The bell rings at CLU




More than 2,800 undergraduate students have started classes at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. Classes in the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program began Sept. 3 and traditional undergraduate courses started Sept. 4.

The freshman class includes more than 550 students. Onethird of them are the first members of their families to attend college, and 42 percent are in ethnic groups that are traditionally underrepresented on college campuses.

The number of freshmen coming from outside California increased 10 percent f rom las t year to included students from 13 countries including Ethiopia, Japan, Myanmar, Norway, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the Palestine region.

Undergraduate transfer students number more than 270 this year. Many are coming from Pierce, Moorpark, Oxnard and Ventura colleges.

More than half of CLU’s undergraduate students will live on campus.

The five-day new student orientation held such long-standing traditions such as painting the CLU rocks on Mount Clef Ridge on Sept. 2. Nearly 700 freshmen and new transfer students converged on the Santa Clara Riverbed to remove trash left behind by homeless people on Sept. 3. This is the first time the annual You Got Served tradition took place at this location.

Combined with about 1,400 graduate students, CLU’s total enrollment will be about the same as it was last year.

Inter- national students in the graduate student population number more than 370 this year. Most of these students come from China, India, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Thailand.

The Master of Arts in Educational Leadership program continues to grow with 30 students in cohorts in Thousand Oaks and Santa Maria. The Doctor of Psychology program, which began in Oxnard three years ago, has about 55 students.



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