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California State University picks Mexican American as leader

by Associated Press
| September 23, 2020 10:33 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California State University trustees named Dr. Joseph I. Castro on Wednesday as the new chancellor of the CSU system, making him the first Mexican American and native Californian to lead the nation’s largest four-year public university system.

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