When he hears how many students signed up this semester to take classes at Cal State Bakersfield — the unofficial estimate Monday at the first day of the school year
According to fall 2020 statistics, CSU Bakersfield served a total of nearly 12,000 students. The 2019 Fast Facts demographic breakdown shows more than 60 percent of those students to be Hispanic.
For CSU Bakersfield, back to school did not mean back to class. Students have begun the spring semester virtually all thanks to a surge in omicron cases.
Cal State Bakersfield has won a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help expand access to STEM-related fields through internships, community outreach, research and local partnerships.