the Economy ...... 6 II. MEASURING THE IMPACT OF A LOCAL UNIVERSITY ...... 7 Estimating Economic Impacts: Demand-Side Analyses ...... 7 Identifying New Outside Dollars ...... 7 With/Without Perspective vs. Before/After Analyses ...... 7 Modeling the With/Without Worlds ...... 8 The Use of Input-Output Models ...... 8 The Multiplier Effect ...... 9 Leakages ...... 10 Getting Started ...... 10 Documenting Supply-Side Influences ...... 11 The Supply-Side Literature ...... 11 What Can Be Done ...... 12 III. THE IMPACT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ...... 13 The Demand-Side Impact of the University ...... 13 The Direct and Indirect Impacts ...... 13 Isolating the Exogenous Component of University of Houston Spending ...... 13 Import Substitution ...... 14 With and Without the University of Houston ...... 14 Choosing the Most Appropriate I-O Model ...... 15 Alternative Options ...... 15

The IMPLAN Model ...... 16 The Supply-Side Influences of the University of Houston ...... 16 The University’s Mandate ...... 16 Delineating the Multiple Dimensions of the University/Community Connection ...... 17 IV. EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF THE DEMAND-SIDE ANALYSIS ...... 17 Demand-Side Analysis ...... 17 Identifying Exogenous Spending Related to UH System Activities ...... 17 Results of the IMPLAN Demand-Side Analysis ...... 20 Direct, Indirect and Induced Effect of UHS Regional Economic Stimuli...... 20 The Relative Importance of the UH-MSA Stimulus ...... 21 The Victoria Impact ...... 22 The Distribution of Gains ...... 22 Fiscal Dividends to State and Local Government ...... 22 Summary of the Demand-Side Effects ...... 23 Supply -Side Considerations ...... 23 Educating the Local Populace/Enhancing the Stock of Local Human Capital ...... 23 Community Service ...... 29 CONCLUSIONS ...... 31 TABLES...... 33 APPENDICES ...... 51

Executive Summary

Increasingly, major urban areas recognize the vital relationship that exists between economic development, the education of its work force and the presence of quality institutions of higher education. Simply put, urban economies where institutions of higher education play a prominent role are stronger and more robust than those without such institutions. Houston is certainly no exception. The benefits generated by the four universities of the University of Houston System (UHS) make a notable contribution to the economy of the area. However, Houston’s thriving economy is now so diverse that no single entity can claim exceptionality. With thousands of companies and governmental and non-profit organizations in Houston, it is impressive that only a dozen or so economic institutions, private or public, are more important than UHS to the Houston economy. Put into context, UHS has a similar impact as the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center or Halliburton.

This study’s Tables and Appendices sections enumerate the specific data behind our conclusions, but here is a snap shot of the more prominent findings:

Gross Regional Product (annual): $2.3 billion Total Regional Sales (annual): $3.8 billion Degrees Awarded (2005-2009): 56,000

In addition, this study acknowledges the considerable community service rendered by UHS faculty, staff and students. Assigning a dollar figure to such services is beyond the scope of the study, but they are clearly of value to the region and Appendix 6 provides an overview (not a comprehensive list) of such assets.

Please note that the IMPLAN model was used for the current study, whereas the REMI model was used in 2006. Although it may be of interest to note percentage increases in some categories from 2006 to 2012 – Total Sales went up 22%, for example, and Gross Regional Product rose about 60% – keep in mind that since different economic models were used, not all such calculations will be precise. Also note that this study occasionally makes a distinction between the three Houston metropolitan universities (UH, UHCL and UHD), which are referred to collectively as UH-MSA, and UH-Victoria, which is technically located in another region.

While this study can and should be interpreted as generally positive – UHS continues to play a significant role in the area’s economic vigor and stability – it updates a cautionary observation from the 2006 report. Overall, Houston still continues to invest less than many other urban areas in providing higher education resources and in producing its own college graduates. Thus far, a prosperous Houston has been successful in recruiting a high-skilled work force from outside the region to meet this shortfall. But it is progressively more precarious for an urban area to leave a sizeable portion of its population without higher education and to fail to develop a sufficient source of its own human capital.

The Regional Economic Impact of the University of Houston System

I. INTRODUCTION

The Influence of Institutions of Higher Education

The Many Roles of Universities within an Urban Community

Analyzing the impact of any one particular aspect of a large nationally recognized university may prove useful, but it will miss the forest for the trees. That’s because these institutions are complex organizations, providing a wide variety of highly differentiated services to a region. First and foremost, a university provides for the educational needs of the citizens it serves. This is a particularly daunting task locally, given the nearly 70,000 graduating high school students within the Houston metropolitan area each year.

Today, meeting this need is more important than ever. A college degree is essential for the economic success of the rising generation. The urgency has been exacerbated by the fact that the requirements of having a post-secondary education are far greater today because of the dramatic ascendency of the high tech sectors in the American economy. Indeed, all sectors of the national and Houston economies have become high tech to some extent. This means that industry is much more heavily dependent upon labor with knowledge-based skills, the type that are most readily available from quality institutions of higher education. As a result, young people today who are limited to only a high school education or “cheap” substitutes for a substantive higher education experience are doomed to the lowest paying jobs, that is, if they can find a job at all.

For policy makers in Houston, the challenge is to get the vast majority of its youth to complete their high school education, prepare them adequately for additional education in college or technical school and then provide them with the opportunity to accomplish that goal. Colleges and universities are particularly important in large urban areas where substantial segments of the high school student population find it difficult to achieve their educational dreams and find that the necessity to leave home to obtain an education push costs way beyond their reach.

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However, local colleges and universities do more than just provide for the needs of a portion of their resident population. Most major cities have a multitude of institutions of higher learning and together they provide a culture of learning within the overall community that is difficult to describe because the whole is always significantly greater than the sum of the individual parts. While each institution has its own particular strengths, specializations and comparative advantages, together a metropolitan area’s colleges and universities provide an environment of higher education that can transform a population into one that is diverse and cosmopolitan, energized with ideas, better endowed for providing service in both the public and private sectors and more capable of producing personal incomes commensurate with a high quality of life.

Expanding a Region’s Human Capital Base

In addition to the obvious benefits to individuals within the community, the regional economy itself receives benefits in a more macro-economic way. A portion of the product of any area’s universities becomes a part of the region’s stock of human capital.1 Today’s metropolitan areas can only thrive and grow if they have ample access to a labor force with high levels of human capital. This is why education is one of the two most important factors in the annual report published by Forbes magazine ranking the “Best Places for Businesses and Careers.” This report has compared the largest 200 metropolitan areas for more than 15 years. Indeed, two higher education measures are utilized in that study: first, the level of educational attainment of the metropolitan population as a whole; and second, the number of highly ranked colleges and universities in the area. In this year’s report Houston is listed as number 20 overall out of the 200 cities examined, but its educational rank is only 99.2 One can only imagine what its ranking would have been without the presence of the University 3 of Houston System.

It is particularly interesting that in that Forbes report the “number of highly ranked colleges and universities” is stressed. In evaluating the state of a region’s higher education facilities one should be careful to avoid the simple numbers game. It is easy to simply count the number of students or degrees awarded each year as some measure of higher education adequacy, but progressively the issue of the quality of that education has become a serious matter for industry, both locally and nationwide. More and more private sector leaders are complaining that many

1 The term “human capital” is economists’ jargon for the sum of the skills, knowledge, and know-how that are embedded within the regional labor force.

2 See Appendix 1

3 “The Best Places for Business and Careers”, Forbes, June 27, 2012 (http: //www.forbes. com/best-places-for- business/) 2

American educated students have inadequate skills and knowledge base to meet today’s industry requirements. This is especially true in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer sciences. Thus, every urban area is not just dependent upon the number of colleges and universities within its borders, but also upon the quality of those institutions in terms of recognized scholarship, the expertise of its faculty and the skill set of its students and graduates. Thus, a city such as Boston can take pride not only in the number of institutions of higher education within its 4 region, but also in the quality of those institutions.

The importance of a major presence of colleges and universities within a region goes beyond just producing college graduates for the local area’s labor market. The presence of these institutions also provides a package of amenities that helps a community attract additional people with high educational attainment because highly educated people consider the presence of good colleges and universities as a major attraction in making their locational choices in a nation that is more mobile across regions and communities than ever before.

Community Service

Not that long ago, oil stimulated the first significant wave of urbanization. That aspect of energy sector’s impact vastly accelerated during the boom of the 1970s. Today, thanks to a much more diversified economy, and following the national trend, Texas today is dominated by its urban centers. Along with that evolution have come new challenges for the state and its larger cities.

More than a century ago when America was still primarily rural, the nation recognized the need to link academic pursuits with the agricultural sector by establishing land-grant colleges and by providing continuing financial support for agricultural extension services. At the time, the Texas economy was also largely rural. In today’s more urban and industrialized America, the need to broaden the scope and vision of extension services to urban America has never been greater. That’s as true of Texas and Houston as it is for the megatropolises of the East Coast. Oil stimulated the first significant wave of Houston area urbanization. That aspect of the energy sector’s impact vastly accelerated during the boom of the 1970s, but after the energy bust of the ’80s when Houston’s economy became more diversified the urbanization process continued to accelerate. In fact, most of Texas today is dominated by its urban centers, with new challenges that had not previously been addressed. Fortunately for both the state and nation many local universities see that as a part of their role. This is especially true of major public urban universities that have

4 Of the largest metropolitan areas, Boston, San Francisco-Bay Area, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and New York City are among some of the notable cities with the highest “education ranking”. (See Appendix 1)

3 accepted public service to the local community as a part of their mandate. In America’s large metropolitan areas blessed with quality institutions of higher education, the resources they make available are often their single most important source of urban problem solving and policy analysis.

In many cases, the community service rendered is an extension of the teaching responsibility of these institutions. Academic theory can be rather abstract to many students and appear irrelevant to the real world they will soon face unless those students get their feet wet with practical experience. Thus, universities, with a proliferation of programs and institutes, give students a much better chance to apply their new knowledge to real-world problems. Service to the community is also beneficial to faculty as well, bringing them back down to earth and reminding them of the most pressing problems faced by their non-academic counterparts. Thus, university engagement with the community not only aids the community, but also makes for better students, researchers and more relevant teachers.

Often community service comes in the form of direct participation in particular programs, from helping local impoverished households to aiding the institutions of primary and secondary education. Community service also comes in the form of providing irregular, but critical expertise to metropolitan governments and organizations. In some cases these tasks require the knowledge and experience of faculty. In other cases these tasks are perfectly suited for student internships.

However this service manifests itself, the bottom line is that the academic community associated with high quality research institutions becomes a deep reservoir of expertise that the non-academic community can tap when needed. Given the challenges of urban society and the fiscal limitations imposed upon this nation’s hierarchy of governments, the university community usually becomes the only economically viable source of help that a metropolis can turn to. Of course, this academic connection to the broader community helps the regional economy thrive and grow. As urban problems are solved, the dis-amenities associated with city size are diminished, allowing the inherent benefits of urban economies of scale to continue to promote growth that adds to the community’s prosperity, not its problems.

The link between local universities and its community also contributes to the urban amenities that can make any metropolitan area more attractive to the highly educated work force it needs. Despite locally produced skilled and educated labor, Houston has always needed to import a sizeable portion of its educated labor force from outside the region. Attracting that type of labor is not always easy. Thus, it is important to remember that highly educated individuals are attracted to places where the search for knowledge is active and an integral part of community affairs. Today, more and more of America’s young educated population are searching for areas in which to live that offer low costs and valued amenities. While large urban 4 areas find it difficult to compete with more pristine areas in terms of natural amenities, they have a significant comparative advantage when it comes to the knowledge and arts environment that urban areas can provide, amenities which are greatly augmented by the presence of quality institutions of higher education.

Synergies Between Academia and Area Businesses

Urban universities produce impacts that go beyond the additions they provide to the region’s human capital and the amount of available local expertise. Major research universities produce, as a by-product of their academic research, knowledge and discoveries directly useful to the local private sector. Typically, the research advances within a community are not just random discoveries. They are often a reflection, not only of a general search for knowledge within the world community, but of the needs of the local region as well. It is not surprising to see a concentration of knowledge of forestry in Oregon universities, marine science in Washington, robotics engineering in Michigan or chemistry and geology in Texas. Thus, the relationship between a university and the community of which it is a part becomes a symbiotic one, with each benefitting the other. For example, Houston was the perfect place to conduct research in energy, medicine and space.

Often the symbiotic links become so strong that formal “partnerships” are formed between the academic and non-academic communities. The partnerships may take the form of joint ventures, cooperative research efforts, the sharing of personnel and equipment, or the sharing of research and testing costs. The presence of this type of interactive environment not only benefits the firms that are already within the region, but also makes the region more attractive to firms considering moving there. Indeed, the presence of quality universities acts as a magnet for new businesses, not only because of the ease of access they provide to state of the art expertise relevant to private sector firms, but also because of the general culture of knowledge that emanates from the academic community that attracts both firms and the individuals those firms wish to hire.

All of these benefits described above are referred to by regional economists as “supply-side effects.” This term emanates from the fact that what is being delineated affects a region’s supply of key resources, capital, technology and labor. Hence these types of impacts stimulate local economic growth by promoting “supply” as opposed to increasing the demand for local products. The latter stems from an increase in the demand for goods and services supplied to users outside the region. These “demand-side effects” are described in the subsection below.

The Demand-Side Macroeconomic Impact of Institutions of Higher Education

Jobs and Spending Created on Campus

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While the primary motive and rationale for vibrant higher education should not be the direct dollars it brings into the community, these benefits are also an important spillover to an urban region and also spur economic growth. For “college towns” the impact is obvious. The town’s very existence revolves around the university. For a large urban area the impact is less obvious, yet universities within large urban areas do provide a non-trivial stimulant to their local economy. University’s themselves create jobs and increase spending for local businesses, but the impact goes much deeper than that.

In Houston no single entity dominates the economic landscape unless you aggregate them into their relevant composite sectors. Of course, in that case the energy sectors, either upstream or downstream, are dominant features of the Houston economic landscape. Single entities like the Texas Medical Center and NASA stand out in Houston as visible icons of the regional economy, but given an economy with more than 3 million jobs, their role is only a small part of the overall local economy.

In that context, the University of Houston is simply just another important piece of the puzzle. Yet, any enterprise considering moving to Houston and hiring 7,000 employees would be considered a tremendous prize to the region and would be highly courted by the City of Houston and the Greater Houston Partnership. Thus, the jobs the University of Houston directly creates, the household income that it produces, and the local spending by the University generated in the course of its operations and expansion play a significant role in the overall metropolitan area 5 economy.

The Spread of Initial Impacts to the Rest of the Economy

The impact of jobs, income and spending directly tied to the university do not stop there, however. A good portion of the incomes generated by the university is spent locally, further expanding the regional economy as it grows to accommodate that increase in demand. That is why “college towns” are so dependent upon their local university. Without their university they’d not only lose the direct jobs created at those institutions, but also the sizeable spillover effects to virtually all sectors of the local economy that are dependent upon the demand for goods and services stimulated by the incomes generated by the campus itself.

This type of impact has been modeled by economists for more than half a

5 The terms local, regional, or metropolitan area in general can refer to a variety of geographic definitions. However, it should be noted that for all empirical analyses in this report, all of these terms are meant to refer to the Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area, a U.S. Census and Federal Government definition of Houston which includes Harris County and the seven counties surrounding it, Montgomery, Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller.

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century, but the task must be carefully done. Hosts of studies conducted over the years for every imaginable economic enterprise have been conducted without careful attention to the requirements for accurate estimation. In the next section, more detail is provided regarding what those requirements are, so that the reader can understand the differences between correctly and incorrectly done analyses.

II. MEASURING THE IMPACT OF A LOCAL UNIVERSITY

Estimating Economic Impacts: Demand-Side Analyses

Identifying New Outside Dollars

The first rule for correct impact analyses is that a stimulative demand-side effect upon a region is created only to the extent that a new economic activity brings in new “outside dollars.” However, what constitutes “outside dollars” is not always obvious. For local universities “outside dollars” can stem from students attracted to a local university from outside the region, from direct and indirect support from governments outside the region, and from gifts and grants for research or programs that come from sources beyond the local borders. However, in addition, local universities can “save local dollars” by diverting what otherwise might be spent by local residents for education at out-of-town locations, keeping those dollars within the region through spending on locally provided education. This phenomenon is called “import substitution” by regional economists. In effect, potential lost dollars are drawn back to the region by the availability of quality local higher education. For urban areas where the demand from stay-at-home students is quite high, this 6 economic impact upon a metropolitan area can be substantial.

With/Without Perspective vs. Before/After Analyses

Analysts have attempted to estimate the impact of exogenous events for decades.7 In many cases, past studies have erroneously compared outcomes before some new economic activity versus outcomes after that activity has occurred or begun. Such examples include the comparison of economic growth rates before and after tax or spending changes, property values before and after neighborhood improvements, and environmental changes before and after industrial development.

6 Note that students who without a particular local university would remain in the region as a non-student or attend another local university produce no “demand-side” impact since all that is happening is a shift in demand (dollars expenditures) from one part of the local economy to another. The net effect is zero.

7 The term exogenous has a very precise meaning. This is anything of significance to an economy that is determined outside the workings of the economy itself. Thus, market forces determined solely in world and national markets produce outcomes (prices, demands, etc.) exogenous to a regional economy.

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The error with this type of approach is that it fails to isolate the impact that can be directly attributable to a particular economic activity from all other influences that would have produced change anyway. The relevant question is how does the new level of economic activity compare with what would have happened had the particular activity or enterprise not have been a part of the local economic environment. For Houston, economic growth will occur with or without the University of Houston. The question is how different would economic activity have been in Houston were it not for the fact that it has a first-class university system serving over 70,000 students each year, hiring 7,000 employees, spending over $1.5 billion dollars within the Houston economy, and interacting in a multitude of ways with the community it serves. While there are no economic models that have been successful in isolating the synergetic and amenity impacts of a local university, for years there has been a standard economic framework to estimate the demand-side impact of increased spending, income and employment by the university.

Modeling the With/Without Worlds

Since in ex post studies the without world is not observable, impact analyses require the ability to estimate or forecast what would have occurred in the absence of any new activity, project or facility. That world can then be compared to the reality observed at present. If the study to be performed is an ex anti analysis, then the model utilized must have the capability to “forecast” both the “with” and “without” scenarios.

In the case of economic development, policy makers might ask what might be the impact of the relocation of a major firm to the local region in terms of jobs, real incomes, local sales, and perhaps governmental tax collections. Once again, this cannot be answered without the ability to forecast and compare the economic outcomes without the relocation versus the outcomes with the relocation. The application of simple before/after analysis can seriously bias the result either positively or negatively.

The Use of Input-Output Models

Virtually all economic analyses of demand-side impacts utilize a form of economic models referred to as input-output (I-O) models. These models link all sectors within an economy with each other and with outside (exogenous) demands that influence those sectors. That is why they are often referred to as demand-side or demand-driven models. Regional economists have known for years that a local economy can be divided into economic base sectors and secondary sectors. The former sells goods and services outside the region, while the latter sells goods and services only to local households and businesses within the region. For any community with the need for imports (which includes them all), exports are required

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to bring in the dollars required to acquire those imports.8 Indeed, such regions cannot exist without exports and cannot grow without an increase in the sale of their exports. Because at the regional level the demand driven models (like Keynesian models) are so focused upon exports to areas outside the region, input/output models are often referred to as “export based” models. The export sectors can either be defined in terms of the flow of goods and services (where their products go) or in terms of where their revenues come from (whether or not their sales emanate from outside the region, bringing “outside dollars” into the region). It is only with the application of such models that one can attempt to pursue with/without perspective analyses.

For every new dollar that comes into the region, that dollar becomes local income that gets re-spent creating even more demand for goods and services. In other words, the initial impact does not end with the direct increase in exogenous spending. Once correctly identified, the outside dollars brought into the community produce an impact significantly greater than their totals alone imply. A portion of every one of those new outside dollars generated locally will get spent again on local goods and services by households who experience an increase in income and from business who spend for needed inputs required to produce the product or service they are exporting. In fact, the process will continue as these secondary sales produce additional tertiary sales and so on.

If out of every dollar of new income 100% were spent locally, then this process would continue forever, resulting in an infinite expansion of the local economy. However, not all of the new dollars are spent locally. It may be the case that out of a portion of the dollars of new demand from outside the region, a business may have to purchase a sizeable amount of its inputs from outside as well. Furthermore, of the net income that is generated within the region, much will be spent on outside goods and services. This flow of dollars outside the region is referred to as “leakages” and these leakages are what keep the initial stimulus from expanding forever. That is, the process ends only because each dollar of new local income is not totally spent locally, but also on imports.

The Multiplier Effect

The relationship between the increase in new exogenous outside dollars entering the region and the overall impact as those dollars wind their way through the economy is referred to the “multiplier effect.” When each new outside dollar entering the economy produces as much as a $3 to $4 in overall sales growth, the

8 A vast amount of the consumption of urban residents emanates from the import of goods and services from other regions, thus requiring a substantial amount of exports in order to support the urban population.

9 initial impact is multiplied 3 to 4 times. The ultimate equilibrium of this additional local spending is referred to as the indirect and induced impacts and the total impact is the sum of all three: direct, indirect and induced. The ratio of the total impact to the direct impact is referred to as the multiplier. Thus, if the multiplier were 2.5, then for every $100,000 of new exogenous spending within the community, there would ultimately be a total increase in regional sales of $250,000. Multipliers can also be defined in terms of employment, so if the employment multiplier were 3, then the addition of a new firm into a region hiring 200 new workers would ultimately produce a net increase of 600 total regional jobs.

Since the size of the multiplier impact depends upon the extent of the leakages out of the initial exogenous dollar stimuli, its value depends upon the dependency of the region on imports from the outside. Because the larger economies provide a much greater breadth of products and services internally, they require fewer purchases from outside the region (imports). Thus, the re-spending process continues longer, is more influential upon the local economy, and hence the multiplier is larger. Small economies, on the other hand, require so much of their factor inputs and consumption needs from external sources that the process quickly dissipates, and hence the multiplier can be quite small. Such differences also exist between sectors. In Houston, for example, the petrochemical industry produces low household incomes because it is so highly capital intensive and relies on inputs that are mostly imported from outside the region. Hence, for that sector secondary spending within the region is much more limited and the multiplier associated with new demands for chemicals is relatively small. The point is that multipliers associated with any particular increased activity can range from less than .5 to more than 4.

Leakages

The role of leakages suggests another important way that regional economies can be stimulated. If any new business or activity diverts some of the leakages back into the local economy, this too can have a stimulative effect. In essence, dollars that would have otherwise left the community are being “brought back” and have the same economic effect as new dollars brought in. This phenomenon in the economics literature is referred to as the “import substitution” effect. Some economic activities stimulate the overall regional economy almost exclusively through import substitution. Getting Started

The demand-side approach, utilizing demand-side input-output models, is quite straightforward and very well documented in the economics literature. The first step in this type of analysis is to identify all of the exogenous increases in spending within the community that are associated with any particular economic activity. For Houston, oil prices and the revenue it generates would be an exogenous

10 variable or determinant of the upstream energy sector that is a part of the region’s economic base, and hence the overall economy. For the city’s institutions of higher education, revenues earned from outside the region, bringing outside dollars into the region, would be considered exogenous demand and would constitute a part of the region’s overall “economic base.” An increase in those revenues would be stimulative to the overall regional economy.

The identification of exogenous spending is not always easy. For example, during the 1980s and 1990s a host of nationwide studies were conducted regarding the economic impact of new sports venues in American cities. Often these studies erroneously took as the increase in demand total sales for tickets, concessions, and after-event spending at local establishments, such as restaurants. But, obviously, this is inconsistent with the basic definition of exogenous spending, because many of those expenditures emanated from local residents and would have been spent on other local goods and services had they not been spent on a sports event.

The real question becomes how much of the event related expenditures is new spending, bringing in outside dollars which would not have otherwise occurred in the absence of the new venue (the with / without perspective) . In this case it would require a detailed accounting of (1) how many out-of-towners are expected to attend each event and hence bring “outside dollars” into the community; and (2) how much of the spending at these events by locals might have otherwise been spent on “imports” - goods, services, travel, etc. For promoters of some particular activity or facility, this correct approach is often disappointing because it usually reduces estimates of the overall impact considerably below their exaggerated expectations.

Documenting Supply-Side Influences

The Supply-Side Literature

The supply-side impacts are quite different than the demand-side impacts, the latter of which is primarily a typical macro-economic story. The supply-side impacts have to do with a region’s comparative advantages as it tries to attract the needed labor and capital. In other words, these are impacts that affect the region’s “supply curve” by making inputs to the regional production process more available, thereby lowering production costs. Often the supply-side story is more important than the demand-side story in terms of economic development and the ultimate creation of jobs and income. For example, the expansion of port facilities will indeed produce demand-side impacts (largely during the construction phase), but the most significant impact will be supply-side effects associated with the enhancement of the region’s comparative advantage in the movement of nationally and internationally traded goods.

Unfortunately, the supply-side literature is not nearly as well developed as the demand-side literature and the empirical studies have generated disappointing and 11 often conflicting results. In part, the problem stems from the difficulty in defining the quantitative and pecuniary extent of the initial impact. One line of supply-side studies has attempted to document the impact of various differences in regional taxes and service provisions. While governments tend to worry about the tax issue in trying to attract businesses to their region, current evidence does not support the notion that lower business taxes significantly stimulate economic expansion at the regional level, especially if it comes at the sacrifice of key services important both to businesses themselves and to the labor they hire. In fact, there is somewhat better evidence, though certainly not conclusive, that better government services attract growth and development, even if it entails moderately higher taxation. These studies have led to theoretical pieces on the optimal amount of local government spending, but any empirical confirmation in the literature is virtually nonexistent.

Other studies have tried to link economic growth and development to local amenities including weather and environmental quality. Once again, the empirical results have been inconclusive. Given the extreme difficulty in measuring in dollars the value of these amenities in some uniform and meaningful manner across urban areas, it shouldn’t be surprising that standard empirical analyses falter.

What Can Be Done

The lack of some simply applied urban supply-side model can be very frustrating to decision makers especially when supply-side effects are thought to be highly important. In the case of properly done cost-benefit analyses, the supply-side effects are usually the only relevant effects. For example, just a few years after completion, Houston would be foolish to tear down Reliant Stadium and rebuild an even better version just to generate jobs and incomes (demand-side effects). The only possible rationale for such a decision would have to stem from arguments that a new improved stadium would somehow further enhance Houston’s comparative economic advantages to a degree that would outweigh the costs (a supply-side benefit).

It is important to understand, however, that the problem is not in identifying potential supply-side effects or even documenting their influence. The problem is in quantifying those influences in the same fashion in which the demand-side I-O models so nicely do in providing estimates of net gains in employment, aggregate regional sales, aggregate personal incomes, regional gross domestic product and public sector tax revenues. Note, all but the first are denominated in dollars, something that supply-side analyses have a difficult time coming to grips with. Since it is extremely difficult to place dollar values on such things as clean air, reduced congestion, or more parks, it shouldn’t be surprising that it is practically impossible to create supply-side models that can produce estimated total economic impacts in terms of dollars.

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Because of their importance in the decision-making process and because they are often required in federally mandated socio-economic impact studies, analysts are, nonetheless, forced to do something. One line of endeavor is to try to place very rough estimates of the “value” of the benefits into an analysis of net social gain. If properly done with detailed sensitivity analysis, this type of exercise can be useful and insightful. Another approach, which is more commonly used, is to simply delineate the benefits and where possible try to correlate them with various measures of economic activity.

III. THE IMPACT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

The Demand-Side Impact of the University

The Direct and Indirect Impacts

The University of Houston has a large annual budget, comparable to one of Houston’s larger corporations. Furthermore, a substantial portion of that budget stems from outside sources and hence represents a true stimulant to the regional economy. The portion of the budget identified as truly exogenous represents the “direct effect” of the University. In addition, the University itself hires a significant number of Houstonians and purchases a sizeable amount of goods and services from local businesses. This is the “indirect effect”. A large portion of the money spent by the University locally will be re-spent on additional local goods and services in virtually all sectors of the economy, most notably in the region’s secondary sectors. The substantial increase in household income in the form of University salaries for faculty and staff benefits those secondary sectors as those salaries, along with University expenditures, increases spending at local vendors. The increase in local sales stemming from consumer spending out of this increase in household income is called the “induced effect.” The total impact of the initial direct dollars includes both the direct effects along with the indirect and induced effects.

Isolating the Exogenous Component of University of Houston Spending

Since not all of the University’s budget and the accompanying expenditures of students are exogenous, coming from outside sources, those sources of revenue that emanate from outside the region had to be isolated. However, identifying outside dollars first requires a definition of outside and inside. The economic impact of the University of Houston upon the state of Texas is different from the impact upon the metropolitan area of Houston. In the former case, state monies provided to the University of Houston are inside (or internal) dollars and hence do not provide a stimulus to the state economy. In the latter case, that same expenditure represents outside dollars that would not have otherwise been brought into the community (the Houston Metropolitan area) and hence produces a real economic effect upon the region, including the multiplier expansion. From the region’s perspective, state funding and research support would entail the transfer of outside dollars. Spending 13

by students from outside the region and research and educational grants emanating from outside the region would also be considered a flow of outside dollars. This study defines the “region” as the eight-county Houston MSA. Any flow of dollars from outside this area is considered exogenous.

Import Substitution

In general, support from local agencies or foundations, or expenditures by local students would not be considered outside dollars. Spending by local residents would also not typically be considered outside dollars, however, it might be argued that if it weren’t for the University of Houston, a portion of those “internal dollars” would otherwise have been spent outside the region as local high school graduates would be forced to seek education elsewhere. Hence, the recapture of those dollars back into the region will produce the same type of economic impact as a direct flow of new dollars from outside sources (import substitution). Therefore, these dollars are also included in the direct impact of the University. In the case of the University of Houston, its absence would provide an enormous vacuum of higher education in the region, forcing most of Houston’s young local high school graduates to seek higher education away from home. This would entail a substantial outflow of money out of the region and would create a substantial drag on the local economy had it not 9 been for the presence of the University of Houston.

