San Diego State U. Runs 3 Schools to Improve a Neighborhood — and Itself

The small businesses that line the three miles of boulevard leading from San Diego State University to the City Heights neighborhood are marked with signs written in the languages of the Central American, Southeast Asian, and African immigrants who have flocked here.

The neighborhood has long been one of San Diego's most diverse, with more than 30 languages spoken among its 72,000 residents. It has also developed a reputation as one of the city's most impoverished and

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