{"id":305258,"date":"2026-05-08T01:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:59:12","slug":"raji-brar-chosen-to-help-lead-california-state-university-as-board-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305258\/","title":{"rendered":"Raji Brar chosen to help lead California State University as Board Vice Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield businesswoman Raji Brar was named on Wednesday as Vice Chair of the California State University Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels really good that I&#8217;m representing the valley, I was born and raised in the valley,&#8221; said a beaming Brar during an interview with 23ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Brar, a first-generation Sikh American whose parents immigrated from Punjab, India \u2014 becomes the first person from Kern County to hold the post.<\/p>\n<p>The CSU system is the nation\u2019s largest four-year public university network, with 23 campuses including CSUB.  Rising tuition costs are a key concern.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I want to ensure we stay true to our mission, making sure we&#8217;re accessible to everyone, regardless of what you look like, where you come from, your economic standing in life.  We have to make sure people have access to higher education; that&#8217;s a priority,&#8221; said Brar.<\/p>\n<p>One of her priorities, Brar says, is to hold listening sessions at CSUB \u2014 hearing directly from students and staff about their concerns on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield businesswoman Raji Brar was named on Wednesday as Vice Chair of the California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,5529,128588,26595,2306,735,162,128589],"class_list":["post-305258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-state-university","tag-csu-board-of-trustees","tag-csub","tag-higher-education","tag-kern-county","tag-kern-county-news","tag-raji-brar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}