Apply for the 2024-2025 Multicultural Retention Services Mentor/Lead Mentor positions. Apply here.
Navigating Access to Indigenous Opportunities through Networking and Support
NATIONS Scholars Program is a one-year support and mentor program for first-generation, low-income, first-time students who will be starting at PSU in the fall. The program focuses on the Native American/Alaskan Native student experience and culture. The program design is to assist new students in their transition to PSU through academic support and community-building activities.
Selected Retention Program Participants will be required to:
- Participate in our Connect Program and College Success Class a week before Fall Classes begin
- Actively participate in community building (social and cultural) activities and workshops
- Meet with a designated mentor throughout each term
- Seek out financial resources for the following academic year
- Meet on a regular basis with designated program general advisor
Eligibility
- High school seniors beginning their first term at PSU Fall 2022 or Incoming transfer students from a Community College or 4 year institution
- First-generation (neither parent graduated from a 4 year university)
- Admitted to Portland State University or currently in the process of admission
- Demonstrated financial need
- Must be a full-time student with a minimum of 12 credit hours each term
- Must not be involved with any Portland State University Athletics (GANAS and EMPOWER Program Only)