Chico's Equal Opportunity Program , which assists economically disadvantaged students, is celebrating 30 years on campus. Chico is national champion once again in baseball. For the second time in three years, the Wildcats won the Division II NCAA World Series. The team completed a phenomenal post-season without a loss or an error committed, and the 50 season victories were more than any of the other 225 Division II squads in the country. Accommodating what will be one of the university's largest freshman classes in history, Chico has added three new sessions to its Summer Orientation program , which starts June 10.
Chico students excel on professional competency exams.
Future teachers at Chico led all universities with a 98.4 percent pass rate on the California Reading Instruction Competency Assessment test. Other 1998-99 results are similar. Students presented their group's accomplishments to panels of judges, which voted them number one over 100 other universities, all of which had won regional competitions representing more than 550 SIFE chapters in the U.S. and abroad. Engineering students won two regional competitions this spring. Civil engineers won the American Society of Civil Engineers Steel Bridge Competition for the third straight year by creating a bridge lighter, stronger and faster to erect than any other school's entry.