California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White, who undertook ambitious reforms to improve student achievement but was criticized at times for budget and policy decisions at the nation’s largest public university system, announced Tuesday that he will retire next year.
“Chancellor White has helped guide the CSU through a period of restoration and ensured that the state’s renewed investment in the university is repaid by creating opportunity for more students and preparing more graduates for California’s workforce to help power our economy,” Adam Day, chairman of the Cal State Board of Trustees, said in a statement.
to boost graduation rates for first-time and transfer students. The initiative also seeks to eliminate differences in degree completion among black, Latino and low-income students by 2025.Graduation rates and the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded are at all-time highs this year, though progress across campuses and by race and income is uneven.
“There was plenty of consultation,” White said Monday. “When there’s lives and careers and cost for students at stake you can’t go year in, year out and deliberate.... Now students are performing at a higher level.”in the number of first-year students successfully completing college-level math for credit, with low-income and black and Latino students disproportionately benefiting.
'follows that of UC President Janet Napolitano, who plans to resign in August.' Man, talk about useless dead weight and bloated bureaucracy.