Geography diversity initiatives at California State University, Long Beach: The Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program.

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, January, 2007 by Rodriguez, Christine M.

Introduction

GEOGRAPHY ENROLLMENTS nationally sank to their lowest levels in the last quarter century: approximately 3,000 bachelor degrees were awarded in 1988, a figure that rebounded to the highest levels ever (around 4,000 degress) in the mid-1990s before sagging back, though not quite as low, to approximately 3,500 in 2000 (Hardwick 2001). The trend in the California State University system (CSU) since 1992 is roughly similar to national trends. Geography peaked in the CSU in 1992 at not quite 1,200 bachelor's degrees granted and then slumped to just over 825 by 2002, with a small rebound since then to 910 (Figure 1).

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Geography at California State University, Long Beach, seemed to reflect national and state trends,...

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