Cal State LA receives grant to help transfer students in STEM fields

California State University, Los Angeles has received a $300,000 grant to improve the success of student transfers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM fields).

The funding from the College Futures Foundation will allow the university to Successful Transfer and Retention (STAR) program, which Cal State LA said will allow the campus to collaborate with local community colleges to develop new pathways to bachelor’s degrees for transfer students.

“Through the STAR program, we are looking forward to establishing engineering and technology pathway agreements with community colleges and developing a pre- and post-transfer peer mentoring program, thereby enhancing institutional capacity to support transfer students,” Jane Dong, a Cal State LA professor who is the grant’s leading principal investigator, said in a statement.

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