Check out why California State University-Los Angeles received an F grade in our Report Card below.
California State University-Los Angeles is a public university in Los Angeles, California. The university is located on the site of an <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/specialcollections/cal-state-la-history" rel="noopener">adobe built by Franciscan missionaries</a> and now enrolls 22,566 students across 100 degrees and certificate programs.
The university is located in the heart of Los Angeles and is a short drive away from downtown, the Rose Bowl, and Hollywood. Students can also access southern California&#8217;s beaches and hiking trails in the surrounding national forests.
The university received national attention in 2016 for protesters who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFLsknoDJk&amp;ab_channel=BenShapiro" rel="noopener">attempted to disrupt conservative commentator Ben Shapiro</a>. Demonstrators attempted to block the entrance to the venue for attendees, who had to be escorted in by police along with Shapiro.

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “B” grade by <a href="https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/2927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Will They Learn?</a> which takes into account the university’s educational prowess. Factors include composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics, and natural science.
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What Will They Learn? Academic Score 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “C-” grade for the Average Salary of Recent Graduates. As of 2021, alumni with 0-5 years of experience after graduating from California State University-Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree make $53,400 according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale.</a>
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Average Salary of Recent Graduates 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “C” grade for the Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career. As of 2021, alumni with 10+ years of experience after graduating from California State University-Los Angeles make $100,100 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale.</a>
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Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career

California State University-Los Angeles receives an “F” grade for the Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private). In 2020, 74% of graduates accumulated student debt from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/">The Insitute for College Access &amp; Success.</a>
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Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private)

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;A-&#8221; grade for the Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private). In 2020, graduates accumulated $12,536 of debt on average from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success.</a>
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Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private)

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff. <a href="https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Pages/policies.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University Executive Order 1096</a> requires all faculty, staff, and student employees to complete training regarding policies against Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation (DHR) every 2 years.
&#8220;&#8230;each Campus shall provide supervisory Employees at least two hours of interactive Sexual Harassment training within six months of the Employee&#8217;s assignment to a supervisory position and every two years thereafter. Each Campus shall maintain documentation of the delivery and completion of these trainings. &#8221;
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Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff 

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;A&#8221; for not having Bias Reporting System or a Bias Response Team. Bias Reporting Systems and Response Teams are systems or teams of faculty, staff, and sometimes law enforcement.
According to <a href="https://speechfirst.org/bias-reporting-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeechFirst</a>, students are “encouraged to report ‘bias incidents to these boards (or teams) in the name of inclusion and tolerance, but it’s often unclear what the school considers ‘bias’ in the first place. Overly broad or vague definitions of bias put all kinds of speech at risk of being reported – even unpopular speech which is protected by the First Amendment.”
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Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team 

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;A&#8221; for the Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs. Out of a list of 20 clubs (10 from each side), <a href="https://calstatela.presence.io/organizations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university</a> has two right-leaning clubs compared to two left-leaning clubs. Young Americans for Freedom and TPUSA are the two right-leaning clubs. The Young Democratic Socialists of America and The Trans Queer Connection are the two left-leaning clubs.
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Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs 

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade due to having an active Turning Point USA chapter. Unfortunately, universities and Student Governments around the country often use their power to prevent certain clubs from operating on campus.
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Denied Turning Point USA Chapter 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a &#8220;D&#8221; grade for In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants. <a href="https://www.calstate.edu/attend/student-services/resources-for-undocumented-students/Pages/about-ab-540-and-the-california-dream-act.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California Senate Bill Bill AB 540</a> allows illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at California universities.
&#8220;Assembly Bill 540 (AB 540), passed in 2001, grants students meeting certain criteria an exemption from paying nonresident tuition at the CSU.&#8221;
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In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “B+” grade for the Amount of Foreign Funding Received. According to <a href="https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/">College Foreign Gift Reporting</a>, the total amount of foreign funding the university has received is $314.82 per current undergraduate student. Oftentimes, foreign parties will convey their influence by funding certain courses, activities, professors, and organizations on campus. In certain cases, universities must abide by restrictions dictated by foreign parties to receive funding. In addition, there have been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-universities-took-billions-in-unreported-foreign-funds-u-s-finds-11603226953">reports</a> that claim that universities underreport foreign funding. The figure above only takes into account reported foreign funding.
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Amount of Foreign Funding Received

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for requiring Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students. According to the <a href="https://ecatalog.calstatela.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=66&amp;poid=30147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a>, &#8220;Students will be required to complete two courses (six units) certified as diversity courses designated with (d), at least one focusing on issues of race and ethnicity and their intersectionality with other social categories that structure inequality in society designated with (re). These courses can be completed either at the lower division or upper-division level from among courses satisfying GE requirements.&#8221;
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Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade for Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes. The university has four segregated convocations (the <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/event/2023-apida-graduate-celebration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">APIDA</a>, <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/event/2023-black-graduate-celebration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black</a>, <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/event/2023-nuestra-graduate-celebration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nuestra</a>, and <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/event/2023-pride-graduate-celebration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pride</a> Graduate Celebrations) in addition to a Gender Inclusive and Latinx <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/housing/themed-living-communities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Themed Living Community</a>.
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Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes 