With and Without the University of Houston

Thus, in proceeding to do an economic impact analysis of the University of Houston one must hypothetically construct the without world. What would the local economy look like in the absence of the University? To make such an exercise meaningful, it should be assumed that no other similar state university would exist locally. In a world where no alternative substitute exists, then it can be assumed that in the “without world” state funding would be lost to the community, the “outside students” attending UH would go elsewhere, a large portion of “local” students would be forced to leave the region for their education, and only a very small portion 10 of research dollars captured by UH would go to other institutions within the region. In contrasting this state of the world against the current realities, one is then prepared to determine exactly what portion of UH revenues and hence spending is

9 It could also be argued that all local students who stay in Houston for their higher education shift their spending habits from “ordinary consumption,” which is associated with substantial leakages, to education related spending with less leakages. This too would produce a stimulative effect on the local economy. However, this phenomenon is less discussed in the regional economics literature and hence is excluded from this report’s analysis. This is likely to make the estimates provided here somewhat conservative. 10 The greatest portion of the small amount of research dollars that might be captured by other regional institutions would almost certainly go to Rice University, the only entity within the region to have the academic facilities and credentials to replicate some of what is done at UH.

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truly exogenous. To be conservative, grants and gifts to the University from local sources are not counted as exogenous revenue in this study. However, one might argue that they should not be automatically excluded as exogenous stimuli unless one can be fairly confident that in the absence of the University of Houston, such monies would have simply been given to another local organization or charity.

Choosing the Most Appropriate I-O Model

Alternative Options

Once the exogenous expenditures are fully identified, then the next step in demand-side impact analysis is to apply those figures to some available I-O model. Typical outputs from such a model include the overall increases in employment, personal income, and aggregate sales (demand) attributable to those expenditures. Over the years, many models have been available. During the 1970s and early ’80s local analysts could use the Houston-Galveston Area Input-Output Model. This model was first developed in the late 1960s with federal funding as a part of a 12-region effort throughout the entire state of Texas. However, as federal funding evaporated, 11 efforts to maintain this model were extremely modest.

However, there are several alternatives to the old HGA I-O model. The U.S. Department of Commerce produces the RIMS II model, which is an inexpensive regional extrapolation of the national I-O model which is regularly maintained. Most analysts agree that this model is rather poor in quality, detail and forecast accuracy. Perhaps the most sophisticated model available today is the REMI model, produced by Research Economic Models, Inc. of Massachusetts, a private institution with historical ties to Harvard and M.I.T. The advantage of this model is that it provides a dynamic profile of impacts over time and it incorporates at least some relative price effects that other models neglect. The problem with all of these models is that they use very simplistic algorithms to adapt the U.S. Department of Commerce’s national I-O model to each individual region within the country.12 Thus, regardless of their level of sophistication, these I-O models are limited both conceptually and empirically by regional data deficiencies and urban economy complexities.

11 I-O models require regular updating, usually every five years. The creation of the data base used in the I-O models’ transaction matrices requires very extensive and expensive surveys of large portions of a region’s businesses. The costs of these surveys made updating of state and regional I-O models prohibitive without federal support. The Houston-Galveston Regional I-O model was updated three times as cheaply as possible by cutting corners. Though many debated the accuracy of this model, it continued to be used through the very early ’90s.

12 The Houston-Galveston Regional I-O model, as were all regional models built in the 1960s and early 1970s, was built from data specific to the Houston region. Thus, it was much more reflective of the actual realities of the region than current alternatives.

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The IMPLAN Model

The model chosen for this study is referred to as the IMPLAN model. Among analysts it would be likely considered to be of mid-level sophistication. It has one extremely beneficial attribute, however. Unlike most other models, which are simply black-boxes that can neither be pierced into or altered, the IMPLAN model allows the local analyst, who is likely to know much more about his own regional economy than any technocrat behind a computer at some national headquarters, to adapt the model to the unique peculiarities of the region that he is analyzing.

The IMPLAN model also allows the analyst to custom-define the industry or activity he is trying to analyze. For example, even though the IMPLAN model defines 440 sectors within the Houston economy that can be influenced by increased flow of outside dollars (sales), these sectors are often too broad to be fully representative of a very particular, unique impact. For example, in Houston the petrochemical industry is included in the IMPLAN model as a single sector, even though it consists of rather heterogeneous parts. With respect to higher education, the IMPLAN model also lumps all types of educational institutions into a single sector which includes community colleges, junior colleges, 4-year colleges and universities that have little or no research activity, and major universities with large graduate student populations and substantial amounts of research activities. Clearly, UH doesn’t accurately fit into such a composite sector. However, IMPLAN allows the analysts to adapt the model to an organization’s peculiarities that differ from the simplifications of some composite sector. That is what was done in this study.

Once the model is chosen, the remaining last step in analyzing the impact of the University of Houston was to input the amounts of new outside dollars brought into the region with as much specificity as possible to reflect the realities of the University of Houston as distinguished from the general higher education sector. Then, the IMPLAN model does the rest, estimating the full impact of those dollars as they get multiplied throughout the overall economy.

The Supply-Side Influences of the University of Houston

The University’s Mandate

The primary purpose of the University of Houston is not explicitly to create jobs, but to provide educational services to the local population and to provide the region with knowledge-endowed workers. This is the primary supply-side role. In addition, the University of Houston shares a variety of other responsibilities in common with many of this nation’s major urban universities: to provide an information and knowledge base for the overall community; to generate ideas and technology that can be utilized by the local public and private sectors, and to provide a reservoir of resources for the region from service oriented community outreach

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programs to the provision of expert consulting, based upon the depth of its own knowledge base. These too are supply-side functions.

Delineating the Multiple Dimensions of the University/Community Connection

While putting dollar values on all of these would be extremely difficult and in some cases nearly impossible, the mere delineation of these community supply-side impacts is instructive. In this study, the relative importance of these functions will be left to the reader to evaluate. In some cases, the role of the University as a provider of these types of services will be put in context with the region’s growing need for such services, particularly highly skilled labor.

In terms of the production of educated Houstonians, this study examines the University’s role in meeting the human capital needs of this growing region. It will also examine the historical shortfall in the production of “home-grown” college graduates and the expected widening of that shortfall in the future if the status quo is maintained. In terms of the spillover effects associated with research and community service, the primary focus of this study is simply to delineate most of these University activities to give the reader an idea of the breadth of the university/community connection that exists. To a limited degree comparisons will be made with the level of educational attainment in Houston versus other major metropolitan regions within the United States.

While there will be some discussion in the text of these supply-side influences, the reader will, for the most part, be referred to the Tables and Appendices to attain an appreciation of the University’s role in providing educational opportunities for local residents, in connecting with the community to solve regional problems and meet community needs, and in synergistically interacting with the private sector that empowers both the University and the region’s economic base.

IV. EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF THE DEMAND-SIDE ANALYSIS Demand-Side Analysis

Identifying Exogenous Spending Related to UH System Activities

Exogenous spending emanating from the University of Houston is examined in two ways. First and foremost, the sources of revenue were identified so that internal revenue sources could be separated out from external or outside sources. The former includes such items as tuition and fees from local students not expected to go outside the region for education in the absence of the University of Houston System (UHS). Also separated out are gifts and grants received from local sources that in the absence of UHS are assumed would have been given to other local groups.13 Exogenous

13 A summary of the revenue flows into UHS are provided in Appendix 2.

17 expenditures used in the analysis include spending by the University itself, out-of- region student spending, and estimated import substitution from local student spending that would have otherwise been lost had the students left the region to obtain higher education elsewhere. (See Tables 1 and 2.)

To allow for a fine-tuning of the education sector in the IMPLAN model data on spending as well as revenues were utilized. Spending is divided into four main categories, expenditures (1) for the basic operating expenses of the University, (2) for construction, (3) for research, and (4) from student spending on campus for things which are not part of the University budget. These categories were separated out in order to make the IMPLAN analysis more reflective of the University of Houston as opposed to the general higher education sector utilized by the basic IMPLAN model.

It should also be noted that the data for the UHS revenues and spending are separated between the exogenous stimuli produced within the Houston MSA, which includes the University of Houston (UH), UH-Downtown (UHD), and UH-Clear Lake (UHCL), and the stimuli from UH-Victoria (UHV), since Victoria is in a different region than the Houston MSA. Throughout this report, the entire University of Houston System is referred to as UHS. The three universities that impact the Houston regional economy will be referred to as UH-MSA.

The reader must look at both Table 1 and Appendix 2 to get a sense of the flow of funds entering the region, and how those revenues are expended. This data comes from the University’s own accounting records and the University’s information on student costs for in-region students; out-of-region, in-state students; and out-of-region, out-of-state students. In addition, data was provided by the University that includes current enrollment figures on each of these student categories. The actual data imputed into the IMPLAN model extracts from all of these data sources, identifying just those expenditures that can be attributable to either the flow of outside dollars into the region or the recovery of funds back into the region (import substitution).

While identifying how the money is spent (expenditures) proves helpful in correctly allocating the stimuli to the correct sector, it is actually the flow of funds that is crucial in identifying what portion of those expenditures emanates from “outside dollars’. Of the revenues received by the University of Houston, tuition is the dominant source (See Appendix 2). However, not all of the tuition revenues represent exogenous demand from outside of the region, since much of the tuition received emanates from local residents. Only to the extent that those students would have been forced to attend college outside of the region in the absence of the University of Houston System would their local expenditures be considered exogenous in the sense previously discussed as import substitution. The same would be true of much of the “net sales of services and activities.” Bookstore sales are also

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part direct outside dollars brought into the region, part import substitution sales, and part spending out of local dollars, the latter of which is excluded from the analysis.

Obviously, operating and research dollars from federal and state agencies, national and state foundations, and from private corporations headquartered outside of Houston represent additional outside dollars brought into each region that provide a direct stimulus to their economies.14 The more difficult task involved estimating the amount of stimulus from student expenditures. Approximately 22% of UH-MSA students attending the three universities in the Houston region come from out of the region. 15 The amount of money spent by these students is certainly new outside dollars. This is broken down into tuition and fees (captured in the UHS accounting figures), bookstore sales (most of which occur on campus, but which is separate from University accounting), and living expenses either for on-campus or off-campus students. For the remaining 78% of the students who are residents of the Houston metropolitan area the key challenge is making an estimate of the amount of dollars being brought back into the regional economy because of the presence of UH-MSA. Such an exercise is fraught with dangers and susceptible to exaggeration. Thus, every effort is taken to be quite conservative in approaching this effort.

First, it is assumed that had students been forced to attend college outside of the region, most would have spent no more than what out-of-region students pay at

UH-MSA. Second, it is assumed that two-thirds of the students would have stayed within the state, paying no more for tuition and fees than what they actually do pay at UH-MSA. Third, it is assumed that those who would have left the state would have paid no more for tuition and fees than what out-of-state students now pay to attend UH-MSA. All of these assumptions are conservative.

First of all, without a significant increase in state higher education capacity, there is no way that all of the two-thirds of the current local resident student body could attend in Texas.16 Secondly, many of the options within the state (such as Baylor, Rice and SMU) have much higher tuition and fees and most out-of-state tuition in other states is even higher. Finally, it is assumed that the extent of import substitution for living expenses is limited to the difference in the cost of living in Houston for locals and the cost of living for out-of-region students in Houston. But with the cost of living in Houston so low that it is almost assured that living expenses

14 No attempt was made in this analysis to determine what portion of research support from “local” sources might be properly considered import substitution and therefore all local dollars were excluded. This will very modestly bias downward the impact results of this paper.

15 In Victoria virtual all of the student body is within region.

16 This could really only happen if in fact the UH-MSA were replicated somewhere else in Texas.

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elsewhere for students forced to obtain an education out of the region would be substantially higher.

As shown in Table 1 the total direct stimulus to the Houston economy from student spending is estimated as $840,124,681. Of that amount, $71,701,200 comes from sales at the bookstore. Of the non-book spending 28% emanates from non- resident students even though they constitute only 22% of the overall student body. In contrast, the stimulus from student spending associated with the Victoria university is only $55,196,341 and virtually all that stimulus is in the form of import substitution because without UHV, all of the student body would be forced to go out of the region 17 to attain an education.

Combined, the total exogenous spending emanating from the Houston MSA universities equals $2,184,505,847. Of that total, 78% emanates from UH, 13% from UHD and 9% from UHCL. For the Victoria County area, the UHV direct stimulus is $109,683,744.

However, the sources of new exogenous spending vary substantially across universities. Appendix 2 shows the dramatic difference in the sources of revenue among the four primary universities. For example, as one might expect UH to rely much more heavily on research grants and awards and less on net tuition, whereas 18 UHCL revenues are dominated by net tuition and State appropriations.

Along with the total amount of exogenous spending, Table 1 includes statistics on the number of UHS employees in each region and the total level of the University of Houston System employee compensation. These latter statistics are not essential for use in the IMPLAN model, since, given exogenous spending, IMPLAN calculates its own estimate of employees and compensation, but those calculations are based upon a generic “higher education” sector. Utilizing the employment statistics in Table 1 allowed for fine tuning of the model’s impact estimations to be more specific to the realities of UHS.

Results of the IMPLAN Demand-Side Analysis

Direct, Indirect and Induced Effect of UHS Regional Economic Stimuli

17 The breakdown of student expenditures is $7,513 for tuition and fees and approximately $1,200 for books. Living expenses are estimated by the University to be $5,122 for students living with family locally, $12,192 for students living on campus, and $14,922 for students living on their own off campus.

18 Total exogenous research dollars were obtained from UHS records broken down by university and by source. Appendix 3 tables provide a detailed breakdown of the research dollars generated and expended by college within UH. Monies from clearly local sources were eliminated as not constituting exogenous spending. The remainder were totaled and are also reported in Table 1.

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These estimates of exogenous spending along with the adjustments for UHS employment and employee compensation were next inputted into the IMPAN model. The empirical results as displayed in Table 2 are divided into the direct, indirect, and induced effects, and for each category the increase in employment, labor income, gross regional product, regional sales, and population are provided. The direct effect is the immediate impact of increased exogenous spending on these variables. So, for instance, the employment figure represents the new jobs directly created on campus (faculty and staff), the employment at the bookstore, and the employment directly associated with those sectors benefitted by student spending for living expenses.

Each sector, however, must purchase inputs from local vendors to support their various activities. UHS must purchase supplies, equipment and energy among other things, and student landlords must do the same. This constitutes the indirect effect. As shown in Table 2, both of these effects generate an increase in household 19 income.

As this income is spent within the region (some on locally produced goods and services and some on “imports”), this spending generates a further economic stimulus within a broad spectrum of the regional economy. This is referred to as the induced effect. Together the sum of these three effects equals the overall impact of that initial direct stimulus. As can be seen in Table 2, the various multipliers associated with the UH-MSA impact within the Houston MSA (total divided by direct) range from 2.53 to 3.41, with the highest multiplier being associated with labor income. The overall impact of UH-MSA in the Houston MSA is estimated as an increase in employment by 25,115; labor income of $1.5 billion, gross regional product of $2.2 billion, regional sales of $3.6 billion, and population of 44,397. Probably the most important of these statistics are employment and gross regional product.

The Relative Importance of the UH-MSA Stimulus

While the total impact in terms of dollars, jobs, and population might look impressive, the relative contribution to Houston’s very large urban economy is modest. Indeed, the gains in employment and gross regional product are only about 1% of the region’s totals. Nonetheless, these contributions should not be underrated either. Some rough comparisons can be made with other institutions and enterprises. For example, the UHS universities within the Houston MSA produce an economic impact approximately equivalent to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center or that of the private sector giant Halliburton; and its impact is approximately half the combined impact of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and all of its direct contractors. Of course, the small percent impact is due to the fact that Houston’s economy is now quite diversified. Yet, with thousands of firms and governmental and

19 In general, labor income as produced by the IMPLAN model is equivalent to household income.

21 non-profit organizations in Houston, it is impressive that only about a dozen economic institutions, private or public, are more important to the Houston economy.

The Victoria Impact

On the surface it appears that the economic impact to the Victoria economy shown in Table 2 is small and insignificant. It certainly is small in absolute terms in comparison with the impact of the other universities upon the Houston economy. But its relative impact is actually much larger. While total job creation, including the multiplier effects, is only 1,395 jobs, this contribution to the Victoria economy is more than 2.7% of the labor force and UHV’s contribution to gross regional product of $90.5 million is equal to somewhat more than 2.4%. Thus, relatively speaking UH- Victoria plays a more significant role in the local economy there than the other three universities combined play in Houston, and any expansion in the Victoria university, at least from a demand-side perspective, would mean more to that local economy than a similar expansion of UH-MSA would for Houston.

The Distribution of Gains

As might be expected, the economic impacts of the three UH universities within the Houston MSA are not evenly distributed across sectors. Of course, it is no surprise the greatest impact is found in the education sector. These three universities add more than 7,900 jobs to this sector alone. Because higher education is relatively labor intensive, it also should not be surprising that UH-MSA provides a significant stimulus to consumer-related businesses as faculty incomes and student living expenses get spent in sectors such as retail sales and consumer services. Table 3 provides a partial breakdown of gains by sector in the Houston MSA. Food services, housing, construction and retail sectors in general benefit the most because of the induced effects of rising incomes.

The pattern is similar in Victoria. However, higher education within Victoria County in the IMPLAN model is included in their sector labeled “other state and local enterprises” because there are too few institutions of higher education in the county, which on confidentiality grounds prevents the federal government from releasing the type of detailed data on the sector for which the IMPLAN model relies.

Fiscal Dividends to State and Local Government

Another interesting aspect of the overall economic impact of UHS is its generation of significant fiscal dividends to state and local governments as reported in Table 4. Because of the direct and induced spending generated, state government gets almost $68.5 million per year in increased state revenues from the UHS stimulus in both regions (Houston MSA and Victoria). Local governments in the Houston region received an additional $83 million per year and in Victoria about $750,000

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per year.20 These numbers are very substantial and particularly noteworthy is that the state’s substantial investment in higher education within the Houston region produces a “rebate” of $68 million in the form of increased revenues, substantially reducing the net cost of the legislated appropriations to higher education. Furthermore, since most aspects of the UHS are exempt from taxation, it is remarkable that local governments receive so much additional revenue, especially since they contribute little to the expense of higher education at the UHS. This can be attributable to the indirect and induce effects of the initial stimulus.

Summary of the Demand-Side Effects

In summary then, we see that from a demand-side perspective, UHS produces a significant impact upon the two regional economies, but one that is not absolutely critical. It should be pointed out, however, that in today’s diversified Houston economy there are few if any single entities that just dominate that region economically. Even during the 1990s when Compaq and Enron were the icons of a vibrant new Houston, they too were relatively unimportant as stand-alone institutions. In terms of sectors, however, it should be pointed out that all degree- granting institutions of higher education in Houston would constitute a substantial part of the overall economy and expansion of the sector as a whole would produce a 21 significant and perceptible impact on regional jobs, income and aggregate sales.

Supply -Side Considerations

Educating the Local Populace/Enhancing the Stock of Local Human Capital

For years, Houston enjoyed a demographic mix that included a reasonable amount of college-educated population. Whereas most of America’s more established cities grew from large amounts of immigration of poor individuals and households, Houston’s growth during much of the second half of the 20th century involved the migration of educated middle and upper-middle income households 22 from various parts of the nation.

20 This would include state sales tax revenues both from consumer spending and taxable business to business transactions, corporate franchise taxes, and a host of state fees and specialty taxes. Local taxes include taxes generated by all entities, including municipalities, school districts, municipal utility districts and hosts of special taxing districts.

21 This is especially true of those institutions such as UH-MSA, Rice University, and the educational institutions within the Medical Center that bring in substantial amounts of students from out of the region, as well as a substantial amount of outside funded research dollars. In addition, Houston’s two major community college systems also add significantly to the overall influence of the higher education sector upon the economy of the region.

22 For example, Boston exploded with growth from immigration of low income individuals from western Europe such as the Irish, Chicago’s biggest growth spurt was associated with low income 23

The flow of educated population to Houston was originally stimulated by the rapid expansion of the post-war petrochemical industries in the 1950s and ’60s, the birth of Houston’s role in the U.S. space program, and the decade long “upstream energy boom” in Houston during the 1970s. These events along with the significant migration of Americans towards the Sunbelt cities produced an unprecedented need for high skilled workers. Each of these major exogenous stimuli to the region required educated, highly skilled workers and for the most part Houston was forced to “import” educated labor to the region because the region was simply not producing enough supply of its own new college graduates sufficient to meet the needs of a booming economy. Actually, from Houston’s inception the region has always been a net importer of human capital, a challenge that during most of its history was not particularly daunting because of the enormous economic opportunities that presented themselves within the region.

The mix of migrants, however, began to change in the late 1970s and continued throughout much of the ’80s and ’90s. While the demands for educated labor continued to grow, migration following civil unrest in Central America and the lack of economic opportunity in Mexico began to produce Houston’s first major contemporary flow of unskilled migration into the region. As a result, the average level of educational attainment in Houston during the past four decades has not been as impressive as some might have supposed. In 1970 13.5% of the metropolitan population held a bachelor’s degree or greater. By 2010, the ratio had more than doubled to 27.9%. While that might appear impressive on the surface, in comparison with the growth in educated population in many other urban areas, the gains were rather disappointing.

Table 6 shows the gains by decade in the percentage of the Houston metropolitan population with college degrees along with a projection for 2020 given current trends. Table 5, on the other hand, shows that among 11 major cities with adequate data Houston ranked last in terms of the percent of the population holding some form of a college degree. Boston, Denver and Seattle stand out as urban areas with a highly educated population, which can explain in part the health of their economies during the past few decades. This suggests that as Houston grows it will need progressively more people with college degrees or its growth will ultimately be choked by a labor market with insufficient human capital.

In addition, the demographic mix of Houston requires significantly more effort in providing education for the region’s minorities. Table 7 shows that while the percent of white-non Hispanics in Houston with a college degree is somewhat below families from eastern Europe, Detroit experienced its highest growth rates during the massive migration of rural African Americans to the urban north, and one of Los Angeles major population booms emanated from the escape of poor farmers in the plains states because of the Dust Bowl of the 1920s and 30s.

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the levels found in many other urban areas in the U.S., Houston’s minority percentages are significantly lower. While much still needs to be done to lift Houston’s African American population educationally, the real tragedy is how low Houston’s Hispanic population’s ratio is.

Much of the Hispanic population in Houston are first and second generation. But this is also the case for Houston’s Asian community. The difference is that second generation Asians have a sharply higher high school graduation rate, and a far larger portion of Asians graduating from high school go on to college. The University of Houston in tandem with the region’s community colleges have an opportunity to make a significant difference for Hispanics, but a massive effort needs to be put forth to increase their high school graduation rate and to retain those students that get started in the region’s community colleges before they finish at an institution like the University of Houston.

Houston’s deficits are not merely a function of migration. In a most interesting study released by the Atlanta Regional Council of Higher Education, 60 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas were compared in terms of their commitment to local higher education.23 This group reported data for each metropolitan area on the number of full time students enrolled in all degree granting institutions of higher education approved to receive federal student aid. Their study also reported the number of degrees conferred per year, the total expenditures on higher education, the total research expenditures, the amount of federal grants and contracts and the 24 total number of workers employed in higher education.

Houston’s ranking among these 60 urban areas is extremely low in most categories. In terms of college student enrollment per capita, Houston ranked 59th out of 60, substantially lower than metropolitan areas such as Cleveland, Detroit, and Baltimore. In terms of per capita degrees confirmed Houston ranked 57th. Because of the skewedness of the local student distribution toward graduate studies and professional degrees (such as medicine), Houston did somewhat better in the other four categories, but it was still far behind most communities. It is ranked 39th in expenditures on higher education, 21st in terms of research expenditures, 29th in federal grants and contracts, and 48th in terms of faculty and staff serving higher education needs. It is no wonder then that Houston’s been losing ground to most

23 See “The Economic Impact of Higher Education on Houston: A Case Study of the University of Houston System.” April, 2006.

24 The latest data collected is for the academic year 2001-2002. Unfortunately, the federal government has stopped conducting this level of detailed surveys that produced the data upon which this study depended. As a consequence we have no new data to report beyond that discussed in the 2005 UH report. However, there is strong secondary evidence to suggest nothing has really changed since that report was released.

25 other urban areas in terms of the educational levels of its overall population. Thus, one cannot simply blame the large immigration of low skilled/poorly educated individuals to Houston as the primary reason for the region’s sub-par stock of human capital. Much of the blame must be put on the shoulders of the community and its lack of commitment to educating its own.

However, were it not for UH-MSA this track record would have been even worse. Table 8 shows enrollment figures for UH-MSA for the most recent full academic year and Table 9 shows the rate of graduation during the last half decade. Of the 58,762 students currently enrolled within the three universities in Houston, the UH- MSA is producing nearly 7,800 new bachelor degrees, more than 2,500 master degrees and 241 doctoral degrees. This totals to more than 10,500 degrees per year. That’s a major contribution toward meeting the region’s labor force needs. But what is particularly impressive is how many UH-MSA graduates remain within the region. For the first five years 83% of UH-MSA graduates are still living in Houston. Of course, in today’s modern American economy where labor is more mobile than ever before, one would expect that UH-MSA graduates would gradually drift to other regions of the country. Still, after 20 years, 60% of UH-MSA graduates are living in Houston and another 17% are living in other parts of Texas. Remarkably, less than a quarter of graduates have moved out of the state 20 years after graduation. (See Table 10.)

To put in perspective the UH-MSA’s contribution to the amount of human capital (in terms of higher education), Table 11 shows Houston’s annual need for additional college graduates, the contribution toward that need by UH-MSA from graduates expected to remain in Houston, the percent contribution and the deficit left to be filled, mostly from the importation of skilled labor from the rest of the country. These numbers, which assume that Houston maintains its current educational ratio of 27.9%, indicate that currently UH-MSA is providing about 30% of the region’s human capital needs.

On the other hand, if the region were to try to increase the percentage of college graduates among its population to be more comparable to cities such as Seattle, Denver and Boston, the region would need 44,651 additional people per year added annually over 10 years to achieve that objective. If UH-MSA were to keep producing degrees at its current level, then its contribution to the region’s educated population would fall to only 19.6% and there would be a deficit of almost 36,000 college educated people per year that would have to be attracted from other parts of the county. On the other hand, were the UH-MSA in Houston to increase its production of college degrees by somewhat more than 50%, it could maintain its contribution ratio at 30%. This would mean that in the absence of a completely new university or an enormous expansion of other current universities and colleges in the area, the UH-MSA would have to be expanded at a pace similar to its growth in the 1970s. (See Table 12.) 26

One implication of these results is that the Houston region will have to continue to import most of its human capital needs. This means it will have to remain an attractive place to live for individuals with high levels of education. Recent studies indicate that more and more university-educated individuals are seeking areas with low living costs and high levels of amenities. Some areas in the nation such as California are now beginning to find the retention of educated individuals difficult because of high living costs, even though the state is generally perceived as a place with an abundance of living amenities. Other areas are struggling to keep their educated individuals because of a weak economy, or because they come up short on the amenity side. Houston’s strong economy is attractive to such persons. So too is its low cost of living. But perceptions of Houston’s poor environmental quality, Crime and unaesthetic sprawl remain a detriment. If Houston is going to rely on “imports” of human capital as its prime source for an educated and high skilled labor force, then it must dedicate many more resources into quality of life investments. Interestingly, the two directions in providing increased human capital in the region, producing your own college graduates and importing them from other regions, are not competitive alternatives, but complementary. As Houston invests more in higher education, that very investment becomes an amenity that will help attract other educated individuals to the region. Indeed, it is highly unlikely that Houston will be able to attract the type of labor force it needs from other parts of the country without at the same time providing the stimulating intellectual environment that such a population desires.

Research Synergism

As pointed out earlier, major research universities do more than merely educate students. The research conducted at these universities adds to the overall wealth of knowledge within a region in addition to providing demand-side economic stimulus and being an integral part of the local education process. The sheer dollars produced by the University of Houston and UH-MSA are impressive, generating more than a quarter billion dollars’ worth of research funding per year. But it is in the details that one can begin to see the benefits to the overall community and the interaction this provides with other key sectors of the regional economy. Given the role of pioneering medicine in the region, it isn’t surprising to note that nearly 10% of UH’s research dollars come from the National Institutes of Health and that over the years millions of dollars have been provided by NASA. Other major sources of funding include the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, a host of private for-profit businesses in energy, engineering, computer technologies and innovative firms in such areas as biotechnology and nanotechnology.

Appendix 4 provides a breakdown of funded research by source of funds for

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the academic years from 2009 to 2012.25 This delineation will give the reader an excellent sense of the breadth and focus of the research conducted at UHS and its application to the two regional economies. It will also provide the reader with a sense of the substantial extent that the local community including governments, foundations, non-profits, and for-profit entities are contributing to these endeavors and are participating as partners in this research effort. Furthermore, the portion “funded” by other universities provides an excellent indication of the cooperative efforts that exist between UHS and other stellar universities throughout the 26 country.

Some interesting examples of University/private sector cooperation can be seen in the University of Houston’s C. T. Bauer College of Business, through its Business Consulting Lab. This lab works with Houston-area firms on a wide range of issues. Examples include cooperative work with: (1) a major oil company in identifying best practices in new product development; (2) a specialty metal products distributor in optimizing e-commerce efforts; (3) a process management software company in developing a key marketing plan for expanding from the aerospace industry to the health care industry; (4) a research team from M. D. Anderson in forming a business plan for gene therapy technology; (5) a specialty fuels and lubricants distributor in conducting an order-to-cash analysis that identifies ways to accelerate cash conversion allowing for revenue growth without increasing debt; (5) a leading cyber-security boutique in developing a growth strategy; (6) and a major hospital in identifying best practices in providing services for women.

