The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Humboldt State University $1.87 million to provide support services for first-generation and low-income students.
The federal grant will fund financial aid, academic tutoring, financial counseling and career advice in hopes of improving graduation and retention rates.
The grant will be spread out over the next five years, and will be administered through HSU’s Student Support Services program.
Eligible students can receive up to $1,500 a year in financial aid.
According to the Cal State University system, 70 percent of the nearly 338,000 CSU students who received financial aid last year had their tuition fees fully covered.
Twenty other CSUs were also awarded the same federal grant in varying annual amounts:
- CSU Channel Islands: $220,000
- Chico State: $247,583
- CSU Dominguez Hills: $246,062
- CSU East Bay: $686,945
- Fresno State: $512,340
- CSU Fullerton: $292,340
- Humboldt State: $373,378
- CSU Long Beach: $730,110
- CSU Monterey Bay: $467,584
- CSU Northridge: $220,000
- Cal Poly Pomona: $653,960
- Sacramento State: $267,386
- CSU San Bernardino: $373,614
- San Diego State: $281,510
- San Francisco State: $466,074
- San Jose State: $428,238
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $289,325
- CSU San Marcos: $292,340
- Sonoma State: $651,009
- CSU Stanislaus: $368,056
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