Explore Stories

Cal State Long Beach was ranked in the top 10% of universities that provide the greatest return on investment (ROI) in the long term from a postsecondary education, according to a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, “Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022).”  Assessing data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, the study evaluated institutions on metrics including tuition…

It was 1968 and Willie Elston and his peers at Centennial High in Compton had a lot weighing on their minds:  Anti-Vietnam War protests nationwide, the heart-breaking assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert Kennedy, growing demands from Black university students for African American studies courses. Add to that the lingering reverberations from the 1965 Watts Uprising. “Young people were perturbed – we were pretty upset,” said Elston. “A number of people were getting…

Embarking on a healthcare degree path at UC Riverside in 2014, Dr. Daniel Diaz ‘16 wouldn’t have guessed that he’d be working on his Ph.D. in particle physics at the renowned CERN laboratory in Switzerland just a few years later.  “I started pre-med, and I’d never taken a physics class in my life,” Diaz said, sharing about his unconventional entrée into physics from his postdoctoral post at UC San Diego. “But when I started a required physics course for my program, I realized that I liked it a…

Image Silvia RomeroWith her senior year fast approaching, Spanish major Silvia Romero wondered how she would turn an education filled with 19th-century luminaries and the literary treasures of her native language into a career. Her pursuit of Spanish literature had been a journey of potential in search of direction; it wasn’t until an advisor pointed her to a fast-growing translation program that a path became clear.   Housed in the…