![CSUSB’s goal is to serve 1,500 students annually, 500 students in each district, 29 school sites, grades 6-12 in San Bernardino City.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewaSlide_TalentSearchGrant_XXAug2021.jpg.webp?itok=WErb23_U)
CSUSB has received three of the 470 Trio Talent Search awards funded by the U.S. Department of Education, totaling $4.16 million over five years, to help local middle and high school students pursue higher education.
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As part of our celebration of Black History Month, take a look back when Roderick Figgs, assistant director of GEAR UP, was named the 2019 Professional of the Year by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships.
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Hispanic Heritage Month look back: CSUSB is on Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education’s list of the top universities in the country in awarding master’s degrees to Hispanics and in Hispanic enrollment of graduate students.
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Forbes lists the top 650 colleges and universities in the country, measuring the top 15 percent of all U.S. undergraduate institutions.
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Forbes annually lists the top 650 colleges and universities in the country, measuring the top 15 percent of all U.S. undergraduate institutions.
![Roderick Figgs](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/NewsSlide_GEARUP_Figgs_18Jun2019.jpg.webp?itok=1iEGOPoR)
Roderick Figgs, assistant director of GEAR UP at Cal State San Bernardino, has been named the 2019 Professional of the Year by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP).
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CSUSB’s Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math have been awarded $4,023,440 in federal funding for their programs to help students in San Bernardino and Rialto graduate from high school, and enroll and graduate from college.
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GEAR UP is part of an effort to make students, and their parents, aware of the opportunities available to them to attend college, and what the students need to do so that they can determine their own future.
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The Child Care Access Means Parents in School grant for CSUSB’s Children’s Center and the Infant and Toddler Lab School will provide funding over the next four years to help low-income student parents.