Enrichment Opportunities
Enrollment in the 2Excel Program and successful completion of the requirements grants 2Excel students priority consideration into the following enrichment opportunities. We aim to create innovative ways to engage student curiosity and encourage students to apply to programs of their interest.
The current partnerships include RMTL, The Basement, OASIS Creative Arts Fellowship, Edisen, College Corps, Career Launch and SPUR. Our purpose is to provide 2nd year students with the opportunity to gain valuable experiences and jumpstart their career! More information about each program below:
Career Launch
Career Launch's mission is to help its partners equitably scale students' ability to proactively create relationships with professionals and launch effective job and internship searches in the hidden job market, especially for students with few to no employment connections.
Benefits:
- Accelerating Career Readiness
- Networking opportunities
- Lifelong skills
- Success Coaching
College Corps
College Corps engages in community-serving opportunities that focus on K-12 education, climate action, food insecurity, and public health while also receiving financial compensation and other benefits.
Benefits:
- Real-world job experience and resume-building skills
- Access to training, networking, and professional development opportunities
- Connections with fellows throughout California via virtual community platform and regional events
- Up to a $7,000 living stipend to help pay for college and a $3,000 education award upon completion of 450 fellowship hours
- Opportunity to earn academic credit - AIP 197P: Changemaking and Civic Leadership (4 units)
Credit-Bearing Course - EDS 23
EDS 23 Success and Satisfaction in the Second Year of Higher Education: Research Trends and Conclusions Course focuses on challenges that confront college students in their second year of higher education and solutions. Emphasis on historically underrepresented students of color with more complex adjustment to college. Analysis of national trends from research including High Impact Practices. Prerequisites: department approval required. This course is a collaboration with Student Affairs “2 Excel Program.” Enrollees should only be program participants.
Edisen
Edisen is a creative production company. They offer creative development, strategy, film production and post-production to improve both the final result and the creative process itself.
Benefits:
Professional mentorship/experience in the areas of technology (e.g. software engineering) and creative design (e.g. content creation)
OASIS Creative Arts Fellowship
The OASIS Creative Arts Fellowship committee will select five creative writing fellows and five visual (or multimedia) fellows who will be awarded $500 each upon completion of their artistic projects. The OASIS Creative Arts Fellows and their completed projects will be published in a digital and print journal at the end of the academic year.
OASIS RMTL Fellowship
The RMTL program offers a full hands-on experience for students in health sciences & mentors them to develop as scientists. Students get to conduct first-hand research, receive laboratory training & access to coaching.
Benefits:
- Faculty mentorship
- Laboratory experience
- $500 in fellowship funds
- Lab Assistant Certificate that allows students to participate in other labs
The Basement
The Basement offers priority consideration into the following two programs:
Blackstone Launchpad- Equips college and university students with entrepreneurial skills needed to build successful business, growth mindset, creativity, critical thinking, and leadership.
i4X- Brings together multidisciplinary student teams to collaborate on disruptive solutions to real-world challenges across different sectors.
Benefits:
- Understand design thinking and ideation;
- Understand business models and connect innovation and entrepreneurial initiatives to organization objectives and goals;
- Develop knowledge and skills to use Lean Startup methodology in customer development and discovery;
- Understand how to communicate, finance, or market a new idea, product, or initiative.
SPUR (Scaling Paid Undergraduate Research)
Coming soon