Similar synergetic efforts are now going on at the University of Houston’s new Energy Research Park. This complex was purchased and developed for University- sponsored development that includes research, work force training and industrial partnerships. The focus on energy is quite broad with training and research in wind, solar and electric power generation, along with Houston’s tradition fossil fuel orientation. However, partners within other industries and other institutions of higher education are constantly being sought to work with UH researchers in the development of new manufacturing techniques with current technologies and in pushing forward with new technologies that will impact Houston and the nation in the 21st century. Many of the UH energy research-related centers and institutes are being relocated there, making them more accessible for cooperative private sector partnering. For example, UH’s Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory, which has

25 It should be remembered that these figures do not include the thousands of man-hours of both students and faculty who are pursuing a wide variety of research without funding or with partial funding from the University of Houston itself.

26 These are often funds in which two or more universities work together as a consortium of researchers on a particular project.

28 attracted research grants for topics such as sensor development, structural health monitoring and piezoceramic materials, has relocated there as well as portions of UH’s Texas Center for Superconductivity and UH’s Petroleum Engineering Program. Current active research centers include the SSPEED Center, the National Wind Energy Center, the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, the Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center and the Energy Fabrication Device Laboratory. (See Appendix 5) In a different vein, the University of Houston is engaging with the region’s health sector by systematically assuring that it is producing the skilled labor needed throughout the region’s health sector. This extends far beyond the bounds of optometry or pre-med education, but includes every type of labor force need that the medical professions require, involving not merely health related sciences, but also business and social science students as well.

Community Service

While the amount and diversity of research conducted at UHS is stunning, it is easily matched by the amount of community service rendered by faculty and staff. The number of University/community links are so numerous that the best we could do in this report is provide a brief summarization of the University’s involvement in Appendix 6. There are more than 200 programs, institutes, or departments emanating from UH alone that directly provide services to individuals, groups or community agencies within the Houston region and several dozen at the other UHS universities collectively. While it is impossible in the text of this report to describe each program in detail, Appendix 6 gives a brief overview of each along with contact information so the reader can learn more.

These programs vary substantially, including programs directly working with the community in addressing important regional issues, various forms of non-credit educational programs to help Houstonians working in a broad range of fields, a multitude of partnerships with both public and private institutions and organizations, collaborative work with other institutions of higher education, deliverance of a top quality menu of arts to the community coupled with collaborative efforts with the overall Houston arts community and joint efforts with Houston’s multifaceted ethnic community.

UH-MSA provides Houston with quality facilities such as the A.D. Bruce Religion Center and the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center. It offers the region a wide variety of continuing education programs such as the Accelerated Language Programs and the Center for Executive Development. In addition, the community is provided with several important programs for the advancement of Houston’s minority communities. Just as an example, the latter includes College Career Days, Arte Publico Press, Common Ground Teachers Institute, Academic Achievers Program, Cultural Enrichment Center, Immigration Clinic, La Nueva Casa de Amigos Optometry

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Clinic along with somewhat more academic programs such as the African American Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Center, Center for Immigration Research and the Center for Mexican American Studies.

Hosts of both private and non-profit organizations take advantage of UH-MSA’s programs that provide technical assistance and support such as the International Trade Center, the SBA Guarantee Loan Program, and the Small Business Development Center, all of which are geared to help small regional entrepreneurs; and such programs as the Funding Source, Program and Project Evaluations, and Power Tools for Non-Profit Organizations , which seek to aid the non-profit community in finding resources and developing efficiency management skills.

In addition to interacting with community organizations, UH-MSA also reaches out to individuals within the region through such programs as the Development Clinic of the University Eye Institute, the Community Wellness Center, Brown Bag Medical Review and Counseling, Color Vision Service, Cougars for Kids Program, Family CAN, Glaucoma Screening, Homes Clinic, and the Parent Education Program. Among all the community outreach programs of the University there are more aimed towards the rising generation than any of the other programs. These range from numerous summer programs to Engineering Day and from health and early diagnosis programs to remedial education programs for K-12 students and the local community teachers that are working with them.

Of course, the University of Houston is well known for its contributions to the community in fine arts and communications. It provides the region with productions at the Wortham and Moores Theaters and the annual Houston Shakespeare festival, art exhibits at the Blaffer Art Museum, and it is home to the region’s public television station KUHT and two radio stations, KUHF and KUHA. “Engines of Our Ingenuity” is just one of many popular programs made available to Houstonians by UH. As with much of the community service menu sited in Appendix 6, many programs in the arts are geared directly toward the region’s children.

This brief introduction is merely an overview of the enormous list of programs contained in Appendix 6. All of these connections are a key part of what an urban research university is all about. While such programs are not typically referred to as urban extension services, they ought to be. Every major urban area in the nation has learned to rely upon their collective university community for these types of resources and help. Given the Houston region’s below-par level of funding for higher education at full-fledged research universities, it is surprising that metropolitan Houston fares so well when it comes to university supplied and supported community services.

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CONCLUSIONS

Higher education is more important to the nation than ever before. Its role in the health and vitality of urban areas is also undisputable. Progressively, the nation’s major urban areas recognize the link between economic development, the education of its labor force and the presence of quality institutions of higher education. Urban economies where the institutions of higher education play a large role typically are stronger and more robust than those economies still stuck in the 20th century.

Surprisingly, Houston falls short of many major metropolitan areas despite the presence of UH-MSA, Rice, and the Texas Medical Center. The average education level of the region remains below average even though both the energy and non- energy components of its economic base are quite high-tech in nature. Because the percent of the region’s high school graduates is low and because so many of those that do go on to college must leave the region for that opportunity, Houston continues to be a major importer of human capital from the rest of the nation. That’s not all bad. It has given Houston a wonderful cosmopolitan flavor with representation from almost every corner of the nation and much of the world. However, the challenge of recruiting high skilled labor to Houston has not always 27 been easy. It is also the case that it has been progressively more dangerous for an urban area to leave a large portion of its population without higher education. These areas will struggle more than ever with chronic underemployment and unemployment along with the host of economic burdens associated with a sizeable population with subpar incomes. In discussing long-term planning for the region, issues of transportation and flood control often top the list of concerns, but those interested in Houston’s future can’t underestimate the desperate need to lift up a large portion of the local population that will be doomed in the 21st century without much greater educational credentials.

While enhancing local higher education opportunities in Houston needs to be done primarily for supply-side reasons, this expansion also has direct implications to the regional economy. For example, currently the three UH-MSA universities in Houston account for more than $2.2 billion in real dollar gross regional product; $3.6 billion in total regional sales; $1.5 billion in personal incomes; an $83 million fiscal dividend for local governments, and more than 25,000 jobs. Increasing the local commitment to higher education within the Houston region sufficient to meet the needs of a growing population as well as upgrading educational levels to be more

27 Most recently Houston has found it easy to attract highly educated people simply because of the weakness in the labor markets of most other urban areas. However, during times in which the national economy is more evenly balanced across geographic areas, local businesses have found recruiting from outside the region much more challenging.

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The story is the same for Victoria. While the absolute figures are less impressive than in Houston with UHV producing $90 million in GRP, $161 million in regional sales, $62 million in personal income, three quarters of a million dollars in local government revenues, and approximately 1,400 jobs, UHV’s relative importance to the Victoria economy is more than twice as great.

Even the state of Texas is a gainer, receiving approximately $68.5 million in revenues from all four UHS universities. Of course, these direct fiscal gains to government do not include the additional fiscal gains from the all important supply-side effects emanating from the increased growth rate because these regions and the state at large is made more attractive to highly skilled labor and high-skilled- oriented businesses.

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TABLES

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Table 1 DISTRIBUTION OF UHS EXPENDITURES* Within the Houston MSA Region

Direct University Of Houston Regional Impact

University Budget Expenditures From Outside Revenues

General University Operating Expenditures $1,098,422,275 Construction (5 Year Average) $137,733,207 University Research Expenditures $91,087,517 Special Sales Supported for Exogenous Spending $17,138,167

Off Budget Exogenous Spending

Bookstore Sales $71,701,200 Exogenous Student Spending Off Campus $768,423,481

Total Exogenous Spending* $2,184,505,847

Employment Statistics Number of Employees 6,947 Total Employee Compensation $596,798,338

* Based Upon Averages Over Last Half Decade

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Table 1 DISTRIBUTION OF UHS EXPENDITURES * Within the Victoria Region

Direct University Of Houston Victoria Impact

University Budget Expenditures From Outside Revenues

Outside Funding of General University Expenditures $49,394,105 Construction (5 Year Average) $3,401,240 Outside Funding of University Research Special Sales Supported for Exogenous Spending $1,692,058

Off Budget Exogenous Spending

Bookstore Sales $4,914,000 Exogenous Student Spending Off Campus $50,282,341

Total Exogenous Spending* $109,683,744

Employment Statistics Number of Employees 477 Total Employee Compensation $27,383,064

* Based Upon Averages Over Last Half Decade

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Table 1 DISTRIBUTION OF UHS EXPENDITURES * Total for All Universities

Overall University Of Houston System Impact

University Budget Expenditures From Outside Revenues

Outside Funding of General University Expenditures $1,147,816,380 Construction (5 Year Average) $141,134,447 Outside Funding of University Research $91,087,517 Special Sales Supported for Exogenous Spending $18,830,225

Off Budget Exogenous Spending

Bookstore Sales $76,615,200 Exogenous Student Spending Off Campus $818,705,822

Total Exogenous Spending* $2,294,189,591

Employment Statistics Number of Employees 7,424 Total Employee Compensation $624,181,402

* Based Upon Averages Over Last Half Decade

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Table 2 DEMAND-SIDE IMPACT SUMMARY Within Houston MSA Region

Impact Summary

Impact Type Employment Labor Income GRP Sales Population

Direct Effect 9,942.30 $735,448,136 $779,696,216 $1,401,334,771 17,575.80

Indirect Effect 2,955.80 $176,592,102 $347,373,722 $533,932,434 5,225.20

Induced Effect 12,216.50 $597,491,817 $1,089,800,004 $1,693,500,395 21,596.10

Total Effect 25,114.50 $1,509,532,055 $2,216,869,943 $3,628,767,600 44,397.10

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Table 2 DEMAND-SIDE IMPACT SUMMARY Within Victoria Region

Impact Summary

Impact Type Employment Labor Income GRP Sales Population

Direct Effect 533.5 $28,541,909 $26,802,370 $55,437,860 918.1

Indirect Effect 221.7 $9,637,951 $17,728,330 $33,260,748 381.5

Induced Effect 639.5 $24,158,996 $45,948,786 $72,995,202 1,100.40

Total Effect 1,394.70 $62,338,856 $90,479,486 $161,693,810 2,399.90

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Table 3 DEMAND-SIDE IMPACT BY KEY SECTORS Within Houston MSA Region

Top Employment Impacts

Description Employment Labor Income GRP Sales

Colleges, universities, and professional schools 7,931.80 $603,177,945 $615,698,515 $1,115,494,521

Food services and drinking places 1,534.70 $32,416,111 $49,273,549 $89,491,582

Housing 1,438.40 $33,194,868 $226,278,631 $260,427,741

Non Residential Construction 882.2 $57,424,681 $65,228,144 $137,733,207

Retail Stores - General merchandise 829.7 $23,741,669 $36,903,998 $47,018,256

Private hospitals 688.8 $51,071,811 $55,840,890 $98,658,546

Physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners 666 $58,629,203 $60,601,198 $93,738,688

Home health care services 475.6 $11,268,591 $11,534,832 $18,487,158

Retail Stores - Food and beverage 416.7 $12,623,232 $18,101,292 $24,018,676

Services to buildings and dwellings 395.5 $8,904,393 $11,778,957 $23,319,477

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TABLE 3 DEMAND-SIDE IMPACT BY KEY SECTORS Within Victoria Region

Top Employment Impacts

Description Employment Labor Income GRP Sales

Other state and local government 488.4 $27,947,272 $25,472,541 $55,722,085 enterprises

Food services and drinking places 84.8 $1,508,587 $2,440,494 $4,662,194

Maintenance and repair construction of non-residential 54.5 $2,445,478 $3,083,432 $6,660,933 structures

Private hospitals 48.4 $3,175,733 $3,510,779 $6,508,846

Retail Stores - Sporting goods, 47.4 $930,171 $1,439,724 $2,181,992 hobby, book and music

Real estate establishments 42.3 $402,735 $6,076,530 $7,065,670

Physicians, dentists, and other 39.6 $3,342,628 $3,457,417 $5,384,097 health practitioners

Nursing and residential care 36.9 $1,271,787 $1,451,877 $2,213,369 facilities

Non-depository credit 30.2 $1,732,269 $2,052,313 $3,942,318 intermediation and related activities

Retail Stores - Miscellaneous 25.6 $585,054 $855,971 $1,246,945

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Table 4 DEMAND-SIDE PUBLIC SECTOR FISCAL IMPACT Within Houston MSA Region

State and Local Revenue Impacts

Description Totals to Govt Businesses Households

Indirect Bus Tax: Sales Tax $61,735,917

Indirect Bus Tax: Property Tax $55,608,326

Indirect Bus Tax: Motor Vehicle Lic $1,148,553

Indirect Bus Tax: Severance Tax $3,973,048

Indirect Bus Tax: Other Taxes $10,384,928

Indirect Bus Tax: S/L NonTaxes $5,826,214

Personal Tax: NonTaxes (Fines- Fees $9,171,555

Personal Tax: Motor Vehicle License $1,810,354

Personal Tax: Property Taxes $841,412

Personal Tax: Other Tax (Fish/Hunt, etc.) $668,185

Total State and Local Tax $138,676,986 $12,491,506

Total State Taxes 67,908,365.6

Total Local Taxes 83,260,126.4

Total State and Local Tax 151,168,492.0

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Table 4 DEMAND-SIDE PUBLIC SECTOR FISCAL IMPACT Within Victoria Region

State and Local Revenue Impacts

Description Totals to Govt Businesses Households

Indirect Bus Tax: Sales Tax $324,990

Indirect Bus Tax: Property Tax $292,733

Indirect Bus Tax: Motor Vehicle Lic $6,046

Indirect Bus Tax: Severance Tax $20,915

Indirect Bus Tax: Other Taxes $54,668

Indirect Bus Tax: S/L NonTaxes $30,670

Personal Tax: NonTaxes (Fines- Fees) $366,869

Personal Tax: Motor Vehicle License $71,628

Personal Tax: Property Taxes $38,183

Personal Tax: Other Tax (Fish/Hunt, etc.) $25,689

Total State and Local Tax $730,022 $502,369

Total State Taxes 488,179

Total Local Taxes 744,212

Total State and Local Tax 1,232,391

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Table 5 PERCENT OF POPULATION WITH SOME LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION Comparisons with Major MSAs

Percent Holding Degrees

Bachelor's Degree or All Forms of College MSA Higher Degrees

Atlanta 34.1 40.52

Boston 42.18 49.57

Chicago 33.53 40.14

Dallas 30.01 36.25

Denver 37.64 45.24

Detroit 26.28 33.92

Houston 27.89 33.64

Los Angeles 30.16 37.09

Orlando 26.59 35.88

St. Louis 29.38 37.28

Seattle 37.43 46.06

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Table 6 PERCENT OF POPULATION WITH BACHELOR'S DEGREES OR GREATER Within the Houston MSA Region

Percent Holding Degrees

Annual Percent Population BA+ Additions Year BA+ Over 25 Degrees BA+ Degrees Degrees

1970 1,121,898 151,854 13.54%

1980 1,737,515 373,289 21.48% 22,144

1990 2,273,123 548,353 24.12% 17,506

2000 2,858,299 757,710 27.89% 20,936

2010 3,644,404 1,016,351 27.89% 25,864

*2020 4,530,389 1,307,017 28.85% 29,067

*Estimated

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Table 7 POPULATION WITH BACHELOR DEGREE + BY ETHNICITY Within the Houston MSA Region (2010)

Asian Blacks Hispanics Whites

Total 272,013 631,178 1,163,299 1,716,788 Population

With BA + 137,285 145,520 139,655 665,552

Percent 50.47% 23.06% 12.01% 38.77%

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Table 8 UH SYSTEM ENROLLMENT Average Fall/Spring for Academic Year 2010-11

Fall 2010 Headcount by Classification In UH UHV UHCL UHD ALL Houston

Freshman 5,380 205 0 2,238 7,823 5,585

Sophomore 6,060 218 0 1,569 7,847 6,278

Junior 7,345 611 1,914 2,557 12,426 9,870

Senior 9,963 1,209 2,377 5,627 19,175 13,549

Post 1,372 238 491 527 2,627 2,100 Baccalaureate

Master 4,484 1,722 3,185 148 9,538 9,390

Doctoral 1,742 0 74 0 1,816 1,816

Law 832 0 0 0 832 832

Optometry 408 0 0 0 408 408

Pharmacy 474 0 0 0 474 474

All 38,0 60 4,20 3 8,04 1 12,66 6 62,96 6 50,30 2

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Table 9 UHS CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION LEVELS Houston MSA and Victoria Regions 5 Year Totals: 2005 – 2009

Degree Type Degrees Awarded Average Annual 5 Year Total UH Bachelors 23,540 4,708 Masters 7,241 1,448 Doctoral 1,207 241 Total 31,988 6,398

UHCL Bachelors 5,746 1,149 Masters 5,168 1,034 Doctoral 0 0 Total 10,914 2,183

UHD Bachelors 9,706 1,941 Masters 202 40 Doctoral 0 0 Total 9,908 1,982

UHV Bachelors 1,921 384 Masters 1,525 305 Doctoral 0 0 Total 3,446 689

Within Houston Bachelors 40,913 8,182 Masters 14,136 2,827 Doctoral 1,207 241 Total 52,810 10,562

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Table 10 UH SYSTEM POST-GRADUATE RESIDENCY Students Graduating During Five Year Increments

Graduation Years

Graduating Graduating Graduating Graduating Period Period Period Period 2005-2009 2000-2004 1995-1999 1990-1994

Students Students Students Students Location Percent Percent Percent Percent

Total 58,873 46,566 38,332 29,994

Houston MSA 48,865 83.0% 37,475 80.0% 27,284 71.0% 17,996 60.0%

Rest of Texas 5,299 9.0% 5,730 12.0% 5,044 13.0% 5,099 17.0%

Out of State 4,710 8.0% 3,361 7.0% 6,004 16.0% 6,899 23.0%

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Table 11 UH CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSTON'S NEEDS This Decades Requirements and Contributions (UH Status Quo)

Houston's Staying in Percent UH Deficit Need Contribution Houston Contribution Population With BA+ 29,067 10,562 8,766 30.16% 20,301

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Table 12 UH CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSTON'S NEEDS Requirements and Contributions to Match Other Region's Levels (UH Status Quo)

Houston's UH Staying in Percent Deficit Need Contribution Houston Contribution Population With BA+ 35,885 35,885 35,885 35,885 35,885

(UH Contributing to the Gain)

Houston's UH Staying in Percent Deficit Need Contribution Houston Contribution

Population 44,651 16,255 13,467 30.16% 31,184 with BA+

Increased 5,663 4,700

Graduates 53.62% 53.62%

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APPENDICES

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Appendix 1 BEST PLACES FOR BUSINESS AND CAREERS* by Educational Rank

Overall Educational

Rank Rank City

Washington, DC 32 8

Seattle, WA 16 14

Oakland, CA 82 15

Denver, CO 5 18

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 22 20

Long Island, NY 57 24

Santa Ana, CA 99 24

New York, NY 39 27

Baltimore, MD 48 29

Philadelphia, PA 62 34

Atlanta, GA 21 36

San Diego, CA 75 39

Dallas, TX 8 43

Portland, OR 36 45

Kansas City, MO 30 49

St. Louis, MO 51 77

Pittsburgh, PA 35 89

Houston, TX 20 99

Phoenix, AZ 81 112

Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 15 115

San Antonio, TX 13 130 * Source: Forbes

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Appendix 2 UHS REVENUES BY CATEGORY * Academic Year 2011

University of Houston (UH)

Category Dollars Percent

Net Tuition $282,533,753 27.87%

State Appropriations and Grants $255,154,160 25.17%

Other Grants, Awards, Etc. $106,834,774 10.54%

Fed Grants $120,898,720 11.92%

Net Sales of Services and Activities $88,111,828 8.69%

Gifts $79,797,057 7.87%

Additions to Endowments & Investment Income $38,301,122 3.78%

Miscellaneous Revenues & Earnings $24,379,956 2.40%

Local Government/Private Grants & Contracts $17,871,832 1.76%

Total $1,013,883,202 100.00%

* Note these figures are the actual revenues collected by the various campuses and include some local spending and exclude other exogenous spending stimulative to the economics such as student living expenditures

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Appendix 2 UHS REVENUES BY CATEGORY * Academic Year 2011

UH – Downtown (UHD)

Category Dollars Percent

Net Tuition $50,064,996 27.08%

State Appropriations and Grants $48,589,648 26.28%

Other Grants, Awards, Etc. $31,860,737 17.23%

Net Sales of Services and Activities $29,525,016 15.97%

Miscellaneous Revenues & Earnings $14,762,968 7.98%

Fed Grants $4,454,052 2.41%

Additions to Endowments & Investment Income $4,077,134 2.21%

Gifts $1,357,988 0.73%

Local Government/Private Grants & Contracts $204,455 0.11%

Total $184,896,994 100.00%

* Note these figures are the actual revenues collected by the various campuses and include some local spending and exclude other exogenous spending stimulative to the economics such as student living expenditures

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Appendix 2 UHS REVENUES BY CATEGORY * Academic Year 2011

UH-Clear Lake (UHCL)

Category Dollars Percent

State Appropriations and Grants $42,350,581 40.20%

Net Tuition $40,958,965 38.88%

Miscellaneous Revenues & Earnings $11,795,363 11.20%

Other Grants, Awards, Etc. $2,668,829 2.53%

Fed Grants $2,641,762 2.51%

Additions to Endowments & Investment Income $1,945,853 1.85%

Net Sales of Services and Activities $1,520,103 1.44%

Gifts $1,169,644 1.11%

Local Government/Private Grants & Contracts $287,180 0.27%

Total $105,338,280 100.00%

* Note these figures are the actual revenues collected by the various campuses and include some local spending and exclude other exogenous spending stimulative to the economics such as student living expenditures

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Appendix 2 UHS REVENUES BY CATEGORY * Academic Year 2011

UHS With Houston MSA Region (UHM)

Category Dollars Percent

Net Tuition $373,557,714 28.64%

State Appropriations and Grants $346,094,389 26.54%

Other Grants, Awards, Etc. $141,364,340 10.84%

Fed Grants $127,994,534 9.81%

Net Sales of Services and Activities $119,156,947 9.14%

Gifts $82,324,689 6.31%

Miscellaneous Revenues & Earnings $50,938,287 3.91%

Additions to Endowments & Investment Income $44,324,109 3.40%

Local Government/Private Grants & Contracts $18,363,467 1.41%

Total $1,304,118,476 100.00%

* Note these figures are the actual revenues collected by the various campuses and include some local spending and exclude other exogenous spending stimulative to the economics such as student living expenditures

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Appendix 2 UHS REVENUES BY CATEGORY * Academic Year 2011

UH-Victoria (UHV)

Category Dollars Percent

State Appropriations $22,115,173 45.88%

Net Tuition $15,987,005 33.17%

Miscellaneous Revenues & Earnings $3,624,344 7.52%

Fed Grants $2,641,762 5.48%

Net Sales of Services and Activities $1,388,235 2.88%

Additions to Endowments & Investment Income $942,890 1.96%

Other Grants, Awards, Etc. $678,219 1.41%

Local Government/Private Grants & Contracts $512,741 1.06%

Gifts $310,292 0.64%

Total $48,200,661 100.00%

* Note these figures are the actual revenues collected by the various universities and include some local spending and exclude other exogenous spending stimulative to the economics such as student living expenditures

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Appendix 3 AWARDS BY COLLEGE

2009 2010 2011 2012 Awards by College Award Total Award Total Award Total Award Total 0 0 0 0 0 C.T. Bauer College of Business $6,072,855.00 $4,032,878.00 $3,692,291.00 $5,339,991.00

College of Architecture $84,750.00 $24,750.00 $32,500.00 $7,500.00

College of Education $5,560,084.00 $2,318,931.00 $2,861,207.00 $857,628.00

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences $7,335,204.00 $9,062,473.00 $7,223,272.00 $8,977,836.00

College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics $37,236,926.00 $39,512,161.00 $34,395,739.00 $40,959,665.00

College of Optometry $5,735,377.00 $6,104,874.00 $5,179,582.00 $6,615,223.00

College of Pharmacy $3,915,006.00 $5,999,115.00 $3,808,494.00 $3,704,403.00

College of Technology $1,711,473.00 $3,915,087.00 $1,559,133.00 $849,500.00

Cullen College of Engineering $26,279,212.00 $29,685,395.00 $22,125,587.00 $27,458,724.00

Division of Research $8,078,354.00 $6,200,164.00 $4,579,208.00 $5,481,951.00

Graduate College of Social Work $4,184,270.00 $3,701,692.00 $3,000,490.00 $1,967,701.00

Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management $69,047.00 $152,548.00 $226,875.00 $174,988.00

Honors College $138,000.00 $0.00 $53,186.00 $34,952.00

Library $33,605.00 $34,475.00 $19,863.00 $0.00

Provost $1,231,792.00 $1,521,724.00 $1,407,859.00 $3,898,645.00

UH Law Center $820,919.00 $310,456.00 $316,804.00 $269,508.00

VP Student Affairs $236,300.00 $425,300.00 $236,300.00 $236,559.00

Total Awards by College $108,723,174.00 $113,002,023.00 $90,718,390.00 $106,834,774.00

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Appendix 3 EXPENDITURES BY COLLEGE

2009 2010 2011 2012 Edpenditures by College Expend Total Expend Total Expend Total Expend Total C.T. Bauer College of Business $2,769,757.00 $3,255,169.00 $3,424,527.00 $4,799,028.00

College of Architecture $52,104.00 $38,108.00 $29,309.00 $30,621.00

College of Education $2,604,621.00 $2,218,621.00 $2,504,172.00 $2,727,507.00

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences $8,278,268.00 $8,504,157.00 $8,672,696.00 $7,863,235.00 College of Natural Sciences & $25,962,893.00 $33,113,830.00 $33,693,978.00 $33,653,800.00 Mathematics College of Optometry $4,517,832.00 $5,694,290.00 $4,750,016.00 $5,252,003.00

College of Pharmacy $3,417,190.00 $4,243,009.00 $4,665,770.00 $2,950,801.00

College of Technology $1,568,048.00 $1,453,309.00 $1,930,724.00 $1,790,431.00

Cullen College of Engineering $20,490,394.00 $18,638,058.00 $21,919,061.00 $21,114,215.00

Division of Research $6,220,939.00 $6,109,735.00 $3,256,369.00 $4,468,302.00

Graduate College of Social Work $3,207,616.00 $3,424,776.00 $3,004,204.00 $1,931,889.00 Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant $19,573.00 $105,701.00 $99,615.00 $173,046.00 Management Honors College $32,005.00 $54,670.00 $38,703.00 $58,567.00

Library $33,453.00 $31,645.00 $21,625.00 $43.00

Provost $1,102,281.00 $1,375,490.00 $1,344,791.00 $3,928,655.00

UH Law Center $183,500.00 $430,361.00 $324,893.00 $80,494.00

VP Student Affairs $252,167.00 $216,854.00 $331,705.00 $264,880.00

Total Expenditures by College $80,712,641.00 $88,907,783.00 $90,012,158.00 $91,087,517.00

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Appendix 4 UHD Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Agency

2009 2010 2011 Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total FEDERAL AGENCIES College Work Study $295,575.00 $367,258.00 $409,926.00 Dept of Ed $1,043,848.00 $988,747.00 $1,343,573.00 DOD/ONR $96,357.00 $40,117.00 Federal Pell Grant Program $14,772,687.00 $22,766,107.00 $26,860,114.00 Homeland Security $43,899.00 $112,698.00 NASA $1,051,391.00 $1,136,252.00 NIH $230,804.00 $237,330.00 $104,276.00 NRC $50,000.00 NSF $495,087.00 $853,436.00 $678,864.00 SEOG $524,650.00 $509,325.00 $420,590.00 USDA $67,400.00 $43,500.00 $296,825.00

Total Awards for Federal Agencies $17,526,408.00 $26,860,993.00 $31,453,235.00 STATE AGENCIES JAMP/State of TX $15,000.00 $42,800.00 $21,292.00 THECB $49,760.00 $39,600.00 TG $66,950.00 Tex Prep $39,100.00 $39,880.00 $37,480.00 TTSP $203,262.00 Texas Grants FY09 $3,043,196.00 $4,829,318.00

Total Awards for State Agencies $3,367,508.00 $4,961,758.00 $98,372.00 LOCAL AGENCIES Evogen (PA) $1,500.00 Foundations $10,000.00 $7,500.00 $30,500.00 HISD $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $75,780.00 Walmart $58,400.00 $52,850.00 Welch Foundation $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $5,000.00 Project Grad $116,700.00 $133,100.00 $105,000.00

Total Awards for Local Agencies $208,200.00 $239,000.00 $309,130.00 GRAND TOTAL ALL AGENCIES $21,102,116.00 $32,061,751.00 $31,860,737.00

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Federal Agency

2009 2010 2011 Federal Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Institute for Museum and Library Services $33,605.00 $34,475.00 $19,863.00

National Aeronautics and Space Administration $2,555,167.00 $3,199,790.00 $2,750,617.00

National Endowment for the Arts $65,000.00 $104,500.00 $73,500.00

National Endowment for the Humanities $20,050.00 $13,500.00

National Institutes of Health $21,668,807.00 $25,557,949.00 $21,613,670.00

National Science Foundation $18,410,979.00 $16,412,596.00 $14,971,471.00

U.S. Dept. of Labor $692,605.00 $330,000.00 $296,094.00

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture $94,995.00 $80,000.00 $173,995.00

