Pillar Programs

The Center for Student Empowerment offers a variety of programs to meet the needs of its diverse members.

Circle Time with CSE

Our workshop design is to provide valuable information and support to help you manage your mental health and well-being.

Financial Empowerment Series

The Financial Empowerment Series consists of a series of workshops that provide CSE students and the UH community with financial teaching, resources, and tools to be fiscally responsible and astute.

Diamond Family Scholars Program

The Diamond Family Scholars Program is a comprehensive program designed to support students who have experienced time in foster care with navigating opportunities and maximizing resources while they pursue a Tier One education at UH.

Fostering Success Initiative

The Fostering Success Initiative (FSI) seeks to provide educational equality and self-determining assistive resources to varying student members.

High School Outreach

The 3-day immersion summer bridge program serves students transitioning from high school to college with an integrated curriculum focused on breaking down the barriers to success that students face in their first year of college.

Student Assistance Network

Student Assistance Network engages all members of the UH community and discusses current assistance-related programs on campus in an effort to help advance our food and housing insecurity campaigns.

Alonzo Cantu Scholars

The Alonzo Cantu Scholarship is for incoming freshmen at the University of Houston who graduated from any high school in Hidalgo County, Texas.