Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Austin, Texas, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants supporting healthcare workforce development and career and technical education (CTE) programming, with a secondary role as sub-recipient on education grants cascaded from the Texas Education Agency and Florida State University.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's federal footprint centers on healthcare and workforce education grant programs. As prime recipient, the organization administers loan repayment assistance to primary care clinicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, mental health professionals, registered nurses, and pharmacists in Health Professional Shortage Areas under the Grants to States for Loan Repayment program (CFDA 93.165) administered by the Bureau of Health Professionals. A three-year project grant effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, carries $504,990 in federal funding and represents the organization's current active prime award. An earlier iteration of the same program ran from September 1, 2022, through August 31, 2025. The loan repayment model leverages federal dollars to improve healthcare workforce retention and access to care in medically underserved communities by offering repayment assistance in exchange for service commitments in federally designated HPSAs. The Board partners with Federally Qualified Health Centers, the State Office of Rural Health, the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Area Health Education Centers, and other state and regional stakeholders to coordinate recruitment and retention activities.

In its sub-recipient capacity, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board received 30 sub-awards across 71 total federal awards in recent years. The predominant source is the Texas Education Agency, which cascaded federal CTE funding under the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act to support secondary and postsecondary career and technical education program development, including academic and technical standards development, integration of academic and CTE instruction, professional development for CTE educators, and dissemination of best practices. Sub-awards from the Texas Education Agency date from 2021 through 2025. The Board also serves as sub-recipient on Florida State University research grants, including a four-year Developmental Education Policy Study (DEPS) survey project beginning June 3, 2024, where Board staff provide data administration, survey analysis, liaison support, and assistance disseminating results at training events throughout Texas.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Education and the Department of Labor. The Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education, the Department of Education Advisory Committee for Student Financial Assistance, the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education together account for significant award volume across the portfolio. The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration represents the fifth-largest customer by award count. These five agencies represent 80 percent of all awards in the source data. Activity has grown materially — five awards in 2022, two in 2023, ten in 2024, and nine in 2025 — with combined dollars obligated across all awards totaling $396.1 million across eleven distinct federal customer agencies since 2007. The Board's role is exclusively in grant administration and sub-recipient coordination; it holds no federal contracts or contract vehicles and does not compete for procurements.