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The state of geography and its cognate disciplines in the California State Universities from Fall 1992 through Fall 2004

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  • 2005
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  • 2013-01-29T19:52:17Z
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  • 0575-5700
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  • The California Geographer 45: 60-85
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  • The purpose of this article is to assess the condition of geography enrollments in the California State University (CSU) system from fall 1992 through fall 2004 in comparison with cognate disciplines. The timeframe chosen reflects the availability of data on the CSU Chancellor’s Office Web site, “Statistical Reports: CSU Student Enrollment in Degree Programs,” available at http://www.calstate. edu/as/stat_reports/degree.shtml. After providing background about the state of geography and its cognate disciplines nationally, this paper reviews the situation of CSU undergraduate enrollments in geography in the study period and then compares geography with the cognate disciplines of geology, environmental studies and science, anthropology, and area studies/international studies/global studies. Consideration of graduate enrollments in these disciplines follows. After presentation of the data is a summary of informal e-mail discussions among the CSU geography chairs during March 2005 and among all interested geographers attending a special session at the California Geographical Society meeting in Yosemite during late April. A closer case study of CSU Long Beach will be examined in more detail, using data on ethnicity by major by year provided by the campus Office of Institutional Research. A few suggestions for increasing geography enrollments are presented as a result of these data and discussions.
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