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  • Gender Equity Plan Task Force—Charged with developing a new 5-year Gender Equity Plan in order to meet compliance requirements of the Office of Civil Rights and to be included in the university re-certification process with the NCAA.
  • The Cancer Scholar program is a $1.2 million National Cancer Institute-sponsored partnership grant between Fresno State and the Cancer Center at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.  As part of the grant, two regional projects are being pursued:  1) The relationship between pesticide exposure and breast cancer with focus on Latina farmworkers, and 2) Early diagnostic markers of pancreatic cancer.  The grant provides opportunities for minority undergraduate and graduate students to spend a paid summer in the San Diego-area research institute where they get immersed in host laboratories focused on cancer research issues. 
  • The Central California Korean Historical Society has been in existance since 2002. It has done a lot of work uncovering Korean immigrant heritage in Central Valley, especially in Dinuba and Reedley. They have set up monuments, made video/films and published a book on this subject. For more information: http://www.cckhs.org/. Project Director: Dr. Marn Cha
  • The Philosophy Department has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that focuses on religious diversity. The Philosopy Department has also partnered with the Richter Center to work on an interfaith service project, featuring religious diversity. For more information: http://www.csufresno.edu/cercd/
  • Beginning January 2012, 200 California State University students will get hands-on water management experience in internships funded by a $2 million United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant. The federal award, will fund 50 internships a year for the next four years.
  • African American Edge Initiative Pilot Program
    A goal is to provide formal, sustainable support from the University, and specifically African American faculty and staff, to give African American students an edge—the opportunity to see that they can succeed by working hard, while never giving up their identities.
  • Africana Research Center—An ancillary unit housed within the Africana Studies Program to promote research and scholarship in the advancement of the historical and contemporary understanding of the lives and experiences of peoples of African descent.
  • Cultural Heritage Institute—dedicated to the celebration and study of the cultural heritage, diversity and contributions of the people of California’s Central Valley.
  • College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)—helps interested migrant students attend the university, and serves as a supportive program that provides recruitment, academic, personal, career, cultural, leadership and retention services to all of its students.
  • Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP)—A joint program of the University of California San Francisco, Latino Center for Medical Education and Research and the College of Science and Mathematics. HCOP provides wide-ranging support for students interested in careers in the health professions and is open to students from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • Services for Students with Disabilities- Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) coordinates academic support services for students with disabilities. The SSD office also provides counseling, registration assistance, blue curb parking, orientation, and advocates with off-campus agencies.

     

  • International Student Services and Programs—All of the information needed to step you through the application and admissions process as well as information on student life at Fresno State. The key resource for international students at Fresno State.
  • Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)—Aims to increase the quality and quantity of students successfully completing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) baccalaureate degree programs.
  • McNair Program—An exciting effort designed to encourage low-income individuals who are first-generation college students and/or traditionally underrepresented in graduate education to pursue doctoral study.
  • Student Support Services
    Student Support Services (SSS) is a federal TRIO grant program that serves first generation, low income, and disabled students. Its purpose is to provide academic support services to assist undergraduate participants to remain in college and reach the goal of graduation.
  • Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Program—Commitment to Latina/o Academic Success & Excellence (CLASE).
  • University Migrant Services—provides retention, supportive, and professional development services to migrant/farmworker students enrolled at Fresno State.
  • Upward Bound Program—sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Project Director: Ms. M. Granados.
  • Women's Resource Center—established to enhance the learning, work, and life experiences of women in the university community and to educate the campus on women’s issues.
  • President's Commission on Human Relations and Equity

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