Score! TSLF Hosts Center for Transforming Lives Program Participants at Texas Rangers Game 

This summer TSLF hosted the Center for Transforming Lives program participants and staff for a Texas Rangers baseball game at Globe Life Field, sponsored by the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation, Texas Live!, and the TSLF. 

TSLF provides scholarships, mentoring, and internship placement assistance for adult students interested in careers in Travel and Tourism and Sports Management. We’re proud to partner with and serve as a resource to industry and community-based organizations that support travel and tourism and sports management jobs and careers in Tarrant County.  

THLA's Hotel Summer Camp Gives High School Students Special Introduction into Careers in Hotel Industry

The Texas Hotel and Lodging Association hosted three High School Hotel Summer Camps in Dallas and Houston in June. The camps provided over 150 students, including students from Arlington ISD Dan Dipert Center and Dr. R.W. Goines Stem Academy, with an opportunity to experience the hotel industry as both the front-of-the-house as well as guests and the back-of-the-house as potential future staff members. Students and teachers attended camps at the Westin Galleria Dallas or the Hilton University of Houston.

The camp instructors introduced students to exciting careers in the hotel industry and conducted campus tours of colleges that offer hotel training programs at the University of Houston and the University of North Texas (for south and north Texas area students, respectively.)  Both universities also offered tours for students. In addition to learning about the hotel industry, students attended sessions on Business Dinner Etiquette, SMART Goal Setting, How to Present Yourself in a Digital World, and Job Search Strategies. They also earned a Texas Friendly Hospitality Ambassador Customer Service Certification.

Each of the camps culminated with a college and career fair that provided students with the opportunity to practice the skills acquired during the camp. The students also learned about hotel colleges and hotel employers, and they were even able to secure summer employment.  

TSLF Increases Scholarship Opportunities for TCC Hospitality Students

To assist more students with tuition costs, TSLF now offers scholarships to TCC Hospitality Management & Culinary Arts Program students enrolled in a minimum of six (6) credit hours for the Associate of Applied Science Degree program and several certification programs. The new requirement structure was created to reduce barriers that many adult students with familial obligations face when working full-time as they are unable to take a full course load or more than two 3-hour courses. 

Students enrolled in the Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts Certificate Programs can apply for TSLF scholarship funding based on the following credit hour structure.  

• 9 to 12 credit hours - $750 per semester 
• 6 to 8 credit hours - $500 per semester 

TSLF offers six general scholarships to students enrolled in Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts programs and the Francis Kobty Hospitality Scholarship to one Culinary Arts Program student.

TCC Students who enroll in six credit hours can apply for one of the six general scholarships. Students interested in applying for the Francis Kobty Hospitality Scholarship must be enrolled in a minimum of 9 credit hours. All scholarship recipients must meet all eligibility guidelines.