California State University, Long Beach celebrates over a decade
of sustained efforts on the part of many people across the
campus working to improve retention and graduation, the quality
of the student experience, support for faculty, technological
infrastructure and the physical campus. CSULB now aims to
achieve still greater distinction in four areas: student
success, academic quality, service excellence, and campus
environment. Student success is identified as a priority in
several policy and strategy documents and its main goal is to
increase student retention and graduation with highly valued
degrees. In the AB 540 Ally Training Project, the University
will focus on improving undocumented immigrant student success.
Enrollment rates for undocumented college students are miniscule
because very few states allow for eligibility for in-state
tuition and/or financial aid. The National Immigration Law
Center estimates that “each year about 65,000 U.S. raised
students” that are undocumented are eligible for col