Graduation 2025
The Graduation 2025 Consultative Group focuses on the Student Success strategic priority area.
Student Success Plans
The Cal State LA Graduation Initiative 2025 Campus Plan was submitted to the Chancellor’s Office in April 2017. This was written in collaboration with the Graduation 2025 Consultative Group and describes our campus community’s impressive range of student success efforts, specifically focusing on those aimed at improving our graduation rates and equity gaps. Learn more about the CSU Graduation 2025 Initiative.
Graduation 2025 Consultative Group Members
2021-22 Group Membership
Jose Anguiano – Faculty, Dept. of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies
Talia Bettcher – Academic Senate Chair and Faculty, Dept. of Philosophy
Amy Bippus – Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Aaron Burgess – AVP for Student Life and Dean of Students
Diana Chavez – ASI Student Representative
Andre Ellis – AVP, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Krishna Foster – Faculty, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
T. Fox, – Director of Student Success and Advising, College of Business and Economics
Jose Gomez – Provost and Executive VP, Academic Affairs
Catherine Marley Haras – Executive Director, Center for Effective Teaching and Learning
Alex Harwood – Interim Chief Information Officer and Director of IT Client Support Services
Michelle Hawley – AVP and Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Andrew J. Long – Executive Director, Center for Academic Success
Sunny Moon – Asst VP, Institutional Effectiveness
Barnaby Peake – Executive Director
Marla Peppers – Associate Dean, Library, John F. Kennedy Memorial
Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl – Faculty, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Kristina Ruiz-Mesa – Faculty, Dept. of Communication Studies
Karlos Santos-Coy – Interim Associate Dean of Students: Student Conduct
Tony Sinay – Associate Dean, RongxiangXu College of Health and Human Services
Mine Ucok Hughes – Faculty, Dept. of Marketing
Rene Vellanoweth – Dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences
Octavio Villalpando – VP for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Student Life
Andrea Villegas – Executive Director of Student Success and Advising, Undergraduate Studies
Joyce Williams - VP for Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Miguel Zavala – Coordinator, Urban Learning Program
Meeting Updates
Progress Reports
Progress Reports
Grad Rate 2025 Update - November 2020
Reports available to download:
Read the Graduation 2025 SPCC Update
Graduation 2025 Data
Data used for this report can be found in the Graduation 2025 Public Dashboard.