California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)

Cal State Fullerton is a leading campus of the CSU, serving as an intellectual and cultural center for Southern California and driver of workforce and economic development. We are an emerging national model for supporting student success through inno model for supporting student success through innovative high-impact educational and co-curricular experiences, including faculty-student collaborative research. Governance on the campus at California State University, Fullerton is the responsibility of the president and administrative staff. Working closely with the president are a number of faculty, student affairs and student groups that initiate, review and/or recommend for approval various university programs, policies and procedures. Although the president is vested with the final authority for all university activities, maximum faculty and staff participation in campus decision-making and governance has become traditional. Students also are actively involved, with student representatives included on almost all university, college and departmental committees and policymaking bodies. Developed collaboratively by the Titan Family, California State University, Fullerton’s strategic plan presents a thoughtful yet ambitious road map for addressing our most compelling opportunities and enhancing our most successful endeavors. The plan is wholly in support of our educational mission, reaffirms our position as a first-choice institution, celebrates our far-reaching impact as a university of significance, and further empowers all Titans — faculty, staff, students and alumni — to Reach Higher. With this plan, we collectively commit ourselves to its goals and objectives, all in pursuit of our fundamental mission. California State University, Fullerton enriches the lives of students and inspires them to thrive in a global environment. We cultivate lifelong habits of scholarly inquiry, critical and creative thinking, dynamic inclusivity and social responsibility. Rooted in the strength of our diversity and immersive experiences, we embolden Titans to become intellectual, community, and economic leaders who shape the future. A California State University, Fullerton degree marks the culmination of an enriching multidisciplinary education where students benefit from experiential learning and vibrant co-curricular experiences in a culturally diverse environment. With disciplinary knowledge and critical skills, Titan graduates are well-positioned to emerge as effective and ethical leaders, and productive members in their local communities and the global society. Through campuswide collaboration, CSUF developed a set of Universitywide Learning Goals in May 2014 that were reformed into separate Undergraduate Student Learning Goals (UPS 300.003) and Graduate Student Learning Goals (UPS 300.041) in 2017. As appropriate to the discipline and the degree program, graduate students should be able to demonstrate: Knowledge, skills and professional dispositions, including higher order competence in disciplinary perspectives and interdisciplinary points of view; The ability to access, analyze, synthesize and evaluate complex information from multiple sources and in new situations and settings; Advanced communication skills; The ability to work independently and in collaboration with others as artists, practitioners, researchers and/or scholars; The ability to apply appropriate methods and technologies to address problems that affect their communities; Social responsibility within diverse communities and in an interdependent global community. ...view more