U.S. Dept. of Commerce $508,991.00 $414,796.00 $904,072.00

U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security $1,536,189.00 $3,046,861.00 $301,276.00

U.S. Dept. of Defense $3,227,759.00 $5,442,133.00 $8,007,141.00

U.S. Dept. of Education $3,232,639.00 $8,061,725.00 $6,518,878.00

U.S. Dept. of Energy $3,907,832.00 $9,325,504.00 $6,554,031.00

U.S. Agency for International Development $19,000.00

U.S. Dept. of Interior Minerals Management $144,000.00

U.S. Dept. of Justice $15,333.00 $271,516.00

U.S. Dept. of the Interior $184,428.00 $181,889.00

U.S. Dept. of State $73,652.00

U.S. Dept. of Transportation $146,900.00 $60,360.00 $50,000.00

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $1,713,033.00 $7,535,381.00 $1,080,739.00

U.S. Small Business Administration $5,772,855.00 $3,201,711.00 $3,346,437.00

U.S.D.A. Forest Service $10,000.00

Veterans Administration $24,999.00 $135,254.00 $6,225.00

Total Awards for Federal Agencies $63,790,738.00 $83,412,479.00 $66,933,550.00

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Foundations

2009 2010 2011 Award Award Foundation Name Award Total Total Total Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation $50,000.00

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $50,000.00

Alternatives Research & Development Foundation $36,753.00

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation $478.00 $100,000.00 $100,003.00

Bernard Harris Foundation $80,000.00 $80,000.00

Brookdale Foundation $4,000.00

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly $25,000.00 Ex

Cure Alzheimer's Now Foundation $75,000.00

Ed Rachal Foundation $40,000.00

Epilepsy Foundation of America $20,000.00

Foundation for Child Development $48,400.00 $48,055.00

FRAXA Research Foundation $60,000.00 $86,423.00

Greater Texas Foundation $3,023,207.00

Gynecologic Cancer Foundation $25,000.00

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health $124,880.00 $35,000.00

Houston Endowment, Inc. $175,000.00 $75,000.00

James S McDonnell Foundation $174,435.00 $143,748.00 $145,785.00

Jerome Lejeune Foundation $31,700.00 $60,210.00

John S. Dunn Research Foundation $38,660.00

Keck Foundation $71.00 $22.00

Lions Foundation for Sight $20,000.00

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2009 2010 2011 Foundation Name Award Total Award Total Award Total

M. D. Anderson Foundation $225,000.00

McCullough Foundation $10,000.00

National Fragile X Foundation $2,500.00

Qatar National Research Fund $276,464.00 $135,700.00

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $100,808.00 $22,926.00

San Diego State University Foundation $80,975.00

Simmons Foundation $89,771.00 $34,320.00

South African Responsible Gaming Foundation $26,858.00 $17,000.00

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation $126,000.00 $138,705.00 $114,578.00

The California Endowment $75,000.00

The College for All Texans Foundation $28,750.00

The Glaucoma Foundation $40,000.00

The Greenwall Foundation $90,434.00 $188,634.00

The Simons Foundation $16,473.00 $7,000.00

The Welch Foundation $3,112,047.00 $2,263,910.00 $2,112,487.00

TIRR Foundation $50,000.00

United Engineering Foundation $90,500.00

United States Israel Binational Science Foundation $12,650.00 $12,200.00 $10,900.00

US Civilian Research and Development Fdtn. $6,850.00

Vietnam Education Foundation $54,641.00

W. K. Kellogg Foundation $200,000.00 $200,000.00

Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $4,594.00

William & Ella Owens Medical Research $41,181.00 $50,000.00

Total Awards for Foundations $7,538,478.00 $3,871,132.00 $3,637,075.00

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Local Agency

2009 2010 2011 Award Award Local Agency Name Award Total Total Total

Aldine Independent School District $60,000.00

City of Houston, Transtar $431,266.00

City of Houston, Texas $110,000.00 $60,588.00

Harris County Flood Control District $100,000.00

Houston Independent School District $24,522.00 $1,250.00

Houston Community College System $9,700.00

Jackson Middle School $10,675.00

North Forest Independent School District $36,536.00

Mental Health Mental Retardation $1,500.00 Authority

Metropolitan Transit Authority $35,000.00 $70,000.00

Total Awards for Local Agencies $206,697.00 $564,640.00 $179,700.00

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Private/Non-Profit Agency

2009 2010 2011 Private/Non-Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Ad Astra Rocket $66,292.00

Alzheimer's Association $99,970.00

American Cancer Society $720,000.00 $729,000.00

American Heart Association - National Center $77,000.00 $77,000.00 $77,000.00 American Heart Association - South Central $140,000.00 Affiliate American Heart Association - Texas Affiliate $42,000.00 $44,000.00

American Lung Association $177,285.00

American Petroleum Institute $75,752.00 $75,623.00

American Psychological Association $8,500.00 $2,000.00

American Society of Nephrology $100,000.00

Association for Biology Laboratory Education $2,000.00

Atlanta Independent School System $222,834.00 $90,170.00 $106,154.00

Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau $27,280.00

Baldwin County Early Learning Center $8,450.00

Baylor College of Medicine $291,347.00 $202,431.00 $38,708.00

Beverly Hills Conference & Visitor Bureau $82,548.00

Bracknell Forest Borough Council $5,250.00 $3,111.00

Brien Holden Vision Institute $153,623.00 $302,194.00 $398,380.00

Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC $109,689.00 $21,486.00

Colorado School of Mines $20,000.00

Cornell University $150,000.00 $40,818.00 $114,642.00

Corporation for Public Broadcasting $1,841,646.00 $2,128,246.00 $2,220,049.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Non-Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total CUNY York College $4,000.00

Delta Pi Epsilon Research Foundation $7,594.00 $3,400.00

Escape Family Resource Center $17,000.00

Europlace Institute of Finance $93,087.00

EveryChild $67,500.00 $67,500.00 $75,759.00

Fight for Sight $21,563.00 $4,200.00 $10,500.00

French American Cultural Exchange $35,000.00 $45,000.00 $42,000.00

Garth Hill School $2,506.00

Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy $10,000.00

Houston Advanced Research Center $1,655,265.00

Human Frontier Science Program $189,976.00

Indiana University $19,200.00

Institute for Health Technology Studies $398,160.00 $1.00

Institute of Biomedical Imaging Sciences $422,975.00

Interfaith CarePartners $32,073.00

Korea Research Institute for Human $43,103.00 Settlement LAM Treatment Alliance $100,000.00

Latino Giving Houston $3,500.00

Methodist Hospital Research Institute $209,169.00 $189,364.00 $59,323.00

Michigan State University $1,485.00

Miller Theatre Advisory Board $46,537.00

National Academy of Education $55,000.00

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2009 2010 2011 Award Award Award Private/Non-Profit Agency Name Total Total Total National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & $30,000.00 $15,000.00 Depression Neighborhood Centers, Inc. $18,000.00 $18,000.00

New Jersey City University $2,820.00

NFL Charities $118,693.00

Norfolk Public Schools $101,889.00

North Carolina State University $10,000.00

Oak Ridge Associated Universities $800.00

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund $85,771.00 $83,857.00

Petroleum Research Fund $120,479.00 $100,000.00

PhRMA Foundation $60,000.00

Project GRAD - Knoxville Elementary Schools $10,437.00 $7,922.00 $8,037.00

Project GRAD - Newark $16,085.00

Project GRAD - Philadelphia $97,261.00

Project Grad, Los Angeles $9,976.00 $3.00

Psychological Software Solutions $68,133.00

Public Broadcasting Service $314,826.00

Purdue University $44,809.00

Rice University $95,000.00 $231,958.00

Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence $32,000.00

Society for the Study of School Psychology $15,488.00

Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists $40,000.00 $40,000.00

Society of Petroleum Engineers Gulf $12,500.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Non-Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Society of Petroleum Engineers International $12,500.00

St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital $79,718.00 $48,600.00

Strive $100,000.00 $75,000.00

Texas Chapter - ACSM $800.00

Texas Children's Hospital $58,689.00

Texas EcoLab $4,646.00 $13,000.00

Texas Heart Institute $107,903.00 $481,962.00 $1,159,027.00

Texas Space Grant Consortium $5,333.00

The Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional $3,250.00 Lead The Houston Arts Alliance $121,200.00 $169,400.00 $151,800.00

The Lighthouse of Houston $5,100.00

The Menninger Clinic $24,000.00 $10,000.00 $35,262.00

The Methodist Hospital $163,986.00 $24,852.00 $34,662.00

The World Bank $324,968.00

TIRR Memorial Hermann $35,655.00 $37,704.00 $19,978.00

United Way of Greater Houston $305,161.00 $321,398.00 $323,713.00

University of British Columbia $30,000.00 $10,000.00

University of Kansas $45,259.00

University of New Mexico $65,000.00

Various Private Non-Profit Agencies $8,236.00

Washington County NB & PW Club $9,960.00

West Siberian Research Institute of Geology $287,560.00

Total Awards for Private/Non-Profit Agencies $9,033,859.00 $6,260,269.00 $6,255,116.00

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By Private/Profit Agency

2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Acea Biotech $3,709.00

Alcon Laboratories $27,974.00

Alcon Research Limited $28,954.00 $43,140.00

American Art Resources $13,472.00

Apache Corporation $44,000.00

Aramco Services Co $165,000.00 $226,650.00 $119,000.00

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP $73,543.00

Bausch and Lomb Company $6,200.00 $27,337.00

Bayer Corporation $55,000.00

Biothera $15,000.00 $146,304.00 $78,851.00 Boehringer Ingelheim $60,143.00 Pharmaceuticals BP America $184,840.00

Bruker Advanced Supercon $100,270.00 $100,227.00

Cameron $174,415.00 $92,312.00 $204,555.00

CenterPoint Energy $24,000.00 $101,000.00 Chevron Energy Technology $271,850.00 Company Chevron North America $70,000.00

Chung's Products $9,048.00

ConocoPhillips $226,736.00 $535,956.00

Cooper Vision Inc $78,000.00 $361,500.00 $498,960.00

Covance, Inc $14,425.00

Cubist Pharmaceuticals $15,000.00 $77,750.00 $5,030.00

Cyberonics $173,821.00 $20,000.00 $93,530.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Daihatsu Motor Corp $135,000.00 $40,000.00

Devon Energy $550,000.00

DioGenix $36,039.00

Edgen Murray Corporation $55,000.00

Eli Lilly & Company $240,000.00

Entroplus LLC $20,003.00

ENVIRON International Corp $10,805.00 $4,554.00

Enzon Pharmaceuticals $47,653.00 $5,000.00

Eureka Genomics Inc $27,865.00 $150,000.00

EXCO Resources Inc $120,000.00

ExxonMobil Exploration Co $10,000.00 $22,000.00 ExxonMobil Upstream Research $83,700.00 $354,704.00 $188,760.00 Co. Five Star Products $61,500.00

FMC Technologies $39,800.00 $44,840.00 $70,683.00

Ford Motor Company $40,000.00

Freese & Nichols $75,000.00

Fusion Petroleum Technologies, $84,510.00 Inc G&W Inc $194,512.00

General Electric Co $59,941.00 $585,000.00

General Motors Corp $12,500.00 $135,000.00

General Motors Fuel Cell Activities $202,617.00

Geokinetics $148,974.00

Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd $66,750.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Global Viral Forecasting Inc $13,000.00

Golden Eagle International $500,000.00

Google $25,000.00

Halliburton Energy Services $25,000.00 $25,000.00 $233,576.00

Heidelberg Engineering $52,650.00

Honda Research Institute USA, Inc $50,000.00

Horizon Wind Energy $10,000.00

Houston Neuropsychology Group $17,215.00

HRD Corporation $15,000.00 $173,833.00

ILC Dover $40,000.00

Infoblox Inc $36,195.00

Instituto de Ingenieria UNAM $79,959.00

Integrated Micro Sensors, Inc $100,000.00 $118,000.00 $49,000.00

International Business Machines Corp $135,525.00

Itasca Houston, Inc $57,140.00

Jindal Petroleum $100,000.00

Joe W King Orthopedic Institute $402,000.00

John W. Largen, Ph.D. $35,655.00 $17,215.00 Johnson & Johnson Vision Care $127,544.00 $15,947.00 Division Kalsi Engineering, Inc. $29,370.00

Knowledge Reservoir, LP $93,578.00

Kuraray American Inc $80,000.00

Lucent Technologies $398.00 $121.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Marina Bay Sands $25,600.00

Medwell Foods, Inc $7,900.00 $19,200.00 Mentis Houston, LLP $18,852.00 $17,215.00

Merck & Co. Inc. $144,856.00 $136,843.00 $360,782.00 Merck Pharmaceuticals $292,351.00

Meteorological Solutions, Inc $42,000.00 $47,000.00

MicroPower Global Corp $5,000.00 $8,000.00

Miller Theatre Advisory Board, Inc. $83,010.00

Mixed Multi-Donors $87,646.00 $122,255.00 $199,257.00 Mobitrum Corporation $2,000.00 $10,000.00 Nano EnerTex Inc $45,000.00

Nanotex Corp $18,625.00

National Semiconductor Corp $65,000.00 $65,000.00 NSF International $22,000.00

OptiSolar, Inc $54,217.00

Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs $140,161.00 $730.00 LLC OsteoSphere, Inc $44,000.00

Petroleum Geo-Services $423,400.00

Procyrion Corporation $28,563.00

Progressive Medical Inc $30,016.00

Quantasol Ltd $154,000.00

SABIC Americas, Inc. $12,009.00

SEMATECH $10,000.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Semiconductor Research Corp $250,000.00 $144,725.00

SeprOx Corporation $100,000.00

SET Laboratories, Inc $106,202.00

Sharp Corporation Japan $200,000.00 $200,000.00

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. $200,000.00

Shell International Exploration and Production $50,000.00 $270,000.00 Inc. Shell Oil Company $7,500.00 $100,000.00

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc $59,801.00

Southwestern Energy Company $20,000.00

St. Jude Medical Cardiac Rhythm Management $80,000.00 $120,000.00

StatoilHydro ASA $282,892.00

TEVA Neuroscience Inc $47,920.00

The Boring Company $7,500.00

Tietronix Software Inc $8,064.00

Tokyo Electron America $90,000.00

TOLMAR, Inc $44,557.00

Transportation Technology Center, Inc $15,000.00

Trinity Rail $6,000.00

Under Armour $19,519.00

Unity Semiconductor Corp $50,000.00

Vangold Resources Ltd $20,000.00

Varian Semiconductor Equipment $100,000.00

Various Private Profit Agencies $2,396,300.00 $1,540,256.00 $1,841,112.00

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2009 2010 2011 Private/Profit Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Velodyne Acoustics Inc $9,500.00

Versatile Energy Power Systems Inc $163,000.00

Waste Management $10,000.00

Weatherford International Ltd $147,000.00 $171,000.00

Willbros Group USA $15,300.00

Woodco USA $30,000.00

Zone Labs Inc $25,760.00

Total Awards for Private/Profit $7,399,085.00 $7,478,098.00 $8,475,715.00 Agencies

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Appendix 4 UH Division of Research Annual Report of Sponsored Research Activity Awards By State Agency

2009 2010 2011 State Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas $289,870.00

Joint Admission Medical Program Council $15,000.00

Lamar Univ. $25,000.00

Lamar University/Texas Air Research Center $100,000.00 $96,200.00 $87,000.00

Office of Court Administration $200,000.00

Office of the Attorney General $45,717.00

Office of the Governor $46,181.00 $111,677.00

State of Texas $5,595,000.00 $7,698,215.00 $3,745,724.00

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality $9,892,905.00 $971,627.00

Texas Commission on the Arts $4,007.00 $12,500.00 Texas Department of Criminal Justice $200,000.00

Texas Department of State Health Services $190,894.00

Texas Department of Transportation $584,104.00 $641,111.00 $463,023.00

Texas Education Agency $4,609,766.00 $807,470.00 $828,973.00

Texas Hazardous Waste Research Center $71,250.00

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board $65,000.00 $100,000.00 $182,500.00 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - $1,797,165.00 $184.00 ARP Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - $30,000.00 TYT Texas Pharmacy Association $11,000.00

Texas Woman's University $8,000.00

Texas Workforce Commission $112,000.00

M.D. Anderson Hosp. & Tumor Inst. $137,215.00 $617,826.00 $37,704.00

Univ. of Texas at Austin $788,889.00 $923,373.00 $6,371.00

Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston $145,024.00 $35,974.00 $46,733.00

Total Awards for State Agencies $22,459,702.00 $13,056,834.00 $6,861,636.00

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2009 2010 2011 Agency Name Award Total Award Total Award Total FEDERAL AGENCIES National Endowment for the Arts 10,000.00

Small Business Administration 96,438.00 90,036.00 100,036.00 Total Awards for Federal Agencies 106,438.00 90,036.00 100,036.00 STATE AGENCIES Texas Commission on the Arts 1,594.00

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 440,040.00 516,256.00 66,780.00 University of Texas at San Antonio 65,045.00 165,021.00 165,671.00 Total Awards for State Agencies 506,679.00 681,277.00 232,451.00 LOCAL AGENCIES Alcoa 15,000.00

American productivity & Quality Center 675,895.00 150,000.00 Citizen's Medical Center 7,575.00

Coastal Bend College 218,465.00 242,960.00 259,847.00 DeTar Healthcare System 11,328.00

Fred and Mabel Parks Foundation 7,500.00

Greater Texas Foundation 492,672.00

Javis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation 25,000.00

M.G. and Lillie Johnson Foundation 205,000.00 218,231.00 0 Texas AgriLife 10,000.00 20,000.00 17,000.00 The Foundation of the National Student Nurses'

Association, Inc. 24,982.00

The George Foundation 203,468.00

Victoria College 10,610.00

Vivian L. Smith Foundation 50,000.00

Wharton County Junior College 25,000.00

Total Awards for Local Agencies 1,635,142.00 909,659.00 345,732.00 GRAND TOTAL ALL AGENCIES 2,248,259.00 1,680,972.00 678,219.00

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Appendix 5 University of Houston Energy Research Park

The Cullen College of Engineering is the biggest inhabitant of the UH Energy Research Park, the only industry research park in the city of Houston dedicated to energy. Research in diesel emissions, biofuels, wind energy, superconductivity and petroleum engineering are all currently housed or are in development at the park. The Cullen College of Engineering is looking to partner with corporations and industries in efforts that span from basic and applied research to product development and technology transfer. Current programs active at the Park include the following.

SSPEED Center The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center organizes leading universities, researchers, emergency managers and private and public entities to better address severe storm impacts in the Gulf Coast area, the largest energy hub in the world. The center, a collaborative effort with Rice University, focuses on severe storm and hurricane research and storm surge prediction; radar- based rainfall and flooding warning systems for urban and coastal areas; state-of-the-art educational programs for workforce training and public awareness; infrastructure risks assessment; and evacuation plans linked to the best warning and transportation systems and societal needs.

National Wind Energy Center With the federal government attempting to fuel 30 percent of the nation’s electricity consumption through wind sources by 2030, researchers at the National Wind Energy Center are working establish an offshore wind energy operation to lead the nation toward this goal. They are working to develop advanced materials to be used in turbine blades and towers that can withstand extreme offshore conditions. In addition, they hope to streamline the manufacturing process for blades larger than 70 meters.

National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) Research at the NSF-funded National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) is focused on mapping terrains with laser surveying instruments to provide critical data to scientists and government agencies about the changing surface of the earth. Everything from erosion and drainage patterns to the devastating effect that natural disasters have on the environment can be topographically mapped and modeled for study. The NCALM team is currently working to develop a next generation Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system to provide some of the most accurate, high-res observations available via laser mapping. The system will also be able to penetrate shallow water depths, which is currently not available with existing technology. Less expensive than current commercial units, the technology has commercialization potential, making it more readily available for widespread research.

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Petroleum Engineering In January 2011, UH's new Petroleum Engineering Program opened in a newly renovated building at the Energy Research Park. The new undergraduate program is fully operational in this location, which is home to several classrooms, undergraduate teaching laboratories, a computer lab, graduate research laboratories, offices and a student lounge. In June 2011, the facility was formally named the ConocoPhillips Petroleum Engineering Building.

Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center The Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center was established in 2004 through a partnership with the City of Houston to test emissions for the city’s fleet of diesel vehicles. Since Houston is a non-attainment area, emissions in the industrial region of Houston must meet state emissions regulations and the moving fleet of diesel vehicles is a huge contributor to the problem. In addition to testing vehicle emissions, center researchers have a variety of projects aimed at testing and implementing retrofit technologies, which work by cleaning NOx toxins emitted from diesel vehicle engines. The center is working to provide the EPA with data on the performance of these technologies and is working with specific companies to test and retrofit their systems on various diesel vehicles, including a fleet of local school buses. Diesel Center researchers are also working to examine the potential of algae as a renewable source of fuel. Unlike corn and soybeans, algae harvested as a biofuel will not compete with the production of current food crop and would only use two percent of the nation’s cropland to generate enough biofuel to meet half the country’s fuel demand. Currently, researchers are looking for ways to tailor algae production that can be processed by today’s refineries.

Energy Device Fabrication Laboratory The mission of the Energy Device Fabrication Laboratory is to develop transformational technologies that are capable of producing inexpensive, high efficiency solid-state energy devices using roll-to-roll thin film manufacturing. Its innovative approach developed by Professor Venkat Selvamanickam, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Applied Research Hub, is based upon creation of single- crystalline-like semiconductor thin films on inexpensive, flexible substrates. This approach is built on process method successfully demonstrated by Prof. Selvamanickam in the superconductor industry to construct a power transmission cable which was inserted into the electric power grid in 2008.

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Appendix 6 UHS Community Service & Outreach

University of Houston

A.D. Bruce Religion Center The A.D. Bruce Religion Center is the focal point for religious activities at UH. The center hosts regular religion services and other activities that are open to the university community. Several religious denominations are represented at the center, and their respective campus ministers offer personal and religious counseling and problem solving. Two chapels are available to the public for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and memorial services. For information about schedules or rental fees, visit http://www.uh.edu/adbruce/

A.I. Lack Music Master Series The Moores School of Music’s A.I. Lack Music Master Series presents renowned master teachers and performers in a series of public master classes. Previous guests include such recognized artists as Christoph Eschenbach, Pinchas Zukerman, Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, and others. Tickets are available through the Moores School of Music Box Office (713) 743-3313. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/music/events-performances/lack/index.php

ASME/UH Cajun Crawfish Boil The Cullen College of Engineering sponsors the annual Cajun Crawfish Boil, the kickoff event for the Offshore Technology Conference--an international conference that covers state-of-the art technology for offshore drilling, exploration, production, and environmental. Held on the UH campus, thousands of industry professionals and their families attend. Many companies provide support as either corporate, food, or door prize sponsors. For information, visit http://www.egr.uh.edu/alumni/events/crawfish-boil

Abramson Family Center for the Future of Health This center targets informing and empowering patients with information to give people power over their own health and to bring medicine into the 21st Century. For information, visit http://www.theabramsoncenter.org/

Academic Achiever’s Program - Austin High School (AAP-AHS) Formerly known as the Students Aspiring to a Better Education Program (SABE), AAP- AHS is sponsored by the Center for Mexican-American Studies in partnership with Stephen F. Austin High School. It was established in 1985 as the “Hispanic Family College Project” to encourage at-risk high school students to achieve good academic standing, graduate, and enroll at an institution of higher education, preferably the University of Houston. In order to accomplish its mission, SABE provides: mentoring programs, tutoring services, skill workshops, leadership retreats as well as scholarships upon enrollment at the UH. In order to remain in the program, however, members must do all of the following: enroll in college preparatory courses, maintain a minimum of a

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Academic Achiever’s Program - High School Partnerships (Formerly the Urban Experience Program) The UH Center for Mexican American Studies works with students at many high schools in the metropolitan area to prepare them for and help them get admitted to college. Students who attend UH in the Academic Achiever’s Program are eligible for scholarships and various services, including individual academic tutoring, skills workshops and leadership training, internship opportunities, and priority registration. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/cmas/recruitment/aap-uh/index.php

African American Studies (AAS) Program The African American Studies Program focuses upon the cultural and historical heritage of African Americans and their contributions to U.S. and world civilizations. The purpose of the program is to develop, promote, and enhance education through teaching, research and community service projects. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/aas/index.php

Alliance for NanoHealth The Alliance for NanoHealth is a collaborative enterprise aimed at bridging the gap between biology, medicine, public health and physical science with the goal of saving lives. By developing nanoscale engineering devices that can treat the human body at a molecular level, it may be possible to prevent or even cure complex diseases. The five member institutions are Rice University, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and University of Houston. For information, visit http://www.nanohealthalliance.org/ and http://www.uh.edu/bionano/

Allied Geophysical Laboratories (AGL) The AGL mission is to develop and calibrate new means of imaging hydrocarbon accumulations. AGL uses state-of-the-art physical modeling and cluster computing as tools to extract new information from currently underutilized types of seismic data. Current efforts address issues in vector seismic analysis, extraction of more information from the long-offset component of seismic data that is usually muted, and the integrated analysis of multiple 3D seismic attribute cubes. For information, visit www.agl.uh.edu/ .

American Humanics Program The American Humanics Nonprofit Certificate Program at the Graduate College of Social Work prepares undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students in any field of study for careers in nonprofit management. Required courses include human development, nonprofit management, public relations/marketing, fiscal management and fund development. An experiential learning component requires a supervised internship. Organizations interested in offering volunteer or intern opportunities should

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Annual Social Work Awards Breakfast Practitioners and scholars in the field of social work gather every March, National Social Work Month, for the Social Work Awards Breakfast. The breakfast provides a platform for both the discussion of topics of interest to social workers and public recognition of professional contributions by individuals and organizations in the local human services community. For information, http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/index.php

Arte Público Press Arte Público Press is the oldest and largest publisher of U.S. Hispanic books and anthologies of fiction, nonfiction, and history for children and adults. Its imprint for children and young adults, Piñata Books, is dedicated to the realistic and authentic portrayal of the themes, languages, characters, and customs of Hispanic culture in the United States. Based at the University of Houston, Arte Público Press, Piñata Books and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project provide the most widely recognized and extensive showcase for Hispanic literary arts, history, and politics. For information, visit www.artepublicopress.com

Asian American Studies Center (AASC) The AASC explores Asians’ and Asian Americans’ social, historical, educational, economic, political, and linguistic characteristics and development through course work and study abroad trips. The center’s China Study Abroad Program is one of the largest such programs in the United States. Similar study abroad programs in Japan, Vietnam, and South Korea are being developed. The center also offers a Leadership Training Program for Asian government officials and business and educational leaders. For information, call (713) 743-4982 or visit http://www.uh.edu/aasc/

Athletics Facilities University of Houston’s athletics facilities including Robertson Stadium, Hofheinz Pavilion, Cougar Field (baseball), Cougar Softball Complex, Tom Tellez Track at the Carl Lewis International Complex (Track and Field Stadium) and the Yeoman Field House in the Athletics/Alumni Center, are available for public rental. For information about fees and availability, call (713) 743-9366 or visit http://www.uh.edu/athletics/

Athletics Ticket Office The Athletics Ticket Office, located in the Athletics/Alumni Center, sells season and individual tickets to all Cougar athletics events. UH competes in 15 NCAA Division 1-A sports as a member of Conference USA. For information, visit the web site at www.uhcougars.com or call the Ticket Office at (713) 743-9444 or (713) GO COOGS. http://www.uhcougars.com/tickets/hou-tickets.html

Best Student Service Program Residential Life and Housing annually honors the best student service program. In 2006-07 a program to collect canned goods for area food banks received the award.

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Bioengineering Research Center The center promotes research and graduate education in bioengineering. It sponsors a Bioengineering Seminar Series and fosters interaction of college faculty involved in bioengineering research with colleagues at UH and in the greater Houston area, including the Texas Medical Center, Rice University, and the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. It also coordinates UH’s presence in the Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, organized by the Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology. For information, call (713) 743-4502.

Blaffer Art Museum Blaffer serves as the University of Houston’s laboratory for the visual arts and culture. Innovative, challenging exhibitions, programs, and publications bring artists, the university community, and the people of Houston into closer engagements with each other and with the important cultural issues of our time. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is closed on Sundays, Mondays and university holidays. Blaffer Gallery is free and open to the public. For information, call (713) 743-9530 or visit www.blaffergallery.org

Blaffer Internships Blaffer Gallery offers internships to UH students as well as to people from other institutions, including the Chicago Art Institute and Wellesley. Interns work in the areas of curatorial, public relations, art handling, registration, development, and financial management. For information, call (713) 743-9526.

Blakely Advocacy Institute Continuing legal education in advocacy and lawyering technique and representation of Houston’s underserved are just two of the methods the Blakely Advocacy Institute (BAI) uses to improve the efficacy of the legal profession and justice system. BAI also coordinates all of the UH Law Center’s practical skills courses and sponsors the many interscholastic moot court and mock trial teams that compete throughout the nation. For information, call (713) 743-2065or visit www.law.uh.edu/blakely/

Brown Bag Medical Review and Counseling Senior citizens who need help on how to manage their medication can receive one-on- one counseling through brown bag medication reviews at grocery stores, City of Houston offices, community service centers, churches, and other public venues. College of Pharmacy students teach seniors about their medications, how and when they should be taken, possible side effects and drug interactions. For information, call 713-743-1298 or visit http://rx.pharmacy.uh.edu

Building Performance Laboratory Initiative (BPL) Using digital instrumentation and computer simulation models, the BPL performs comprehensive post-occupancy evaluation studies where environmental design intentions are verified and validated against everyday experiences of the building occupants. Also provides LEED-accredited project commissioning and continuous commissioning services matching the ongoing operation and control of a building to its

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Business Consulting Lab The Business Consulting Lab is a unique program offered to students as part of the MBA curriculum at the C.T. Bauer college of Business by the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship. This six credit-hour course provides the strongest business graduate students with an opportunity to work within an organization providing high value management consulting (more than one third of business students complete internships). For more information, visit http://bauer.uh.edu/degrees- programs/certificates/BCL/

CS Academy An activity of the Advanced Distributed Simulation Research Consortium (ADSRC - a unit of the U.S. Army Research Office), this program is designed to allow socially and economically disadvantaged students to bypass remediation upon entering college in areas of computer science, computational science, and mathematics. Topics include pre-calculus, C++, Java, and HTML. Students in their senior year of high school are encouraged to apply.

