Cal State trustees face budget challenges amid efforts to lift graduation rates - Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times

About 7,000 more students graduated from Cal State this year than last, and the more than 98,700 earning undergraduate degrees was the highest ever in a single academic year, administrators said. Cal State has vowed to lift its four-year graduation rate to 40% by 2025. Over the last decade, the rate edged up from about 16% to 20%. Today's 23% is the highest in Cal State's history. The nation's largest public university system faces difficult problems with no quick solutions. The state covers a smaller proportion of Cal State's costs than it used to, and the number of students who want to attend exceeds campuses' abilities to accommodate them. Student homelessness, campus food pantries and California's teacher shortage are among the topics on this week's agenda. http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-cal-state-trustees-20171107-story.html