Aren’t you confusing USCD with SDSU? The former is a campus of the University of California, the latter is part of the State University System and the subject of the article.
You are correct (though your transposing two letters in the acronym for Cal branch in San Diego I mistakenly mentioned in my post shows how confusing that alphabet soup really is). And actually, from what I’ve observed, despite the reputations of Cal Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, political correctness seems to be even more rampant in the Cal State system than in the UC system.