Center for Applied Geosciences and Energy Researchers in this center, with the support of industry and government partners, are improving the methods of analyzing reservoir using new seismic data. For information, visit http://www.cage.uh.edu/main.php

Center for Applied Polymer Research This center provides the opportunity for undergraduate students to participate directly in basic and applied polymer science research projects that have academic and industrial significance. It includes an internationally recognized center for applied research in ultraviolet (UV) polymerization chemistry and technology, which disseminates information to the Texas-based chemical industry concerning the productivity, environmental, and energy saving features of UV polymerization processes. Another component, H.U.N.S.T.E.M. −Houston Urban Network for Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics − helps connect educators, students, and parents to resources needed to promote study in these areas.

Center for Computational Sciences and Advance Distributed Simulation (C2SDS) This very successful program is for pre-college and college students whose interests lie in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and the sciences. C2SDS is also highly involved in the development of K-12 school teachers. Pre-college programs, directed at middle and high school students, include Houston PREP, Computational Science Academy, CS Academy, Scholars Academy, and High School Tours/Visits. Teacher training is being undertaken in collaboration with NASA and other entities. These training sessions involve hands-on exposure to and experience with new technologies and educational materials.

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Center for Consumer Law The Center for Consumer Law educates attorneys, professors, and lay people about consumer law; seeks legal, practical, and legislative solutions to common consumer problems; and encourages the development of consumer rights. It offers the community easy-to-understand explanations of consumer law issues through “The People’s Law School,” television programs, newspaper columns, and a video program designed to educate high school students. Its bi-annual conference attracts professors from throughout the world. For information visit www.peopleslawyer.net

Center for Drug and Social Policy Research The mission of the Center for Drug and Social Policy Research (CDSPR) is to conduct and promote innovative research on substance abuse under strict scientific and ethical conditions. It seeks to identify the social, historical, political and cultural aspects that contribute to substance abuse and related problems; and to propose and incorporate social policies that may prevent substance abuse. The CDSPR’s innovative social behavioral research efforts allow their researchers to collect data, examine problems, and identify solutions. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/cdspr/

Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship Through extensive support programs and educational resources, this award-winning center enhances the competitiveness and profitability of young entrepreneurs. The center prepares students for leadership roles in the business world by providing education from an executive perspective, from idea to implementation. The center also seeks to be a resource for the Houston entrepreneurial community by hosting and sponsoring events within the community. For more information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/centers/wce/

Center for Executive Development The Center for Executive Development in the C.T. Bauer College of Business provides a range of high-quality public and custom executive education, management development, and business professional training programs to the local, regional, national, and international business communities. For information, visit www.bauer.uh.edu/ced

Center for Gifted & Talented Education The Center for Gifted & Talented Education provides help in finding information and resources on gifted and talented education to anyone who requests assistance. Requesters can be teachers, parents, or students themselves. For information, call (713) 743-4963.

Center for Immigration Research The Center for Immigration Research studies the consequences of current immigration trends in order to inform decision making concerning international and national immigration policies, as well as to disseminate information to local institutions, organizations and policy-makers involved with the settlement and incorporation of new immigrants into their communities. For information, visit

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Center for Innovative Grouting Materials and Technology (CIGMAT) CIGMAT is an industry/university consortium established to meet growing demand from industry for better management of information on grouts and grout applications. Ongoing research projects include rehabilitation of wastewater facilities, a new generation of deep foundations, and new pipes and materials. The center’s goal is to foster improved understanding of grouting materials and their applications. Also of interest are other competing and complementing materials and technologies to grouting used in construction and rehabilitation of civil infrastructure. For information, visit http://gem1.cive.uh.edu/

Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) The Center for Mexican American Studies has developed a minor in Mexican American Studies, a Visiting Scholar’s Program, a Faculty Research Fellowship and Graduate Student Fellowship program, and a recruitment and retention component. The center also publishes monographs and sponsors research, conferences and lectures. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/cmas/index.php

Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science This center is the successor of the Cognitive Science Initiative, and its primary mission is to conduct basic and applied research in neuro-engineering and cognitive science. Other important objectives include the education of students in a multi-disciplinary approach to topics relevant to neuro-engineering and cognitive science and the continuation and fostering of research alliances with Houston and Galveston educational institutions and medical centers. For information, visit http://cnecs.egr.uh.edu/

Center for Public History Housed in the Department of History, this program serves the public through the Tenneco Lecture Series, the Houston History Project, the History of Houston Archives, the publication “Houston Review of History and Culture,” a variety of internships which place master’s degree candidates in organizations and companies, and team research projects for members of the community. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/ctr-public-history/index.php

Hobby Center for Public Policy The Center for Public Policy identifies and evaluates major public policy issues affecting the Houston metropolitan area, as well as the state of Texas. The Center is an active source for impartial research regarding regional political, economic, and demographic issues. For information, contact (713) 743-3972 or visit www.uh.edu/hcpp

Center for Public Policy/League of Women Voters Partnership The Center for Public Policy partners with the League of Women Voters for policy research – such as a recent health care study – and voter registration drives. For information, call (713) 743-3972. http://www.uh.edu/class/hcpp/about/index.php

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Center for Public Policy’s Local Government Internship Program The Center for Public Policy’s Local Government Internship Program offers students the opportunity to experience the political office environment in the Houston area. The interns work an average of eight hours per week over the semester in a Houston office at either a municipal, county, state, or federal level. For information, call (713) 743- 3972 or visit www.uh.edu/cpp/GOVTinternships.htm

Center for Technology Literacy (CTL) The Center for Technology Literacy in the College of Technology supports technology education professionals throughout Texas by providing such resources as the Texas Technology Web site (www.texastechnology.com), the annual Technology Education Professional Development Conference, and the “Project Lead the Way” Summer Training Institute. CTL also offers onsite/inservice training workshops, advisory panels, and community collaborations. For information, visit http://sites.tech.uh.edu/ctl/

Center for the Americas The Center for the Americas promotes understanding among American countries through scholarly exchange, international symposiums, and consultation services to the public and private sectors. The center supports research on a wide range of cultural, political and social topics, including trade and economic reform, the environment, pressing social issues, the status of indigenous peoples, drugs, civil-military relations, freedom of the press, human rights and American cultures. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/ctr-americas/index.php

Center for the Reliability of Ceramics The center provides a cooperative forum for university, national lab, and industrial researchers to cooperate on research directed toward the improvement of ceramic performance in engineering applications. Research topics include crack growth resistance modeling in brittle materials, statistical prediction of failure of engineering components, multi-scale determination of failure mechanisms in ceramics, and fatigue degradation in ceramics and ceramic composites.

Child and Family Center for Innovative Research (CFCIR) The Child and Family Center for Innovative Research (CFCIR) grows out of the research and training program of the Office of Community Projects (OCP) in the Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) at the University of Houston (UH). The CFCIR aims at strengthening and expanding the research capacity of the program by integrating an extensive behavioral health (e.g. substance abuse, mental disorders) and social work clinical research component and a new and innovative Virtual Reality Core Research Facility that will serve the University of Houston and its collaborators in the Houston metropolitan area, the State of Texas, and beyond (i.e. national and international partners). For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/research/cfcir/index.php

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Child Welfare Education Project (CWEP) The Child Welfare Education Project prepares master’s level social work students for the challenging and rewarding work found in children’s protective services. The program provides financial aid, internships, seminars, career advising, and job placement. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/community/cwep/index.php

Children’s Christmas Party The Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management hosts an annual Christmas party for children in local orphanages. UH student organizations provide food and beverages and the university community contributes toys. Organizations that would like to participate should submit information about eligible children (under age 10) by mid-November.

Civil Clinic Under the supervision of licensed attorneys, students in the Civil Clinic at the UH Law Center work directly with clients and handle all aspects of case management, interviews, preparation of motions and petitions, and trials. The civil clinic handles legal cases involving family law, guardianships, probate, and Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcy. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/civil_new.asp

Clinical Legal Education Program (CLEP) Attorneys, judges, legal referral services, and social service agencies can refer cases to the Clinical Legal Education Program. Under the supervision of licensed attorneys, students work directly with clients, handling all aspects of case management, including performing client interviews, preparing motions, and participating in court hearings and trials. For information, visit www.law.uh.edu/blakely/

Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology Practicum Doctoral students in the clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology programs work in a variety of community practicum settings under the supervision of a licensed psychologist. Current practicum placements include the University of Texas - Harris County Psychiatric Center and Health Science Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Institute for Research and Rehabilitation, Texas Children’s Hospital, Children’s Assessment Center, Methodist Hospital, and Depelchin Children’s Center. For more information about practicum placements, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/clinical-psych/index.php

College Career Days The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) invites hundreds of Latino senior high school students from surrounding school districts to visit the campus and provides them with “UH survival” information. The purpose of College Career Days is to make college a viable option for those who may not have considered it. During their visit, the students break into small groups and attend a variety of workshops dealing with such topics as admissions, financial aid, and career planning. They hear motivational speeches and enjoy cultural entertainment. For information, visit

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Color Vision Service The Color Vision Service at the College of Optometry provides comprehensive testing to diagnose inherited and acquired vision defects. It also serves various occupational fields that have color vision requirements, such as the aviation, railroad, maritime, and transportation sector. To schedule an appointment, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/color-vision.cfm

Common Ground Teachers Institute In a two-week workshop held each summer, UH professors lead seminars for greater Houston area teachers of grades 6 to12 in who want to learn more about modern classics by African American, Asian American, and Hispanic authors. Newer works are paired with traditional literary classics. Common Ground helps increase the diversity of the middle school and high school English curriculum and gives teachers the chance to discuss teaching strategies, a range of student needs, and state and district expectations with their professional peers in an informal setting. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/honors/honors-and-the-schools/common-ground/index.php

Community Research and Collaboration Social service agencies have the opportunity to collaborate on needs assessments and program evaluations with faculty of the UH Graduate College of Social Work through the Office of Community Projects. Information gathered in needs assessments supports agency strategic planning decisions. Program evaluation often begins as assistance in preparing grant proposals and continues through program implementation. For more information, visit. http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/community/crc/index.php

Community Design Resource Center The Community Design Resource Center is the outreach and extension program of the Gerald D. Hines college of Architecture, and is one of the primary fundraising priorities in the College and the development director works in collaboration with the Center’s director to raise funds for CDRC programs and partnerships. The mission of the Community Design Resource Center is to enhance the quality of life in low-to-moderate income communities throughout the Houston region through design, research, education, and practice. The Community Design Resource Center works to address issues of community development, design, planning, affordable housing and civic projects in partnership with communities. For more information, visit http://arch.uh.edu/special/cdrc/index.php

Community Projects (Nonprofit Leadership Alliance) Students in the C.T. Bauer College of Business undertake marketing projects for community or nonprofit organizations. These projects equip students with specific analytical concepts and skills and instill a broad perspective of society and sense of values that foster pride and responsible participation in civic affairs. For information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/undergraduate/Nonprofit.asp

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Community Vision Screening and Early Detection Program This service, offered by the University Eye Institute, provides free vision screening for various community organizations, schools, health fairs, senior citizens groups, churches, and more. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/

Community Wellness Program Through program, faculty and students of the College of Pharmacy offer screenings for various conditions, personalized drug interaction profiles, immunizations, hemoglobin A1c monitoring, and diabetes education in schools, community centers, churches, nursing homes, malls, and clinics. For information, visit http://rx.pharmacy.uh.edu

Composites Engineering and Applications Center (CEAC) The Composites Engineering and Applications Center for Petroleum Exploration and Production investigates the potential technical and life-cycle cost benefits of composite materials in onshore and offshore operations. Of special interest are structural components such as risers, tethers, moorings, and spoolable sub-sea flow lines for deep-water applications where present materials may have performance and economic limitations. The current CEAC consortium includes the University of Houston, international petroleum E&P companies, supporting industries, and U.S. government/certification agencies. For information, visit www.egr.uh.edu/CEAC

Computational Science Academy (aka Saturday PREP) An academic year continuation of the PREP Program, this academy mentors and nurtures students by providing necessary reinforcement and encouragement to pursue mathematics, science, and engineering technology careers and teaching conceptualization and problem solving. Students in 8th and 9th grade are encouraged to apply.

Burdette Keeland, Jr. Design Exploration Center The Burdette Keeland, Jr. Design Exploration Center in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture investigates the use of the computer as a design tool, with an emphasis on modeling, visualization, and animation. Partnerships have been established with computer software manufacturers and Houston area nonprofit groups. For information, http://arch.uh.edu/resources/keelandcent/index.php

Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline (CMCD) The Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline program helps students prepare for success, achieve self-discipline, and develop responsibility. The program emphasizes prevention rather than intervention, shared responsibilities between teacher and student, valued-based discipline, increased communication with parents, and effective instruction. The main components of CMCD are prevention, caring, cooperation, organization and community. For information, visit www.coe.uh.edu/cmcd/

Cooperative Education Cooperative Education (Co-op) enables students in any major to receive career training with pay as they work with professionals in their fields of study. Work experience in

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Cornea & Contact Lens Service (CCLS) The Cornea and Contact Lens Service provides comprehensive eye and vision services along with both routine and highly complex contact lens fitting and follow-up care. Custom designed lenses for conditions such as presbyopia (bifocal), keratoconus, corneal transplants, and disfigured eyes (prosthetics) are some of the more complex fittings performed in the CCLS. Orthokeratology services are also available. For information visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/

Cougar Hall of Fame University sports highlights and memorabilia are featured in the Cougar Hall of Fame near the entrance of the Athletics/Alumni Center. Among the items on display are Andre Ware’s Heisman Trophy, Wilson Whitley’s Lombardi Award and Carl Lewis’ Olympic Gold Medals. The Cougar Hall of Fame is open to the public Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information, visit www.uh.cougars.com

Cougar Preview Each fall and spring, the Office of Student Outreach Services hosts Cougar Preview, a campus open house for prospective students, family members and guests. UH faculty, staff, and student leaders explain admissions requirements, degree plans, scholarships and financial aid. In addition, prospective Cougars have the opportunity to become acquainted with the campus and with student services. For information, visit www.uh.edu/enroll/admis/undergraduate/CougarPreview.htm

Cougars for Kids Program Organized by the College of Technology, the Cougars for Kids community service volunteer program was created to establish an effective avenue to enable UH student to learn the value of making community service contributions by becoming Student Volunteers and helping to meet the needs of children of all ages who are patients in Houston area hospitals and students in Houston schools. The Cougar for Kids Program places volunteers at local children hospitals. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or visit http://www.tech.uh.edu/cougarsforkids/

CreationStation The CreationStation, located in the University Center Underground, offers computer graphics, printed and vinyl banners, buttons, dry mounting, laminating, large format printing, faxing services, T-shirts and passport photos. The CreationStation is open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/uccs/about.html

Creative Writing Program The UH Creative Writing Program sponsors readings and literary programs in museums, arts organizations, schools, and bookstores. Many programs are presented

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Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) The Criminal Justice Institute brings together nationally-recognized scholars, top criminal law practitioners, judges, and students through a variety of programs designed to enhance the study and practice of criminal law. The institute includes such established programs as the Texas Innocence Network, the Criminal Prosecution and Criminal Defense Clinics, the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center, and the Criminal Trial Advocacy training program. The institute also offers opportunities for educational and practice programs, a dual degree in law and criminology, and conferences and symposia. For information, visit www.law.uh.edu/cji/

Corporate In-House Training UH School of Continuing and Professional Studies offers onsite training services for corporations and organizations. Programs available include leadership and management skills, foreign languages taught through accelerated learning, marketing communications, project management, English as a Second Language, and employee benefit specialist certification. Customized and standard training programs are available. For information, visit http://scps.uh.edu/cs/corporate/index.htm

Dawn Project The College of Education collaborates with the Dawn Project to help revitalize the Third Ward community. The project consists of several media art programs: The Dawn Installation, the Third Ward Online Tour, The Emancipation Park StoryMapping Imitative, and the Third Ward Time Travel for the METRO Southeast Corridor Transit Line.

Design Exploration Center Initiative An old-but still usable World War II era building adjacent to the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture is being refurbished to house expanded and new programs at the college at considerably less cost than it would take to build a new structure. This is a solution that will save money, recycle resources, and provide a clean, safe, and functional new facility. Partners like Hines, CSI, AIA, NAIOP, AGC, USGBC, and IDSA are supporting and helping to implement this project. For information, visit www.arch.uh.edu/news/DesignExp.html

Development Clinic The College of Optometry Development Clinic provides testing services and treatment recommendations for children with learning problems that are related to the delayed development of certain vision and/or speech-language processing skills. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/

Dietetic Internship The dietetic internship within the College of Education places interns in healthcare

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facilities and provides management and community experiences under the supervision of registered dietitians. Current placements include M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Shriners Hospital for Children and Texas Children’s Hospital. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/hhp/graduate-programs/ms-human- nutrition/Dietetic%20Internship/index.php

Digital History Project Faculty members in the Department of History and the College of Education have teamed up to create an interactive website to enhance teaching and research in U.S. history. It includes an online textbook, many primary resources, and a multitude of teaching aids. The project is a collaborative effort of the University of Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Chicago Historical Society, the National Park Service, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Teachers as Historians. To access the database, go to http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Diplopia Service The Diplopia Service provides specialized examinations of adults complaining of double vision. Management of double-vision symptoms with prisms is provided when indicated. Patients needing further evaluation are provided the appropriate referrals. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/lowvision/vision-aids.cfm

Direct Business Assistance Direct Business Assistance, a program of the UH Small Business Development Center, provides referrals to professionals such as CPAs and attorneys who offer discounted fees for the first 16 hours of consultation, with the first two hours free of charge. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/graduate-catalog/colleges/bauer/bcb-student- services/index.php

Economic Development Program (EDP) The Economic Development Program at the C. T. Bauer College of Business is a coordinated effort between State Farm Insurance, the Bauer College of Business, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to promote community development in Houston. As part of State Farm’s efforts to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), State Farm Insurance has gifted $75,500 to the Bauer College to administer the EDP. The EDP provides MBA and undergraduate business students real world experience in community development and inspires them to future leadership in these development organizations, while also building capacities of existing Community Development Corporations (CDCs). For more information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/centers/bedp/

Educational Talent Search and Upward Bound This program reaches out to students in Houston public schools with activities designed to improve college-going rates among under-represented populations. These highly successful efforts have significantly increased the number of students who go on to college from the schools where these programs are present.

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Elizabeth D. Rockwell Career Services Center The C.T. Bauer College of Business’ Elizabeth D. Rockwell Career Services Center helps area businesses identify, recruit and hire qualified and skilled business professionals. The center offers traditional recruiting services as well as cutting-edge technology and online job listings to assist employers in filling structured internships and both part-time and full-time positions. For information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/career-center/index.php

Emotions in Marriage Laboratory The Marriage Laboratory conducts research on couples’ communication and psychophysiology, focusing on couples experiencing conflict and/or violence in their relationships. The goal of this research is to help develop better ways to intervene with distressed and violent couples. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/clinics/index.php

Engineering Career Center The Engineering Career Center is a comprehensive service center for both students and industry dedicated to the development and implementation of programs and services that provide a lifetime of career management for students as well as professional and quality responsiveness to industry partners to assist them in meeting their recruiting targets. For information, visit www.egr.uh.edu/career

Engineering Education Outreach Engineering Education Outreach provides individual discipline review courses for graduate engineers taking the upper-level of state exams (Professional Engineer- PE/P&P and Fundamentals of Engineering-FE/EIT). Short courses are available to provide professional development hours for those seeking to continue their registration as professional engineers. A one-hour workshop on engineering ethics can be presented at local companies. Other custom programs may be arranged. For information visit www.egr.uh.edu/ContEd/

Engineering Golf Tournament The Cullen College of Engineering sponsors an annual golfing event to bring together alumni, friends and supporters of engineering academic programs. Participating teams typically have at least one member affiliated with a college academic program (alumnus, student, or faculty/staff member). Teams without a direct connection to a department are free to choose which department they will represent. Opportunities for corporate and individual sponsors are available For information, email [email protected]

Engineering Leadership Board The Engineering Leadership Board of the UH Cullen College of Engineering provides valuable assistance in the development of the College programs. It comprises more than fifty representatives from education, industry, and the public. The Engineering Leadership Board provides advice to the Dean, assists in establishing program priorities and objectives, provides review and critique, and serves as liaison to industrial and government communities. For more information, visit http://www.egr.uh.edu/our-

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Engineering Leadership & Entrepreneurism Program (ELEP) To meet the challenge of providing engineers for the 21st century, the Cullen College of Engineering promotes the Engineering Leadership & Entrepreneurism Program. ELEP serves the engineering profession by broadening student knowledge base and experience in entrepreneurial and business practices through the sponsorship of guest lectures, mentor programs, and retreats.

Engineering Outreach Dinner High school teachers and counselors get an update on new Cullen College of Engineering programs as a part of this information session. For information, email [email protected]

Engineering Presentations Cullen College of Engineering faculty members provide presentations to high schools, middle schools and community organizations about the different fields of engineering, pre-college preparation, aptitude and ability of prospective engineering students, degree requirements and job opportunities. For information, email [email protected]

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Established in the Fall of 2006, the University of Houston chapter of Engineers Without Borders’ main goal is to design and implement sustainable designs in sustainable communities. Their projects are international, but they offer local training and local community involvement for members. The partnerships established with other Houston area EWB chapters and nonprofit organizations, like Rotary International, enabled the University of Houston’s EWB to integrate technical and soft skills to develop leadership, project management, and teamwork. For more information, visit http://ewb.egr.uh.edu/.

Engines of Our Ingenuity The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a daily radio feature written and hosted by John Lienhard and produced by KUHF-88.7 FM, tells the story of how human creativity forms our culture. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. The Engines Web site www.uh.edu/engines/ is a rich resource, providing classroom material and transcripts of more than 2,000 episodes accompanied by graphics, source references and links to related sites. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/engines/

Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH) Founded at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, the Environmental Institute of Houston addresses real and potential issues of environmental concern, such as loss of biodiversity, health risks from pollution, failure of food supplies, and depletion of natural resources. With the University of Houston as its partner, EIH is a service and research operation with a broad scope of environmental activity. The mission of EIH is to help people in the Houston region participate more effectively in environmental improvement. For information, visit www.eih.uh.edu/index.htm

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Erica Dean Cougar Peer Educator Service Learning Award The Erica Dean Cougar Peer Educator Service Learning Award is presented to a student annually for excellence in service learning and involvement.

Esther Farfel Award The Esther Farfel Award is the highest honor accorded to a University faculty member. Honorees demonstrate excellence in all areas of faculty responsibility, including the significance and national/international impact of the candidate’s research or creative activity; evidence of outstanding teaching ability; distinctive and exemplary service to the University, the profession, and the community. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/provost/shared-interest/awards/recipients-by-award/farfel- history/index.php

Exhibitions and Lectures - Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture hosts lectures, exhibits and events in cooperation with agencies of several nations, the Rice Design Alliance, the American Institute of Architects, and other organizations. Events are open to the public. For information, visit http://www.arch.uh.edu/news-events/lecexh/index.php

Export Working Capital Program (EWCP) The Export Working Capital Program provides short-term financing guarantees of up to $750,000 to small business exporters. The proceeds can be used to finance the manufacture of goods or the purchase of goods and services for export, or it can be used to support stand-by letters of credit. UH Small Business Development Center prepares the loan application at no charge. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/infotech/services/facilities-equipment/video-conf/sites/sbdc/index.php

Eye and Vision Research College of Optometry faculty members are engaged in research directly benefiting vision needs in the community and throughout the world. Research is conducted in diverse areas of basic and clinical science related to the eye, the brain, and vision in health and disease. The specific research topics range as widely as the expertise and interests of the individual faculty members. For more information, call (713) 743-1885. http://www.opt.uh.edu/research/

Family CAN Family CAN is a program that provides services to families, administers an annual survey to measure the effectiveness of the program and to receive feedback on how to improve it. For more information, visit http://www.las.uh.edu/pep/families-can.aspx

Family Practice Service The Family Practice Service provides full scope, comprehensive eye and vision care to patients six years of age and older. This includes a perceptual screening test for children in Kindergarten through third grade and as needed for older ages. The Family Practice Service is open five days a week by appointment but walk-ins are always

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welcome. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/family-practice.cfm

1st Order of Omega Greek Awards Ceremony The 1st Order of Omega Greek Awards Ceremony honors fraternity or sorority chapters with the Outstanding Community Service Award annually.

French Artists in Houston Blaffer Gallery collaborates with the Texas French Alliance to present French artists in Houston and Texas artists in Lyon, France.

FreshArts Coalition Blaffer Gallery collaborates with the FreshArts Coalition to market 19-Houston based visual and performing arts groups.

Friends of Women’s Studies This program supports and provides community input, advice, and expertise to the Women’s Archive and Research Center (WARC). Members enjoy discounts for the lecture series, invitations to special Friends’ events, an annual subscription to the Women’s Studies Newsletter, and more. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/ws/index.php

Funding Source (TFS) The Funding Source assists organizations with locating funding to support ongoing operations or program expansion and aids in the development of grant writing skills. TFS’ primary service is the Funding Fax, a bi-weekly faxed newsletter of funding opportunities from public and private sources. Also included in the Funding Fax are schedules of classes and workshops designed to assist organizations in developing grant writing and nonprofit management skills, information to help match organizations with appropriate coalitions and collaborations in the local communities, and profiles of corporate and private foundations. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/academics/nonprofit-leaders/index.php

Gaming Education and Research Institute This institute within the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management provides public and private policy makers in Texas and other jurisdictions with a source of current information that assists in determining the social, economic, and regulatory impacts of gaming activity. In addition, it sponsors continuing education and executive development programs. For information, visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/THE- COLLEGE/Centers-and-Institutes/Gaming-Education-and-Research-Inst/

GEARUP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) The GEARUP Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is a partnership among Project GRAD, Houston Independent School District (Davis, Yates, and Wheatley feeder patterns), and partner universities (UH-Downtown, University of Houston, and Texas Southern University). GEARUP seeks to develop early college awareness in middle school students by establishing ongoing relationships with the

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faculty, staff, and students of local colleges and universities. UH-Downtown is a university partner to Marshall Middle School and provides reading and mathematics tutoring, mentoring experiences, and an early college awareness curriculum to sixth and seventh graders.

Glaucoma Screening College of Optometry students and faculty provided glaucoma screening under the auspices of the National Black Caucus. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/

Global CASA/LACASA The Department of Modern and Classic Languages (MCL) of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and its program in World Cultures and Literatures (WCL) has formalized a new publishing division, Global CASA Press and its initial primary division, the Latin American/Latino/a Cultural Activities and Studies Arena (LACASA) Book Series in Latin American and Latino Transnational Cultural Studies. The primary goal is to develop and promote publications that reflect major concerns and interests that are present in MCL and WCL classes and that are indeed important in the new configurations affecting the contemporary world. Frequently we shall seek international co-publishers of our work; we shall also try to place works with other, larger publishers, when possible, provide modest subventions for those publications. For more information, visit http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/lacasa/

Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI) The C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston has created the Global Energy Management Institute to prepare the energy industry workers of today while exploring the issues important to its future. GEMI uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address the comprehensive needs of the energy industry, from risk and project management to accounting and systems development. Programs and resources provided by GEMI include educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels; professional networking opportunities, including forums, seminars and symposia; and an energy research center with emphasis on topics provided by member companies. For information, visit www.bauer.uh.edu/UHGEMI/index.asp

GRADE Camp GRADE Camp (Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence) is for female high school students interested in electrical engineering. The week-long day camp provides a hands-on experience in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). GRADE Camp participants who complete the program and subsequently major in ECE at the University of Houston will receive a $1,000 scholarship toward tuition or books. The Cullen College of Engineering hosts the camp through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium. For information, visit www.egr.uh.edu/grade

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Graduate College of Social Work Community Service Award The Graduate College of Social Work Community Service Award is presented annually to the program that best reflects the College’s mission. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/community/index.php

Graduate College of Social Work Focus Groups The Graduate College of Social Work’s focus groups assist in developing and evaluating community and social agency-based programs. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/index.php

Graduate Design/Build Studio The Graduate Design/Build Studio designs and constructs for regional non-profit organizations site specific solutions to climate-influenced building problems. Master of Architecture students at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture are offered the opportunity to see their ideas evolve from initial conception to completed construction. The studio demonstrates that full-scale implications of the students’ aspirations and measures the quality of their design thinking against the rigorous standard of built reality. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/gdbs/index.html

Graduate Internships - Educational Psychology Educational Psychology students in master’s and doctoral programs serve internships in health agencies, schools, and hospitals. To request an intern or information, visit . http://www.coe.uh.edu/current-students/academic-programs/school- psychology/internships.php

Graduate Internships – Sports Administration Under the supervision of the College of Education faculty, graduate students in sports management serve internships with professional sports teams and facilities, and exercise science students work with area businesses and recreation agencies. For information or to request an intern, call (713) 743-9848. http://www.uh.edu/class/hhp/graduate-programs/ma-sports- admin/internships_sports_fitness/index.php

Graduate Research Conference The Graduate Research Conference in the Cullen College of Engineering is a partnership with local industries that annually showcase both graduate research and undergraduate capstone design projects. http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201106/ece- hosts-graduate-research-conference

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures of the United States Arte Público Press’ award-winning Handbook of Hispanic Cultures describes and compares the culture of Hispanic groups in the United States. The four volumes of the reference work focus on anthropology, history, sociology and literature and art. Topics covered include “Latino Immigration Experience,” “Hispanic Blending and Diversity,” “Cuban Women,” “Puerto Rican Participation in U.S. Politics,” and “Community Newspapers.” For information, call (713) 743-2842.

