| The OASIS Summer Bridge Program
is a four-week intensive residential, academic, and personal
development program for up to 130 selected freshman students. As
part of your extensive orientation to academic life, you
will earn 8 units of credit to prepare for the intellectual
challenges you will meet during your first year at UCSan Diego.
Summer Bridge will challenge you, and attending will give
you more confidence, provide you with knowledge about the
campus, and help you feel at home at UC San Diego. Many of the
friendships made through Summer Bridge will last throughout
your college years and beyond. The Summer Bridge Program is
just the beginning of the support provided by OASIS. During
the academic year, Summer Bridge students will continue to
receive support through the Academic Transition Program.
(Please see ATP for more information). |
The Academic Transition Program
aims to ensure that freshmen reach their academic potential
and enjoy positive involvement on campus. ATP provides an
individualized package of tutoring, mentoring, counseling,
and networking for each student to ease the transition from
high school to university life. Students are assigned an
Academic Transition Counselor (ATC), a peer mentor, who will
follow your progress throughout your year. In addition, you
will have the opportunity to participate in quarterly social
events. |
The TRiO Student Support Services
Program is a U.S. Department of Education TRiO program
designed to serve students who are first-generation college
students and/or from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
TRiO SSSP is committed to enhancing each participant’s potential
for successfully completing an undergraduate degree at UC San Diego.
In addition, TRiO SSSP strives to enhance each participant’s
prospect for entrance to graduate and professional school
and to foster a home-base environment supportive of its
participants. TRiO SSSP consists of a variety of
services/activities: a one-week non-residential summer
transition program for incoming freshmen and transfer
students, individualized tutoring, placement with a peer
mentor, workshops that focus on student issues and concerns,
weekly seminars, and cultural activities and fieldtrips.
TRiO SSSP will provide these services throughout your
academic career at UCSD. |
The Summer Transition Enrichment Program (STEP) provided by the TRiO Student Support Services Program (SSSP) is a free week long non-residential transition program for first year freshmen and transfer students. Through a variety of workshops and presentations students learn about campus resources, important study skills and they begin to establish a network of support that includes peers, staff and faculty. The goal of STEP is to help first year freshman and transfer students with their transition into the university and to help them gain valuable skills and knowledge that will allow them to succeed and not just survive at UC San Diego. By participating in STEP, students gain a sense of belonging and community that empowers them to succeed. After STEP, students are participants in SSSP and they continue to get a variety of services throughout their career at UCSD, including: mentoring, counseling, tutoring, cultural activities, educational workshops, weekly seminars and graduate school awareness. |
