Initiated in 1993-1994, CSU-LSAMP is an alliance of the 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU) system which supports a coordinated and comprehensive system-wide approach to broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Each of the CSU campuses has a CSU-LSAMP program that offers an array of activities and services designed to improve retention and graduation of undergraduate students in STEM. In addition, CSU-LSAMP seeks to increase the number of CSU-LSAMP students who enter STEM graduate programs.
Funding for the CSU-LSAMP Program is provided by the National Science Foundation, HRD-1826490 and the California State University's Office of the Chancellor.To be eligible to participate in the CSU-LSAMP Program at Cal Poly, students must:
• Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
• Be enrolled at Cal Poly as an undergraduate major in a STEM discipline.
• Be an individual who has faced or faces social, educational, or economic barriers to careers in STEM.
To demonstrate social, educational, or economic barriers to careers in STEM, students must be:
- A first generation college student; or
- A foster youth or at any time were in foster care; or
- Low income (as represented by Pell Grant, EOP, or SSS eligibility or via eligibility for need-based financial aid) or;
- A U.S. military veteran; or
- Disability-eligible based on documentation from the Disability Resource Center; or
- A graduate of a Cal Poly Partner High School; or
- From a racial-ethnic group that is recognized by the National Science Foundation as 'historically underrepresented in STEM: African American, Hispanic American, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders."
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