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Institutes and Centers | Projects and Grants | Programs | SchoolsNational Center for Student Success
The National Center for Student Success (NCSS) is a multidisciplinary research institute authorized by the University of Houston's Research Council and the University of Houston's Vice President for Research. The Center focuses on creating an empirically- and theoretically-anchored knowledge base on Hispanic and African American students from PreK-12 through the attainment of an undergraduate degree. The Center is intended to address the need for a scientifically-driven database on Hispanics and African Americans statewide, as well as nationally, and the need for more longitudinal studies that track minority students throughout their elementary, middle and high school enrollment and on to their undergraduate participation in a postsecondary institution. The mission of the Center is not only to generate quantitative and qualitative empirical investigations that will lead to the identification of factors and processes underlying student adjustment, academic performance, retention and, ultimately, educational success but it will also serve as a research center aimed at informing practice and policy for educational institutions throughout the educational pipeline.
Asian American Studies Center
The AASC is an interdisciplinary academic center, dedicated to the study of Asian and Asian Americans in the United States and abroad. It explores either social, historical, educational, economic, political and linguistic characteristics and development. Its mission is to generate knowledge, increase awareness and foster appreciation of the Asian and Asian American experience in the United States and abroad, and to provide faculty, students and community members with rich opportunities to learn about Asian and Asian American cultures.
Chemicals in the Environment Institute
The Institute is for educators who teach science in grades 4-12 in Texas. Scholarships are provided by the Texas Chemical Council for teachers to learn about the manufacture of chemicals, their uses in society, how the environment is treated in the manufacture of chemicals, air and water quality, epidemiology, toxicology,etc. Further, these educators take back to the classroom instructional materials that can improve their students science literacy.
Houston Area Teacher Center
The Houston Area Teacher Center (HATC) is a consortium of over 30 Houston-area school systems with the University of Houston and its College of Education. HATC is the oldest and largest teacher center in the nation, initiated in 1970. The Center is a forum for the College and area school systems to work through issues of common concern such as teacher supply and demand, job placement, and protocols for the placement of student teachers and professional development schools.
Institute of Urban Education
The Institute for Urban Education works to link the community with vital urban education initiatives. Through a variety of forums, The Institute provides research, instruction, and services so that education might be improved in urban areas and collaborative educational efforts fostered.
Urban-Talent Research Institute
The mission of the University of Houston's Urban Talent Research Institute (U-TRI) is to enhance the identification and development of individual gifts and talents of children and youth in urban centers and their metropolitan areas through university-school partnerships. The Institute's priorities are to: 1) serve the Houston metropolitan area by providing research, instruction, and service for maximizing talent development in school-aged students; 2) create a national research agenda focused on recognition and enhancement of talent in urban children and youth; 3) develop a national center for research focusing on the development of artistically talented individuals; 4) demonstrate, through model sites and programs, techniques for improving education of urban school-aged students through talent development.
