Graduation Initiative Committee With an overall graduation rate that exceeds 60 percent, we know that the CSU's success in graduating students is comparable to- and sometimes even better than- that of peer institutions. Nevertheless, we also know that almost all undergraduates enter the CSU intending to get a bachelor's degree, yet 40 percent never earn a CSU degree and a third never earn a bachelor's degree from any college. Bob Buckley, Chair of GIC This failure represents an unfulfilled commitment of substantial time and money made by tens of thousands of students and by California's citizen taxpayers. More positively, improved graduation rates would significantly benefit students and California's society and economy. As noted by Clifford Adelman, one of the country's top educational researchers, "The admissions line is not the commencement line". To help CSUS's commencement lines more closely reflect the admissions lines, the Graduation Initiative Committee (GIC) was formed (in Spring of 2003) to consider additional strategies that can help CSUS students make progress towards and complete baccalaureate degrees.