Community Univ Partner history

1978 - Trustees authorize the first joint doctoral program between a CSUC campus and a private university, a Ph.D. in education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate School.

1982 - The State University and Colleges system is designated "The California State University" (CSU).

1983 - A Faculty Trustee position is created, and the first member is named to a two-year term.

1984 - Incoming freshmen and transfer students are now required by the CSU Board of Trustees to meet basic admissions requirements of college preparatory English (four years) and math (two years).

Two years later in 1986, the university opened a second campus, the Coachella Valley Center, on land leased from the College of the Desert in Palm Desert.

1988-89 - The 20th campus is created at San Marcos, and a founding president is named.

Coyote Radio, the award-winning internet radio station for CSUSB, was introduced in 1993.

1995 - California State University, Monterey Bay, a redevelopment of former military base Fort Ord, admits its first students.

In 1997, Albert K. Karnig took the reins as the university’s third president.

2000 - A second Student Trustee position is created.

In the summer of 2001, the university began offering a year-round schedule of classes at the same cost as school-year classes.

The first building on the Coachella Valley campus opened in 2002, and the campus officially changed its name to the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino.

2003 - California State University Channel Islands begins accepting freshmen at the new campus.

2005 - California State University, Hayward is renamed California State University, East Bay.

2010 - The California State University celebrates its 50th anniversary.

In fact, by 2011, the university's first-to-second year student retention rates reached record levels, as nearly 90 percent of all CSUSB first-time freshmen returned to the university — a level that was, at the time, among the three best in the 23-campus California State University system.

Upon his arrival in August 2012, the university’s endowment stood at roughly $19 million.

Morales was officially invested on June 14, 2013.

2014 - The CSU STEM VISTA Program launches to increase the number of students, especially from underrepresented communities, graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees.

The initiative received the maximum ($5 million) award in 2015, and the Growing Inland Achievement initiative was born, with a goal to create a coordinated cradle to a career pathway, linking education and business throughout the two counties for the first time ever.

The university also saw a noticeable increase in enrollment of African-American students in 2016, for both freshmen and transfer.

The campus introduced its cutting-edge Neurofeedback Center in 2017.

2018 - For the first time in the CS​U's history, a majority of the campus presidents are female, with 12 of the 23 campuses being led by women.

Just 20 months later, the campaign had raised 93 percent of its goal ($46.5 M). By the campaign’s conclusion in 2019, it had reached a total of $54 million raised, exceeding its goal.