Excelencia in Education Awards Premier Honor to CSUSM

Excelencia in Education, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating Latino student success, recently awarded the prestigious 2010 Examples of Excelencia, Baccalaureate Level honor to California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) for its thriving and impactful College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), which helps first generation college students from farmworking families succeed in higher education.

CAMP, which was launched as a national grant program nearly forty years ago and funded by the Office of Migrant Education, was established at CSUSM in 2002 and is currently only one of eight offered in California. Annually serving 45 freshmen from migrant and seasonal farmworker backgrounds, CAMP provides pre-college transition and first-year support services to help students develop the skills needed to stay in school and successfully graduate from college.