GTF Aggie Scholars
Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) Aggie Scholars is a learning community for freshmen who have graduated from an early college high school as defined by Educate Texas. GTF Aggie Scholars are awarded a scholarship from the Greater Texas Foundation, a statewide education grant maker based in Bryan, Texas.
GTF Program Offers
GTF Aggie Scholars upperclassmen provide guidance and support to incoming GTF Aggie Scholars (first-year students) as they transition from high school to college life. Through mentorship, shared experiences, and campus engagement, upperclassmen help first-year students build community and successfully navigate their college journey.
GTF Aggie Scholars:
- Learn self-awareness through shared experiences
- Receive realistic support and feedback regarding their current and future scholarship status
- Develop academic, personal, and career goals through the discovery of personal strengths and abilities
- Network with the Texas A&M and scholarship community
- Become influential leaders at Texas A&M University
GTF Program Requirements
- Maintain a cumulative GPR of 2.50 or higher each semester
- Complete a minimum of 30 hours each academic year (total over fall, spring, and summer terms)
- Complete the freshman seminar course (UGST 181) with a satisfactory grade in the fall and spring semesters
- Attend mandatory GTF Aggie Scholars events (announced via email)
- Attend monthly Small Community meetings in the fall semester
- Attend monthly Large and Small Community meetings in the spring semester
- Maintain bi-weekly contact with assigned upperclassmen mentor
Small Community Meetings are hosted by GTF Aggie Scholars upperclassmen mentors in an informal social setting to help foster academic success in their mentees.
Freshmen GTF Aggie Scholars are randomly partnered with mentors in a small community overseen by one of the upperclassmen mentor.
These monthly meetings have alternating themes determined by the GTF Aggie Scholars mentors each year.
Small Community Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of the month.
Large Community Meetings are held the 1st Monday of the month.
Large Community Meetings occur monthly in the spring semester.
GTF Aggie Scholars are connected with a variety of guest speakers to help students develop academic, personal, and professional goals.
GTF Peer Mentors
GTF Peer Mentors impact the direction of Greater Texas Foundation Aggie Scholars students by providing dedicated leadership and mentorship. GTF Mentors will strengthen their personal & professional skills while collaboratively working with staff to ensure GTF Aggie Scholars achieve the set forth learning outcomes and develop experience that may be applied in other academic and professional situations.Program Goals:
- To give new students scholarship recipients a support system with a mentor and connection through that mentor to other resources.
- To provide new students the awareness that other students have encountered similar experiences and to provide aid in succeeding in these situations.
- To provide realistic support and feedback to news scholarship students regarding their current and future status.
- To help freshmen scholarship students develop greater self-awareness of strengths, abilities, and potential.
- To encourage freshmen scholarship students to become vital and contributing members of the Texas A&M community.
- To develop in freshman scholarship recipients a positive identification with Texas A&M and the scholarship community.
Mentor Eligibility & Responsibilities:
- Must register for the Fall and Spring semester UGST course
- Facilitate the UGST 181 course
- Attend all listed dates/trainings
- Complete the Hullabaloo U training
- Plan, manage, and implement small socials a semester for the GTF Community
- Plan and schedule to attend all Small Community events
- Meet one-on-one with each mentee at least once a month
