Institutional Membership Information
Institutional Membership Benefits
Specific benefits offered to Institutional Members Include:
• Outstanding—and cost-effective—professional development opportunities for full-time and part-time professional staff especially through the annual TCCTA convention, where highly effective discipline-specific meetings are planned for educators in some 50 teaching disciplines or other areas of responsibility, and where 100 exhibits display the latest teaching tools and demonstrate up-to-date technology
• Individual subscriptions to the TCCTA Messenger for members of the college governing board
• Opportunity to participate in special pricing on Adobe software (Adobe ETLA agreement), Enterprise Rental cars and more.
• Ability to post job opportunities on TCCTA website.
• Access to research concerning faculty compensation
• Information regarding faculty fringe benefits
• Professional consultation concerning faculty contracts, academic freedom and responsibility issues, and due process rights
• Information about compensation for part-time faculty
• Valuable and reliable information concerning Optional Retirement Programs—particularly useful for new employees
• Professional development for faculty and administrators in the enhancement of faculty participation in college decision-making
•Access to results of all TCCTA research projects
• Representation of institutional concerns through active participation in work of the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board and leadership on numerous Coordinating Board
advisory committees
• Expert legal assistance in development and implementation of institutional policies
• Timely information concerning developments in the Texas Legislature which affect two-year colleges and their professional staffs
• Accurate and prompt response to inquiries concerning issues under consideration by the Texas Legislature, State Comptroller, Teacher Retirement System, Sunset Advisory Commission, Governor’s Office, and other state agencies and officials
• Presentations for on-campus staff development, or “in-service” training, on timely topics of professional
concern (e.g., faculty “burnout;” teaching as a career; professional ethics, etc.)
• Consultation with faculty leaders, administrators, and trustees in reducing conflict and restoring “collegiality”
• Formal and informal consultation with governing boards in searches for administrative officers
• Outstanding professional development for mid-level administrators at the annual TCCTA Leading from the Middle conference
• Complimentary individual TCCTA memberships for all presidents and chancellors of member institutions.
Institutional Members 2024-2025
Professional Development
Outstanding—and cost-effective—professional development opportunities for full-time and part-time faculty, administrators, and professional staff including online seminars, four annual events, and a year long leadership program for new faculty.
Retirement Planning
A comparison resource in ORP or TRS for new employees to choose whether to invest his or her retirement fund in the first 90 days of employment and various other resources to aid employees at various levels of retirement planning.
TCCTA Messenger
Individual subscriptions to the TCCTA Messenger for members of the college governing board.
Legislative Updates
TCCTA will be enlisting our members to speak up strongly for the interests of community college faculty. We believe relationship building between legislators and their constituents in community colleges is the key to making progress.
Faculty Research and Information
TCCTA provides free position announcement posting our website, conducts and shares an annual study on faculty compensation and benefits, and offers professional consultation concerning faculty contracts, academic freedom, and responsibility.
Legal Assistance
TCCTA Members can add supplemental liability insurance to their membership for a low cost. This insurance provides protection for your assets if you are named in a lawsuit due to an event arising in the course and scope of your employment.
TCCTA Institutional Member Partners
TCCTA has partnered with vendors of interest to our members and colleges for considerable discounts. College officials wishing to pursue such arrangements with other companies should contact the state office of TCCTA. Call (512) 328-2044, ext. 1.
Adobe and JourneyEd
provide software products to community colleges through their Enterprise Licensing program. Participating TCCTA member colleges you can now purchase popular Adobe software products at significant savings of up to 85% off commercial prices. {To become a member college – or to add student licensing to your agreement – contact jmcguire at digitalriver.com}
ProctorU
can help you maintain academic integrity in your online education programs. Dedicated to managing test- taker data collection in compliance with FERPA, ProctorU provides security, convenience, and savings to organizations and their examinees by allowing them to complete tests from anywhere with a high-speed internet connection.
Trusted by over 700 higher education institutions, contact Stephanie Dille, stdille at proctoru.com, to learn more.
JobReady
helps job seekers by empowering the organizations that reach them with high-quality skills training made by and for the world’s leading employers. JobReady develops career-aligned course collections from the thousands of courses available, enabling job seekers to follow pathways that lead to jobs and promotions. Initial pathways will include: cybersecurity, data science, project management, leadership, IT skills, business skills and certification prep.
Contact Tim Moore, at tim.moore at jobready.me, to learn more about TCCTA’s partnership with JobReady to offer high-quality skills training at an affordable price.
CollegeAPP
helps community colleges target the most likely adult applicants: those with high scores for education intent, preference for community college, and preference for all online or hybrid instruction. CollegeAPP can also filter on age, gender, ethnicity, education attainment, income and dozens of other variables. Learn more about how to target your entire service area or any part of it by contacting Jack MacKenzie, at 818.568.6967.
Alliance Work Partners
has been designing customized, integrated EAP, Work-Life, and Wellness Programs for schools and institutions of higher learning since 1977. With no financial ties to insurance or treatment companies, AWP guarantees superior RIO, measurable employee cost-savings, better client outcomes, and effective health care cost management for small and large human resource departments alike.
Interested human resource professionals are welcome to contact Rick Deilman, rdeilman at alliancewp.com, or call (888) 327-4636.
The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)
The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) is the nation’s largest collegiate leadership honor society with over 700 chapters and more than 1,000,000 student members. TCCTA members receive exclusive and automatic approval of a first year grant to cover their institution’s first year chapter cost. Learn more about how the NSLS can help engage and retain students by contacting Ashleigh Smith, Associate Director of Program Development at asmith at nsls.org.
Annual Dues
(based on total headcount enrollment as reported by the Coordinating Board for the fall semester)
District Headcount Enrollment ………………………………………………Institutional Dues
Fewer than 1,000 …………………………………………………………………….….$250
1,000 to 2,499 ……………………………………………………………………………$300
2,500 to 4,999 ……………………………………………………………………………$375
5,000 to 7,499 ……………………………………………………………………………$425
7,500 to 9,999 ……………………………………………………………………………$550
10,000 to 14,999 ………………………………………………………………..………..$625
15,000 to 19,999 ………………………………………………………… .……………..$675
20,000 to 24,999 ………………………………………………………….. …………….$750
25,000 to 29,999 ………………………………………………………. .……………….$850
30,000 to 34,999 …………………………………………………… ..………………….$900
35,000 to 39,999 …………………………………………………….. ………………….$1,000
More than 39,999 …………………………………………………………….………….$1,100
Enroll your college today by filling out the Institutional Membership Form: 2024-2025 Form or 2025-2026 Form
For more information about TCCTA Institutional Memberships, contact TCCTA at 512-328-2044, ext. 2.