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. Through support and mentorship, GTF Aggie Scholars upperclassmen aid GTF Aggie Scholars freshmen in the transition from high school to college life.

Through a support system of upperclassmen mentors, 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

Scholarship Information

Requirements

GTF Aggie Scholars are required to:

• 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 semester
• 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

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 mentors. 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

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.

Large community meetings are held the 1st Monday of the month.

GTF Mentors

 

GTF 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.

Eligibility & Responsibilities

• Must have a 2.5 GPR at time of application and after Spring 2022 semester
• Must register for the Fall and Spring semester UGST course
• Facilitate the UGST 181 course
• Attend all dates/trainings listed above
• Complete the Hullabaloo U training
• Plan, manage and implement at least one social a semester for the GTF Community
• Attend all Small Community events
• Meet one-on-one with each mentee at least once a month
• Attend weekly mentor meetings with Coordinator
• Attend the Fall & Spring Community Service event
• Have a positive attitude

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