California State University, the largest four-year public university in the nation, has appointed the first Mexican-American chancellor in its 60-year history. Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D., who has served as president of CSU, Fresno, since 2013, will take up his new position in January 2021, according to a news release from CSU.
Castro is a professor of educational leadership and a gifted scholar in the fields of leadership and public policy who has mentored hundreds of other scholars and practitioners, including many university presidents and senior officers.
Prior to his appointment as president of Fresno State in 2013, Castro worked at the University of California system for 23 years. Most recently, he was Vice-Chancellor of Student Academic Affairs and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 2006-13. Earlier in his career, he held faculty and/or administrative leadership positions at four other University of California campuses—Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Barbara.
Castro’s appointment as the eighth chancellor of California State University comes almost five years after the CSU launched Graduation Initiative 2025, its ambitious plan to increase graduation rates, eliminate equity gaps in degree completion and meet California’s workforce needs.
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