Fresno State’s Division of Technology Services, College of Health and Human Services, College of Science and Mathematics and the Veteran’s Education Program will profit from Chevron’s newest gift to Fresno State of $350,000, which brings the six-year total to just about $2.5 million.
Chevron’s funding strengthens curriculum and applications aimed on the enrichment of scholars and the area by means of STEM (science, know-how, engineering and math) schooling , profession growth and financial progress for the Valley. These areas play an more and more vital function in serving to energy the way forward for innovation. This focus grows a brand new era of leaders who’re ready to deal with regional, nationwide and international challenges, enhance their group and encourage progress.
Fresno State’s College of Health and Human Services presents a broad vary of totally accredited post-secondary and graduate academic applications to greater than 4,000 college students every year, attracting college students from Merced County to the north to Kern County to the south, a 200-mile span.
One automobile the school makes use of to set these college students on the highway to success is the Fresno State Mobile Health Unit. Through the Mobile Health Unit, college students achieve private expertise delivering fundamental well being companies to the encircling group, together with the unhoused and residents of rural areas.
“We are grateful for Chevron’s continued support of our Mobile Health Unit program,” stated Dr. Denise Seabert, dean of the College of Health and Human Services. “Funds from this significant gift will create advanced opportunities for our health and human services students to volunteer on the unit, providing free health care services to our underserved areas, while also immersing themselves in the community — learning firsthand about the people and places that make our region thrive.”
With its most up-to-date gift of $350,000, Chevron has given practically$2.5 million to Fresno State applications previously six years, together with the Mobile Health Unit. Chevron representatives formalized this 12 months’s gift with a ceremonial examine presentation and celebration on campus at the moment.
Chevron’s presents concentrate on addressing a scarcity of STEM-trained employees within the area and offering enhanced academic alternatives in these areas. It additionally aligns with Chevron’s dedication to veterans by supporting the Veterans Education Program.
“Chevron’s ongoing backing of key efforts that support student initiatives has been transformational. Their faith in Fresno State has promoted unparalleled student success. I am especially grateful for their first-time support for the Division of Technology,” stated Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval. “Powerful gifts of philanthropy such as this enable us to fuel the future of our city and region by empowering our students to lead the California of the future after they graduate.”
During their go to, Chevron representatives heard displays concerning the Veterans Education Program, the Hub of Digital Transformation and Innovation within the Division of Technology Services, in addition to stops to see initiatives within the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Health and Human Services.
“Chevron has always valued our long-standing support and partnership with Fresno State,” stated Amy McTaggart, a digital supervisor with Chevron’s San Joaquin Valley Business Unit and a Fresno State alumna. “Through our relationship with the university, we look to help grow the next generation of leaders and prepare them to address some of the most critical issues impacting our region while also supporting efforts in workforce development and readiness. Among other benefits, this year’s contribution aims to provide early exposure to students in the areas of STEM and digital technology, two areas that are critical to the future success of the San Joaquin Valley region and beyond.”
Chevron will help the next Fresno State initiatives with this 12 months’s gift:
- The Fresno State Mobile Health Unit within the College of Health and Human Services: Three occasions per week (together with many Saturdays) the cell unit presents testing and schooling to underserved communities all through Fresno, Kings, Madera and Tulare Counties. The cell unit reaches rural and concrete areas which can be devoid of medical care, offering important companies to make sure fundamental well being care for a lot of members of our group. Lack of entry to common well being care creates actual world penalties for our area, usually leading to crowded emergency rooms and elevated inequities. The cell unit is uniquely geared up to deal with these inequities particularly as a result of it could actually journey to the place the necessity is biggest.
- The Veterans Education Program supplied by means of the Division of Continuing and Global Education: Student veterans have distinctive wants on their journey to success that differ from the everyday faculty pupil. The transition from army life to increased schooling will be difficult. The University’s Veterans Education Program gives an academic re-entry alternative for women and men who’ve served or are presently serving our nation. Chevron’s gift permits this system to advance financial and social alternatives for veteran college students.
- An Outreach Incubator within the College of Science and Mathematics: As an goal supply for science schooling, literacy and resolution era for our group and regional business, the College of Science and Mathematics works to teach, encourage and excite the subsequent era of STEM leaders and develop engagement by means of our outreach efforts. Through the Outreach Incubator, CSM’s seven departments will associate with regional faculty districts to develop STEM schooling alternatives for Okay-12 college students in rural, underserved and under-represented communities.
- Program C.I.T.Y created by The Division of Technology Services: Program C.I.T.Y. (Creativity, Innovation and Technology for Young Learners) gives a various and inclusive platform for younger learners to discover at the moment’s digital applied sciences by means of learn-by-doing actions. Through collaborations between native elementary faculties and Fresno State’s Hub of Digital Transformation and Innovation (DXI Hub), college students will have the ability to interact totally with a brand new know-how program that values pupil creativity and talent growth whereas fostering expertise and curiosity in new rising applied sciences corresponding to digital actuality.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Latest gift from Chevron brings six-year total over $2.5 million
10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18
WHAT: Generous help from Chevron will profit a number of Fresno State applications — Fresno State’s Division of Technology Services, College of Health and Human Services, College of Science and Math and the Veteran’s Education Program — profit from Chevron’s newest gift to Fresno State of $350,000.
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18
WHERE: In the courtyard by Science II. Enter campus from Barstow Avenue, and go south on Woodrow Avenue. Lot P6 will likely be on the best (west) aspect of Woodrow Avenue.
WHO:
- Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval
- Fresno State Provost Xuanning Fu
- College of Health and Human Services Dean Denise Seabert
- College of Science and Math Dean Christopher Meyer
- Division of Continuing and Global Education Dean Scott Moore
- Division of Technology Services Vice President Bao Johri
- Amy McTaggart, Digital Manager, San Joaquin Valley Business Unit, Chevron
WHY: Fresno State’s Division of Technology Services, College of Health and Human Services, College of Science and Math and the Veteran’s Education Program profit from Chevron’s newest gift to Fresno State.
VISUALS: Program C.I.T.Y virtual reality booth, Mobile Health Unit, College of Science and Math outreach trailers.
RSVP: RSVP through e mail to public information officer Lisa Bell at [email protected].
MEDIA PARKING: Lot P6, a number of parking areas will likely be reserved for members of the media and VIPs. Any yellow, white or parking meter stall is permitted with show of media placard or for marked automobiles. (Red and blue zones prohibited.) Enter campus from Barstow Avenue, and go south on Woodrow Avenue. Lot P6 will likely be on the best (west) aspect of Woodrow Avenue.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Full launch to return on Friday, Nov. 18, after the conclusion of the occasion.
MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Bell, Fresno State public information officer, at [email protected] or textual content 559.246.1717.
