President's Message

Dear Beach Community: At Cal State Long Beach, we have unique opportunities to live, learn and model the values we embrace. Election season – however contentious– is a good time to remind each other about those values. In this video, university leaders help me discuss politics in the context of our working, learning and living spaces. I hope you will take a few minutes to watch and consider the freedoms we enjoy and…

With the intellectual breadth and power we have on our campus, there are likely passionately and wildly different held beliefs on every issue of national and global importance. During election seasons, some of these differences may be experienced as particularly salient and powerful. I have been concerned for quite a while about what appears to be growing divisiveness in our nation and a tendency to simplify others who hold disparate opinions.  By that, I mean that our identities are…

As a follow up to President Conoley’s recent email, I wanted to provide you with an update on new cases of COVID-19 affecting our students. Over the past few days, we have investigated further and, partnering with public-health agencies, also conducted contact tracing and testing of our residential population. During the course of our work, we learned more about social gatherings attended by Beach students over the past month in violation of prevailing…

Dear Beach Community: Late yesterday, we became aware of a number of students who have not heeded our guidance related to COVID-19 precautions and congregated socially off campus earlier this month. Five of these students have now tested positive for the illness. Four students live on campus in the residence halls, and one lives off campus.  These are the actions we are now taking to protect the health and safety of our community: We have placed all on-campus residents in quarantine…