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Hands-On Learning/Studio Work The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture has a long history of “hands-on learning” through community service. Recent community-based projects include a historic survey of Richmond Avenue architecture as well as proposals for a new library and YMCA for the Upper Kirby District; landscape designs for Levy Park; extreme sports facilities for sites within Beltway 8; an urban village, with mixed-uses, around future Houston light rail stations; Music World Headquarters for client Destiny’s Child; and a prototype sustainable school building for the Houston Independent School District.

Health Law & Policy Institute Recognized as one of the leading health law programs in the United States, the Health Law & Policy Institute is an interdisciplinary center designed to stimulate teaching, research, and service in all areas of health law and policy. The institute is actively involved in helping shape health law at the local, state, national, and international levels. For information, call (713) 743-2101.

Health Network For Evaluation and Training Systems The Health Network for Evaluation and Training Systems provides research, evaluation, training and technical assistance to assist schools, communities and healthcare settings to meet their health goals. Stage-based models are used to help programs facilitate change at the community, organization, work group, and individual levels. Emerging computer-based technologies are used to support these efforts. For information, visit www.uh.edu/hnets/

Heart and Kidney Institute The Heart and Kidney Institute researches the pathophysiological mechanisms and treatment of certain cardiovascular disorders while fostering collaborative research efforts among scientists from UH and Texas Medical Center institutions. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/pharmacy/research.htm

High School Equivalency Program (HEP) The UH High School Equivalency Program (H.E.P.) is a federally funded GED instructional program for high school dropouts from migrant/seasonal farm worker families. The program provides classes to prepare students for all areas of the GED examination. The classes last 12 weeks and are free to students who qualify. For information, call (713) 743-9861. http://www.uh.edu/graduate- catalog/archive/2003/edu/edu_about.html

Hilton University of Houston Hotel and Conference Center The Hilton University of Houston Hotel and Conference Center, located within the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, offers 40,000 square feet of meeting space, 22 meeting rooms, three ballrooms, fine dining in Eric’s restaurant, specialty dinners in Barron’s restaurant (prepared by students of the college), 85 guest rooms and 6 suites. To make reservations, contact the University

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Hilton Hotel Front Desk at (713) 741-2447, Eric’s Restaurant at (713) 743-2512, Barron’s Restaurant at (713) 743-2555, or call (713) 743-2500 for catering and event sales. http://www.hrm.uh.edu/

HOMES Clinic Houston Outreach Medical Education and Social Services (HOMES) Clinic is part of the larger Healthcare for the Homeless project, which promotes health, hope, and dignity for Houston’s homeless through accessible and comprehensive care. This student-run, free clinic is the joint collaboration of the UH College of Pharmacy, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center. For information, call (713) 743-1298 or visit www.homeless-healthcare.org

Honors College Advisory Board The Honors College Advisory Board is comprised of 25 community leaders who assist in College in multiple ways including planning for and providing service-learning opportunities in the community. For more information, call 713-743-3220. http://www.uh.edu/honors/alumni-giving/honors-advisory-board/index.php

Honors College Community Service Scholarships The Honors College seeks to incorporate community service into students’ undergraduate experience. Organizations seeking student volunteers or assistance in coordinating community service projects should call (713) 743-9020. http://www.uh.edu/honors/undergraduate-research/scholarships/index.php

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals Research Institute (HFTPRI) The Internet can certainly be a useful resource in the hospitality industry, but it cannot always find exactly what you are looking for. Now HFTPRI has established a research institute to make it easier for you to find the answers to all of your hospitality-related questions, simple or complex, without spending hours making phone calls and searching the Internet. For information, visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/THE- COLLEGE/Centers-and-Institutes/Hospitality-Financial-and-Technology--Professionals- Research-Institute/

Hospitality Industry Diversity Institute Among the first of its kind and one of the top in the nation, the institute was established to create a focus and forum for diversity-related issues and opportunities affecting the hospitality industry, its employees, and the global market place. It offers seminars, survey services, and publications. For information, call (713) 743-2680.

Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor The Hall of Honor provides an appropriate tribute to the founders and leaders of the hospitality industry, as well as a unique learning experience for those preparing to lead the industry in the future. The Hall of Honor includes more than 32 separate exhibits of memorabilia that illustrate the life stories and accomplishments of these hospitality legends. The exhibits are open for public viewing and are adjacent to the Conrad N. Hilton College Library and Archives in the south wing of the college. For information, call

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(713) 743-2432 or (713) 743-2470 or visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/STUDENT- LIFE/Student-Activities/Hospitality-Hall-of-Honor/

Houston 100 The Houston 100, a program of the UH Small Business Development Center, is an awards program that ranks the fastest-growing, private businesses making the greatest impact on the Houston area. For information, call (713) 752-8449.

Houston Alumni Organization (HAO) Distinguished Alumni Awards Each year HAO presents two awards to alumni: the Distinguished Service Awards and the Outstanding Volunteer Award. These awards recognize alumni who exemplify the spirit of volunteerism and service.

Houston Area Calculus Teachers (H-ACT) Houston Area Calculus Teachers is a free program open to all high school calculus teachers in the greater Houston area. This group meets one Saturday each month during the school year to hear presentations by mathematics faculty members or special guests. Topics relate to enhancing effectiveness of teaching high school calculus in preparation for standardized tests and advanced college mathematics. Helpful tools and software are often made available. For information, call (713)743-3455.

Houston Area Teacher Center (HATC) The Houston Area Teacher Center (HATC) sponsors the Student Teacher Workshop, which attracts approximately 600 student teachers from eight area colleges and universities to the University of Houston twice year. Workshops are taught by faculty from UH and other participating universities. The event culminates in a job fair where student teachers meet recruiters from the 32 area school districts that work with the HATC. For information, call (713) 743-5059.

Houston Coastal Center The Houston Coastal Center has become widely recognized for the 200+ acre prairie segment within its borders. Scientists from several universities, state and federal agencies, and environmental organizations are engaged in studies concerned with restoration and maintenance of native Gulf Coast prairie lands at the center. Presentations and publications document their work as it progresses. Among the center’s work is the Prairie Restoration Project, being done in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For information, visit http://www.uhcc.uh.edu/ or call (713) 743-9101.

Houston History Archives The Center for Public History’s Houston History Archives is a public repository for books, documents, oral histories, and images. Students, faculty, and the public are welcome to explore a growing collection of resources for research and writing about Houston’s history. For more information, visit http://www.history.uh.edu/public_history/houston_history_project/archives/

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Houston InfoComm Technology Center The HIT Center is a consortium that provides support for collaborative research in first response, traffic mobility, clean air mitigation and homeland security. For information, visit http://www.thehitcenter.org/

Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) The Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation is a multi-university consortium designed to increase the numbers of under-represented minorities who receive bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to prepare the students to enter the workforce or pursue graduate degrees. Alliance staff members and scholars are available to speak with high school students, their parents, and teachers. Local businesses in the chemical, biotech, actuarial, energy, and information technology fields hire H-LSAMP students as summer interns. For information, visit http://sep.uh.edu/hlsamp/about/index.php

Houston Pre-Freshman Enrichment Program (PREP) A distinguished and intensive mathematics-based summer enrichment program, PREP provides educational opportunities for high ability, socially and economically disadvantaged students who are interested in careers in mathematics, science, computer science, or engineering technology. Students in grades 7 to 9 are invited to apply.

Houston Shakespeare Festival Houston Shakespeare Festival annually presents two Shakespeare plays at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. More than 34,000 people attend the free performances each summer. The City of Houston co-produces the festival. For information, visit www.class.uh.edu/theatre/performances_houstonshakespearefestival.html

Houston Teachers Institute (HTI) The Houston Teachers Institute offers rigorous, semester-long seminars lead by UH faculty on subjects requested by public school teachers. Teachers who complete the program receive an honorarium of $1,000. The curriculum units developed by Institute fellows are published in printed volumes and are on the HTI Web site. Teachers play a leading role in determining how the Institute and its seminars can be of assistance. For information, visit www.uh.edu/hti

Houston Volunteer Lawyer Program’s Monthly Service Project UH law students serve at legal clinics with Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program. The Houston Volunteer Lawyers program is a service of the Houston Bar Association. The program provides attorneys volunteering their time to provide legal services in civil matters for Houston’s needy citizens. The program helps those who cannot get help through other legal aid programs and is based on income eligibility. Special units within the Houston Volunteer Lawyers handle family law, bankruptcy, HIV/AIDS, problems of the elderly, and victims of domestic violence. For more information visit http://www.hvlp.org/home/default.aspx

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Human Resources Development Advisory Board The Human Resources Development Advisory Board is one of the many Community Advisory Boards at UH that assists colleges, departments, and programs in developing mutually beneficial programs and partnerships that meet community needs. Human Resources Development has an active industrial advisory board that provides input on curriculum and activities. For more information, visit http://www.tech.uh.edu/people/boards-of-advisors/hdcs-boards/human-resource- development/

Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival The Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival is a four-week summer residency orchestral and chamber music performance program for outstanding instrumentalists from Houston, the United States, and abroad. It offers performance study with members of the UH faculty, the Houston Symphony, and distinguished guest artists. TMF also offers specialized performance institutes for younger musicians in the Houston area. Tickets for public concerts are available through the Moores School of Music Box Office at (713) 743-3313. For information, email [email protected] or visit http://www.uh.edu/class/music/tmf/

Immigration Clinic The Immigration Clinic at the UH Law Center has formed relationships with a network of legal aid and social services agencies in the Houston area to provide fair and humane treatment for immigrants and refugees. For information, visit www.law.uh.edu/clinic

Industrial/Organizational Practicum All industrial/organizational (IO) psychology graduate students are required to work one year in an industrial setting under the supervision of an IO psychologist. Recent host organizations include AON Consulting, Assessment & Development Inc., Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, Jeanneret & Associates, M.D. Anderson Hospital, Personnel Decisions International, and Vandaveer Group. For information about hosting an IO graduate student, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/io- psych/admissions/funding-information/index.php

Industrial Scholar Interns Program Industrial sponsors provide funding for scholarships as well as paid practical internships for current engineering students. Benefits: industry sees better trained graduates and has the opportunity to test and recruit top students before graduation; students gain invaluable experience while earning significant funding to pay for their education. For more information, visit http://www.egr.uh.edu/academics/scholarships

Information Systems Research Center (ISRC) The Information Systems Research Center provides a forum for interaction between the Houston business community and C.T. Bauer College of Business information systems faculty and students. The ISRC hosts executive seminars and roundtables on leading- edge issues in information technology management throughout the academic year. The

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center also conducts directed research with member firms and presents briefings on over-the-horizon information technologies.

Inprint Brown Reading Series Presented by Inprint, Inc. in association with the UH Creative Writing Program and the Alley Theatre, the Inprint Brown Reading Series is one of the most highly regarded literary programs in the United States. It has brought in many famous authors and poets, including Pulitzer Prize winners. Held at the Alley Theatre, the Reading Series runs from September through April on Monday evenings and admission is $5 per reading and free for students. For information, visit the Inprint website, www.inprint- inc.org

Institute for Business, Ethics, and Public Issues (IBEPI) The Institute for Business, Ethics, and Public Issues is the facilitating institution for the Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable, which is dedicated to promoting ethical business practices.

Institute for Diversity and Cross-Cultural Management The Institute for Diversity and Cross-Cultural Management within the C.T. Bauer College of Business helps organizations find ways of working more effectively and cross-culturally through training and advisory services, applied research and access to research databases. For information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/centers/idccm/

Institute for Drug Education and Research The Institute for Drug Education and Research serves as a focal point for health professionals and public education programs on drug use and abuse. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/pharmacy/research/centers-and-institutes/ider/index.php

Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence The objectives of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence’s experimental, computational and theoretical research are to understand turbulence physics and to apply this knowledge in technologically relevant flows to control entrainment, mixing, drag, combustion, and aerodynamic noise, as well as transport phenomena in two- phase flows. For information, visit http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~ifdt/index.html

Institute for Health Care Marketing (IHCM) The C.T. Bauer College of Business’ Institute for Health Care Marketing conducts research in health care marketing and health promotion. For information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/IHCM/

Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance (IHELG) The University of Houston Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance provides information and publications to colleges and universities related to the field of higher education law, and also has a broader mission to be a focal point for discussion and thoughtful analysis of higher education legal issues.

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Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law This institute within the UH Law Center sponsors conferences for lawyer-practitioners, scholars, and judges, and is a leading research entity for improvements in the administration of justice in the intellectual property (IP) and information law areas. IP law embraces the subjects of patent, copyright, and trademark law and trade secret law. Information law includes the laws applying to computer software, and also deals with Internet-related issues. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/ipil/

Institute for Molecular Design The Institute for Molecular Design is an educational and research center that focuses on bridging the theoretical and experimental approaches to biomolecular structure and function. This is an area of rapidly increasing importance in medicine and industry, in part because extraordinary advances in computing now make it possible to do accurate theoretical and experimental studies of enzymes, nucleic acids, and biomolecular assemblies. Graduate students and postdoctoral associates enjoy unique opportunities for interdisciplinary research through collaborative research projects within the University of Houston and with the Texas Medical Center. For information, visit www.chem.uh.edu/imd/index.html

Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies The Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies is a diverse group of researchers from fields of geosciences, math, computer science, and chemistry committed to using premier scientific tools to model the complex issues of air quality and climate change. Modeling efforts address many critical components simultaneously, including emissions inventories, meteorology, and atmospheric chemistry. Institute members are currently developing atmospheric boundary layer measurement techniques. They work closely with national, state, and local leaders to identify key scenarios to run on their modeling systems so that public policy is guided with the best science. For information, visit www.imaqs.uh.edu/

Institute for Regional Forecasting The Center for Public Policy’s Institute for Regional Forecasting provides data on and analyses of the Houston economy. The institute sponsors the bi-annual Houston Economic Real Estate Symposiums, with each symposium drawing as many as 1,000 local business and government leaders. For information, visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/irf/index.php

Institute for Urban Education The College of Education’s Institute for Urban Education works with guidance from a community forum to improve education in urban areas through research, instruction and collaborative educational projects. For information, visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/about/institutes-centers/index.php

Institute of Space Systems Operations (ISSO) The Institute of Space Systems Operations is the operational agency of the Houston Partnership for Space Exploration, whose mission is to advance the development of the

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aerospace community in the Houston area and Texas. Particular emphasis is directed to the academic, industrial, and government programs associated with NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Since 1991, ISSO projects have established solid professional links between NASA-JSC, the Houston aerospace community, and UH and UH-Clear Lake. For information, visit www.isso.uh.edu/

Intensive English Program The Language and Culture Center’s Intensive English Program trains international students in verbal and written academic English and cross-cultural communication. The language curriculum includes instruction in grammar, speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing in preparation for undergraduate or graduate study at a U.S. university. The cross-cultural communication component helps students learn about U.S. and other cultures. Optional courses include TOEFL preparation and pronunciation. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/english/lcc/index.php

International Piano Festival Three internationally recognized pianists present this annual series of recitals and master classes during a weekend in late January. Concert tickets and a full list of events are available through the Moores School of Music Box Office at 713-743-3313. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/music/events-performances/piano- festival/index.php

International Telecommunications Research Institute (ITRI) The Institute has three primary objectives: to assist in the successful implementation and utilization of communication technology, to address the social consequences of communication technology in its historical context, and to study the underlying processes involved in people’s interaction with communication technology. Areas of research include the identification of factors that influence the success or failure of communication systems and services, the potential of telecommunications for altering historic, social and cultural patterns and applied research on communication and technology. In addition to sponsoring forums and conferences, the institute partners which scholars and other institutions around the world on specific projects. For information, visit www.uh.edu/~itri/

International Trade Center The International Trade Center at the UH Small Business Development Center offers free one-on-one consulting, training seminars and trade missions and assistance to prepare loan applications properly for the SBA’s Export Working Capital Program and others. The objective is to help small to mid-sized business owners export their products and services to other countries. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/homepage.asp

Internships - Consumer Sciences and Merchandising Consumer Science and Merchandising students in the College of Technology participate in internships with local businesses and retailers to gain real world

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experience in the merchandising industry. For information, visit http://www.tech.uh.edu/programs/undergraduate/retailing-and-consumer-science/

Internships - Human Development and Family Studies The Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Education offers services to families, children, and the aged through partnerships with community agencies. Students participate in a variety of internships in many community areas. For more information visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/academic- programs/human-development-family-studies/index.php

Internships - Sociology The Department of Sociology offers services to families, the aged, and the homeless through partnerships with 52 community agencies. Students participate in a variety of internships in areas such as education, drug/alcohol abuse, employee assistance/job training, health, housing/community development programs, and institutions and government programs. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/sociology/undergraduate/internship/index.php

Interviewing Institute The Interviewing Institute, housed within the Department of Psychology, conducts research on interviewing and offers an annual employment interview-training seminar to the public.

John P. McGovern Annual Lectureship This lecture series, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, brings to campus speakers with notable expertise in the areas of family, health, and/or human values. For information, visit http://info.lib.uh.edu/p/john-p-mcgovern-endowed- lecture-family-health-and-human-values

Juvenile Defense Clinic The Juvenile Defense Clinic provides legal services to indigent juveniles from beginning to end. UH law students participate in detention hearings, jury or bench trials, appeals, and misdemeanor and felony cases. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/childadvocacy.asp

KUHF-FM KUHF- 88.7 FM broadcasts classical music and National Public Radio (NPR) news to the Gulf Coast region. In addition, KUHF-FM records concerts from a diverse cross- section of the Houston performing arts community and provides national exposure to performers by making these recordings available on NPR’s Performance Today. For information, go to www.uh.edu/kuhf

KUHT-TV HoustonPBS (KUHT-TV/Channel 8 & KUHT-DT/Channel 9), the nation’s first public television station, broadcasts local and national PBS productions, and other acquired programs to viewers throughout the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. The station also

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televises college courses and educational outreach services to improve school readiness for young children. HoustonPBS also provides “beyond broadcast” resources and educational workshops on numerous issues concerning area viewers. For information, visit www.houstonpbs.org

Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education The Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education (LITE) prepares educators to embrace technology as a way to address real-world issues through projects that link students to communities. Doctoral students in this program work with teachers in training, practicing teachers, and educational teams to design, develop, and evaluate new educational resources and instructional strategies that emphasize collaboration, active learning, and critical thinking. For information, visit www.coe.uh.edu/lite/

La Nueva Casa de Amigos Optometry Clinic The Optometry Clinic at the La Nueva Casa de Amigos Health Center is a joint project between the City of Houston and the UH College of Optometry. The city has provided space and renovations to house the clinic within an existing City of Houston health care facility. The UH College of Optometry operates a full service clinic serving the surrounding community. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/

Language and Culture Center (LCC) Since 1975, the Language and Culture Center has provided intensive English instruction for international students who want to study at U.S. universities or improve their English language skills to meet personal and professional goals. For information, visit http://lcc.uh.edu/enghome.htm

Lanier Public Policy Conferences The Lanier Public Policy Conferences is a lecture series that brings together academicians and journalists to examine major public policy issues that impact Houston, as well as the nation. The day-long event is coordinated by Dr. Richard Murray and the Center for Public Policy. Visit www.uh.edu/cpp/lanierconference.htm for more information.

Law Center Externship Placement Program In the externship placement program, students earn academic credit by working with public interest organizations or government agencies. Field placements include the Internal Revenue Service, American Civil Liberties Union, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, the Texas Attorney Generals’ Office, and the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center. For information visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/extern.asp

Law Center Health Law Externships In conjunction with the Health Law and Policy Institute, the external placement program offers credit for supervised fieldwork with nonprofit health institutions and government organizations focused in health law and policy. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/extern.asp

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Law Center Judicial Internships In a judicial internship, students can observe the legal process from the bench’s perspective. Interns meet and interact with court personnel while honing research and writing skills. Houston offers a broad range of opportunities for judicial interns, including assignments in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas; the First and Fourteenth Texas State Courts of Appeals; Texas state district courts (civil and criminal); federal magistrates; and specialty courts in family, bankruptcy, immigration, and probate. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/judicialclinic.asp

Learning and Assessment Services (LAS) LAS fosters a supportive learning environment to promote the success of UH students, the university, and the greater Houston community. LAS identifies needs, provides assessment and evaluative services, promotes outreach activities, and facilitates student learning. LAS provides annual reports to all community partners and publishes a quarterly newsletter distributed to all program participants. For more information, visit http://www.las.uh.edu/

Learning Support Services (LSS) The mission of Learning Support Services (LSS) is to increase graduation rates by improving student retention at the University of Houston. LSS offers learning support programs and self-development activities designed to increase student academic performance and improve student retention. Individualized diagnostic, prescriptive, and instructive educational plans as well as group intervention programs are available. LSS provides free support to currently enrolled students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. For more information, visit http://www.las.uh.edu/lss/

Litigation Skills Program The Litigation Skills Program provides students with in-depth, practice-oriented training on how attorneys litigate in the state and federal courts, and instruction on the methods for effective negotiation, settlement and alternative dispute resolution techniques. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/cji/homepage.asp

Loss Prevention Management Institute (LPMI) Through seminars, special studies and printed reports and related materials, the LPMI works to create a greater awareness among students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals of the role of loss prevention management in enhancing the “bottom line” of a corporation or enterprise and to help the hospitality industry develop effective programs for training employees in their roles on behalf of safety and security For information, visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/?PageID=273

Low Vision Rehabilitation Patients with visual impairments are referred to the University Eye Institute to address functional vision loss. Our goals are to ensure that patients increase their visual independence and improve their quality of life. Our multidisciplinary team of professionals offers a continuum of care including assessment of vision loss impact on

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quality of life, clinical low vision exam, prescription of low vision devices, training with devices to achieve functional goals, and communication regarding progress with each patient’s ophthalmologist. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/lowvision/what-is-lowvision.cfm

Manufacturing Partnership Faculty in the Mechanical Technology Department of the College of Technology meet monthly with manufacturing industry representatives to discuss quality improvements in Houston manufacturing. For information, visit http://www.tmacgc.org/

Master of Public Administration Internships Agencies and organizations in both the private and public sector can request Master of Public Administration students for internships or full-time positions that offer responsible experience in public service.

Mediation Clinic The Mediation Clinic at the UH Law Center provides trained mediators to the civil justice courts in Harris County and provides mediation services to individuals who may otherwise be unable to afford the mediation process. Students mediate consumer issues, landlord/tenant disputes, breach of contract, and domestic relations cases. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/mediate.asp

Meds for Kids Program UH College of Pharmacy students conduct two medical education programs in elementary schools: Meds for Kids for grades 1 to 5 and Drug Awareness for grades 4 to 5. The elementary students learn about pharmacists, medications, and how to protect their health through exercises involving discussion, games, and hands-on activities. For information visit http://rx.pharmacy.uh.edu

Mentoring and Enrichment Seminar in Engineering Training (MESET) The Cullen College of Engineering sponsors this three-week, expenses paid, residential summer program for rising high school seniors. For more than 20 years, the seminar has been familiarizing high school students with opportunities in the field of engineering and allowing them to experience the university environment. The program provides enrichment mini courses, guest lectures, field trips to industrial installations on the Gulf Coast, tours through college facilities, and recreational activities.

Metropolitan Volunteer Program This program seeks to match community agencies and organizations with UH student, faculty, and staff volunteers for ongoing programs and special events. For information, visit www.uh.edu/SVP

Mickey Leland Congressional Internship Program Founded by the late U.S. Congressman George Thomas “Mickey” Leland, the Mickey Leland Congressional Internship Program provides University of Houston and Texas Southern University students the opportunity to serve as government interns in

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Washington, D.C. Each year, 6-10 students spend a semester directly involved in the political process. Intern activities include providing assistance in legislative research and attending committee hearings. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/hcpp/interns/mickey-leland-internship/index.php

Moores School of Music The Rebecca and John J. Moores School of Music serves the community with a wide variety of public concerts and cultural opportunities. Among the school’s annual offerings are performances by student ensembles, faculty, and guest recitalists, and programs such as the A.I. Lack Music Master Series, International Piano Festival, the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, and the Moores School of Music Preparatory and Continuing Studies. For information about concert schedules, visit www.uh.edu/music

Moores School of Music Preparatory and Continuing Studies This non-credit, non-degree granting program brings music to all ages and all levels of ability through private and group instruction. Lessons are available in most orchestral instruments, piano, guitar, saxophone, Suzuki violin, voice, music theory, composition, flute, and percussion. PCS is also the current home of the renowned Houston Boychoir. For more information, visit www.music.uh.edu/

Movers & Shakers Career Forum This forum, hosted by the Consumer Science and Merchandising program in the College of Technology, brings leading retail industry experts and authorities together with high school, community college, and university students in an interactive setting designed to share experience and lessons learned, as well as answer questions about future career opportunities.

Museum Website Development Blaffer Gallery collaborates with the UH College of Education to develop educational websites for museums.

Nanosystem Manufacturing Center (NMC) The mission of the NMC is to develop a suite of enabling technologies for integrating the new ultra-small, ultra-fast magnetic, electronic and molecular device families into powerful nanosystems whose capabilities far exceed the state-of-the-art in data processing, storage and communication. The NMC has received significant financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Security Agency, International-Sematech, the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, and the State of Texas Advanced Technology Program. Its industrial partners include EDTEK, Inc., Infineon Technologies, Axcelis Technologies, and Seagate Technologies.

New Trainer Certificate Program The College of Technology developed this program for those who are new to training and need to get up to speed quickly on designing, delivering, and evaluating training. The program consists of four two-day workshops over two months taught by a

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combination of UH faculty and leading business practitioners. For information, visit www.tech.uh.edu/departments/hdcs/cert_hrd.htm

Non-Profit Research Partnerships The Non-Profit Research Partnerships program helps UH faculty develop meaningful undergraduate research opportunities for their students in non-profit organizations. By creating projects that apply the scientific method to problem-solving in the community, Non-Profit Research Partnerships helps transform the student experience from that of participating in service learning in non-profit agencies to conducting research in the non- profit sector. These quality research opportunities provide tangible support to Houston- area non-profit entities, help students develop skill sets that can be applied in this growing sector of the economy upon graduation, and encourage faculty scholarly activity aimed at addressing societal problems and the operating needs of social service and other non-profit agencies.

North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE) The North American Consortium on Legal Education provides a quality legal education by promoting an exchange program at nine member laws schools, chosen for not only their complimentary qualities, but also for their location in cities such as Montreal, Mexico City and Washington D.C. Cross-border issues and reasonable solutions are more important today than ever. The University of Houston has always known the importance of Mexico and Canada as neighbors. NAFTA reinforced it. Now NACLE promotes the way to understand these dynamic countries. For information, visit www.law.uh.edu/nacle/

NOVA Clinic Part of the University Eye Institute, the NOVA Clinic meets the vision needs of multiple challenged individuals. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/pediatrics/index.cfm

Nutritional Awareness Students in the Student Nutrition Association in the College of Education volunteer to provide nutrition information to children, adults, elderly or other specialized groups.

Ocular Diagnostic and Medical Eye Service Patients receive both general and specialty optometric and ophthalmologic care for a wide range of ocular and medical conditions through use of state-of-the-art instruments. Laser surgery is available for a variety of conditions. Care is provided for individuals with ocular emergencies. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/diagnostic-medical-eye.cfm

Office of Community Project (OCP) The Office of Community Projects (OCP) is the administrative unit that houses and manages a majority of the community service projects and activities that link expertise within the Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) to the broader human service community. The creation of this office resulted from the recognition that the school, as a

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part of an urban university, should take a more active role in linking the expertise within the GCSW to the organizations and services responsible for meeting human service needs in the community. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/about/admin/community-projects/index.php

Office of Development The Office of Development is responsible for all the University of Houston’s fundraising activities through a central office and through college- and program-based development officers. The office is also responsible for the Annual Fund (the annual appeal to UH alumni), the Annual Faculty and Staff Campaign, and an extensive infrastructure that includes donor research, alumni and donor records, and information services support. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/about/offices/university- advancement/development/index.php

Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Outreach The Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Outreach in the College of Education has six administrative staff and two faculty who coordinate all community outreach efforts. For information, visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/about/office-of-dean/index.php

Office of Planning and University Outreach The Office of Planning and University Outreach coordinates the University’s strategic planning process and develops implementation plans for projects, including community engagement projects such as the Texas Learning and Computation Center. The office has a staff of three. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/provost/academic- affairs/#PlanOutR

O’Quinn Law Library The O’Quinn Law Library is open to the general public for use. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/ . Par Excellence Par Excellence, an honors student service organization of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, provides quality hospitality service to the Houston community. Members are trained in many aspects of formal service including synchronized service, bartending, flambé, carving, and buffet management. Proceeds provide scholarship awards to Par Excellence members and other honors students in the college. To book a function, visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/STUDENT-LIFE/Student- Activities/ParExcellence/

Parent Education Program (PEP) The mission of the UH Parent Education Project is to enhance the lives of at-risk children and families in the Greater Houston area. The project’s approaches to this have changed over the 30+ they have been in operation. PEP is a totally grant-funded Project and a component of UH Learning & Assessment Services. For more information, visit http://www.las.uh.edu/pep/family-based-alternatives.aspx

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Pediatric and Binocular Vision Service This service of the University Eye Institute provides specialized examinations of infants and preschool children. State-of-the-art technology allows for complete evaluation and management of pediatric vision problems. Treatment including vision training, is provided for anomalies of binocular vision (double vision, “crossed-eyes”) and amblyopia (“lazy eye”) for patients of all ages. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/pediatrics/

People’s Law School This free biannual (April and October) event from the Center for Consumer Law helps make the law “user-friendly” to the layperson. The People’s Law School offers classes in subjects such as consumer law, wills, family law, bankruptcy, business law, landlord/tenant law, credit and debt collection, social security law, and health insurance law, and teaches how to work with attorneys and file claims in small claims court. In addition, answers to frequently asked questions are posted at www.peopleslawyer.net

Personal Financial Planning C.T. Bauer College of Business undergraduates first learned the principles of personal financial planning. They then taught these principles to students in Austin High School. The college plans to introduce this course permanently into its course offerings.

