Diversity Dashboards

First Generation to Attend College - A student who is among first generation of their family to attend a college or university; parents did not attend college.

First Generation of Family to Earn a Bachelor's Degree - A student with one or more parents who attended college, and neither parent had earned a bachelor degree or higher.

First-Time Student - A student who has no prior postsecondary experience and is attending a CSU for the first time at the undergraduate level. The definition of “first-time” allows for students to still be classified as first-time if they have earned college units prior to matriculation.

Gender Expression - The physical manifestation of one’s gender identity through clothing, hairstyle, voice, body shape, etc.

Gender Identity - One’s internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both or another gender(s).

International Student - International students are non-immigrant visitors who come to the United States temporarily to take classes. A non-immigrant visitor is someone who intends to stay in the US temporarily does not have US citizenship or legal permanent resident status (a "green card").

Services for Students with Disabilities - The primary service received by the student from the campus Student disAbility Resource Center

Sex (i.e., Sex Assigned at Birth) - The sex assigned to an infant, most often based on the infant’s anatomical and other biological characteristics. Sometimes referred to as birth sex, natal sex, biological sex or sex; however, sex assigned at birth is the recommended term. In the state of California sex is categorized as male, female, non-binary, or unknown.

Sexual Orientation - Sexual attraction to that can be from a variety of factors including but not limited to gender identity, gender expression/presentation, and sex assigned at birth.

Race/ethnicity - Categories are: Black or African American ( a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa), American Indian or Alaska Native (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, including Central America who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community attachment), Asian (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam), Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands), Hispanic/Latino (A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race), White (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa), and Two or More Races (A person who identifies with more than one of the above six races).