Chico Student Success Center

The Chico Student Success Center (CSSC) is a collaborative, student development program with a decade of successful diversity recruitment and retention experiences. The CSSC serves Low Income students in an effort to create and support a successful college experience while attending CSU, Chico.

The CSSC has adopted The College Board's (pdf) definition of a low income student.

"Students enrolled in schools with large numbers of students from low-income backgrounds or enrolled in schools with low college-going or high dropout rates.

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Students whose families are eligible to receive economic subsidies targeted to low-income families, including students who are:

• Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs.
• Residents of federally subsidized housing.
• Part of a family receiving public assistance.

-OR-

Students who are homeless, in foster care, or deemed to be wards of the court.

-OR-

Students who will be first-generation college attendees (neither parent has a college degree) and require some or all of the services needed by the students identified in the first three categories."

The CSSC has computers, overhead projectors, projection screens and monitors. A collaboration room is available to our students and it includes conference tables and chairs, large flat screen monitors and computers. CSSC students use the facilities for individual and group projects, an opportunity to be around mentors and academic support, and sometimes simply to be in a comfortable environment that is focused on student achievement.

The CSSC collaborates with internal university partners in order to serve students in the most efficient manner. The CSSC works closely with the Office of Admissions, Talent Search, MESA, Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Program, Career Planning and Placement, the Student Learning Center, the Financial and Scholarship Office, and the Office for Undergraduate Education.

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