The State of Geography and Its Cognate Disciplines

in the California State Universities

California Geographical SocietyYosemite, April 2005

Christine M. RodrigueCalifornia State University, Long Beach

http://www.csulb.edu/geography

Ethnic diversity drives enrollment: To grow, our departments need to appeal to the

growing demographics in California

• Regression Statistics– Multiple R 0.50

– R Square 0.25

– Standard Error 12.94

– Observations 26

• ANOVA F Signif F– Regression 7.85 0.01

• MODEL Coeff SE t P– Y Intercept 130.42 18.45 7.07 0.00

– Slope -0.79 0.28 -2.80 0.01

Geography @ The Beach:http://www.csulb.edu/geography/

GDEP:http://www.csulb.edu/geography/gdep/

C.M. Rodrigue (this paper at research link):http://www.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/