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CSUN Ranks 10th in Nation in Bachelors Degrees
Awarded to Hispanic Students

The survey, published last month, noted that 714 of the 3,783 bachelor's degrees awarded by CSUN in 1998 went to Hispanic students--438 females and 276 males. Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State Fullerton and UCLA also finished in the top 10 among the top 100 four-year colleges and universities enrolling the most Hispanics, the magazine reported.

CSUN ranked sixth in the number of Hispanic administrators and faculty with six Hispanic managers out of 56 managers.

CSUN ranked 54th among colleges and universities awarding master's degrees to Hispanics. Sixty-seven of the 713 master's degrees awarded by CSUN in 1998 went to Hispanics--28 to men and 39 to women, the survey found. CSUN does not confer a doctoral degree.

"We have made a great deal of progress over the last few years," said Gerald Resendez, chairman of the Chicano/a Studies Department at CSUN. "We have a ways to go but the numbers of Latino faculty, the numbers of administrators and especially the number of students have increased dramatically,"

"The administration has supported and encouraged our efforts to increase the outreach and recruitment of Latino students and has encouraged the development of solid academic programs. And, our students have been encouraged to go into any major that they wish knowing that nothing is off limits to them. We feel very optimistic about the future."

CSUN ranked sixth in the nation in bachelor's degrees awarded to Hispanics in psychology, seventh nationally in liberal arts and sciences and in social sciences, eighth in communications and in English literature, and 10th in foreign languages.

For more information call Resendez at (818) 677-2734.