About the OSCAR Scholar's Program

What does the OSCAR Scholar's Program do for students?
- Your faculty mentor works with you closely on your project and helps you develop your disciplinary expertise and skills.
- The OSCAR Scholar's Program offers students scholarship funding to engage in professional development opportunities designed to develop broader academic and professional skills.
Program Details
1 of 2 CALLS &Faculty# to Nominate OSCAR Scholars NOW OPEN!!!!!
Monday, April 8, 2025 to Friday, May 16, 2025
2025-26 Scholar Nomination Form for Mentors^
Fall 2025 Call (2 of 2)
Faculty limited to 3 student scholars for 2025-26 AY
Faculty mentor may nominate up to 3 students/Nomination Form
LINK to NOMINATE SCHOLARS
PROGRAM GOAL: To promote and support inclusive and extracurricular student engagement in faculty-mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities (RSCA).
FUNDING: Each scholar will be awarded a tuition scholarship of up to $1000* for the 2025-2026 academic year.
*dependent on funding availability
Meet minimum Scholar requirements:
- Work with mentor on project for entire 2025-26 Academic Year
- 3-5 hours/week work on project
- Earn 2 or more badges
- Required to present work in the April 2026 CSUEB Student Showcase
FACULTY MENTOR REQUIREMENTS:
- Nominate up to 3 student scholars for the 2025-26 Academic Year.
- Complete Scholar Nomination Form for Mentors (nominate 1-3 scholars/form)
- Support Scholars to:
- 3-5 hours/week work on project.
- Present work in the April 2026 CSUEB Student Showcase.
NEEDED to COMPLETE the Scholar Nomination Form for Mentors.
- For each student scholar nominees (up to 3 student scholars/mentor/2025-26), you will need:
- Student nominee’s first and last name
- Nominee’s Net id #
- Nominee’s Peoplesoft ID #
- Nominee’s CSUEB e-mail address (To ensure that your nominee receives our communications, please double-check this entry and correct errors.)
- Mentoring Plan (up to 500 words)Must include:
- REGULAR proposed meeting schedule, with identified meeting format, for you and your mentee throughout their time working with you.
- TWO tasks or skills to represent 2 unique BADGES.
- For EACH badge (2), a BRIEF description of the task, or skill your scholar will demonstrate to earn the badge.
- Mentoring Plan EXAMPLES
- Useful Resource - Mentoring Toolkit (FYI)
- Project Information (up to 200 words)
Please describe your project including background information, general goals, and the project's importance.