Why Your Support Is So Vitally Important

Even though NCTC’s locally elected Board of Regents strives to keep tuition and fee costs low, we understand that it remains difficult for many individual students and families to cover college expenses. That’s one big reason why the work of our NCTC Foundation is so vitally important.

Over the past academic year, the NCTC Foundation awarded over 1,100 scholarships to students, a large number of whom would not otherwise have been able to enroll. That’s 1,100 lives made better through higher education. To learn more about scholarship opportunities click - NCTC Scholarships.

That’s also a workforce made stronger by better educated, better trained employees who increase productivity and profitability for their employers. That’s local economies made stronger by citizens who have higher earning power and who need fewer costly social services. It's a wonderful start, but so many more students need assistance in covering educational costs.

In addition to scholarships, your financial support of North Central Texas College is extremely important in many other ways. For example, costs of providing the latest technology and the most modern lab equipment for teaching continues to escalate. Specialized facilities, such as those to house performing and visual arts programs, is something the college simply cannot afford without help. As a result, the college must look to alternative, external sources of funding, including private and corporate gifts.

Foundation Created To Accommodate Private/Corporate Support

To promote private and coporate support of the college, the NCTC Foundation was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, making the contributions it receives tax deductible. Governed by a volunteer board of directors (representative of the college’s three-county service area) the NCTC Foundation’s fundamental, long-term goal is to build a strong endowment program to ensure quality education and financial stability for the college.

How YOU Can Participate

Gifts to the North Central Texas College Foundation may be outright, in the form of real or personal property, stock, cash or pledges, or deferred, by making NCTC Foundation the beneficiary of your will, trust or life insurance. (Get more information about the Randolph Lee Clark Bequest Society.) Gifts may be designated to any of the following categories:

Scholarship Fund  |    Technology Fund
Faculty Development Fund

Scholarship Fund - Many students do not believe they can attend college because of financial restraints. The NCTC Foundation and community supporters help many of these students to attend college and reach their career goals through the NCTC Foundation Scholarship program. The Foundation’s scholarship program allows the donors to determine the criteria for the scholarships. An endowed scholarship of $12,500 allows the Foundation to award a $600 scholarship. Donors may establish an endowed scholarship and pledge to make contributions over a period of time until they reach endowment. In addition, supporters can make a one-time contribution into the General Academic Scholarship Fund.

Technology Fund – One of the most difficult challenges facing North Central Texas College is keeping abreast of the latest technological developments in its classrooms and laboratories. Students must be trained on the latest technology to be prepared to enter today’s high-tech workforce.

Faculty Development Fund – The goal of this fund is the development and preservation of the quality instruction for which NCTC is known and the continuance of ongoing opportunities for improved staff support and professional development.