2.1
SUPPORTING WRITTEN BY
excellence
Bella Arnold Yedda Zhang, 202122 Equity Scholar. Photograph by Emily Chen.
The CLA’s new Equity Scholars initiative provides assistance and encouragement to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences 24
Yedda Zhang will begin working toward her master’s degree this fall in CSULB’s Asian and Asian American Studies program. With the education she gets here, she hopes to eventually teach Chinese as a foreign language.
But she almost didn’t take the leap back into academia. Getting the news that she’d been named an Equity Scholar under a new graduate recruitment initiative in the College of Liberal Arts provided the push she needed.
ASPIRE
CLA_Magazine_06.indd 24
8/20/2021 12:20:14 PM
