Profile: Go Centers

The Go Center works to build community awareness and engagement around the high school graduation and college-readiness crisis. Community leaders wil be equipped with information on various programs, including re-designed high schools, that they cna subsequently deliver to other individuals and groups, thus leveraging the human resources in the community.

Funded, in part, by an $800,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation — the philanthropic arm of AT&T Inc. — to the College for All Texans Foundation, the Mobile Go Centers are part of the unprecedented College for All Texans Campaign to close the gap in college participation and success — critical components of the state's higher-education plan, Closing the Gaps by 2015.

The eight-year grant, originally awarded in 2005, will fund technology for the fleet of mobile education resources, equipping the vans with Internet-accessible computers and high speed Internet connections, the first of which will debut at Trimble Tech. The Mobile Go Center's home base in North Texas is on the campus of Tarrant County College, which is one of four universities and colleges in Texas currently participating in the initiative. Mobile Go Centers are designed to bring college-related information, motivation, and assistance to students and their families.