News - May 18, 2017

Long Beach State Athletics Continues to Excel in Academic Progress Rate

The Academic Progress Rate (APR) was announced recently by the NCAA for the four-year period ending in 2015-16, and Long Beach State Athletics once again exceeded the minimum score requirements in every sport. The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to measure the academic progress and performance of athletic programs at its member institutions. It is determined by using the eligibility and retention for each student athlete on scholarship during a particular academic year.

This is very exciting news and shows our campus commitment to emphasizing the importance of academic success and graduation for our student athletes. More information is available in this press release.

Important Information about Public Records, Email and Text Messages

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) would like to make you aware of a recent ruling by the California Supreme Court on March 2, 2017 that has clarified the definition of public records.

Please be advised that any email record or text message sent to conduct University business using either campus or personal email accounts are in scope as public records. This means that upon a public records request, email messages contained in personal email accounts or text messages on personal phones, are subject to disclosure if they were used to conduct University business. For more information, please see Important Information about Public Records, Email, and Text Messages.

New Parking Services and Program Changes

You will soon experience a number of upgraded parking services and program enhancements on campus. Here is a brief summary of what is to come:

  • Lot 5 will open for General Parking at 5:30 p.m.
  • Remaining parking gates will be removed in all lots
  • New parking website with upgraded navigation and appearance
  • Solar panels and Electrical Vehicle (EV) chargers in Lots 7 and 14
  • New Transit Access Pass (TAP) sticker
  • New mobile parking application
  • Parking Signage & Wayfinding Project (January 1, 2018)
  • Shuttle ID requirement

You can find additional information about all the program changes above by visiting Parking Program Changes FY 2017/18. More information will be released as we get closer to fall 2017. You can always get the latest information regarding any CSULB parking changes by following @CSULB_Parking on Twitter and soon on Instagram (fall 2017).

Employee and Faculty Centers Available Soon in CSULB Single Sign-On

This summer new “chiclets” (clickable icons) will be available within the campus Single Sign-On (SSO) application for the three MyCSULB service centers:

  • Student Center
  • Faculty Center
  • Employee Center

When the new chiclets are in place, you will access MyCSULB services in SSO, and the current MyCSULB log in page will be retired. For your convenience, MyCSULB links and bookmarks will reroute to the SSO log-in page. After logging in, chiclets will be available to you depending on your campus role(s) (student, faculty, staff). For sample screenshots, you may reference the following CSULB Knowledge Base article MyCSULB Service Centers.

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