MCALLEN, Texas – Josh Vasquez, McAllen Economic Development Corporation’s director of workforce development, will serve on a steering committee to help South Texas College best utilize a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The grant will span over the next three years, through June 30, 2027. STC will use the funding to develop and offer an Associate of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene program and micro-credential courses targeting high-demand health care skills.
Additionally, the grant also addresses an acute shortage of health care professionals in the Rio Grande Valley by establishing a Workforce Development and Continuing Education Center for Health Care Professionals, which will be housed at a new building STC recently acquired. The building, in McAllen, is provisionally being called the STC Regional Workforce Development Health Care Center…