Program Areas
Watershed Fellowship Career Pathways (WFCP)
The WFCP provides students with a multi-tiered learning pathway program that empowers them through diverse opportunities to increase their understanding and appreciation of the application of interdisciplinary perspectives in resolving water centric community issues.
Service Learning & Workforce Readiness
- Complete a minimum of 10 volunteer hours with a community organization.
- Complete professional experiences including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) certification, Project WET trainings, water and landscape monitoring trainings and more.
- Attend CSUSB Career Center Trainings to develop professional soft skills that enable students to be prepared for professional development and advanced degree opportunities.
Community-Centric Activities
- Focus of fellowship activities are aimed at understanding and actively engaging in supporting watershed activities that promote equity and resiliency across community water resource issues.
Parallel Learning & Implementation
- WFCP student participants serve as an active and engaged member of a Faculty-Student-Community Research Cohorts including watershed landscape and surface water monitoring in the Inland Empire.
Showcase Student Experience
- WFCP student participants will have opportunities to share experiences with prospective program participants including students, faculty, and community members, to encourage participation, illustrate the value of apprenticeships and fellowship as well as a mechanism to procure and sustain financial support.
Professional Development Incentive Programs (P-DIP)
The P-DIP provides diverse avenues of financial support that encourages faculty to mentor students across professional development, research, and field experiences as well as utilization of the archives in course curriculum.
Student Professional Development Certificates
Provides funding for students to attend workshops/conferences or complete professional certifications/training including water, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Cultural Resources certifications to name a few.
Faculty-Student-Community Research Collaboration
Provides short term funding support for faculty-student research teams to collaborate with a community partner to develop a research agenda and identify longer term funding support.
Faculty-Student-Community Field Experiences
Support faculty-student-practitioner field experiences that explore the application of field-based interdisciplinary methods to resolving watershed issues.
K-12 & Public Environmental Education Inquiry Curriculum Development
Supports the development of K-12 and public environmental education curricula as well as an interdisciplinary lesson plan database for K-12, public and higher education educators to utilize across teaching efforts in the Inland Empire.
