Former CSUN President Jolene Koester has been appointed by the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees to serve as the system's interim chancellor. The board chose Koester to succeed Joseph I. Castro, who resigned as chancellor in February. Koester will assume the interim post on May 1 a
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TURLOCK, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
California State University-Stanislaus (Stanislaus State), a Hispanic-serving institution that serves more than 8,600 students in California s Central Valley, today announced a major new initiative designed to improve student retention, particularly among low-income and first-generation students at its Stockton campus. Through a partnership with
College Possible, a national nonprofit that connects high school and college students with near-peer success coaches, Stanislaus State will provide coaching and mentoring programs for more than 400 students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
The partnership with College Possible builds on the nonprofit s 20-year history of training AmeriCorps service members as college access and success mentors to help low-income high school juniors and seniors enroll in and complete college. Dubbed