"The California State University system announced a graduation initiative at a Board of Trustees meeting on Jan. 27 aimed at raising the system's graduation rates and encouraging underrepresented students to graduate from college.
The initiative is meant to increase the CSU's 46 percent six-year graduation rate to 54 percent in all 23 campuses by 2016. It also plans to cut in half the gap in degree attainment of minority and low-income students.
'The goal of this initiative is to not only increase the number of students who complete their degree, but to also help those from traditionally underrepresented communities who may need additional support to finish,' CSU Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Jeri Echeverria said in a press release. 'After all, that is the end goal - a college degree.'
In an interview with CSU's Voices and Views blog, she added that there are approximately 460,000 graduate and undergraduate students in the CSU system, but not all of them finish their degrees and graduate. 'A college education will do"
