Education Programs

Education fuels our community’s future ability to maintain its financial well-being.

Education, Empowerment & Advocacy

MAUC has become an alliance of innovative, responsive place-based programs that keeps reaching further into the community, strengthening its role and strengthening the community we serve. MAUC is committed to economic self-sufficiency, encourages pride and participation in the economic mainstream and continuously attempts to leverage its financial, public and private resources.

MAUC offers a wide array of critically needed community services that address social determinants of health. The UnidosUS Escalera Program....Taking Steps to Success, is designed to continue participant’s college and career readiness development. This 12-month curricu- lum toolkit is to guide the delivery and instruction of the modules for high school seniors.

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Thanks to MAUC and to their lovely staff. Being in an Escalera program was a great experience for me to learn all the things that I was getting into and not feel lost as I entered university.

MAUC
By the Numbers

With culturally relevant and cohort-based instruction, participants will be prepared to attend college and qualify for the multi-year MAUC Spirit of Education Scholarship.

$451000 +

$451,000 in 59 multi-year scholarships and educational stipends.

Annual Lifetime Achievement and Scholarship Awards Gala

At our annual gala we honor organizations and individuals that exemplify the vision and spirit of MAUC’s mission and have dedicated their lives to serving our community.  We present The Albert A. Peña, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, Community Spirit Award and the Spirit of Education Award.

A Lifetime of Achievement

In 1998, MAUC honored co-founder and retired Judge Albert A. Peña, Jr. with the first Lifetime Achievement Award. At that time, Judge Peña had served our community for almost half a century.

His tenacious spirit, persistence in defending self-evident truths, and promoting economic and social empowerment within the Latino community not only qualified the Judge for this honor, but also personified lifetime achievement in its simplest form. Thus, MAUC established the Albert Peña, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award.

  • Honorable Judge Albert A. Peña
  • Honorable Henry B. Gonzalez
  • Rosita Fernandez
  • Texas State Senator Leticia Van de Putte
  • Dr. Richard J. Tamez, MD
  • Retied General Alfred A. Valenzuela, USA Army
  • William Sinkin
  • La Familia Cortez, MTC, Inc.
  • Rosemary Kowalski
  • Norma S. Rodriguez City Clerk Emeritus
  • Charles Cottrell, Ph.D.
  • Former Mayor Phil Hardberger
  • Martha Tijerina
  • Alexander E. Briseño
  • Honorable Charles A. Gonzalez
  • Honorable Joe J. Bernal, Jr & Mary Esther Bernal

Community Spirit Award

This award is given to an individual or organization that has worked diligently to improve the lives of children and families in our community in the areas of education, housing, health, community-building and economic development.

  • H-E-B
  • Broadway National Bank
  • Prospect Hill Yellow Jackets
  • AVANCE – San Antonio
  • San Antonio Education Partnership
  • Ruben Munguia (Posthumously)
  • Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU)
  • The Social and Health Research Center
  • George M. Rapier III, MD
  • Rosie Castro
  • Carlos Orozco, MD
  • Patricia Jimenez, “The Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner”
  • Janie Barrera, President & CEO, LiftFund

Spirit of Education Award

This award was designed to honor individuals or organizations that share MAUC’s vision for Education and have worked tirelessly to ensure that children in our community reach their full potential.

  • David and Cindy Marquez
  • Intercultural Development and Research Association, Inc. (IDRA)
  • The Harvey E. Najim Family Foundation
  • ProjectStay Incorporated
  • Manuel P. Berriozabal, Ph.D.
  • Norma Martinez Rogers, Ph.D. RN, FAAN Professor, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
  • Felix Yruegas, Founder & Lanierites Members
  • Dr. Mike Flores, President of Palo Alto College