SEEK at The College of Staten Island

SEEK had its debut at City College of New York as a pre-baccalaureate program. It came about as a result of social activists who wanted to encourage and support poor students (at that time mostly African American and Puerto Rican), to apply and be successful in CUNY. Signed into law in 1966, SEEK (and College Discovery at the community colleges) became CUNY's higher education opportunity programs, currently in 19 colleges throughout the University.

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The SEEK Program has enrolled nearly 230,000 low-income students since its inception forty years ago. Without the unique support and guidance offered by SEEK, most of these students would not have had the opportunity to earn a college degree. SEEK students have been recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship Award, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the Mellon Minority Fellowship, Belle Zeller and Jeannette K. Watson and other national, state-wide, and local awards.

SEEK's primary mission is to assist in providing equality of higher education to students who otherwise would not have such access. The effort is intended to increase the level of education, social capital, and workforce expertise within our community. The major objectives are as follows:

To assist selected students with specifically defined educational and economic needs to achieve a high quality college education and expand their social and career capabilities.
To provide a range of intensive support services including supplemental instruction, counseling, and enhanced financial aid to enable students to bridge the gap between remedial programs and the regular college curriculum.
To develop, utilize, and demonstrate innovative educational techniques that will enable fundamentally capable students to overcome the handicaps of educational under-preparation and other relevant disadvantages with the goal of obtaining a college education.

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