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About LSAMP

The California State University Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) was initiated in 1993 with support from the National Science Foundation. Its objective is to broaden participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Twenty-two campuses of the California State University system participate in CSU-LSAMP. 

The goals of the program are:

  • Continue to enhance student performance, success and retention in STEM disciplines, as well as maintain or increase baccalaureate degree production.
  • Facilitate the transition of community college students in their first year of transfer to a CSU campus through activities that improve the retention rates of transfer students.
  • Increase the number of students who are admitted to graduate programs and obtain doctoral degrees in STEM.
  • Document, disseminate and replicate undergraduate intervention models that increase access to, and success in, STEM baccalaureate degree programs and facilitate undergraduate admissions to STEM graduate programs.

CSU-LSAMP is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant no. HRD-0331537) and the CSU Chancellor’s Office.