In 2019, the CSU Chancellor's Office offered various mini-grant opportunities to CSU faculty, staff and students in support of Basic Needs and Student Well-Being. Read below to learn about the various projects.
2019 Grant Awardees
Student Research
These student-led research projects focus on student well-being and its intersection with student success.
See the list with abstracts.
| Bakersfield | Jacob Kountz | $2,500 | Attitudes and Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Services |
| Bakersfield | Denisse B. Silva | $2,500 | Defining 'Student Success:' Voices of Latinx First Generation College Students |
| Dominguez Hills | Julia Childs | $2,500
| Determining Inclusivity of the CSU Basic Needs Initiative for Pregnant and Parenting Students |
| Dominguez Hills | Hawk McFadzen | $2,500 | Student Perceptions of Basic Needs |
| Humboldt | Melody Soper | $2,500 | Barriers to Success |
| Long Beach | Connie Moreno Yamashiro | $2,500 | Hungry for a Higher Education: A Case Study on Student Experiences with a Food Pantry |
| Northridge | Jennifer Rodzianko | $2,500 | The Role of CSUN Food Pantry and Pop-up Pantry on Well-Being, Academic Success and Fod Security: A CSUN Student Perspective |
Faculty Research
In an effort to assess the impact of basic needs programs and services, these small-scale research projects will evaluate the process and/or implementation of these programs.
See the list with abstracts.
| Channel Islands | Jacob Jenkins | Associate Professor | $15,000 | Basic Needs for Student Success: Best Practices for Serving CSU’s Historically Underserved Students |
| Chico | Josephine Blagrave | Assistant Professor | $15,000 | Access to Healthy Opportunities for College Students with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study |
| Chico | Jennifer Wilking | Associate Professor | $15,000 | Assessing Housing Needs and Programs Post Camp Fire:
An Interdisciplinary, Course-based Research Proposal |
| Dominguez Hills | Jenney Hall | Lecturer | $15,000 | Food Storage and Preparation at CSU-Dominguez Hills Urban Farm |
| East Bay | Ryan Gamba | Assistant Professor | $15,000 | F rom Stamps to Phone Apps: Identifying the most effective and preferred methods of Food Assistance for Students at CSU East Bay
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| Northridge | Nelida Duran | Assistant Professor | $15,000 | Food Insecurity and Utilization of Food Pantries at California State University Northridge |
| San Francisco | Gretchen Lynn George | Assistant Professor | $15,000 | Understanding the Impact of Peer Education on Self-Efficacy and Food Literacy in Food Insecure Students |
| San Luis Obispo | Aydin Nazmi | Associate Professor | $15,000 | Improving food access on campus: A mixed-methods process evaluation |
San Marcos
| Gabriel R. Valle | Assistant Professor | $15,000 | Addressing Student Basic Needs by Empowering Students through Growing Food |
Campus Community Gardens
These projects receive a stipend to help with the enhancement of a current campus community garden, and/or the development of a campus community garden, with the goal of providing additional nutritional resources and gardening education to food-insecure students.
| Bakersfield | Lourdes Nilon | $3,000 |
| Channel Islands | Ruben Alarcon | $3,000 |
| Dominguez Hills | Ellie Perry | $3,000 |
| East Bay | Brandon Martinez Bailon | $3,000 |
| Fullerton | John Bock | $3,000 |
| Long Beach | Don Penrod | $3,000 |
| Long Beach | Christina Limon | $3,000 |
| Northridge | Erica Wohldmann | $3,000 |
| Northridge | Annette Besnilian | $3,000 |
| Pomona | Michael Brown | $3,000 |
| Sacramento | Ryan Todd | $3,000 |
| San José | Diana Victa | $3,000 |
| San Luis Obispo | Genie Kim | $3,000 |
| San Marcos | Juliana Goodlaw-Morris | $3,000 |
| Sonoma | Clea Felien | $3,000 |
| Sonoma | Daniel Soto | $3,000 |
| Stanislaus | Karen Webster | $3,000 |
| Stanislaus | Jill Tiemann-Gonzalez | $3,000
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