ABSTRACT
The California State University (CSU) is known for providing students affordable opportunities to higher education and plays an important role in educating California as a whole. The CSU system is working to serve growing communities within the state that have been historically underserved. The student populations educated within the CSU is the most diverse within the country, ethnically, academically and economically. Students of color make up over half of the student population educated within the CSU system. In addition, more than half of the degrees earned by Latino, Black and Native American undergraduate students in the state of California are granted by the CSU. According to data for the fall 2015 semester from the CSU, the largest student enrollment within the system by ethnicity are Latino students at 39.6 percent. Other student enrollments for the fall 2015 semester by ethnicity include white students at 25.8 percent, Asian/Pacific Islander students make up 16.5 percent, Black students at 4.2 percent, students of two or more races make up 4.6 percent, American Indian at 0.2 percent and the remaining 11.8 percent are classified as Nonresident Alien and other/unknown (California State University, 2016).