Poetry & Prose: Creative Writers at the University of Houston This program is a reading series presented by the University of Houston Libraries and features faculty, graduate students, and alumni of the UH Creative Writing Program. All readings are free and open to the public and held at the M.D. Anderson Library.

Political Action Committee (UH PAC) The University of Houston Political Action Committee is an organization with supporters from UH System alumni, students (and their families and parents), faculty, Houston businesses, and community leaders from all over Texas and the nation. Since 1982 UH PAC has provided nonpartisan support to legislators, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and Comptroller, who are committed to the importance of higher education in general, and the UH System in particular. For more information, visit http://uhpac.com/

Power Tools for Nonprofit Organizations (formerly Non Profit Day) For 11 years, CenterPoint Energy (formerly Houston Lighting and Power) and the University of Houston have partnered to produce an annual conference for local nonprofit professionals and volunteers. This annual forum allows experts and participants to share practical strategies for managing the political, social, economic, and technological changes they face. For information, visit www.uh.edu/academics/dce/prog/np.html

Practicum in Technology Leadership and Supervision The Information and Logistics Technology Department in the College of Technology requires its graduating students to complete a senior project. The project is directed

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toward the resolution of real and substantial problems presented by business, industry, or community sponsors. For information visit http://www.uh.edu/academics/catalog/colleges/tec/departments/ilt/index.php

Prep Summer Camp The UH School-University Partnerships Program (UH-SUP) offers affordable SAT test preparation for high school juniors and seniors taught by experienced instructors. UH- SUP allows participants to pay on a payment plan. UH-SUP exposes participants not only to SAT test preparation, but college preparation workshops as well. The college workshops include, but are not limited to college admissions, scholarship search, career assessment, financial management, and job readiness.

Professional Counselors Forum (PCF) The Professional Counselors Forum (PCF) is an annual conference sponsored by CAPS that provides high-quality, low-cost training to the Houston area mental health professionals and campus professionals who are interested in expanding their knowledge to enhance their work with students. Topics are presented by national speakers on a variety of mental health issues. Past presentations have included: Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling; Counseling Muslims & Ethical Considerations; Assessing & Managing High Risk Suicidal People; Spiritual, Mental & Emotional Health; and Methods of Assessing Violence Risk. For more information, visit http://www.caps.uh.edu/

Professional Student Organizations’ Outreach The College of Pharmacy has 13 professional student organizations which provide community service as part of their mission. Examples include outreach to ethnic communities, screening for various diseases, poison prevention programs for children, and helping to inform new mothers about childhood immunizations. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/graduate- catalog/colleges/pharmacy/organizations/index.php

Program and Project Evaluations When schools and community organizations implement programs using grant money, they are often required to have an outsider evaluate the project − a so called third-party evaluation. The UH College of Education’s Institute for Urban Education provides this service. An example of current programs under evaluation by IUE faculty is Bright Beginnings, a $3 million project supported by the United Way with funding from ExxonMobil to provide professional development to staff in child care centers. Another is an evaluation of recruitment and retention activities funded by Houston Endowment Inc. at four community colleges. For more information, visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/about/institutes-centers/index.php

Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES) PROMES, pronounced “promise”, is a year-long service program for engineering students that provides recruitment, academic advising, workshops, scholarships and job opportunities. PROMES provides a built-in bridge for both freshmen and transfer

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engineering students. PROMES math/engineering excellence workshops have propelled PROMES students to the top of their math/engineering classes. For information, visit www.egr.uh.edu/promes/

Project CanDo The UH College of Education’s Institute for Urban Education matches mentors and tutors to students in grades K-12. If your school would like this type of support, or if you would like to volunteer as a mentor or tutor, call (713) 743-5023.

Project Management Certificate Program This continuing education program is designed for project managers and leaders, product development managers, engineers, marketing, operations, R&D and construction managers, functional managers who deal with project managers, and team members who manage tasks and subtasks. The certificate program is presented in two parts: Part I, Tools and Techniques (3 days); Part II: The People Side (2 days). For information, visit www.uh.edu/continuingeducation

Protective Services Training Institute Protective Services Training Institute creates and delivers quality, state-of-the-art training to protective services staff; develops and administers a staff certification program that recognizes the special expertise of child protective services, adult protective services, child care licensing and statewide intake practice; and researches, develops and assesses new training concepts and technologies.

Psychology Research and Services Center (PRSC) The Psychological Research and Services Center is an outpatient mental health training facility offering proven psychological treatments for a variety of behavioral, psychological, and adjustment problems. Individual, family, and group treatment formats are available. In addition to psychotherapy, intellectual, developmental, and personality assessment and evaluation are offered for both children and adults. Advanced doctoral students under the supervision of licensed clinical psychology faculty conduct treatment and assessment services. Fees, may be adjusted on a sliding scale, according to ability to pay. The PRSC also provides information about mental health to the community through continuing education professional training programs, workshops, and lectures to agencies and organizations. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/clinics/

Public Education Policy Research (SERG) The Sociology of Education Research Group works with school districts in the Houston metropolitan area and the Texas Education Agency to evaluate educational programs and assess factors that affect student academic achievement, student dropout rates, and teacher morale and retention. SERG also conducts school climate studies for school districts.

Public Interest Fellowship Program Students apply for a competitive fellowship award to spend the summer with a public

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interest or governmental agency. Previous fellowship recipients have provided services to a wide range of organizations and programs, such as legal aid, U.S. Attorney’s Office, HIV projects, migrant farm workers projects. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/pil/summer/homepage.asp

Quarknet Quarknet is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that pairs high school science teachers with active researchers in particle and nuclear physics. Rice University and The University of Houston hosted a 3-week workshop in summer of 2005 for 24 area teachers. Teachers get involved in real research projects with physicists from both Rice and UH. For information, visit http://outreach.phys.uh.edu

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literacy Heritage Project The Recovery Project, founded by Arte Público Press, is the first national, coordinated effort to recover, preserve, study, and publish long overlooked or forgotten Latino writings that date from the American colonial period through 1960. It is the largest project of its kind undertaken in the history of scholarly efforts to study Hispanic culture in the United States. The broad scope of the 12-year project includes such genres as letters, diaries, oral lore and popular culture by Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish and other Hispanic Americans. To date, the project has found more than 18,000 books and has indexed and digitized more than 30,000 periodical articles. For information, visit http://www.latinoteca.com/arte-publico-press

Report to the Community The Bauer College of Business publishes an annual report to keep the Houston community up-to-date on the on-goings of the College of Business.

Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture is a unique research, design, and teaching entity within the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Its mission is to plan and implement programs that will advance peaceful and beneficial uses of space and space technology. SICSA also pursues planning and design for difficult and extreme environments on Earth that can benefit from advanced approaches, systems, and applications that are revealed through space investigation and concepts. SICSA’s location in Houston affords convenient access to diverse information resources and collaboration opportunities afforded by NASA’s Johnson Space Center, local aerospace companies, major research institutions, and commercial technology enterprises. For information, visit www.sicsa.uh.edu/

SBA Guaranteed Loan Program The Small Business Administration (SBA) provides a key source of financing for small businesses. The SBA guaranteed loans give small business owners access to long- term capital that is fairly priced. UH Small Business Development Center provides free assistance to entrepreneurs and business owners in developing a viable loan application that can be submitted to the SBA. For information, visit http://www.sbdc.uh.edu/sbdc/Default.asp

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School of Theatre Costume Department The School of Theatre’s Costume Department provides costume rental service to not- for-profit theaters, school districts, UIL competitions, private schools, churches, fraternal organizations, and other university programs on a fee schedule that is standardized for all participants. The department also provides advice in makeup and costume design, craftsmanship and technology on an individual basis to Houston Independent School District, private, professional, community and statewide theatrical productions. In addition, the school’s Design Program will make recommendations for novice costume and makeup designers in producing organizations. Student designers are available for a fee to the venue as contracted. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/theatre- and-dance/index.php

School Partnership Program Blaffer Gallery’s UHReach School Partnership Program provides elementary, middle, and high schools with a multidisciplinary experience through guided tours of the gallery as well as pre- and post-visit classroom instruction. The pre-visit interactive slide presentation introduces students to the works of the exhibition. The gallery visit reinforces the exhibition’s concepts and familiarizes the students with the physical characteristics of an art gallery. The post-visit involves a hands-on art activity related to the exhibition. Additionally, teachers from participating schools receive education kits.

Science and Engineering Fair of Houston Over 1,500 young scientists from 145 Houston area middle and high schools take part in the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston. The event has more than doubled in size over the last 20 years The program is currently administered by the University of Houston. The fair is the largest provider of scholarships for science and engineering students in the greater Houston area, recognizing over 600 students and providing over 50 scholarships. http://www.sefhouston.org/

Science Carnival The Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TCSUH) and the Center for Materials Chemistry (CMC), in conjunction with departments from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, hold an annual Science Carnival for approximately 250 fifth-grade students from the Houston area. The carnival includes hands-on science activities, experiments, and demonstrations conducted by TCSUH, CMC, and other personnel. For information, visit www.uh.edu/tcsuh/

Science Mathematics Applied Resources Teachers SMART Center The Science Mathematics Applied Resources for Teachers (SMART) Center enhances pre-college math and science teaching through in-service and staff development programs in chemistry, physics, and physical science for K-12 teachers. Offered through the College Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the SMART Center’s programs are Enhancement of Chemical Science Concepts for elementary and intermediate school teachers, the Teaching Science with TOYS (Teaching Our Youth Science), and programs requested by schools for staff development. Programs designed for high

118 school and elementary school students are also available. The Center also administers the Welch Summer Scholar Program at UH. For information, visit smart.chem.uh.edu/ or call (713) 743-2720. Information on the Welch Program is available at www.utexas.edu/research/chemed/lagowski/WSSP/

SEG Wavelets The SEG Wavelets is the University of Houston’s Society for Exploration Geophysicists student chapter. They are devoted to promoting all things geophysics working with other student organizations, industry professionals, and University of Houston faculty to bring their members educational, research, social, and future, employment opportunities. For more information, visit http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

Showcase of Stars The College of Education Alumni Association recognizes excellence in service among faculty, students, and alumni during an annual Showcase of Stars event. For more information, visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/alumni/index.php

Small Business Development Center (SBDC) The UH Small Business Development Center helps small and medium-size businesses start, grow and succeed through free one-on-one business consulting, affordable training seminars and specialty programs. Special programs and services include Direct Business Assistance, International Trade Center, SBA Pre-qualification Loan Program, Procurement Technical Assistance Center (also known as Texas Information Procurement Service), the Houston 100 and Women Business Owners’ Roundtable, Technology Program, and Comprehensive Business Research Library. For information, visit http://www.sbdc.uh.edu/sbdc/Default.asp

Social Work Continuing Education The Graduate College of Social Work’s Continuing Education program offers specific courses in the areas of gerontology, grant writing, and nonprofit management. It also offers the Social Work Supervision Certification for LMSWs and ACPs that is required by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. Courses are designed for social workers, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and other human services professionals in the community. All courses are approved for continuing education units and are acceptable for licensed professional counselors. For information call visit http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/community/ce/index.php

Southwest Juvenile Defender Center The Southwest Juvenile Defender Center is an affiliate of the National Juvenile Defender Center. SWJDC works to bring together juvenile defenders, mental health professionals, educators, legislators, and other juvenile justice professionals. Through this collaboration the Center strives to improve advocacy for children. Our mission is ensuring excellence in juvenile defense and promoting justice for all children through advocacy, education, and prevention. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/juveniledefender/homepage.asp

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Southwest Public Safety Technology Center The center develops public safety technology test beds; serves as a test site for a national academic consortium to conduct public safety technology research and development; commercializes new public safety technologies through the creation of partnerships with industry; and provides technology assistance to law enforcement community. The center addresses issues ranging from traffic congestion to emergency evacuation, from environmental impacts to terrorist attacks, from flood control to emergency medical response, and from collective governing across judiciary boundaries to disaster relief. Center staff made important contributions to the FEMA disaster relief centers after Hurricane Katrina and to joint relief efforts in East Texas after Hurricane Rita. It is also providing the technology leadership at the Houston Port Security Steering Council and planning the regional information technology infrastructure. In partnership with others, SWTC has also launched a number of border security projects ranging from communication interoperability to crime mapping along the Texas-Mexico border. For more information, visit http://wwwold.tlc2.uh.edu/swtc

Speakers Bureau - College of Optometry College of Optometry faculty and staff are available to address school classes, senior citizens, service clubs, and others on eye and vision care topics. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/community/need-a-speaker.cfm

Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic The clinic provides evaluation and treatment for speech production (articulation), language, stuttering, augmentative/alternative communication, aphasia, motor speech disorders, and accent modifications, as well as speech/language difficulties associated with hearing impairment or other medical problems. Fees are determined using a sliding scale. Hearing evaluations are available with referrals made for medical evaluation and/or hearing aid evaluation. Hearing aids are available for purchase. There is a Hearing Aid Assistance Program to provide low-cost hearing aids to qualified clients. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/comd/slhc/about/index.php

Sports Camps Each summer, the Athletics Department hosts a variety of sports camps for boys and girls ages 6 to 18. Typically, the following sports are offered: baseball, boys basketball, girls basketball, football, soccer, track and field and volleyball. The individual sport departments set dates, times, fees, and age requirements. For information, search the summer camp database at www.uh.edu/summercamp, or visit http://uhcougars.collegesports.com/index-main.html

Strategic Selling and Customer Relationship Management Center The Strategic Selling and Customer Relationship Management Center, which is part of the Sales Excellence Institute, is an outreach program for current sales and sales management professionals interested in enhancing their education. The professional sales trainers teaching in this center are award-winning instructors and are capable of customizing sales and sales management training to fit various industries and company cultures. For information, visit www.bauer.uh.edu/SEI/sei.htm

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Student Organizations Community Service Student organizations in the C.T. Bauer College of Business, such as Beta Alpha Psi and the Accounting Society, perform various service activities throughout the year. In some cases, students donate their time to non-profit institutions (churches, etc.) by providing help with the organization’s accounting. They also visit high schools to discuss career opportunities with graduating seniors.

Studio Saturday This community is event held in conjunction with Blaffer Gallery exhibitions. Community members, families, students, and art lovers can explore their creative sides and gain inspiration from Blaffer exhibits. Events include guided tours and drawing contests. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/uh-arts/visual/index.php

Study Tours The Hobby Center for Public Policy coordinates various professional training programs annually for Global Unisource, Inc. focusing on U.S. government, education and business practices for professionals in China. The sessions are conducted by faculty of the University of Houston, University of Houston-Clear Lake, and the University of St. Thomas. In addition to classroom lectures, the programs include site visits to locations such as Houston City Hall, the state capitol in Austin, and the office of the Harris County Clerk. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/hcpp/index.php

Summer Arts Workshop Blaffer Gallery invites children ages 6 to 12 to create their own artworks at its popular Summer Arts Workshop. Children learn artistic concepts while a using broad range of media – everything from crayons to chalk, paint, fabric, glitter, sculpting clay, feathers, cardboard, shells – to create collages, paintings, and ingenious 3D projects.

Summer Camps Every summer, the University of Houston offers a variety of exciting programs for young Houstonians. To learn more, search through the “UH in the Community” online database of more than 180 recreational, athletic, arts, academic, and other youth programs, visit http://www.uh.edu/about/community/summer-camps/

Summer Discovery Program The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture’s Summer Discovery Program introduces high school students to the profession of architecture. The five-week program consists of classes in design, structure, and architecture history as well as field trips to job sites, architects’ offices and buildings of special interest. For information, visit http://www.arch.uh.edu/special/summerdiscovery/index.php

Survey Research Institute The Center for Public Policy’s Survey Research Institute, under the guidance of Dr. Richard Murray, conducts an ongoing program of political and public opinion polling for Houston and the State of Texas. The center has provided extensive polling data for the

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Houston Chronicle and KPRC television, as well as for regional public and private sector entities. In addition, Dr. Murray’s analyses are frequently carried by national media sources such as The New York Times and the Washington Post. For information, visit www.uh.edu/cpp/polling.htm

TcSUH Distinguished Lecture Series The Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH hosts an annual Nobel Lecture Series and periodic special seminars, workshops, and symposia as part of its educational community outreach program. For calendar information, see www.uh.edu/tcsuh teachHOUSTON Coordinated by the College of Natural Science and Mathematics, the College of Education, and the Office of Development, teachHOUSTON provides hands-on training to science, computer science, and math majors interested in teaching by pairing them with master teachers at UH and mentor public school teachers. For more information, visit http://www.teachhouston.uh.edu/

Technology Presentations College of Technology faculty members provide presentations for high school, middle school, community college and community organizations about different facets of technology, pre-college preparation, transferability of programs, degree requirements and job opportunities. For information, visit http://www.tech.uh.edu/

Technology Research and Education Center (TREC) The Technology Research and Education Center, through its commitment to advanced technology research, partnerships with technology corporations, and relationships with the academic community, will provide the most current and comprehensive technology information services to benefit all stakeholders in the hospitality industry. TREC stakeholders include technology hardware, software and service corporations; industry associations (AH&LA, HFTP, NRA, HITA, CHRIE, et.al.); corporations in the hospitality industry; university hospitality management programs; hospitality students and faculty; and industry trade publications.

Telecom Center The mission of this center is to build a bridge away the telecommunications industry/ industry, institutions in the Texas Medical Center, and UH through joint research projects and educational/training programs. Its current research areas are smart antenna systems, wireless devices and systems for telemedicine and homeland security. In addition, the center leads the way in radio-frequency radiation and interference standards and compliance, and provides educational/training programs, including the Engineering Entrepreneurism program. For information, visit http://www.egr.uh.edu/telecom/

Texas Department of Health Alcohol Education Course for Minors in Possession The Alcohol Education Program for Minors (Minors in Possession – MIP) is a six-hour course (two sessions of three hours). For more information, 713-743-5461 or visit

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Texas Eye Research and Technology Center (TERTC) This research center in the College of Optometry performs independent testing of ophthalmic products for corporations. It is a leader of research and technology in the eye and vision care field. For information, visit http://tertc.opt.uh.edu/

Texas High Schools for Hospitality This partnership between the Hilton University of Houston Hotel and Conference Center and Jefferson Davis High School provides students with training and on-site work experience in six primary areas of hotel operations: front office, food and beverage, rooms division, communications, accounting, sales and marketing. For information, visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/

Texas Innocence Network (TIN) The Texas Innocence Network (TIN) at the University of Houston Law Center is a program that focuses exclusively on investigating claims of actual innocence raised by inmates in Texas or elsewhere. TIN accepts cases involving DNA evidence as well as cases that do not. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/cji/

Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics The mission of the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics is to advance knowledge about, and to improve the behavioral, psychological, educational and developmental outcomes of children and adults through the application and development of advanced measurement, evaluation, and statistical research methods, the design and execution of high quality, cutting-edge research projects, and the delivery of state-of-the art research and statistical support services. For information, visit www.times.uh.edu/

Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) The Texas Learning and Computation Center fosters and supports interdisciplinary research, education and training in computational sciences and engineering through centers, laboratories and individual faculty initiatives. TLC2 has state-of-the-art computation, visualization and educational facilities for environmental studies; biological, biomedical and energy research; undergraduate and graduate education; and teacher training. TLC2 sponsors conferences and workshops as well as competitions. Outreach partners include the European Space Agency, the Fennessey Ranch, the Houston Area Technology Advancement Center, and the World Space Congress. For information, visit www.tlc2.uh.edu/

Texas Legislative Internship Program (TLIP) The Texas Legislative Internship Program (TLIP), sponsored by the office of State Senator Rodney Ellis and administered by the Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace at Texas Southern University, provides undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to serve as interns in the Texas Legislature and various political offices. University of Houston recruitment efforts are coordinated by the Center

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for Public Policy. For information, visit http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist13/tlip/about.htm

Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC) TMAC’s specialists provide affordable training and technical assistance to upgrade worker skills, implement best business practices, and connect the manufacturing community to critical information and resources. Services include company assessments, production planning and control (ERP/MRP), Lean Enterprise, product manufacturability, quality management systems, e-Enterprise, workforce development, and strategic management. TMAC also sponsors informational seminars and an annual conference for manufacturers. For information, visit http://www.tmacgc.org/

Texas Obesity Research Center The Texas Obesity Research Center conducts focus groups with community members and organizations in the formative development of research projects. For more information, visit http://www.hhp.uh.edu/obesity/

TexShare Library Service TexShare is a statewide library resource sharing program for students, faculty, and the general public. Students can apply for a TexShare card and can check-out items from any participating TexShare library. For more information, visit http://info.lib.uh.edu/policies/libraries-privileges/texshare-card

Tour Program Free guided tours of Blaffer Gallery are offered to groups of 10 or more children or adults. Teachers, professors, parents, and tour groups with their escorts are invited to register for a tour. Knowledgeable docents are advanced undergraduate and graduate students in art, art history, and education, as well as professional artists. Interactive tours offer students and others insight into Blaffer’s changing exhibitions of internationally known contemporary artworks, and tours can be customized to the group. To schedule a tour, call (713)743-9526 at least one week in advance notice. For more information, visit http://s158155.gridserver.com/tours/

Touring Authors of Houston Arte Público Press is the oldest and largest publisher of U.S. Hispanic books and anthologies of fiction, non-fiction, and history for children and adults. Arte Público Press authors conduct creative writing workshops and readings at schools and community centers throughout the United States. For more information about organizing an author visit for your organization or school, visit http://www.latinoteca.com/arte-publico-press/

Transactional Clinic Through the Transactional Clinic, students assist small businesses and nonprofit corporations with legal matters encountered on a daily basis, including negotiating lease agreements, selecting proper organizational formats, and developing employment policies. For information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/clinic/transactional.asp

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UH AAPG Wildcatters The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is the world’s largest geological group and strives for the advancement in geological technology and research while providing a wide variety of professional opportunities such as conferences, publications, and educational services. The University of Houston’s AAPG Student Chapter bridges the gap between professionals and UH geoscience students interested in careers in oil and gas exploration. UH AAPG hosts monthly meetings, guest lecturers from academia and industry, field trips, and other social activities that are geared toward promoting student involvement in petroleum geology. Meetings are held on campus and are open to students, faculty, and industry professionals. For more information, visit http://www.aapg.uh.edu/

UH GeoSociety The UH GeoSociety is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote education, opportunity, and fellowship among geosciences undergraduate and graduate students. Community outreach is a goal of the GeoSociety, as they provide students with the opportunity to volunteer and travel to many unique geological locations, such as Southern California, Southern New Mexico, and Costa Rica. The GeoSociety also provides students with several avenues for socializing and networking with other geosciences students and professors. For more information, visit http://geosociety.uh.edu/

UH Law Center The UH Law Center regularly evaluates its continuing education courses to assess the legal community’s needs. For more information, visit http://www.law.uh.edu/

UH OnCALL Friendly customer service specialists are “on call” at (713) 743-CALL (2255) weekdays 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to answer questions about services, programs and events at UH.

UH School of Continuing and Professional Studies Offers courses and programs for the continued, professional development of individuals and organizations. Major programs include leadership and management, project management, six sigma, paralegal studies, environmental risk management, and test preparation. More information can be found at http://scps.uh.edu/cs

UH Writing Center The Writing Center at the University of Houston provides writing instruction to support academic, professional, and personal needs. For more information, visit http://www.uh.edu/writecen/ .

Underwood Lecture Hosted by the UH Graduate College of Social Work’s American Humanics Nonprofit Certificate Program, the annual Underwood Lecture focuses on youth, community, philanthropy, and other social issues. This lecture is free and open to the public. For information, visit http://www.sw.uh.edu/academics/nonprofit-leaders/

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United Way Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic Communication disorders evaluated and treated at the clinic include speech production, voice, stuttering or language disorders and speech/language difficulties associated with hearing impairment or various other medical problems. The clinic also does hearing evaluations. In the event that the speech difficulty is dialectal rather than a speech disorder, appropriate referrals for services are made. For information, visit http://www.uh.edu/class/comd/slhc/speech-svcs/index.php

University Career Services (UCS) University Career Services assists employers in all business and industrial sectors in identifying and recruiting qualified UH students and alumni. UCS serves employers seeking entry-level and experienced job candidates, interns, and part-time and temporary employees. UCS services include on-campus interviews, web-based job postings and resume searches, career fairs, and internships. Students and alumni in all academic majors are eligible to participate. For information, visit www.career.uh.edu/

University Center (UC) The University Center offers more than 30 rooms for rental to students, campus departments, and off-campus groups sponsoring nonprofit events. UC facilities can accommodate groups of 10 to 1,000 people. The UC reservations office also handles reservations for auditoriums in Agnes Arnold Hall, the Science and Research Building and the Social Work Building, as well as outdoor space on campus. Full-service catering is available through Aramark at (713) 743-FOOD. For information about rental fees and availability, visit www.uh.edu/ucaf/Reservations/reservations.html

University Eye Institute The College of Optometry University Eye Institute offers general eye and vision care for children, adults, and senior citizens; contact lens services; low vision rehabilitation; ocular emergency and medical eye services; and color vision services. The Eye Institute provides a complete line of frames, eyeglasses, and sports goggles. Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance programs are accepted. In addition, the College of Optometry provides vision and eye care at clinics throughout Houston. For more information, visit www.opt.uh.edu

University of Houston Libraries The six UH libraries contain more than 2 million volumes; 3.8 million microfilm units; 20,000 research journals and other serial subscriptions; and large quantities of manuscripts, maps and other materials. Information regarding remote access is listed on the libraries’ Web site at http://info.lib.uh.edu. The UH libraries are open to the public. Borrowing privileges are available to faculty, staff and students from any of the UH System institutions as well as UH alumni and HARLiC or TexShare cardholders. For information, visit http://info.lib.uh.edu/

University Optical Service The University Optical Service provides a wide selection of frames, prescription lenses,

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sunglasses, and sports and protective eyewear at competitive prices. For information, visit http://www.opt.uh.edu/uei/services/index.cfm

University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute for Intelligent Bio- Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles The next revolution in air travel and space exploration is contingent upon our ability to reduce mass, size, and power consumption while increasing reliability. The Institute will advance nano-bio technologies for both aircraft and space systems. UH engineers are concentrating on establishing distributed intelligence architectures to improve flight and mechanical performance and safety of future aircraft and spacecraft, and fabricating new nanomaterials that are stronger and lighter than conventional materials. The center is based at Texas A&M University, and members include the University of Houston, Prairie View A&M University, Rice University, Texas Southern University and the University of Texas at Arlington. For information, visit http://www.egr.uh.edu/nasaureti/

University Testing Services (UTS) University Testing Services is a proctor site for local, national, and global testing services. The mission of UTS is to provide comprehensive testing and assessment services. These services include administration of admission, placement, credit by exam, psychological batteries, correspondence examinations from other universities, and professional certification and licensing examinations. For more information, visit http://www.las.uh.edu/uts/

Urban-Talent Research Institute The mission of the University of Houston’s Urban Talent Research Institute is to enhance the identification and development of individual gifts and talents of children and youth in urban centers and their metropolitan areas through university-school partnerships. The Institute’s priorities are to: 1) provide research, instruction, and service for maximizing talent development in school-aged students; 2) create a national research agenda focused on recognition and enhancement of talent in urban children and youth; 3) develop a national center for research focusing on the development of artistically talented individuals; 4) demonstrate, through model sites and programs, techniques for improving education of urban school-aged students through talent development. For information, visit http://www.coe.uh.edu/about/institutes- centers/index.php

Video Calculus Series The Video Calculus Series is a free online calculus training course available to everyone. For more information, visit http://online.math.uh.edu/HoustonACT/videocalculus/index.html

Video Production The School of Communication produces videos for nonprofit organizations. Fees vary according to the type of video produced. Recent productions include instructional videotape about the dangers and treatment of HIV, a public information project regarding sewer connections, and an Asian culture archival project. For information,

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Well Logging Laboratory (WLL) The Well Logging Laboratory investigates the electric properties of reservoir rocks over a wide range of frequency. In addition, theoretical and experimental studies have obtained a better understanding of electric tool response in complex borehole environments, such as dipping formations, thin invaded beds and anisotropic formations. Public services include nuclear logging calibration facilities and industrial consortium on resistivity logging. For information, visit www.welllogginglab.com

Weston A. Petty Optometry Library The Weston A. Petty Optometry Library is open to the general public for use. For more information, visit http://guides.lib.uh.edu/optometry

Wine & Spirits Management Institute (W&SMI) The Wine & Spirits Management Institute is the product of a collaborative effort by the UH community and leaders in the alcohol beverage industry. UH’s Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, DIAGEO, Glazer’s Family of Companies, E.& J. Gallo Winery, Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods, Robert Mondavi, Beringer Blass Wine Estates, Brown-Forman, Future Brands, and Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine North America have developed a new standard of expertise embodied in the creation of a commercial beverage manager certification program. For information, visit http://www.wsmi.uh.edu/index.htm

Women Business Owners’ Initiative The Women Business Owners’ Initiative of the UH Small Business Development Center fosters business growth by bringing together experienced, successful women business owners who share their knowledge with women in the process of growing their businesses.

Women’s Archive and Research Center An integral part of the University Archives is the Women’s Archives, established in 1996. The Women’s Archives focuses on the history of women’s organizations in the Houston area. For information, visit http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries- collections/special-collections/university-archives

World Laboratory Center for Pan-American Collaboration in Science and Technology The World Laboratory Center for Pan-American Collaboration in Science and Technology seeks to strengthen U.S. ties with Latin America by promoting science and technology in developing countries.

