UTB-TSC Approved for Doctorate Degree

By Diana Eva Maldonado, The Brownsville Herald, Texas

Jul. 19–One day soon students at the University of Texas at Brownsville will be awarded doctorate degrees.

This afternoon school officials learned the university will be able to offer a doctoral degree in education, a first for UTB-TSC.

Dr. Juliet Garcia traveled to Austin today to present a full doctoral proposal in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in bilingual studies to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The doctorate program is designed to prepare education professionals to understand curriculum issues from elementary school through college, and how they apply to bilingual learning.

The degree will become available to students this fall. Administrators say interest in the doctoral program has been high.

Fifteen doctoral candidates will start UTB/TSC’s own program with 15 more added each of the next five years. Students who enter each year will go through the program as a group.

This year over 5,000 students, a third of the student population, took classes in the School of Education.

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