An Integrated Student Experience: Empowering students to connect curricular and co-curricular learning to purpose, while honoring and elevating their identities, lived experiences, and perspectives within a university-wide student experience of belonging, engagement, and career readiness.
Our Vision
Cal State LA will deliver an integrated student experience that connects learning, belonging, leadership, and purpose across every stage of the student journey. Through intentional and inclusive experiences, Pillar 1 empowers students to thrive, achieve upward mobility, and make lasting contributions to their communities and the world.
Success Outcomes by 2030
- First-year, second-year, and new transfer students enroll in general education and/or major courses that integrate academic exploration, career readiness, and culturally sustaining practices.
- All undergraduate and graduate students complete at least one faculty-mentored, hands-on, career-relevant learning experience.
- All colleges sustain partnerships with Los Angeles-based employers and community organizations.
- A student experience inventory is implemented, with baseline participation and satisfaction established by 2028 and improvement demonstrated by 2030.
- Student success, participation, and opportunity outcomes are disaggregated across key populations, with equity gaps reduced and improved upward mobility.
- 100% of Cal State LA graduates will have access to career-connected opportunities aligned with their field of study and/or preparation for graduate and professional education.
Objectives
Strengthen Integrated Learning Pathways Across Learning and Work
1.1
Strengthen Integrated Learning Pathways Across Learning and Work
Connect curriculum, career readiness, and community-engaged learning to deepen student engagement, strengthen belonging, and expand pathways to economic mobility through sustained partnerships with Los Angeles employers.
Expand Student Engagement, Leadership, and Co-Curricular Development
1.2
Expand Student Engagement, Leadership, and Co-Curricular Development
Create meaningful opportunities for students to lead, co-create, and engage in experiences that extend learning beyond the classroom and strengthen connection to campus and community.
Advance Holistic Student Well-Being and Success Systems
1.3
Advance Holistic Student Well-Being and Success Systems
Strengthen coordinated academic, personal, and basic needs supports that leverage student strengths and advance well-being, mental health, persistence, and completion.
Co-create university traditions and significant meaning-making experiences
1.4
Co-create university traditions and significant meaning-making experiences
Engage students, faculty, staff, and alumni in shared rituals and milestones that reflect institutional values and deepen lifelong connection to the university.
Enhance Student Success Spaces
1.5
Co-create university traditions and significant meaning-making experiences
Establish welcoming, accessible campus infrastructure and spaces that support learning, collaboration, well-being, recr eation, and community-building.
Enhance Student Success Spaces
1.6
Prepare Students for Careers and Continued Education
Provide students with the academic preparation, career development, and practical experiences needed to pursue meaningful careers in their fields of study or continued education after graduation.