Author: santiagoperrett
South Texas College Launches iGrad Student Financial Literacy Platform to First-Generation Hispanic Students
iGrad has partnered with South Texas College (STC) in McAllen, Tex. to provide a customized, interactive online and mobile financial wellness platform to first-generation Hispanic students. STC, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority Serving Institution (MSI) with five campuses and approximately 30,000 students, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education under the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program. STC has a student body that is about 94 percent Hispanic and 70 percent of its students are the first in their family to attend college. STC Director of Career & Employer Services Celinda E. Salinas said that the primary ... Read more