Sponsorship Program
Watershed Fellowship Career Pathway Program
The IWR can assist matching student learning with agency and organization needs. Students are also eligible to receive course credit for their fellowship. Fellowships offer diverse learning and workforce readiness opportunities that may include GIS, field resources monitoring, strategic communications, marketing, community outreach, education and much more. Funding compensates students for their time, completing the California Environmental Policy Act (CEQA) certification from University of California San Diego and field safety gear and related equipment as well as attending professional workshops and conferences. Funding is life changing for our students who primarily represent disadvantaged communities with limited to no professional development resources.
Semester Fellowship $7,500/ student/15 weeks (15 hrs/week)
Academic Year Fellowship $15,000/student/40 weeks (15 hrs/week)
This program supports diverse student learning activities across numerous and diverse career pathways experiences including service learning volunteer activities, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) certification, Project WET training, watershed monitoring, attending professional conferences, supporting K-12 environmental education events, environmental monitoring and much more.
FLOWS Field School Workforce Training Program
FLOWS provides CSU Students from multiple CSU campus with geospatial and field-based research and service learning that prepares them for diverse career opportunities. FLOWS activities include diverse activities with local, regional and state water resource practitioners, community, and Tribal leadership engagement. The focus for the experiences is community-ecological water issues and solutions across the coast, mountain, valley and desert regions of California.
FLOWS Annual Program Cost Per student $3,000.
Professional Development Incentive Programs (P-DIP)
The PID program was developed to meet the needs of students who are unable to commit to a longer term IWR program offering. These diverse opportunities ensure that students are still able to gain meaningful learning and workforce development experiences that are more flexible to their academic and personal obligations.
Student Professional Development
$2,500+/student/per experience
Support students with obtaining professional experiences including certifications, conference presentations, attending workshops and other professional experiences.
Faculty-Student-Community Research Collaboration
$4,500+/cohort/semester
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 Field Experiences
$3,000+/field experience/semester
Support faculty-student-practitioner field experiences that explore the application of field-based methods to interdisciplinary resolving watershed issues.
K-12 & Public Environmental Education Curriculum Development
$2,000+/curriculum project
Supports students and faculty with developing K-12 and general 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.
Partnerships
CSUSB has a long and diverse history of supporting and sustaining community partnerships. Our partnerships support student based learning including filed experiences, workforce development, community research projects, and K-12 to public education and outreach. Current partnerships include, but are not limited to the following:
San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District (SBVMWD)
The Inland Empire Resources Conservation District (IERCD)
Our Lady of the Assumption School San Bernardino K-8 Garden Education Program
United State Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest (USFS)
Southern California Mountains Foundation (SCMF)
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
CSUSB Office of Community Engagement
CSUSB Associated Students, Incorporated (ASI)
We welcome new partnerships and collaborations where we can pool resources to meet the dynamic watershed environmental, social, economic, education and workforce needs of the Inland Empire region.
