Bridge Funding Program for Student Success
"With student success as our North Start, we foster academic excellence, connection, and opportunity, preparing graduates from all backgrounds and from any community for impactful careers and lives of engaged citizenship."
Provost's initiative to support the implementation of the Academic Success Goals that serve as foundational guidance in advancing our strategic imperatives.
Updated 10:30 a.m. July 23, 2026
Program Overview and Purpose
The Provost Bridge Funding Program for Student Success was launched in November 2025 to provide short-term institutional support to sustain projects that directly advance undergraduate and graduate student success, retention, and graduation. This program was designed to help principal investigators (PIs) and project teams maintain momentum when experiencing temporary gaps or delays in federal grant funding.
Bridge funding ensured that initiatives critical to improving student outcomes, particularly those supporting underrepresented, first-generation, and economically disadvantaged students, could continue without interruption.
- Borderlands Writing: Sustaining Place-Based Curriculum in Foundations Writing Programs
- Achieving Internship Completion for Underrepresented, First-generation, and Economically Disadvantaged Students
- Protecting and Sustaining Student Success Gains from the Title III CREAR Grant
- What Works in Building Belonging: Completing and Evaluating the ADELANTE Borderlands Fellows Program