Graduation • Last year’s graduation ceremony included an unexpected shower of confetti being tossed on the graduates as they marched out to take their seats and eventually receive their diplomas from President Maxson.

This year’s ceremony will be held with the new Cal State Long Beach president, F. King Alexander, this week on campus.

Tracey Roman
Online Forty-Niner

News

• CSULB women find glass ceiling hard to break
  Women students at Cal State Long Beach may find it difficult to break the glass ceiling after college. A recent study of California Women Business Leaders, released late February, found the corporate environment of California in last place nationally in regard to women holding leadership positions.
  
  
  
• New Generation Y’ers change outlook for CSULB graduates
  Students graduating from Cal State Long Beach this spring are members of Generation Y, a generation which is different from any generations that have come before it, according to a USA Today article titled “Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude."
  
  
  
  
• Sociology professor describes work experience
  Patricia Gilbert, a sociology professor at Cal State Long Beach and a social worker at the Department of Mental Health in downtown Long Beach, shared her academic and work experience she went through to achieve a profession in social work.
  
  
  
  
• Lt. Gov. Bustamante voices concerns for CSU student fees
  Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante attended the Cal State University Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday, as an ex-officio trustee member.
  
  
  
• Cal State Long Beach plans to increase teachers, education
  While reading this sentence should not be a problem, counting the words in it might be.
  
  
  
• Minors benefit students future career, plans
  As graduates proudly stroll across the stage at graduation this week, many will receive minors with their degrees. Although the minor has become a common practice here at The Beach, not many students are sure what it is or how it will help them in the future.
  
  
  
  
• Never say ‘eventually,’ eventually you will plain miss out
  Leaving college is very different from leaving high school. In high school, many people have a set course ahead: college. You are sad to leave friends, but know what awaits you in college will not even compare to what you experienced in high school in terms of education, friendship, love, hate and possibly all other emotions and experiences. You have had enough as a teenager and are anxious and ready to see what waits around the corner.
  
  
  
• Graduating senior has enlightening college experiences
  These past four years at Cal State Long Beach have taught me more about life than I could have ever expected.
  
  
  
  
• CSULB love story shows family legacies, memories
  My first semester at Cal State Long Beach was in the fall of ’79. I had just graduated from high school where I had been very involved and popular.