When Korla Collins marched into the Home Depot Center stadium with her fellow
graduates at the California State University, Dominguez Hills Undergraduate Commencement, she will be looking forward to the next step in the choreography of her future. Her double major in dance and Africana studies has led her to becoming a working African dancer and instructor, as well as having given her a vision for giving back to her community.

While many of the Class of 2008 at California State University, Dominguez Hills are preparing to pound the proverbial pavement and look for a job, Don Manning already has in mind exactly what he wants: chief executive officer of Macy’s Inc. As a group sales manager, he is responsible for a portion of his store ’s $43 million annual profit and has prepared for his climb up the corporate ladder with internships that have exposed him to every level of its management.

On graduation day, the class of 2008 at California State University, Dominguez Hills,
marched off the field, diplomas in hand and ready to take on the world. Perla Villegas,
who graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in communications and marketing, has already had a taste of taking on the world – in her own backyard of multicultural Los Angeles.