The California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education, held at Mills College in Oakland on October 28, 2006, had 1,068 students pre-registered and 782 in actual attendance from the California State University , the University of California , and private and independent colleges and universities throughout Northern California . The previous Forum held in Southern California, at the University of California , Santa Barbara on April 21, 2007, had 1,246 students in actual attendance.

At the Mills College Forum, 76.4% of the student attendees had a GPA of 3.0 or better (with 36.4% above 3.5), while well over half (57.3%) of the attendees indicated they were from the first generation in their families to attend college

The academic majors of the students at the Mills Forum fell into the following categories:

Percentage	Category
40%	Social Sciences
17%	Arts and Humanities
5%	Engineering/Computer Science
11%	Physical and Life Sciences
11%	Education
17%	Health and Other

The ethnic backgrounds of participants at the October 2006 Forum fell into the following categories:

Percentage	Category
42%	Chicano/Latino
16%	African American
23%	Asian and Pacific Islander
2%	American Indian
7%	Caucasian
11%	Other/Decline to State

There were 153 recruiting tables at the Mills College Forum representing a total of 113 different institutions. Ninety-eight percent of the students in attendance reported that they visited the recruiter fair, with 73% indicating they approached six or more recruiter tables. Recruiters responding to the Forum's survey reported meeting with an average of 41 students each.

Students from the Following Schools Will Be Invited to Participate in the April 2007 Forum:

California State University	University of California	Independent Colleges and Universities
Chico	Berkeley	Mills College
East Bay	Davis	National Hispanic University
Fresno	Merced	Stanford University
Humboldt	Santa Cruz	University of the Pacific
Monterey Bay		University of San Francisco
Sacramento		Plus additional independent institutions
San Francisco
San José
San Luis Obispo
Sonoma
Stanislaus