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for Protests and Canceling Speakers. Since 2021, no instances of protests, speech cancelations, or violence/attempted violence against speakers have occurred.
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Protests and Canceling Speakers 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “D” grade for Mask and Vaccine Mandates. <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" style="color: #333333;" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://www.kent.edu/coronavirus/vaccine-requirement-scheduling" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:13px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''docs-Calibri'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">Vaccines</a> are <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/we-are-healthy-la/covid-19-vaccines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encouraged, not required</a>, and masking is <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/healthwatch/face-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required</a> in classroom settings:
&#8220;Under a newly revised California State University policy, the COVID-19 vaccination is no longer required at CSU campuses but is strongly recommended. Cal State LA is implementing this policy. Effective April 6, 2023, the revised policy strongly recommends vaccines as a safety measure to help prevent serious illness. &#8221;
&#8220;Face masks are required in indoor classrooms, labs, and health care settings on campus.&#8221;
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Mask and Vaccine Mandates

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “D+” grade for the Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees. According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Center (<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPEDS</a>), as of 2020, 4.29% of the current undergraduate student population graduate with a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) degree. Across the United States, students who graduate with STEM degrees tend to earn more on average than their other student counterparts.
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Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees 

California State University-Los Angeles receives a “C-” grade for Crime Rates in University City or Town. According to the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the Los Angeles, California violent crime rate was 747.59 per 100,000 people in 2018, higher than the 2018 national average of 380.56 per 100,000 people. While campus safety is of utmost importance, it is also pertinent to consider the crime rates of the surrounding town or city as students often tend to venture off campus, especially after their freshman year.
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Crime Rate in University City or Town 

California State University-Los Angeles receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for Required Western Civilization Courses for Students.
While each student is required to complete six units of &#8220;American Institutions,&#8221; <a href="https://ecatalog.calstatela.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=66&amp;poid=30011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these categories are filled</a> with racial identitarian history courses that outnumber U.S. History or Constitution courses. Examples include:
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<li>&#8220;Chicanas/os, Latina/os, Gender, and Class in the US Experience&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Racial Equality, Government and the Constitution&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Race and Ethnicity in the United States&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Required Western Civilization Courses for Students 

Check out why California State University-Los Angeles received an F grade in our Report Card below.

California State University-Los Angeles is a public university in Los Angeles, California. The university is located on the site of an <a href="https://www.calstatela.edu/specialcollections/cal-state-la-history" rel="noopener">adobe built by Franciscan missionaries</a> and now enrolls 22,566 students across 100 degrees and certificate programs.

The university is located in the heart of Los Angeles and is a short drive away from downtown, the Rose Bowl, and Hollywood. Students can also access southern California's beaches and hiking trails in the surrounding national forests.

The university received national attention in 2016 for protesters who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFLsknoDJk&amp;ab_channel=BenShapiro" rel="noopener">attempted to disrupt conservative commentator Ben Shapiro</a>. Demonstrators attempted to block the entrance to the venue for attendees, who had to be escorted in by police along with Shapiro.

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Melina Abdullah

<a href="http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/pas/Abdullah.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Melina Abdullah</a> is a Black Lives Matter activist, a Professor, and former Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, according to her university profile. 
Abdullah’s profile also states that she is a “womanist scholar-activist – understanding the role that she plays in the academy as intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people.”
Abdullah “was a part of the historic victory that made Ethnic Studies a requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District.” She also played a part in the formation of Black Lives Matter, and remains the leader of its Los Angeles chapter. 
According to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kanye-west-invited-blm-black-power-class-white-lives-matter-uproar-1748931" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>, in light of Kanye West’s decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt alongside Candace Owens at Paris Fashion Week, the Los Angeles Chapter of BLM invited both West and Owens to a free online “Black Power class,” taught by Director Melina Abdullah. 
In a <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36441692/_Black_Lives_Matter_Obama_and_the_future_of_Black_mobilization_An_interview_with_Melina_Abdullah_by_Yohann_Le_Moigne_Revue_Fran%C3%A7aise_d%C3%89tudes_Am%C3%A9ricaines_n_152_2017_p_18_26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> titled “Black Lives Matter, Obama, and the Future of Black Mobilization: An Interview with Melina Abdullah by Yohann Lemoigne”, Abdullah stated the following about black conservatives: 
“There are like 5 black conservatives in the world (laughs)… There are not many black conservatives, so this myth of black conservatism is a false myth. We can just write those people off.”
Abdullah also believes “in the abolition of police,” and claims that racism has not decreased since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement: 
“However, racism has evolved since the 1970s. Though still ingrained in social institutions, it is now much more subtle and has taken the form of what Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has called “colorblind racism”. 
The notion of “colorblind racism” according to Abdullah is “racism without racists.” 
Lemoign asked Abdullah: “Has the election of Donald Trump encouraged BLM to change its discourse or its mode of actions, both at the national level or in Los Angeles?”
Melina Abdullah: “Yes, absolutely. We cannot use the same tactics 
that we use for a liberal regime in the case of a blatantly white supremacist 
and fascist regime. We have to recognize that there is a white supremacist 
fascist and a misogynist in ofﬁce…”
According to <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/melina-abdullah-professor-and-co-founder-of-blm-los-angeles-on-police-commission-hearing-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 11</a>, at a police commissioner hearing in 2018, “Abdullah was detained and later arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery on a police officer. Abdullah was detained and later arrested on suspicion of committing the same offense after she allegedly made contact with another officer.” 
At a mayoral debate in May of 2022, Abdullah was removed from CSLA’s campus by police, according to <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/blm-activist-melina-abdullah-forcibly-removed-from-mayoral-debate-at-cal-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Magazine</a>. Abdullah stated that she was removed because she did not have a ticket to the debate. Los Angeles Magazine reports that “CSLA’s public safety team declined to explain the reasoning for the professor’s removal.”