Wortham Theatre Box Office The Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre Box Office handles individual and group ticket sales and distribution for School of Theatre productions including student productions,

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Children’s Theatre Festival, Houston Shakespeare Festival and performances by the school’s Dance Division. For information about performance schedules, visit the School of Theatre Web site at http://www.class.uh.edu/theatre/

Young Artist Apprenticeship Program Blaffer Gallery partners with local art teachers to provide an intensive workshop experiences with professional artists to at-risk high school students. Participants visit the gallery each day after school for hands-on studio experience with practicing artist- mentors. Workshops are six weeks long and held in the fall and spring. After exploring artistic and professional techniques, the young artists create their own works of art, which are then presented publicly in a professionally installed exhibition. For information, visit http://www.blaffergallery.org/

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Alfred R. Neumann Library The Alfred R. Neumann Library is a dynamic facility with resources and staff dedicated to excellent service for both UHCL and the surrounding community. With a collection of more than 524,000 volumes, more than 3,000 journals, numerous electronic databases, and federal and state document depositories, the library provides a broad range of informational resources for everyone. 281-283-3912.

Alpha Gifted Program The Alpha Gifted Program, established in fall 1986, brings fourth- and fifth-grade students in the Clear Creek Independent School District to UHCL every Wednesday during September through May. Students actively participate in courses taught in university classrooms by practitioners in the field. The Alpha Gifted Program strives to foster a passion for lifelong learning by providing gifted students opportunities that enrich and supplement their public school experiences. 281-283-3530.

Amazon Study Abroad The Amazon Study Abroad opportunity is a 12- to 19-day riverboat trip along the Amazon River. It is part of an ongoing research and instruction program that is available for course credit for UHCL students. It is also available to other university students, faculty, staff, alumni and community friends on a space-available basis. The tour is typically conducted twice a year. 281-283-3745.

Art School for Children and Young Adults The Art School for Children and Young Adults is a model program in art education for children living in the Clear Lake and surrounding areas. Classes provide art instruction for the community and serve as a laboratory for observation, teaching and research in visual arts education. A special focus of the curriculum is the art of the world’s varied cultures and the contributions of major artists. Children are encouraged to progress at their own pace and acquire skills appropriate to their developmental level. Classes are also offered for artistically gifted children from the Clear Creek Independent School District. 281-283-3344.

Center for Advanced Management Programs (CAMP) CAMP is the outreach arm of the School of Business serving as a link between the university, business, government and the community. Since its conception, CAMP has become a leader in university-level continuing professional education, offering a wide range of programs. CAMP sponsors, develops and implements numerous seminars, workshops, prep courses and certificate programs. The center also provides customized training programs tailored to meet specific organizational needs. Administrative assistants to chief executive officers benefit from CAMP’s commitment to keeping business and government abreast of changing work force developments, updated training methods and new knowledge essential to professional success. 281-283-3120.

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Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities (CADD) The UHCL Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities is composed of faculty and students in the Behavior Analysis, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Education graduate programs. CADD includes resources for school services, clinic and home services, autism assessment services, couples counseling and the Severe Behavior Disorders Research Clinic and Verbal Behavior Clinic. 281-283-3437.

Center for Educational Programs (CEP) The Center for Educational Programs offers an array of programs serving the citizens of the Bay Area, such as seminars for teachers of gifted children, reading, mathematics tutoring, Kids U, grant support for local school districts, and an independent testing service for area families. Offerings include programs for children, educators and the community. 281-283-3530.

Center for Professional Development of Teachers (CPDT) The School of Education is a state-approved Center for Professional Development of Teachers. The teacher preparation program provides extensive public school-based experiences for prospective educators. These expanded experiences include a two- semester internship, public school-based university coursework and close cooperation with a number of professional development school sites. The collaborative initiative between UHCL and area independent school districts focuses on providing a rich and supportive environment for the preparation of professional educators through a range of field experiences. 281-283-6121.

Clear Lake Association of Senior Programs (CLASP) CLASP is an outreach initiative developed to provide educational and intellectual opportunities to the community. It offers an evening speaker series held at UHCL and a daytime speaker series at off-campus locations. Friends of all ages are invited to enjoy the challenge of learning about new and varied subjects. 281-283-2021.

Collaborative Bilingual Counselor Training The Collaborative Bilingual Counselor Training program prepares bilingual educators to become school counselors in schools with high populations of English language learners in collaborating school districts. The project provides participants an array of professional development, mentoring and support to ensure success. As part of the training process, counseling interns in this project provide free counseling at after- school clinics located in neighborhood schools. 281-283-3559.

Cultural Arts Cultural Arts offers the community a variety of performances by the state and nation’s best touring artists. 281-283-2555.

Cyber Security Institute The UHCL Cyber Security Institute provides research and education services to the region. The institute is mutually beneficial to UHCL and surrounding private industry and government offices, providing research and resources to improve overall capacity in cyber security and to promote cyber security related research and education activities in the greater Houston area. 281-283-3703.

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Digital Media Lab The Digital Media Lab is a training facility associated with the graduate program in Digital Media Studies and the undergraduate program in Communication. The lab provides training and services in web development and design, public relations, digital graphics, gaming and simulations and social media. 281-283-3414.

Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH) The Environmental Institute of Houston was established to be a leader in building partnerships in research, education and outreach. EIH promotes sustainable and resilient development and environmental quality in the Houston-Galveston and southeast Gulf coast region of Texas, supporting environmental solutions that balance environmental health and related social issues with economic wellbeing. EIH strategically leverages its limited state resources to partner with and secure additional external financial resources to conduct critical research and educational outreach on regional environmental issues important to area residents and encourages collaborative academic activities and public discussion on sustainable resilient development, natural resource conservation, pollution prevention, environmental regulation and policy, and societal issues related to critical environmental issues. It supports a wide variety of environmental education activities including professional development for educators and continuing technical education of professionals through workshops, hands-on training activities and other community educational activities. EIH supports and conducts research on a variety of environmental topics including sustainable resilient development, conservation of critical environmental services, wetland restoration, air quality improvement, fish and wildlife conservation, water quality improvement, environmental freshwater flows, management of invasive species, reduction of risks from pollutants, and environmental sociology and history. Many EIH research and education projects are collaborative and bring together a diverse representative assemblage of people from businesses, environmental agencies, conservation organizations, and academic institutions to seek solutions for environmental issues. 281-283-3950.

High Technologies Laboratory The High Technologies Laboratory identifies problems common to government agencies, corporations and academic researchers which can benefit from the faculty, student and equipment resources available at UHCL. The laboratory mobilizes UHCL faculty expertise to perform research and development in computer science, computer engineering, telecommunications, robotics, software engineering, information technology, electro-optical systems, and control systems. 281-283-3809.

Human Performance Institute The Human Performance Institute offers advanced programs in sports medicine and human performance. It promotes community health with exercise sessions, lecture/discussion series, testing services, and fitness instruction. 281-283-3032.

Johnson Space Center History Collection UHCL entered an agreement with NASA and the National Archives to house and provide access to the NASA Johnson Space Center History Collection, allowing the records to be housed in the University Archives where researchers can access them. 132

The JSC History Collection at UHCL consists of eight series: Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Shuttle, Station, Oral History, General Reference, and Center. 281-283-3936.

Kids U Kids U is a supplementary academic program for elementary and secondary students, operated by the Center for Educational Programs, offered during the summer and on Saturdays during the academic year. There are nine camps within Kids U: Brain Power Camp, Early Childhood Camp, Language Camp, Science Camp, Technology Camp, Math Camp, World Explorers Camp, Young Writers Camp and Gifted Academy. In addition, summer opportunities are offered by UHD’s Applied Business and Technology Center at UHCL with the CampuCamp and Summer Academy programs. The Assistance League of the Bay Area provides significant scholarship assistance annually to children who cannot otherwise afford to participate. 281-283-3530.

Learning Resources Review Center Jointly sponsored by the Alfred R. Neumann Library and the School of Education, the center houses current children’s books furnished through the generosity of publishers and producers of books and materials. The primary function of the center is to encourage review activities. 281-283-3912.

Math Center The Math Center supports and encourages students preparing to become teachers of K-8 mathematics. Center staff helps students delve beyond their textbooks into underlying mathematical concepts. The center offers a broad range of resources for future mathematics educators, including mathematics software, reference books and magazines, geometrical models, instructional videotapes, and video recording and playback equipment as well as problem review sessions and math anxiety workshops. The Math Center is a collaborative program of the School of Education and School of Science and Computer Engineering. 281-283-3723.

Mathematics Institute A collaborative program of the School of Education and the School of Science and Computer Engineering, the Mathematics Institute provides training in probability, statistics and geometry for middle school teachers. 281-283-3536.

NASA Oral History Project The NASA Oral History Project began in the mid-1990s with a mission to identify key personnel involved with Johnson’s Space Center activities and to interview them as part of the historical record. Materials housed at UHCL consist of transcripts, CDs, and/or cassette recordings. 281-283-3936.

Professional Development Laboratory School (McWhirter Elementary) The Professional Development Laboratory School at McWhirter Elementary School is a collaborative initiative of UHCL and Clear Creek Independent School District. The partnership emphasizes the professional development of teachers (CCISD teachers, UHCL candidates and UHCL faculty) and research, both of which are focused on improving the achievement levels of CCISD students. 281-283-3620.

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Psychological Services Clinic The Psychological Services Clinic is a training facility for graduate programs in clinical psychology, family therapy, and school psychology. The clinic provides family, individual and couples counseling and psychological testing for children and adolescents. Fees are assessed on a sliding scale. 281-283-3330.

Research Center for Language and Culture The Research Center for Language and Culture develops national models that can be used to improve education for English language learners (ELLs). Efforts include improving training for teachers working with ELLs in bilingual, ESL and/or general education settings. Ongoing research is addressing dual language education and science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for ELLs. 281-283-3591 or 281-285-3584.

School Librarian: Early LINK to Literacy and Learning The LINK grant prepares school librarians to work with the early childhood populations in prekindergarten through second grades, focusing on the unique literacy needs of young children. Collaborating with Houston area school districts, participants will receive specialized training in working with young children. This project will provide professional development in creating library collections for emergent readers in both English and Spanish as well as how the school library can better serve the needs of young children and their families, increasing community communications and collaborations. 281-283- 3577.

Student Conference for Research and Creative Arts The Student Conference for Research and Creative Arts, an annual event, provides students across all disciplines from many universities within the state regional opportunities to present original research and creative arts projects in a professional forum as well as participate in a broad spectrum of workshops and lectures. The conference plays a significant role in students’ education by enhancing classroom experiences through interaction within and across disciplines. 281-283-3375.

Student Leadership Involvement and Community Engagement (SLICE) The Student Leadership Involvement and Community Engagement program develops and prepares today’s students to lead and serve in tomorrow’s global communities. SLICE programs are open to all UHCL students and staff, regardless of affiliation with existing leadership programs, organizations and activities. The mission of SLICE is to foster learning and personal development through exploring leadership trends and civic engagement. SLICE provides all UHCL students opportunities to develop and enhance a personal philosophy of leadership that includes comprehension of leadership theory and application, and a holistic understanding of self, others, organizations and community. It serves as a clearinghouse for university students to engage in community service, volunteering and service-learning activities to enhance their academic experience. 281-283-2611.

Success Through Education Programs (STEP) Established in 1993, Success Through Education Programs is a recruitment-retention collaborative project whose partners work together to identify first-generation,

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economically-disadvantaged students who have the potential to become highly qualified teachers for Texas. This successful collaboration has expanded to four area school districts, seven high schools, four community colleges, and UHCL. STEP initiatives include Baytown Area Educator Recruitment & Retention, Galveston Area Education Recruitment & Retention, Galena Park Home-Grown Teacher Project, and Pathway to Teaching in HISD. STEP provides established, comprehensive support and advisement in a seamless transition from high school, to community college, to UHCL, which culminates in a college degree and teacher certification. STEP provides a structure for sustained renewal, retention and success for future generations. 281-283-3501.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Program: Academics for Offenders UHCL offers courses to TDCJ inmates through the School of Human Sciences and Humanities leading to bachelor’s degrees in Behavioral Sciences and Humanities, and master’s degrees in Humanities and Literature. UHCL is one of very few institutions that offer graduate degrees to offenders. The university employs both full-time instructors and adjuncts to teach classes at the TDCJ units and strives to ensure that the TDCJ regimen matches that of on-campus classes. 281-283-3385.

UHCL Capstone Courses in Computing and Mathematics and in Engineering Each year, UHCL invites proposals from area industry and government agencies for capstone projects that would benefit the proposing organization. These computing- related project proposals are evaluated by a team of UHCL faculty. Projects that are believed to be of sufficient complexity to require teams of School of Computer Science and Engineering students to exercise what they have learned during their work toward their computing-related degree and that are also believed to be achievable by teams of students over a one- to two-semester period are accepted. The proposing organization provides a domain expert and SCE provides a faculty expert to help mentor the team throughout the project. The resulting team projects are demonstrated and presented to the public at the conclusion of the work. 281-283-3865.

UHCL Human Space Flight Collection The UHCL Human Space Flight Collection chronicles and commemorates the individuals involved in the space industry. The program, created by UHCL Archives, seeks materials (personal papers, correspondence, drawings, designs, etc.) that offer personal insights into the history and operation of human space flights which will complement and enhance the official NASA/JSC records. 281-283-3936.

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University of Houston – Downtown

Applied Business and Technology Center The Applied Business and Technology Center is a self-sustaining, non-credit granting center whose mission is to provide quality continuing education to the public; quality research and consulting services to industry; services leading to the improvement of the community; and personal and professional opportunities for UHD faculty and staff. The Center offers courses in applied business and technology at various levels, from entry level through advanced. Courses are taught on-campus as well as off-site. In addition, the Center develops and delivers customized courses for business and industry. 713- 221-8032 [email protected]

Center for Applied Polymer Science Research Undergraduate students have opportunities to participate in basic and applied polymer science research projects with academic and industrial significance through the Center for Applied Polymer Science Research. The focus of the Center includes applied research in ultraviolet (UV) polymerization chemistry and technology. Research is disseminated to the Texas-based chemical industry concerning the productivity, environmental, and energy saving features of UV polymerization processes. 713-221- 8169. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/sciences/ns/CAPSR/index.html

Center for Public Deliberation This collaborative, non-partisan Center encourages citizens to actively participate in the deliberative democracy process through public discussions about issues that affect their lives. The CPD is an affiliate of the National Issues Forums (NIF) network and partner to the Texas Forums project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. 713-221- 8132. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/humanities/uhd_cpd/

Center for Public Service and Family Strengths The Center enhances the educational experiences of UHD students and the quality of life of residents of the Houston community through collaborations, research studies, publication of an academic journal, and programs that reinforce academic learning and civic values among students, foster ethnic and racial harmony, strengthen families, advocate for underrepresented individuals and families, and facilitate the dissemination of best family-centered practices. 713-221-2737. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/publicservice/cfs/index.php

Community Involvement Center The Community Involvement Center (CIC) serves as the clearinghouse for community involvement and service learning opportunities through outreach to students, faculty/staff and community agencies. The CIC strives to establish and maintain partnerships by providing volunteer support to community service agencies and by providing service learning opportunities to the UHD community. UHD and the UHD CIC share a commitment to offer students opportunities to engage in high impact

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Criminal Justice Training Center UHD has one of the largest criminal justice training centers in Texas. The mission of the training center is to provide quality adult education to individuals desiring to enter public and private sector criminal justice professions and continuing education to criminal justice practitioners. In addition, students, faculty, and staff of the division donate thousands of hours annually to activities leading to the improvement of the criminal justice professions and the community at large. The division has conducted more than 100 police academy classes, trained more than 15,000 students for the criminal justice professions, and won regional and national awards for excellence. 713- 221-8690. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/publicservice/cj/trainingdivision/cjce.htm

The Cultural Enrichment Center The Cultural Enrichment Center enriches the academic life of the community while celebrating the cultural and ethnic diversity of students, staff, faculty, and the Houston community at large. The Center sponsors, organizes, and supports events such as lectures, readings, performances, concerts, and exhibitions by national and international artists, writers, and public intellectuals, often partnering with academic departments and with community arts organizations such as Fotofest, Houston Poetry Fest, Inprint, Inc., and Writers in the Schools. Through diverse programming, the Center recognizes the importance of music, art, and the written and spoken word. 713-221-8295. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/humanities/cultural_enrichment_center/index.htm

English Language Institute (ELI) Over 350 students study in each of the ELI’s six sessions per year. Students come from all over the world with varying levels of English skills to improve their language skills and to learn about U.S. culture, business practices, and daily living. Interests of participants range from computer science, medicine, and business to the liberal arts. Most come with specific academic or career enhancement goals. 713-221-8047. www.uhd.edu/prospective/continuinged/eli/

Houston Pre-Freshman Enrichment Program (PREP) Houston Pre-Freshman Enrichment Program (PREP) is a summer program for middle and high school students hosted by the UHD College of Sciences and Technology. The program produces a pipeline of highly qualified students prepared to enter college in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students from economically and socially disadvantaged populations are encouraged to pursue careers in STEM fields. Since its inception, Houston PREP has provided enrichment opportunities to more than 3,500 young Houstonians. Houston PREP offers participating students six weeks of study annually over a four-year period, providing practical experience and hands on learning opportunities in intellectually demanding STEM classes and laboratories. By exposing students to topics not typically taught in

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the middle and high school curriculum, Houston PREP offers an insight into STEM careers, increasing students’ interest in pursuing their studies in high demand disciplines. 713- 221-8432. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/sciences/ccsds/hou_prep/

Houston Urban Network for Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (HUNSTEM) HUNSTEM is a network of professional and educators working together to promote STEM study in the Houston educational arena. By creating a network that includes schools, informal science institutions, professional societies, and institutes of higher learning in the Houston area, HUNSTEM helps students, teachers, and families to manage and share the STEM resources. http://hunstem.uhd.edu/

Institute for Financial Literacy and Academic Excellence The Institute for Financial Literacy and Academic Excellence is a summer enrichment program that assists high school students academically and helps prepare them to transition to the more rigorous university experience. Students are offered an opportunity to participate in a three-week academic enrichment program that supports and enhances their high school curriculum, helps prepare them for college, and acculturates them to a university environment. The university experience, in turn, helps to reduce apprehension about college attendance by familiarizing students with campus life through interactions with university faculty and state-of-the-art technology. The goals of the institute include encouraging academic excellence and increasing the high school graduation and college enrollment rates.

Professional Land Management Certification The Professional Land Management Program is developed for persons desiring to pursue a career in Petroleum Land related activities. The program is designed for landmen, lease and title analysts, attorneys, and others involved in supporting oil and gas exploration and development activities. The curriculum consists of six courses that will provide graduates with the skills necessary to augment their career in land management. 713-221-8179. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/business/mmba/land_cert_index.htm

The National Society of Leadership and Success – UHD Chapter The UHD Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success challenges students to develop their strengths and skills as collaborative leaders. The society engages students with required seminars and interactive components, provides experience working in and facilitating groups and team meetings, improves personal interaction and communication skills, and improves self-confidence and leadership skills with a profound effect. The society also offer students national benefits and lifetime opportunities to network and engage with companies and other leaders nationwide. 713-221-8573. www.uhd.edu/sae Project Grad Summer Institutes Project GRAD Houston is designed to support a quality public education for all children in economically disadvantaged communities so that high school and college graduation rates increase. UHD and Project Grad partner together each summer to host several

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summer institutes for rising high school juniors and seniors. The focus of the summer institutes revolves around career explorations, college admissions preparation, and financial aid awareness.

Right of Way Certification The first of its kind, university sponsored Right of Way Certificate Program focuses on the Private Sector of the Right of Way industry. The curriculum was developed by working professionals in the field and is taught by highly experienced Private Sector Right of Way professionals. It provides skill enhancement and professional training for those interested in entering the Right of Way profession. 713-221-8179. www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/business/row/

Talent Search The Educational Talent Search Program assists middle school and high school students interested in pursuing a post-secondary education. UHD's Talent Search program works specifically with students in the Aldine Independent School District and provides academic advising, counseling, college campus tours, cultural field trips and a summer enrichment program. 713-221-8992. www.uhd.edu/talent/

Texas Consortium of Geriatrics Education Centers By invitation, UHD participates with eight other Texas schools to facilitate education and awareness of gerontology and gerontologically relevant careers. A key feature of this outreach is an annual Symposium on Gerontology-Geriatrics Awareness and Education in partnership with San Jacinto College-North. 713-221-8014.

Upward Bound Upward Bound operates on Saturdays during the academic year and for six weeks in summer to provide instruction in core curriculum (reading, writing, and mathematics), coaching on state-mandated assessment tests and tutoring in subjects necessary for success in college studies. 713-221-8515. www.uhd.edu/upward/

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University of Houston-Victoria

American Book Review & the UHV/ABR Reading Series ABR is a nonprofit, internationally distributed publication that specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde and women’s presses. UHV has housed the publication since 2007. ABR and the School of Arts & Sciences have collaborated to create the UHV/ABR Reading Series. The series features nationally recognized writers on extended visits to the Victoria campus. Each semester, five authors are invited to present in the Reading Series. Scheduled events include a free public reading and discussion of their recent work; sale of signed editions of the author’s works; author roundtable discussions with UHV faculty and students; and community receptions. More than 50 authors have participated in the UHV/ABR Reading Series since 2007. For more information, go to americanbookreview.org

Black History Month Celebration Each February, UHV, Victoria College and the Black History Steering Committee co- sponsor a Black History Month Parade, Black History Heritage Festival and Fifth-Grade Poster Contest. All posters submitted to the contest are displayed in the UHV University Center throughout the month for the public to view. Winners of the poster contest are recognized at the Black History Month Reception at UHV and receive scholarships to the university. For more information, go to www.uhv.edu/president/special_events/black_history_month.aspx

Career Services The Office of Career Services is committed to serving UHV students, alumni and members of the community. Online and in-person resources are available for career development and job searches. Students and alumni may consult with a career counselor by appointment. The office houses a resource collection that includes annual periodicals; employment guides from government agencies, local school districts and area employers; and a file of applications for local employers. Online resources include the Careerlink online resume and job search database, a series of online workshops to support candidates in interviewing and networking, links to job databases and recommended readings. Career Services supports both the UHV community and the community at large through outreach with sponsored career workshops, job fairs and networking receptions with participating employers from across the Coastal Bend. For more information, go to www.uhv.edu/careerServices

Centro Victoria/Huizache Centro Victoria represents a coming together of artists and educators who value the contributions that Mexican Americans have made and are continuing to make in this country. This organization has the goal of introducing Americans to the cultural and artistic contributions of the Mexican American community in the U.S. Founded in 2010, the group sponsors workshops across the state for high school English teachers and has produced “Made in Texas,” a guide to help teachers incorporate more Mexican 140

American authors into their lessons. Centro Victoria also publishes Huizache, a literary magazine featuring the leading voices in Hispanic literature. For more information, go to centrovictoria.net

Champions of Character UHV is committed to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Champions of Character initiative and ensures that student athletes are engaged in the local community, particularly in efforts that have a positive influence on young people. It is mandated that each UHV team take part in at least one servant leadership activity a year. Through the years, the university’s student athletes have been mentors for at-risk Victoria Independent School District students by serving as tutors in various subjects, and helping with homework and school assignments. Student athletes have conducted clinics for organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club and the Challenger League, which helps special needs youth. UHV athletes also participate in Relay for Life and Movember to help raise money and awareness to fight cancer, and volunteer at the annual fundraiser for the Bluebonnet Youth Ranch, a home for children from troubled homes. For more information, call the Athletics Office at 361-485-4423.

Claud Jacobs Collegiate Invitational Golf Tournament UHV Athletics hosts the Claud Jacobs Collegiate Invitational Golf Tournament, which draws a strong field of men’s and women’s college teams from across the nation. More than 150 students, coaches and fans traveled to Victoria from states as far away as California and New York to attend the 2013 event. For more information, call the Athletics Office at 361-485-4423.

Education Symposium The School of Education & Human Development hosts a free Education Symposium each semester that invites experts in different fields of education to come to the university to share their research with the public. Past speakers have included experts in the fields of emotional intelligence and autism. For more information, call the School of Education & Human Development at 361-570-4262.

Educational Technology Conference The School of Education & Human Development works in co-sponsorship with the Area III Director of the Texas Computer Education Association and the Region III Education Service Center to offer an Educational Technology Conference each fall. This conference serves to meet the educational technology training needs of teachers in 26 school districts in the Region III Education Service Center’s service area. Technology specialists from the Texas Computer Education Association, vendors, breakout sessions and keynote speakers are available at the conferences to present educational technology information to school teachers, paraprofessionals and school administrators. For more information, call the School of Education & Human Development at 361-570-4262.

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Giving Tree The Student Government Association sponsors the Giving Tree each December to encourage faculty, staff, students and community members to donate nonperishable food, toys, clothing and other items to nonprofit organizations in Victoria. For information, go to www.uhv.edu/president/special_events/tree.aspx

Hispanic Heritage Month Poster Contest UHV sponsors an annual Hispanic Heritage Month Poster Contest in September with Victoria College and the Victoria Chamber of Commerce Minority Business Council. The contest’s first-place winner has his or her artwork featured on posters advertising Victoria’s Hispanic Heritage Month events. The middle school winners are recognized at the Hispanic Heritage Month Poster Contest Reception at UHV and receive college scholarships. All contest entries are displayed in the UHV University Center during the month. For more information, call 361-570-4865.

Letting Education Achieve Dreams (LEAD) LEAD staff members connect primary and secondary school students to university resources, information, activities and organizations. LEAD also supports student life and welfare by hosting educational, cultural, and fundraising programs and events designed to engage the community, increase UHV enrollment and provide scholarships for students. LEAD staff members arrange campus tours and college presentations to allow students to gain exposure to a college environment and learn the value of a college education. LEAD staff also provides personalized application assistance to prospective students, and information about ways to finance an education and available career paths. For more information, visit www.uhv.edu/lead/ or call 361-570-4865.

Math & Computer Science Awareness Day For the past sixteen years, Math and Computer Science Awareness Day, a collaborative effort between UHV and Victoria College, has encouraged more than 2,000 students to explore careers in math and computer science. The program continues to evolve each year in order to challenge students as technology becomes more advanced. With robotics demonstrations and a chance to win their own robotics kit, students are motivated to pursue careers in math and computer science. For more information, go to mathcs.aiatuhv.com

Martin de León Symposium on the Humanities The School of Arts & Sciences and the de León Club of Victoria present this morning- long symposium every year on Mexican American contributions to the humanities. It is free and open to the public, and usually is held in April. For information, contact Beverly Tomek at [email protected]

Nursing Forums These forums are a way to invite the professional nursing community to UHV’s School of Nursing. The forums offer up-to-date, evidenced-based information on nursing practice to faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, alumni and the professional nursing community for free (or a nominal fee). Participants learn about nursing research topics of current interest in the settings where nurses work and care for patients.

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Graduate students are also able to present their evidence-based capstone projects to participants. The Nursing Forums began with 11 participants and now have up to 75 in attendance. The Fall Forum is held in Sugar Land, and the Spring Forum is held in Victoria. The School of Nursing partners with the Sigma Theta Tau honor society, local hospitals and professional nursing organizations (Texas Nurses Association, American Nurses Association) to provide continuing education credits. For more information, call the School of Nursing at 361-570-4370.

President’s Annual Report & Excellence Awards Every fall, the UHV president invites area civic and business leaders to campus to attend the President’s Annual Report & Excellence Awards. The event highlights the university’s milestones and achievements the previous year and recognizes alumni, community members and students who have made significant contributions to the university. Faculty, staff, students and the wider community also can view the annual report on a special website created each year at www.UHVAnnualReport.com

Provost’s Lecture Series As part of UHV’s 40th anniversary celebration, the Provost’s Lecture Series was started in January 2013 to bring more opportunities for scholarly discussion to the university. The talks are free and open to the public. The first speaker was Wesley Hogan, an author and professor at Virginia State University who is working on a book about Casey Hayden, a Victoria resident who was one of the few white female leaders in the 1960s civil rights movement. The series also has featured Douglas Foster, an associate professor in the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and author of “After Mandela.” For more information, call the Provost’s Office at 361-570-4321.

Saturday Morning Book Break English professor Dr. Cindy Schnebly hosts the Saturday Morning Book Break. This group, which meets one Saturday morning each month during the academic year, was organized in 1995 as a way to engage community members in conversations about books. Though moderated by a faculty member, the book break’s goal is not about teaching but rather about sharing a love of books through informal discussions. Community members active in the group choose each year’s reading list. Selections discussed range from current fiction and nonfiction to literary classics. For more information, email [email protected].

Small Business Development Center The SBDC provides an example of nontraditional opportunities for continuing education that contribute significantly to the economic development of the community. It provides quality comprehensive assistance to small businesses through one-on-one counseling in all disciplines of business with a principle focus on management, marketing and finance. As businesses face tough decisions such as starting or expanding, franchising, leasing or buying, debt verses investment and more, they can look to the SBDC for practical, up-to-date guidance. Financial analysis, market analysis, business planning and loan packaging are a small part of the programs offered. Most services are free. For more information, call 361-485-4485. 143

Study Abroad UHV has study abroad programs to China, Mexico, London, Spain and Taiwan. For more information, go to www.uhv.edu/studyabroad/

Victoria Business & Education Coalition Victoria Business and Education Coalition is an educational initiative created by the University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria College, Victoria Independent School District, Victoria Chamber Foundation and many area businesses and individuals. The goal of the program is to assist with increasing the educational attainment level of the region through mentoring and tutoring programs, business success seminars, career exploration and more. Nearly 40 UHV faculty, staff and students recently volunteered by mentoring students and giving presentations. For more information, go to www.surebetvictoria.com

The Willis Group Lecture Series The School of Business Administration hosts The Willis Group Distinguished Speaker Series with lectures throughout the year given by business executives. The free lectures are open to business students and the public. Past speakers include John Ragan, vice president of NRG Energy; Michael T. Willis, chairman of The Willis Group; Jim Duncan, chief analyst and commodity market strategist for ConocoPhillips; and Farouk Shami, founder and chairman of Farouk Systems hair care company. For more information, call the School of Business Administration at 800-687-4293.

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