The Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program (GDFP) is designed to direct aid to graduate/professional students who have demonstrated academic achievement and overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education.
This program is intended to assist in the recruitment, enrollment and retention of students in doctoral and master's level programs who can demonstrate that they contribute to the diversity of the student body, especially those who can show that they have overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education.
The Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship Program (ESDHSP) is designed to direct aid to undergraduate students who have demonstrated academic achievement and overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education.
The Native American Initiative is part of a consortium of post-secondary institutions in the North Country and western part of New York State that have come together to provide programs that address the specific educational needs of Native American students.
SUNY’s support of the Native American Initiative funds programming at two campus locations (Fredonia and Potsdam). SUNY Fredonia is home to the Native American SUNY: Western Consortium, which includes liaisons from the Seneca Nation of Indians (Cattaraugus and Alleghany Territories), the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, the Tuscarora Nation, the Cayuga Nation and the Onondaga Nation. A member of the Northern Consortium, SUNY Potsdam serves the members of the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation at Akwesasne (U.S. and Canada).
The overall goal of these two programs focuses on recruitment, access, retention and graduation of Native American students in higher education. There are a variety of student support services and activities associated with these two programs. More specifically, these activities revolve around campus and community involvement, student development, counseling, networking, information sharing, cultural events and academic support.