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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES
Fostering student success outcomes through creative assessment and placemaking.
PROBLEM
The College of Education at CSU Los Angeles seeks deeper insight into Black student experiences because current success initiatives often fail to engage students’ core cultural identities—resulting in weaker recruitment, a less resonant campus experience, reduced program impact, and missed funding opportunities.
We partnered with students to localize and implement our proprietary art intervention, visualizing both Black thriving and experiences of anti-Blackness across the CSULA campus. By placing students in the lead, the intervention grew as an authentic, student-driven movement that strengthened connection, visibility, and momentum for Black student success campus-wide.
SOLUTION
2
NO. OF PAID INTERNSHIPS CREATED
+45
CAMPUS COMMUNITY MEMBERS INTERVIEWED
3
STUDENT LED PROJECTS & INITIATIVES CREATED
NFC PLUS UP
From the moment students sat down, NFC-enabled desks offered subtle, individualized pathways for exploration that led to sharing their lived experiences on campus.
AUTHENTICITY IS CHANGING
STUDENTS ARE HEALING IN INFORMAL SPACES, AND THEY'RE WELCOMING US INTO THAT DIALOGUE! THIS IS HOW ECOSYSTEM COMMUNICATION EVOLVES.
