CSUs New Chancellor is the First Californian, Person of Color to Lead the University System
b'California State University system\\u2019s new chancellor, Joseph Castro, will take over an organization beset with challenges from the pandemic, including a nearly 300 million dollar budget cut and mostly no in person instruction for the entire school year.\\xa0 Despite that, Castro says \\u201cI think we\\u2019re going to be stronger after COVID than we were before.\\u201d\\xa0 Castro will be the first Californian and the first Mexican-American to head up the CSU system in which 43% of the nearly half a million students are Latino.\\xa0 When Castro starts on the job\\xa0 in January,\\xa0 for the first time in state history, all three of California\\u2019s public higher education systems will be led by people of color.'