Date Commenced
Septembmer 1999
Target Population
Low-income, ethnically diverse students, potential first-generation college-bound students 9th through 12th grades in City Heights, Center City and El Cajon areas.
Collaboration Partners
The Upward Bound STAR Program is 97.03% federally funded at $334,624 and 2.97% funded from nonfederal sources at $10,259.
Our Purpose
Upward Bound Striving Toward Academic Resilience (UB STAR) is an educational opportunity outreach program to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. SDSU UB STAR is committed to enhancing college preparedness and awareness by:
Septembmer 1999
Target Population
Low-income, ethnically diverse students, potential first-generation college-bound students 9th through 12th grades in City Heights, Center City and El Cajon areas.
Collaboration Partners
- Crawford High School
- El Cajon Valley High School
- Hoover High School
- San Diego High School
The Upward Bound STAR Program is 97.03% federally funded at $334,624 and 2.97% funded from nonfederal sources at $10,259.
Our Purpose
Upward Bound Striving Toward Academic Resilience (UB STAR) is an educational opportunity outreach program to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. SDSU UB STAR is committed to enhancing college preparedness and awareness by:
- Providing services to eligible students to pursue a college education.
- Creating a harmonious, multicultural, educational community of students with high potential who demonstrate a strong desire to acquire higher education.
- Enhancing all areas of current high school study by providing study skills workshops and superior summer classes.
- Giving participants personalized college preparation through personal counseling, academic advising, mentoring, and tutorial assistance.
- Inspiring and instructing qualified students in specific areas of general education, humanities and computers.
The six-week summer residential program is an integral part of the UB STAR program. Fifty participating students are selected to take part and live with a roommate in a college dorm on the beautiful, sunny campus of San Diego State University. Important elements of the program are:
- Full-time supervision: a professional staff member serves as Head Resident Advisor and oversees all dorm activities and college-age Resident Advisors live in the dorms as Resident Counselors, to guide, counsel and tutor students.
- Superior summer coursework: students take three classes taught by credentialed high school teachers in an integrated, hands-on curriculum.
- Friday afternoon field trips: students participate in educational, cultural and/or recreational field trips and activities.
- Summer stipend: student participants receive $20 every two weeks.
- Weekends with family: students go home Friday afternoons and return to SDSU dorm on Sunday evenings.
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During the school year, our program counselor works weekly with all students at their school sites to provide academic support and information and we have monthly activities for participants and their families. Among the services provided are:
- Assistance with college and financial aid (FAFSA) applications, scholarship searches and applications.
- Preparation for college entrance exams (SAT and ACT).
- Exploration of career options and completion of a career interest inventory.
- Participation in visits to local and other four-year universities throughout the State of California.
- Participation in exciting motivational workshops, and educational activities.
- Study skills development.
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Eligibility Criteria
Students are selected to participate in UB STAR based on a comprehensive recruitment, application and interview process during the second semester of their ninth grade year. Specific criteria for eligible students are:
Students are selected to participate in UB STAR based on a comprehensive recruitment, application and interview process during the second semester of their ninth grade year. Specific criteria for eligible students are:
- Low-income based on the annual federal low-income level guidelines and/or first generation in family to complete a four-year college education in the United States.
- Citizen or national of the U.S., a permanent resident or can provide evidence from the Immigration and Naturalization Service of intent to become a permanent resident.
- Identified need for academic support in order to successfully pursue a program of education beyond high school.
- English Language Learner
- Completed the 8 th grade but not entered the 12th grade and between the ages of 13 and 19.
- Crawford High School
- El Cajon Valley High School
- Hoover High School
- San Diego High School
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