Highlights
Letter from our Director
The 2024/2025 academic year was full of projects, presentations, and workshops!
- We went back to Nolanville for the third time and were re-inspired by the community development efforts there!
- We co-hosted a campus-wide symposium on community engagement, developing a network of faculty with a passion for community work.
- We named the first Cooper Scholars who received the Dr. John T. Cooper, Jr Endowed Scholarship!
- The time was right to work on several projects in the Southeast Texas region. We partnered with researchers as they applied scientific rigor to understand their challenges. Teams of students and faculty developed designs and strategies for flood risk and air quality concerns.
- We received our first international grant made up of an international team (from Canada, Switzerland, Columbia, Indonesia, England, and the United States) to understand housing resiliency to disasters.
- We helped host a summer camp of high school students to explore the complexities of disaster planning.
But it was the 4th of July holiday that caused us to pause. Our team, like many people across the state and nation, were heartbroken about the TX Hill Country floods. Our work has always been centered in assisting those in need. That has meant a strong tradition of working in rural places and communities vulnerable to hazards. The communities impacted are much like the communities we work with every day.
With that, I want to emphasize that our team has expertise in rural planning and planning for hazards. If you know of a community that could use our assistance, we would love to sit down with you to learn more.
We send our heartfelt gratitude for another year of service!
Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Director
"There's lots of work to do and we are ever thankful for the opportunity to work side-by-side with Texans to grapple with hard questions."
Texas Target Communities is the university's community-engaged learning and research program that partners with low-capacity communities across Texas to assist them with needs that would otherwise go unmet, while also collaborating with faculty and students to leverage research, courses, and other university resources. Our mission is to facilitate the transformation of communities from high-risk (or low opportunity) to equitable, resilient, and adaptive by mitigating threats to the economy, environment, and culture.
TxTC has worked with 90 low-capacity communities—rural cities and counties, inner-city neighborhoods, and non-governmental organizations—to reveal and validate persistent problems, illuminate strengths, identify promising strategies, and enable emerging opportunities. We aim to foster quality service-learning experiences for the next-generation workforce, provide quality products for communities that would otherwise not realize their full potential, and connect faculty to a network of community engagement leaders to pursue research.
Our values: We respect local knowledge and the community fabric. We desire strategic and equitable community economic growth. We believe in the preservation and restoration of environmental systems. We uphold principles of participatory and collaborative governance. We believe in nurturing the health and capacity of people. We seek to promote informed development decisions.
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