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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

skills, and inadequate or ineffective academicadvising and mentoring. In 2009, Cañada College, a federally designated Hispanic-servinginstitution in the San Francisco Bay Area, received a National Science Foundation Scholarshipsin Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant to develop a scholarshipprogram for financially needy community college students intending to transfer to a four-yearinstitution to pursue a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field. In collaboration with the College’sMathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program – an academic, personal,and professional support structure has been designed and implemented to maximize thelikelihood of success of these students. This support structure aims to

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors