Giving Tuesday 2024

Your gift to the COTA Scholarship Fund will help turn the dreams of tomorrow’s artists into reality. This fund enhances our ability to compete with high-profile institutions for the most promising student-artists and helps students establish themselves in a college focused on access and opportunity. Your gift will strengthen our reputation as a major force for arts education in and beyond California—continuing the 75-year-strong legacy of the arts at CSULB! With your generosity, we can ensure that a COTA education stays within reach for students from all backgrounds and that our campus remains a unique learning environment made up of many ideas, experiences and perspectives. If you share our passion for, in the words of Dean Royce W. Smith, “preparing some of the world’s finest creatives to share their voices and visions with the world,” then we have the role of a lifetime for you: COTA donor!

The College of the Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund is focused on supporting unique student opportunities during their studies at The Beach—allowing them to present their work, deliver a lecture, participate in a performance, screen a film or engage in a workshop or residency. This fund is focused on encouraging our students to put themselves—and their special work—out there into the world and to take productive risks so that they can grow as artists, thinkers, dreamers and doers. Many times, such opportunities come up quickly, affording students very little time to gather the resources necessary to say ‘yes’, but with your help, the College of the Arts can support these students’ goals and propel them into the world to share their talents far and wide!