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Cal State Northridge students have good things to say
about their experience at the university. In a recent random and
representative survey of CSUN students: 86 percent said they were
satisfied with their overall experience at CSUN; 87 percent said
they were satisfied with the overall quality of instruction; and
about two-thirds said they would choose CSUN again as a university.
Cal State Northridge has small average class sizes, ranging from about
29 for lecture sections and 19 for laboratory sections as of 1998.
In the recent student survey, small class size was one of the
campus' features most appreciated by students, with 84 percent
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| Cal State Northridge is the leading
public university in California in preparing students to obtain
teaching credentials. The university had 1,054 single or multiple
subject teaching credential documents issued to students/graduates
during 1997-1998, more than any other Cal State or University of
California campus, according to data from the California Commission
on Teacher Credentialing. Students at Cal State Northridge
constitute a veritable United Nations, with enrollment coming from
more than 70 foreign countries. The university consistently ranks in
the top 25 for master's level universities based on the size of its
foreign student population. Of the 862 foreign students enrolled in
1999-2000, the most by country came from Japan (161), Korea (91),
and Taiwan (76).
Cal State Northridge is a university committed to using advanced
technology to aid in the education process. Virtually all CSUN
students have campus-provided e-mail accounts, as do most faculty
and staff, resulting in a volume of millions of e-mail messages. The
campus also has an inventory of more than 5,000 computers, including
about 2,000 spread among 98 labs during 1998-1999. And the
university offers about two dozen online academic courses.
Cal State Northridge, one of the first mainstream universities to
accept deaf students in the 1960s, now hosts one of the largest deaf
student populations among U.S. universities. Nearly 300 deaf and
hard-of-hearing students receive sign language interpreting,
real-time captioning and other special services each year through
the university's renowned National Center on Deafness (NCOD).
The Center on Disabilities at Cal State Northridge, specializing in
technology and its impact on those with disabilities, annually hosts
the weeklong Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference,
the largest event of its kind drawing thousands of participants from
around the world. The center also is known for operating one of the
first and finest university computer access labs for students with
disabilities.
Cal State Northridge is a university where minority students are
welcome and can excel. The U.S. Education Department ranked CSUN
among the top 100 universities nationwide in graduating Hispanic
students at the bachelor's and master's levels. The university also
places highly in Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and Black
Issues in Higher Education rankings for degrees awarded.
Eight Cal State Northridge faculty members have been awarded the
prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for research and creative activity
during the institution's history. And 58 Cal State Northridge
faculty, including 22 just since 1980, have received Fulbright
awards to conduct research or teach abroad.
Cal State Northridge has been a leader in involving its students in
community servicelearning, where academic learning is merged with
meaningful community work. The university launched a Center for
Community Service-Learning that has helped create more than 40 new
'courses since its inception in 1998. CSUN students have taught
computer skills to pregnant and at-risk teens and helped establish
an after school children's literature/literacy program.
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