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The impact of Rising in the East: The Campaign for Cal State East Bay

“Rising in the East: The Campaign for Cal State East Bay” was the most ambitious, comprehensive fundraising campaign in the university’s distinguished 60-year history. The capital raised is being used to modernize our campuses, further strengthen our faculty, reinforce existing programs and launch new ones, expand learning opportunities and enhance our diverse student population through scholarships. This endeavor helped drive innovation and made a visible, transformative impact on lives, not just at the university, but also in the communities we serve through educating tomorrow’s leaders.

Here are some of the top ways that your generous contributions have improved Cal State East Bay. Check back each week to see new people, places and purposes that have been impacted by your support. 

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The CORE Building
Rendering of CORE building
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Discover Engineering!
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Institute for STEM Education
Three students add wiring to to an object with legs and propellers.
Institute for STEM Education

The university鈥檚 Institute for STEM Education is improving the way teachers and faculty teach science, technology, engineering, and math by focusing on the design and implementation of programs that increase access to STEM education and opportunities for students of all levels and backgrounds.

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Osher Lifelong Learning Institue
The backside of elderly man and woman who are holding hands while walking
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Community Counseling Clinic
Three young women pose in an old office
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Hayward Promise Neighborhoods
portrait of a woman with an aerial view of hayward (streets and hills) filling in her body
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Class Gifts
Three students stand in cap and gown in front of the East Bay letters
Class Gifts

Beginning with the Class of 2018, hundreds of graduates have contributed small donations prior to commencement to establish a class endowed scholarship fund. The Class of 2019 raised over $25,000 between 600 graduates to support student scholarships and research. Class gift donors receive an exclusive cord to wear at graduation.

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Carol Sughrue Scholarship for International Peace and Understanding
A woman paints a colorful mural featuring a female's face
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HOST labs
A student teacher in a white coat presents in front of a table of small children wearing white coats
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MESA
balsa wood airplanes lie together on a gym floor
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Renaissance Scholars
A young woman in glasses and a purple sweatshirt poses
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College of Science Labs
Clean white science lab space
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SCAA
Two female students sitting at desks look over a piece of paper together
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The Hub for Entrepreneurship
Artist rendering of the inside of a new building with students studying, chatting and working
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GANAS
A male student wears a black sweatshirt with GANAS on it
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Supporting Students Long-Term
A woman at a desk looks over a piece of paper with a male student
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College Link
A male with dark hair, red sweatshirt and backpack on his shoulder looks into the distance
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Pioneers for HOPE
A woman in a blue sweater with long hair stands in front of a shelf stocked with canned goods
Pioneers for HOPE

After a study by the California State University Chancellor鈥檚 Office revealed that one in five CSU students do not have consistent access to food, Cal State East Bay took action by opening three free food pantries. Run by Pioneers for H.O.P.E., an intervention program for food and housing insecure students, the Hayward and Concord campuses are able to offer shelf-stable and fresh food for any student worried about their next meal.

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Jack Acosta Fellowship
A man poses with students in the VBT building
Jack Acosta Fellowship

Together with his wife, Susan, technology executive Jack Acosta (B.S. '75, Business Administration; MBA '78), Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation trustee, endowed two professorships in the College of Business and Economics. This has allowed professors such as Sinan Goktan to continue producing high impact research and mentoring students.

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Solar Suitcase
Students and faculty pose in a science lab in the shadows. The only light comes from a blue suitcase being held by a student.
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Nursing Labs
A woman in a red sweater puts her hand on the shoulder of a dummy laying in a hospital bed
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Faculty Support
A man in a black shirt scoops rocks with his left hand while looking at a piece of paper in his right hand. A student holding a red machine watches.
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Applied Sciences Center
A rendering of a two story building
Applied Sciences Center

The number of Science Technology and Mathematics majors at Cal State East Bay has increased by more than 50 percent since 2010. The Applied Sciences Center will provide a purpose-designed space to foster student and faculty collaborations. Its will feature state of the art, interdisciplinary space for student and faculty research projects; innovation space to explore new methods and technologies; and well-equipped labs to support more students working on research projects with their professors.

