President's Message

Dear Campus Community, Please review a letter from Chancellor Timothy White. In it he invites your feedback about me! The CSU System policy provides campus presidents with broad feedback at the end of their first three years and then periodically after that. I welcome your comments as a way to continually improve my service to our university. As you will see, your names will be…

For the past several weeks I’ve been writing to you about the great services Long Beach State offers students to ensure their success. A Striving Beach: 1 outlined our pyramid of services, and A Striving Beach: 2focused on universal services available to all. …

In my last message I focused on universal foundational strategies we’ve developed at Long Beach State to meet our goal of having the healthiest, most enabling higher education environment in the nation. Of course, the cornerstone universal foundation of thriving at The Beach is a great education. Next let’s consider targeted services and contexts. We know that people learn and…

My last message laid out the framework we use to build a Beach environment that has the highest probability of promoting success for our entire community. Think of three levels of a pyramid. The bottom level contains the universal services and environments available to all that are known to encourage physical, academic, social, and spiritual well being. What does that universal level look like at The Beach and…