Alamo Colleges District

We kind of took a little bit of time away from you there, but can you tell us a little bit about what's happening behind the scenes where you are right now?

I am currently sitting in the headquarters of Alamo Community Colleges in preparation for my upcoming exhibition, which, uh, here at their headquarters.

Um, and the exhibition will, will be titled La Línea, which translates to The Line.

This will be a collection of a series of works dating all the way back to the early years, like three and four years old, to current works, as, as well as I, I will be presenting a brand-new painting that has been completed specifically for this opening.

But at the same time, we need to find ways to inject more economic mobility into San Antonians of all generations today.

This company, if we just refer to IEM, in partnership with what the Alamo Colleges is bringing to Brooks, which is a training center for advanced manufacturing technicians, including a couple of other areas in the automobile industry, but advanced manufacturing technicians in particular is what I'll focus on.

When people graduate from that program, And if they get the opportunity to work for IEM, they're going to start at about $70,000, $80,000 a year without a high school diploma, a two-year program with Alamo Colleges.

Once they get in there, manufacturing provides an incredible opportunity for advancement.

And, you know, we see it at Toyota today.

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La Linea has opened through February at the ACCESS Common Ground Gallery at Alamo Colleges.

I'm Corey Cook in San Antonio.

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Wade, who is a pioneering collegiate executive, higher education loyalist, student success champion, first generation advocate, and talent cultivator with over two decades of transformative and inspirational leadership shaping student access, achievement, and institutional excellence.

Currently serving with the Alamo Colleges District as Vice President for Student Success at San Antonio College, Dr.

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St. Louis Junior College of St. Louis, 10 million.

Community College of Rhode Island, is five almost six million we'll call it Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville Tennessee 7.6 million in Alamo Community College in Northwest Vista College right in San Antonio Texas is at 10.4 million with that again all right just to give you a little bit of a background and this is For some of you folks overseas, you have kind of hard to understand.

We have a couple of different systems of colleges, right? We have public colleges, which includes community, all right, that are run by state organizations, state departments, state education systems are accountable to some of the state.

So for example, I went through what's now Richard Stockton University of New Jersey, That's a state college.