An artist rendering of the inside of the Student Success Center, scheduled to be completed in 2019. (Rendering by Smith Group Architecture)
BASIC NEEDS PROGRAM STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
In 2015, CSULB launched the Basic Needs Program, a
vanguard of innovative services targeting food and housing
insecurity among students. The brand new Student Success Center broke ground in Fall
2017, and its halls will soon centralize and modernize labs,
studio spaces, and resources for students.
The CalFresh Outreach Program assists low-income students
with obtaining Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. Long
Beach is one of only a handful of CSU’s with infrastructure to
support EBT on campus. The Center received key alumni support from donor Bob Murphy ‘62,
whose Bridge Project helps mitigate the challenges faced by
students with disabilities. Disabled Student Services, celebrating its
45th anniversary this summer, will have a new home in the building.
Beach Bites is a mobile app that alerts students to available
food from on-campus catered events that would otherwise
be wasted. IMPROVING STRATEGY
ASI’s Beach Pantry provides fresh and non-perishable food to
students at no cost, and alumni are welcome to donate food
items to their offices in the USU. There were 6,408 visits to the
ASI Beach Pantry in 2016!
The Student Emergency Intervention and Wellness Program
serves students experiencing unforeseen crisis situations,
including emergency grants and short-term housing.
The annual Feed a Need Spring Drive gives students with
meal plans the opportunity to donate meals to a reserve for
food-insecure students. They raised 1,305 meals in 2018.
Administrative practices and infrastructure are also evolving.
4 Task Forces with representatives from each academic college
and campus division steer the campus toward its goals for
student success.
New digital tools, like the recently upgraded Beach Board, give
students more tangible control over their academic plan.
Innovations in enrollment management will result in more sections
of highly impacted classes and fewer “bottleneck” courses.
Administrative practices and infrastructure are also evolving.
So how can alumni help ensure that the next generation of
students are thoroughly prepared for college and confident in
their career path?
SPRING / SUMMER 2018
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