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Western State College of Law company history timeline

1966

Western State College of Law was founded in 1966 in Orange County, California.

1990

By 1990, Western State had expanded to three campuses in California including locations in Fullerton, Irvine and San Diego.

1995

In 1995, Western State again began pursuing accreditation with the ABA for all three of its campuses.

In 1995, the school's San Diego campus became the independently owned Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the following year, the school closed its Irvine location and consolidated students to its Fullerton campus.

1998

In 1998, the school received provisional accreditation from the ABA and opened a new law library.

2000

In 2000, the college's owners sold Western State to Argosy Education Group, which owned the school for a year before it was purchased by Education Management Corporation.

2005

Western State was granted full accreditation with the ABA in 2005, and became the third for-profit law school to receive ABA approval.

2012

In April 2012, the school was incorporated as one of the colleges of Argosy University and officially changed its name to Western State College of Law at Argosy University.

2016

In January 2016, the campus moved to Irvine, California.

2017

In October 2017, it was announced that the college of law was sold, along with the rest of Argosy University, to the Dream Center Foundation, a subsidiary of the Dream Center megachurch.

2019

In 2019, a federal court approved Westcliff University's plan to purchase the school and revert it to for-profit status.

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1966
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Darrell Brogdon,Todd Levy
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