University of California President Mark G. Yudof recently named 17 members of his Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion, which will work closely with a UC Board of Regents committee to address challenges in enhancing and sustaining a tolerant, inclusive environment on each of the university's 10 campuses.

The Advisory Council includes the presidents of the California NAACP and Skirball Cultural Center, the director of religious affairs for the Islamic Center of Southern California, a veteran civil rights activist now with the Four Freedoms Fund, the director of the Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the chair of the systemwide UC Academic Senate's University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity. The other 10 affiliated members named come from UC's 10 campuses and include student representatives. Read more...

California State University, Long Beach Ranked 6th in the Nation in Awarding Bachelor's Degrees to Minority Students

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has been ranked sixth in the nation in conferring bachelor’s degrees to minority students.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education recently released its annual list of the “Top 100 Degree Producers,” a list of the best minority degree-awarding institutions of higher education in the United States.  It is the only national report that showcases U.S. colleges’ and universities’ success in awarding degrees to African-American, Latino, Asian-American and Native-American students.

CSULB’s overall ranking was based on U.S. Department of Education data from the 2008-09 academic year (the most current data available), and the Top 100 rankings were published in the magazine’s June issue.