{"id":58440,"date":"2025-11-20T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58440\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:20:12","slug":"innovating-the-future-of-educational-attainment-in-the-coastal-bend-del-mar-college-holds-second-annual-superintendent-symposium-to-provide-update-cover-progress-impacting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58440\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInnovating the Future of Educational Attainment in the Coastal Bend\u201d \u2026 Del Mar College holds second annual Superintendent Symposium to provide update, cover progress impacting Dual Enrollment Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The program keeps growing. Data shows that credit student participation in Del Mar College\u2019s Dual Enrollment Program has grown nearly 40 percent from fall 2020 to this semester, increasing from 2,628 to 3,671 Coastal Bend high school students who are well on their way to a brighter future through access to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, regional Dual Enrollment students make up over 31 percent of the college\u2019s fall 2025 credit enrollment, which totals 11,700 students overall (preliminary enrollment*). Additionally, another 1,390 high school students are taking Continuing Education courses leading to Marketable Skills Awards or licensure in certain offerings. * The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will certify figures this month for final fall 2025 enrollment figure, which is subject to change from today\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 51 independent school districts (ISDs), parochial schools and charter schools combined, along with home schooled students, participate with the Dual Enrollment Program. Last year, the number was 43.<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The program keeps growing. Data shows that credit student participation in Del Mar College\u2019s Dual Enrollment Program has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,7103,31461,31462,31463,31464,31465,223,31466],"class_list":["post-58440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-del-mar-college","tag-dmc","tag-dr-mark-escamilla","tag-dual-enrollment","tag-freedom-to-dream","tag-freedom-to-dream-tuition-waiver","tag-news","tag-oso-creek-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}