To the editor: It was with nice curiosity that I learn your article “When it comes to elevating livelihoods, a CSU degree is tops in California, study says.” The article known as to thoughts my very own expertise.
In 1961, I used to be dwelling in Cleveland and had simply accomplished my freshman 12 months at Western Reserve College. I used to be additionally flat broke, and I knew it was the tip of my faculty profession. My mother and father had been hard-working highschool dropouts who couldn’t afford tuition at even a public faculty in Ohio, a lot much less a personal college.
Then I heard about Lengthy Seashore State Faculty. The charges per semester had been $47.50. As an out-of-state scholar, I needed to pay a further $124. I knew I may afford that, so I packed all the things I owned right into a 1956 Plymouth and headed west.
In the end I graduated from what’s now Cal State Lengthy Seashore with bachelor’s and grasp’s levels. Then I went to USC to earn my doctorate. I taught in California for 47 years, principally on the group faculty stage, having fun with jobs that allowed me to offer again to my adopted state.
I owe my skilled life to the forward-looking authorities and taxpayers of California. Thanks for my probability at upward mobility.
Robert Kopfstein, Bonsall, Calif.
