INTERVIEW TOPICS:

1. Do you feel you have learned and grown in the past two years? If so, how? Has CSUMB played a role in that?
      Explain your interpretation of the CSUMB Vision Statement.
       What is the most valuable aspect of multicultural education?
       Do you feel in charge of your academic career?
       What is your most profound academic achievement(s)?

2. Describe your closest peer group on campus. Has your peer group changed since your first year on campus -- in terms of gender, ethnicity, or class?

In your three years at CSUMB describe any discrimination you may have experienced/witnessed.
What role has CSUMB played in aiding in developing your identities (community, sexuality, ethnicity,  social economic class, and family)?
Do you feel more confident to confront any of the "isms" when on campus, family, or friends?

3. How do you make it financially?
    In what ways has your financial aid shifted from your freshman year?
    What are the challenges you have faced at CSUMB due to your family's     economic situation?
    Has your financial situation had an impact on your academic achievement?
    How have you used F.A. counseling, advising, and or mentoring?
    How has your family's outlook on the cost of attending CSUMB changed     since your freshman year?

4. What other kinds of supports have made a difference for you in the last three years?

    Mentors role models?
    Advisors, teachers?
    Support Programs (ETS, ASAP, Migrant Ed, and EOP)?
    Friends and Family?
    Clubs and organizations?
    You're home community?
    Do you work/volunteer for any of the support programs? Why?

5. Have your goals changed since your freshmen year? How?
    Work
    Graduate School?
    Career?
    Dropping Out?

6. What has been your most rewarding or challenging experience at CSUMB?

    How has your family/own perspective on college changed?
    (Going home on the weekends?)
    Were there any challenges you had to overcome?
    Has college strengthen your capacity to re-connect with your family and     community?

7. How do you feel about your family, your culture, and your community now that you have been in college and are preparing for your future?

8. Is there anything else you would like to share about how you have met the challenges of being first in your family to go to college?