When it comes to higher education, building tomorrow's workforce and creating educational and career opportunities for a greater percentage of the population are the driving concepts behind the efforts of TI and the TI Foundation. Both entities work diligently to develop partnerships and programs, contribute financial resources, offer expertise and donate equipment – all with the specific goal to make higher education - particularly focused on engineering, math and science - better and more accessible. In the past several years, TI and its foundation have made grants totaling more than $35 million to Texas colleges and universities.

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Notable U.S. programs

Texas Technology Workforce Development Grant Program – a $2 million grant in support of this unique state/industry/university collaboration designed to increase the number of engineering and computer science graduates from Texas colleges and universities.

Rice University – $10 million in cash donations to fund facilities and long-term cooperative research projects in key technological areas of digital signal processing and information engineering.

Texas A&M – a gift of $5.1 million to build one of the nation's premier university analog programs and encourage long-term growth of U.S. engineering talent.

SMU – a $5 million effort to build a new engineering building to be named after TI's former chairman, Jerry R. Junkins.

University of North Texas Dallas Campus – a $1.1 million grant to establish the TI Math Scholars program to encourage more students to seek degrees and teaching certification in mathematics.

Prairie View A&M – grant totaling more than $1.6 million to fund labs, scholarships and faculty to improve electrical engineering programs, bringing high-quality engineering programs to a greater percentage of the Texas population.

University of Texas at Dallas - a $1.5 million pledge to establish an endowed faculty chair and graduate student fellowship for the Jonsson School of Engineering. Additionally, TI reached an agreement with state of Texas to give $300 million to bring UTD to tier 1 R&D status as a complement to TI's new facility in Richardson. Compounds a 30-year relationship, which began when TI's founders donated cash, land and equipment to start the university. The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science is named for one of TI's founders.

University of Texas at El Paso – two grants totaling $2.4 million to fund scholarships, labs, facility and equipment to enhance the university's digital signal processing and analog engineering capabilities.

University of Texas at Austin – grants of $700,000 in support of engineering and research related programs to keep the university at the forefront of semiconductor technology.

Texas Tech University – a $1 million chair to attract world renowned experts for the Systems Engineering Program and $1 million to develop a new advanced Electronics Systems Engineering Program.

Rising Star – a total of $1.5 million in grants that allow any student in the top 40 percent of his or her class from high schools in Dallas County to attend any Dallas County Community College. Rising Star scholarships go to students who might not otherwise be able to afford college and include tuition, fees and books for the two-year degree.

Metroplex Research Consortium for Electronic Devices and Materials – a contribution of sophisticated research lab equipment, valued at more than $6 million, to provide educational opportunities for 4,500 students at SMU, University of North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Dallas.

Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM) Scholarships – contributions toward scholarships for African-American, American Indian and Hispanic American students pursuing advanced degrees in engineering and science.

University of North Texas System Center at Dallas – a commitment of $300,000 toward the completion of a campus in South Dallas for the UNT system, will provide access to higher education to underserved population in Dallas.

University of Houston – a $300,000 gift to help build a new campus in Fort Bend County to fund the Texas Instruments Library and Media Technology Center featuring a virtual library, computer workstations and high-speed Internet connections for distance learning.

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Schools and institutions

Baylor University
Collin County Community College District
Dallas County Community College District
Paul Quinn College
Prairie View A&M University
Purdue University
Rice University
Rose-Hulman University
Southern Methodist University
Tarrant County Community Colleges
Texas A&M University
Texas State Technical College
Texas Tech University
Texas Women's University
University of Houston
University of Illinois
University of North Texas
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Texas Pan American
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

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