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1949

After the trolleys ceased running in 1949, the car barn was sold to the San Diego Paper Box Company, which manufactured corrugated cardboard boxes.

1952

Classes for the College of Women began in 1952.

The College for Women opened its doors to its first class of students in 1952.

1954

In more modest surroundings, the College for Men began classes in 1954, along with the School of Law, which opened across the street in what became University High School and is now an apartment complex — before eventually moving into Thomas More Hall, now known as Warren Hall.

Starting in 1954, Alcalá Park also served as the diocesan chancery office and housed the episcopal offices, until the diocese moved to a vacated Benedictine convent that was converted to a pastoral center.

1959

On April 17, 1959, the Regents voted to change the name of the Institute of Technology and Engineering to the School of Science and Engineering.

1963

The campus had already branched into fields other than science and engineering with the establishment of Departments of Philosophy and Literature during 1963.

The Second College began to organize in 1964 and was scheduled to accept its first students in the fall, of 1967. It was centered at the former Camp Matthews Marine Corps Rifle Range, which was deeded to the San Diego campus by the federal government in 1963.

1964

In the fall of 1964, the campus opened for undergraduates offering a basic lower division curriculum preparing students for upper division majors in the humanities, the social sciences, the biological sciences, the physical sciences, and mathematics.

The School of Medicine on the San Diego campus, the third medical school in the University system, began organization with the appointment of Doctor Joseph Stokes, III, as dean in 1964.

1965

Galbraith, formerly professor of history and chairman of the department at Los Angeles, was formally inaugurated as chancellor of the San Diego campus on November 5, 1965.

1966

The Second College began to organize in 1964 and was scheduled to accept its first students in the fall, of 1967. It was renamed John Muir College in April, 1966.

1968

The school planned to accept its first group of 32 students in the fall of 1968.

1973

State Senator William A. Craven, a tireless advocate for North County, began lobbying for a public university to be built in the region long before he was elected to the State Assembly in 1973.

1978

Working with local business and civic leaders, Craven obtained state funds to begin a satellite campus for San Diego State University in 1978, paving the way for the opening of a campus at Lincoln Middle School in Vista that served 148 students.

1979

In 1979, the building was sold and demolished to make way for a condominium project.

1982

By 1982, the satellite campus needed more space to meet growing demand and moved to an office building on Los Vallecitos Boulevard in San Marcos.

1988

With enrollment continuing to increase at SDSU North County, CSU trustees purchased the future permanent home of CSUSM — the Prohoroff Poultry Farm in San Marcos — for $10.6 million in 1988.

1989

When Bill W. Stacy was named CSUSM’s founding president in September 1989, he got right to work assembling faculty, building a curriculum, recruiting a student body and planning construction of the a physical campus.

1990

CSUSM opened in August 1990 in rented office space with 448 juniors and seniors, a dozen faculty members and nine majors.

1991

In 1991, seven students were awarded the first Bachelor of Arts degrees in campus history.

1992

And, in fall 1992, the permanent campus opened following the completion of Craven Hall, Academic Hall and Science Hall I.

1997

CSUSM saw continued growth under Alexander Gonzalez, who was appointed as Stacy’s interim replacement in 1997 and was named the permanent president two years later.

1998

In 1998, he also established the department of athletics, which debuted with six teams – men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s cross country, and men’s and women’s track and field.

2003

Athletics welcomed an on-campus home in 2003 with the opening of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House, made possible by a pledge of $1.2 million from Helene Clarke in honor of her husband.

Following Gonzalez’s departure in 2003, the university welcomed the person who would become its longest-serving president, Karen S. Haynes.

2005

In 2005, the university expanded the Colachis Plaza from the Immaculata along Marian Way to the east end of Hall, which effectively closed the east end of the campus to vehicular traffic.

2007

That same year, the student body approved plans for a renovation and expansion of the Hahn University Center which began at the end of 2007.

2009

The new Student Life Pavilion (SLP) opened in 2009 and hosts the university's new student dining area(s), offices for student organizations and event spaces.

2017

To this day, USD is recognized as one of the most beautiful campuses in America, earning the nation’s top ranking in 2017 from The Princeton Review.

2019

The University of San Diego, which began as separate colleges for men and women, celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2019.

2020

CSUSM remains firmly committed to diversity and inclusion, receiving the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, for the seventh straight year in 2020.

Projects include the renovation of Copley Library and construction of the Learning Commons, both of which opened in fall 2020.

2021

The plan also includes the renovation of Camino, Founders and Sacred Heart halls, all of which are expected to open in fall 2021.

2022

The renovation of Olin Hall and construction of a new state-of-the-art School of Business complex that together will be known as the Knauss Innovation and Collaboration Ecosystem is expected to open in fall 2022.

In 2022, students began taking classes and diving into the new Knauss Center for Business Education, a 120,000-square-foot complex that serves as an innovation and collaboration ecosystem for business students.

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