<a href="http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/pas/Abdullah.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Melina Abdullah</a> is a Black Lives Matter activist, a Professor, and former Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, according to her university profile. 

Abdullah’s profile also states that she is a “womanist scholar-activist – understanding the role that she plays in the academy as intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people.”

Abdullah “was a part of the historic victory that made Ethnic Studies a requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District.” She also played a part in the formation of Black Lives Matter, and remains the leader of its Los Angeles chapter. 

According to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kanye-west-invited-blm-black-power-class-white-lives-matter-uproar-1748931" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>, in light of Kanye West’s decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt alongside Candace Owens at Paris Fashion Week, the Los Angeles Chapter of BLM invited both West and Owens to a free online “Black Power class,” taught by Director Melina Abdullah. 

In a <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36441692/_Black_Lives_Matter_Obama_and_the_future_of_Black_mobilization_An_interview_with_Melina_Abdullah_by_Yohann_Le_Moigne_Revue_Fran%C3%A7aise_d%C3%89tudes_Am%C3%A9ricaines_n_152_2017_p_18_26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> titled “Black Lives Matter, Obama, and the Future of Black Mobilization: An Interview with Melina Abdullah by Yohann Lemoigne”, Abdullah stated the following about black conservatives: 
“There are like 5 black conservatives in the world (laughs)… There are not many black conservatives, so this myth of black conservatism is a false myth. We can just write those people off.”
Abdullah also believes “in the abolition of police,” and claims that racism has not decreased since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement: 
“However, racism has evolved since the 1970s. Though still ingrained in social institutions, it is now much more subtle and has taken the form of what Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has called “colorblind racism”. 
The notion of “colorblind racism” according to Abdullah is “racism without racists.” 
Lemoign asked Abdullah: “Has the election of Donald Trump encouraged BLM to change its discourse or its mode of actions, both at the national level or in Los Angeles?”

Melina Abdullah: “Yes, absolutely. We cannot use the same tactics 

that we use for a liberal regime in the case of a blatantly white supremacist 

and fascist regime. We have to recognize that there is a white supremacist 

fascist and a misogynist in ofﬁce…”

According to <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/melina-abdullah-professor-and-co-founder-of-blm-los-angeles-on-police-commission-hearing-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 11</a>, at a police commissioner hearing in 2018, “Abdullah was detained and later arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery on a police officer. Abdullah was detained and later arrested on suspicion of committing the same offense after she allegedly made contact with another officer.” 

At a mayoral debate in May of 2022, Abdullah was removed from CSLA’s campus by police, according to <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/blm-activist-melina-abdullah-forcibly-removed-from-mayoral-debate-at-cal-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Magazine</a>. Abdullah stated that she was removed because she did not have a ticket to the debate. Los Angeles Magazine reports that “CSLA’s public safety team declined to explain the reasoning for the professor’s removal.”

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Robert Weide

<a href="http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/soc/faculty">Dr. Robert Weide </a>currently serves as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. When the Young America’s Foundation club advertised a Ben Shapiro event on Facebook, Weide spoke against the event organizers and called the conservative students “white supremacists.” Weide stated,
“FYI tough guy provocateurs, we have an open mat on campus in the gym in the USU building at 1 pm Friday and noon on Saturday if you want to show us your white supremacy.Heads up though, I lift bro…”

<a href="http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/soc/faculty">Dr. Robert Weide </a>currently serves as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. When the Young America’s Foundation club advertised a Ben Shapiro event on Facebook, Weide spoke against the event organizers and called the conservative students “white supremacists.” Weide stated,

“FYI tough guy provocateurs, we have an open mat on campus in the gym in the USU building at 1 pm Friday and noon on Saturday if you want to show us your white supremacy.Heads up though, I lift bro…”

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