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Save Our Students (SOS) Scholarships
A woman in a striped sweater looks down, working on her laptop.
Save Our Students (SOS) Scholarships

The Save Our Students (SOS) Scholarship is a university-wide scholarship for students who have a financial need and are at risk of dropping out due to tuition increases. It was started by two alumni with their own money in 2011 after they saw how budget cuts and tuition increases affected students.

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Minor in Japanese Language and Culture
A woman speaks into a microphone at a podium
Minor in Japanese Language and Culture

Cal State East Bay鈥檚 commitment to our global community expanded this spring to include a new minor in Japanese Language and Culture. The program, announced in April, launched with a special presentation by the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco and the Japan Foundation of Los Angeles. Hayward is a sister city with Funabashi, west of Tokyo, and each year the community sends up to three students to attend Cal State East Bay for a year of study.

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Aphasia Tones
Three people in tshirts play the harmonica
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Jumpstart Weekend
A man in a blue polo shirt and glasses smiles
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Science Vans
A white van with volcano lava graphic
Science Vans

Ruth Bley (B.S. 鈥�82; M.S. 鈥�88, Geology), president of Bleyco, Inc., a Castro Valley-based electrical construction company, purchased two vans for the College of Science. Professors use them for field trips and off campus research. Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Patty Oikawa uses the vans weekly to bring students and equipment to her two research sites. Oikawa and her students are collecting collect data on how to use wetlands and ranchland to fight climate change.

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Excellence in Early STEM Education
A student works on a laptop while a teacher instructs at the front of a classroom
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Supporting Faculty Research
A petri dish with a fluorescent yellow growth
Supporting Faculty Research

Through a $95,000 gift from his company Systems Biosciences, former CSU Trustee Kenneth Fong created the Kenneth Fong SBI Research Award, which established an industrial research opportunity for a tenure-track faculty member. Through the program, biology Professor Claudia Uhde-Stone spent several days a week working at SBI on research alongside two students, including Amierali Afshari, who now works full time at SBI as an assistant manager and researcher.

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Green Biome Institute
Purple flower with green leaves behind it
Green Biome Institute

Housed in the university鈥檚 new BioCore Facility, Cal State East Bay鈥檚 Green Biome Institute is dedicated to endangered plant conservation and genomic research. Its mission is to create and make freely available, complete molecular profiles of several native California plants. Supported by faculty and lab staff, students are the backbone of the work being done at GBI, and in the first year of the institute, more than 60 undergraduate and graduate students were involved with GBI-related projects.

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Center for Community Engagement
Three female students in red shirts crouch in a garden
Center for Community Engagement

The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) supports a variety of community-engaged learning that happens within academic courses (also known as Service-Learning), as well as several other programs including Pioneers for Change, Make a Difference Week, Freshman Day of Service and more. CCE鈥檚 mission is to enhance learning, inspire engagement, and improve community well-being.

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Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association
Aerial view of the Concord campus with Mt. Diablo in the background
Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association

Hundreds of nursing graduates throughout Northern California can trace their expertise back to emerita faculty Bette Felton. Although she is no longer teaching, her influence as the former dean is indelibly part of the Concord 91探花 and she made a gift through her estate plans supporting the campus in perpetuity. Members of the Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) often choose programs that have been meaningful throughout their careers.

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Athletics Scholarships
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Will L. Johnson Endowed Professorship in Sociology
A female student studies at her computer
Will L. Johnson Endowed Professorship in Sociology

Students often cite 鈥渁ccess to professors鈥� as a deciding factor to attend Cal State East Bay. While Anita Flores knew that she would have an opportunity to do undergraduate research, she was surprised at the invitation to serve as a research assistant to an experienced professor. The Will L. Johnson Endowed Professorship in Sociology gives faculty funds to engage students in their research projects, thus elevating students鈥� research practice.

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