By Selena Roldan and Mayibel Ruiz (Contributing Writers) Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced the initiative #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, the largest state-level investment in a college service program in California history, that allows students the opportunity to receive a grant of $10,000. Its main objective is to enrich and connect Californians from all different backgrounds with their communities. The program will include community colleges and universities, with CSUSB as one of the 45 schools in the program. “California is a world leader in both higher education and service. The #CaliforniansForAll College Corps advances these priorities by connecting … [Read more...] about California offers college students grant for community service
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Update on $1 Million Scholarship: EOP and the Renaissance Scholars Program
By Brittanie Gutierrez |Staff Writer| Early in May, CSUSB received a million dollar scholarship to help Foster Care youth and those children with incarcerated parents go to college. So, what happens next? Olivia Rosas, Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management at CSUSB, is in charge of recruiting new students to attend CSUSB. "We go out to promote California State University, San Bernardino. We do promotional events, not specifically target towards Foster Youth or kids with incarcerated parents, but for all students," explained Rosas. In terms of this scholarship, CSUSB wants to reach students starting from the ninth grade and guide them towards attending … [Read more...] about Update on $1 Million Scholarship: EOP and the Renaissance Scholars Program
$1 Million Scholarship
By Brittanie Gutierrez |Staff Writer| Give Something Back (GSB) presented a $1 million check to CSUSB in efforts to grow the college attendance rate. The money will be geared toward helping San Bernardino children coming from households with one or both parents incarcerated or who are in the foster care system. With this scholarship, students will be selected from ninth grade and have to take college preparatory classes, while maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA. If a student falls off course after committing to the program, GSB will still help them get into community college and continue their education after high school graduation. GSB is an organization that helps children from … [Read more...] about $1 Million Scholarship
Honored researcher
By Rachel Rundengan |Opinions Editors| Physics professor Tim Usher has been selected as the university’s 2015-2016 Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities Award winner. Every two years, the award goes to one CSUSB faculty member presented during CSUSB’s Meeting of the Minds student research symposium. The award is based on a professor’s sustained research efforts in their field. This year, Usher stood out amongst all the other candidates. In his speech Usher said that it was a great honor to have received the award. “It is also a great honor and privilege to work with outstanding students and excellent faculty at … [Read more...] about Honored researcher
New Palm Desert scholarship
By Marvin Garcia |Staff Writer| CSUSB Palm Desert campus (PDC)was granted $10,770 by local Coachella Valley rotary clubs on Feb 13. The funds will go to the Desert Rotary Scholarship. According to Susan Knollenberg, director of major gifts at PDC, the purpose of the scholarship is to keep students in the Coachella Valley by providing financial support with Rotary. Whether or not the scholarship will be exclusively for upcoming or current students is not yet known since Rotary has not placed criteria, but PDC is confident it will be available for all students. “The real significance of this has to do with so many individual Rotary clubs agreeing to partner in a scholarship … [Read more...] about New Palm Desert scholarship
Academic probation scholarship winners
By Taniya Harwell |Staff Writer| Nicole Sweeney and Marina Ibrahim are the recipients of the $500 Dianna J. Pelletier Resiliency Scholarship for Winter 2015. The scholarship is meant to provide a financial incentive to undergraduate students who have previously been on academic probation. Students are put on academic probation and subject to academic disqualification when they fall below a determined grade-point-average (GPA) based on their academic standing. The scholarship is awarded every quarter to two students that have achieved a minimum 3.2 GPA for a specific quarter after starting their probation. Students submit an essay describing their academic resiliency and … [Read more...] about Academic probation scholarship winners
Celebrating the life of fellow ‘Yote
By Bree Reyes |Staff Writer| The CSUSB Music Department and Coyote Music Society will host a benefit concert in memorial for Danny Ramadan, a CSUSB trumpet player and graduate who passed away last summer. The proceeds from the concert will go to creating a scholarship under Ramadan’s name, upon which a CSUSB student majoring in music, who possesses stellar academic achievement, work ethic, and musical talent will be eligible to receive. “I think we all felt collectively as a faculty, and as students that we wanted to do something,” said Dr. Erik Jester, director of bands at CSUSB. “And being musicians, we perform music...I’m glad that the students and his friends that are alumni … [Read more...] about Celebrating the life of fellow ‘Yote
Once on academic probation, now academic winners
By Stephanie Para |Staff Writer| Two CSUSB students who were struggling academically at the university last quarter have turned their educational careers around, earning $500 in scholarship money. Sociology major Asia Wilson, and liberal studies major Sandra Saldivar, were awarded the Dianna Pelletier Scholarship last Winter quarter, a financial award that is given as an incentive for students on academic probation. Dianna Pelletier, the scholarship’s namesake, was a CSUSB staff member who dedicated her life to advising and helping students in need. She passed away due to multiple bouts of cancer in October 2012. According to Matt Markin, a CSUSB Academic Advisor, the office … [Read more...] about Once on academic probation, now academic winners
New scholarship will give more aid to students
By Devin Ramos |Staff Writer| The Middle Class scholarship will give relief to students and families that struggle to pay for tuition in California State Universities and Universities of California. The rising costs of attending college show that people are in need of a scholarship tailored specifically to their income bracket. The scholarship can cut tuition by 40 percent for families making under $100,000 and will also target DREAM Act students. A student must first complete an application for Federal Student Aid to automatically be considered for the scholarship. In my opinion, the process to be considered has been made simple for students to obtain money to help them … [Read more...] about New scholarship will give more aid to students
Scholarships awarded to academic probation students
By Daniel DeMarco |Assistant Features Editor| Academic probation often leads to academic failure. Last quarter, 41 students proved that they can raise to the occasion and work to new opportunities. “Hard work pays off. When one applies themselves anything can be accomplished,” said Wesley House, one of the two students rewarded with a $500 scholarship. Wesley House and Jeannette Jacques were the students awarded with the scholarship for their work in Fall quarter 2013. Jacques said she is paying for school all on her own without loans or financial aid and that the scholarship was a “good opportunity for me to get rewarded for all the hard work I put into Fall … [Read more...] about Scholarships awarded to academic probation students