A Fire Burns through It hico State is trying to address the financial needs of its students through a new, three-year scholarship campaign, officially announced by President Manuel A. Esteban at his faculty and staff convocation in August 1998. As a residential campus, we compete with many of the state's best schools for students. Merit-based aid, such as our successful President's Scholars Program, is needed to continue to attract some of California' s highest achieving students to CSU, Chico.
Enrollment is up.
The economy is strong. Student and alumni satisfaction with Chico remains very high. At the heart of our institutional mission is the concept of student-centered learning. It's time for us to put students at the heart of our fundraising mission. Her colleague and fellow alumna, Christina Duran, concurred and then groaned thinking about how her life would have been limited without a college education.