This article first appeared in EdSource.

California State University is marking the end of a decade-long effort to improve graduation rates with mixed results. While CSU has had long-term success in buoying the share of students who earn bachelor’s degrees, some metrics this year stayed flat, and equity goals remained stubbornly out of reach.

Systemwide, CSU has exceeded only one of the ambitious goals it set in 2016. That’s the two-year graduation rate for transfer students, which beat CSU’s 45% goal over the 10-year graduation initiative by less than a percentage point.

Other similar metrics missed their targets despite overall movement in the right direction. And while CSU had hoped to bring low-income and other historically underserved students up to the graduation rates of their pe

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