The CSU (California State University) Chancellor's Office received a grant from the Lumina Foundation to engage in a year of planning activities to increase productivity within the CSU system. The grant is part of the Making Opportunity Affordable (MOA) initiative of the Lumina Foundation that is aimed at improving higher education productivity nationally. The subcontractors' charge for this MOA planning year was twofold: (1) Analyze the patterns by which students either proceed through stages toward degree completion or get off track--in order to determine what institutional efforts would have the biggest return in getting students on track and increasing instructional productivity; and (2) Conduct an in-depth analysis of CSU Campuses' Actions to Facilitate Graduation (CAFG) to determine which of the many individual campus initiatives offer the greatest promise to the CSU system to increase graduation rates and numbers of graduates. This work was intended to inform CSU efforts as the system works to improve graduation rates and productivity. This excerpt of the full report provided to the CSU contains the student flow analysis--part 1 of the charge detailed above. (Contains 11 figures, 3 tables and 20 footnotes.)