Border County Doctoral Faculty Education Loan Repayment Program Fact Sheet
The purpose of the Border County Doctoral Faculty Education Loan Repayment Program is to recruit and retain persons holding a
doctorate as full-time faculty with instructional duties at Texas institutions of higher education located in counties that border Mexico.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for loan repayment assistance under the Border County Doctoral Faculty Education Loan Repayment Program, an
individual must:
1. Have received a doctoral degree on or after September 1, 1994, from an institution of higher education, as defined in Section
61.003, of the Texas Education Code, or from an out-of-state institution that is accredited by a recognized accrediting agency,
2. Be employed full-time as a doctoral faculty member with instructional duties at an institution of higher education, as defined in
Section 61.003 of the Texas Education Code, that is located in a Texas county that borders Mexico, and
3. Work full-time as a doctoral faculty member with instructional duties in the institution for one full academic year.
Qualifying Institutions
El Paso Community College (all El Paso campuses)
Howard Payne University El Paso Center
Laredo Community College (including Fort McIntosh and South campuses)
South Texas College (including College & Career Teaching Center, La Joya Teaching Center, Main Place Teaching Center,
Mid-Valley campus, Nursing & Allied Health Campus, and Technology campus)
Southwest Texas Junior College (Del Rio and Eagle Pass campuses)
Sul Ross State University (Alpine, Del Rio, and Eagle Pass campuses)
Texas A&M Health Science Center McAllen Campus
Texas A&M International University
Texas A&M University Kingsville Citrus Center - Weslaco
Texas Southmost College
Texas State Technical College-Harlingen (including the University Center)
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
University of Texas-Brownsville
University of Texas-El Paso
University of Texas-Pan American
University of Texas HSC at Houston School of Public Health (Brownsville and El Paso Regional campuses)
University of Texas HSC at San Antonio (Harlingen and Edinburg Regional Academic Health Centers and Laredo Campus
Extension)
Service Period
The year of service begins September 1st and ends May 31st of the next year.
Annual Loan Amounts
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The maximum annual loan repayment award for an eligible faculty member is $5,000.00.
The maximum number of years a person may receive loan repayment is 10 years.
Repayment under this program will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board.
Eligible Loans
To be eligible for repayment, loans must:
1. Be evidenced by a promissory note stating that the loan proceeds must be used to pay for education costs at an institution of
higher education, and as defined in Section 61.003, of the Texas Education Code, or at an out-of-state institution that is accredited
by a recognized accrediting agency,
2. Not be in default at the time the application is received, and
3. Not entail a service obligation.
Additional Application Information
Institutional presidents or their designees will distribute applications to eligible faculty. Renewal applicants must receive priority over
first-time applicants. Institutional presidents or their designees will rank the applications according to additional criteria established by
the institution and will forward them to the Coordinating Board for processing. The state appropriation for each year of the 2014-2015
state budget period is sufficient to fund full awards to two faculty members at each of the seventeen eligible institutions, regardless of
the number of eligible campuses
For more information, please visit our website www.thecb.state.tx.us/lrp, or call the THECB Loan Repayment Programs at 1-800-2423062.
Revised March 2015