Texas Southmost College (TSC) will have 32 AmeriCorps members who will 1) increase communication about and access to campus resources and support and 2) increase engagement in campus activities and with academic support services at TSC in Brownsville, Texas. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for increasing TSC students’, who were served by the program, fall-to-spring persistence rate to 75% and fall-to-fall persistence rate to 63%. The AmeriCorps investment will be matched with $154,610, $154,610 in public funding, and $0 in private funding.