Grant Program Activities
(STEM)2 is a three-year initiative designed to:
- Increase the number of students interested in majoring in science, technology, engineering or math;
- Increase the number of students successfully graduating with STEM degrees; and
- Increase the number of CSU graduates entering the workforce as STEM professionals.
We believe that service learning is an effective strategy to help us reach those goals and therefore, we have developed several ways to encourage service learning and student success in STEM.
We are supporting innovative service-learning demonstration projects at five CSU campuses: Chico, Fresno, Monterey Bay, San Marcos and Sonoma.
We are offering several institutes at which faculty teams can develop service-learning curriculum in STEM courses.
Also, through mini-grants, CSU campuses offered brown bag lunches, trainings and symposia to generate excitement
about, and understanding of, service learning in STEM. Description of subgrant activities .
Once students make the decision to major in a STEM discipline, they may still need support to successfully
graduate and enter the workforce. Therefore, we are developing STEM C3 programs on several CSU campuses to
provide academic support, internship and service-learning opportunities, career development training, and
mentoring and networking with CSU alumni.
We are working with statewide and national partners to build a network of support, information and resource
sharing to ensure California is coordinating its efforts to increase the number of professionals in STEM-related careers.