"As a teenage woman and president of a nonprofit organization–the Cloud Forest Institute–my goals made me resist conforming to any of the traditional programs of study offered by public universities. However, after researching further, I found that I could get the support and resources I needed at CSUMB in the highly individualized Integrated Studies Program. I would recommend the CSUMB Integrated Studies Program to other independent thinkers with a high degree of self-motivation."

–Freeda Alida Burnstad