Youngstown State University currently implements consortium grant in part through three programs:

(1) Junior-to-Senior Summer Bridge Enrichment Program.  This program identifies high school juniors who are interested in STEM programs, have potential for success in STEM areas, and need additional special help to make them calculus or precalculus ready in their senior year (by 1 March), help provided through free programs in the Summer term between their junior and senior high school years. Critical to carrying out this mission are Youngstown State University's partnering secondary institutions in the Mahoning Valley: Chaney High School (Youngstown), East High School (Youngstown), Girard High School (Girard), Liberty High School (Liberty), Warren G. Harding High School (Warren), and Youngstown Early College (Youngstown + Youngstown State University).  Calculus readiness is essential to beginning without delay these programs in YSU's College of STEM: computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, statistics.  And precalculus readiness is essential to beginning without delay these programs in YSU's College of STEM: biology, chemistry, computer information systems, engineering technology.

(2) COFSP Scholarship Funding Program.  This program identifies high school seniors who have applied to YSU, chosen a STEM major in YSU's College of STEM (CSTEM), and demonstrated by 1 March of their senior year the mathematics preparedness appropriate to beginning that major without delay.  While all qualified seniors from Ohio are encouraged to apply, there is a special priority on those qualified seniors that completed the bridge program described above, as well as a priority on qualified seniors from partner high schools and urban and rural districts in the Youngstown-Warren area, and qualfied seniors with financial need.  Awarded students are eligible for the following benefits:

(a) Free Calculus or PreCalculus Course.  Tuition is paid for a free calculus or precalculus course in the Summer term immediately following the high school senior year.  The choice of course depends on the STEM major of the student and the appropriate corresponding level of mathematics preparedness.

(b) COFSP Funding for Academic Year.  Last dollar COFSP funding of between $1,500 and $4,700 is available beginning the academic year following the senior high school year.  The exact amount depends on the student's financial need.  COFSP awardees maintaining a 3.00 GPA and making timely progress in their STEM program will be supported for additional academic years up to four years, providing State budgets and grant funding permit.

(3) Mentorship Program for COFSP Students On Campus.  Awarded students form a COFSP Cohort and are mentored by CSTEM faculty and students from older COFSP Cohorts.  Cohort activities include Cohort meetings where students meet CSTEM faculty and industry professionals, collaborative research with faculty and student mentors as members of COFSP Project Teams, and presentation of Project Team research at YSU's annual QUEST and the annual Northeast Ohio COFSP Consortium Spring Poster Conference.

Information on the Junior-to-Senior Summer Bridge Enrichment Program and its application form are in the pdf files "Junior-to-Senior Summer Bridge Program 2010.pdf" and "Application Bridge Form 2010.pdf".  Information on the COFSP Scholarship Funding Program and the Mentorship Program for COFSP Students On Campus, as well as the application form for the funding program, are in the pdf files "COFSP Scholarship Funding Opportunities 2010.pdf" and "Application Funding Form 2010.pdf". Detailed information on the COFSP program as a whole at YSU is in the pdf file "COFSP Brochure 2010.pdf".

For information on the Northeast Ohio COFSP consortium, please go to http://www.csuohio.edu/success_in_math/.