CSU among top in diversity
By Maya Yamane
Summer Forty-Niner
California State
University campuses are among the nationís most diverse according to recent
reports in two national publications.
The reports appeared
in the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and Black Issues in Higher
Education and are based on the number of academic degrees awarded to minorities
in 1996-97.
CSU institutions
make up 10 of the nationís top 30 universities in the number of baccalaureate
degrees awarded to minorities, Black Issues reported. San Jose State
ranks at No. 7 and CSU Los Angeles at No. 9.
Hispanic Outlook
found that seven CSU campuses are in the top 20 in the number of baccalaureate
degrees awarded to Hispanics.
CSU Los Angeles,
San Diego State and CSU Fullerton rank seventh through ninth in their respectively
order. In the number of Hispanic masterís degrees, CSU campuses account
for eight of the top 50 and 12 of the top 100.
Black Issues reported
seven of the top 20 baccalaureate degrees awarded to Asian Americans are
from CSU campuses including three in the top ten at San Jose State, San
Francisco State and Cal Poly Pomona.
Black Issues also
reported that CSU campuses make up nine of the top 50 institutions awarding
bachelorís degrees to American Indians.
CSU Sacramento ranks
as the 14th most likely place where American indians receive degrees.
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