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Enhancing the CSU System’s Programs for Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Students’ Well-being

Enhancing the CSU System’s Programs for Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Students’ Well-being

February 2024

Three pivotal areas of concern have been identified regarding the support needed for LGBTQIA2S+ students on our campuses. An overarching theme across academic studies and discussions emphasizes the necessity of addressing fundamental needs — with a specific emphasis on food, housing, and mental health services — for college students. Given these comprehensive findings, the CSU system stands at a crucial juncture.

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Support for 2SLGBTQIA+ Students: Creating Belongingness Through Campus Pride Centers

Support for 2SLGBTQIA+ Students: Creating Belongingness Through Campus Pride Centers

January 2024

Despite increased visibility and representation within institutions of higher learning, 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual)1 students continue to face challenges completing their degrees.This paper examines the literature associated with Pride centers, a common tool used to support the academic and personal success of 2SLGBTQIA+, queer and transgender students.

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More than an Enrollment Strategy: How Equity- Focused Student Retention Improves Institutional Structures to Support Returning Students

More than an Enrollment Strategy: How Equity- Focused Student Retention Improves Institutional Structures to Support Returning Students

January 2024

Higher education in the U.S. has received a fair amount of critique for low graduation rates. Colleges and universities are increasingly including re-enrollment as a strategy to stabilize declining enrollments.This memo discusses key findings from literature exploring equitable approaches to supporting returning students and offers reflection questions for institutions seeking to not only increase the number of students they re-enroll but ensure their success.

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Improving LGBTQIA2S+/SOGI Demographic Data Collection within the CSU Using a QuantCrit Framework

Improving LGBTQIA2S+/SOGI Demographic Data Collection within the CSU Using a QuantCrit Framework

December 2023

In this memo, we bring forth key challenges with SOGI demographic data collection and explore other approaches used to understand the experiences of LGBTQIA2S+ students, using a QuantCrit lens. Through this review, we contribute to ongoing conversations within the CSU community about enhancing policies and practices to better recognize, support, and empower our LGBTQIA2S+ populations.

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Students from Mixed-Status Families: Broadening Our Understanding of Students Affected by Immigration Laws

Students from Mixed-Status Families: Broadening Our Understanding of Students Affected by Immigration Laws

October 2023

In this memo, we build from conversations regarding the undocumented experience and share what the literature tells us about a specific group of students—those who belong to mixed-status families. In California, more than three million people live in a mixed-status household, and over one million children live with an undocumented immigrant. 

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Prepared for Devastation: Crisis Management versus Disaster Reactions in Higher Education

Prepared for Devastation: Crisis Management versus Disaster Reactions in Higher Education

January 2023

Many CSU campuses were caught unaware when COVID-19 required them to pivot to online instruction and student support in March of 2020. Everyone in the California State University (CSU) transformed their offerings to serve students through online instruction and support. This memo focuses on physical and health disasters, but reputational disaster has also recently struck the CSU and the work the system is doing to review our crisis management protocols there are also important financial assistance.

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Supporting Black Students in the CSU through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Representation, and Respect

Supporting Black Students in the CSU through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Representation, and Respect

November 2021

With the recent calls for racial justice across the country, institutions of higher education in California were forced to reflect on their own practices and policies and commit to better serve students of color, particularly Black students. In May 2020, the California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Office, under the leadership of former Chancellor Dr. Timothy P. White, released a Call for Unity and Reunification and later that year reaffirmed the system’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. These responses both inspired and reflected similar actions taken by CSU campuses in which they released statements affirming that Black lives matter and acknowledging the devastating effects of police brutality and racial injustices for communities of color.

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Supporting the Success of Transfer Students of Color by Strengthening Your Transfer-Receptive Campus Climate

Supporting the Success of Transfer Students of Color by Strengthening Your Transfer-Receptive Campus Climate

September 2021

Developing a transfer-receptive campus climate within the California State University (CSU) could better support students of color in successfully entering and graduating in a timely manner. Despite higher education administrators’ and researchers’ projected decline in enrollments at the CSU as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 23-campus system experienced a slight uptick in enrollments during the fall 2020 semester.

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The Need for a Humanizing Pedagogy: A Conversation with Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

The Need for a Humanizing Pedagogy: A Conversation with Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

September 2021

For the past 17 years, Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales has been teaching in the Asian American Studies Department with a focus on community responsive pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching and evaluation, and Filipina/o/x American Studies. In this interview, Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales encourages faculty, staff, and administrators to examine and understand the structures that create inequities in the CSU system, develop specific and clear equity goals and antiracist campus plans, understand the wealth of knowledge that students bring to campus by actively listening to what they say about their needs and perspectives, and take actions to address student concerns, including implementing a humanizing pedagogy.

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 “Equity, Fairness, and Parity” in the CSU System: A Conversation with Dr. Leece Lee-Oliver

 “Equity, Fairness, and Parity” in the CSU System: A Conversation with Dr. Leece Lee-Oliver

The convergence of a global pandemic and pervasive patterns of racial injustice has magnified the deep structural and social inequities in the United States. In this interview, Dr. Leece Lee-Oliver (Blackfeet, Choctaw, Wyandot, Cherokee), assistant professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and American Indian Studies and director of American Indian Studies at Fresno State University, explores the context for and implications of racial equity work in the California State University (CSU). Other interviews by the CSU Network addressing equity in the CSU include conversations with Dr. Frank Harris III (Download PDF), Dr. William Franklin and Dr. J. Luke Wood, and a student plenary at the CSU Student Success Network Conference in 2020.

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