California State University, San Bernardino
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California State University, San Bernardino |
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| Established | 1965 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Albert K. Karnig |
| Students | 14,000 |
| Location | San Bernardino, California, United States |
| Mascot | Coyotes |
| Affiliations | California State University system |
| Website | csusb.edu |
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California State University, San Bernardino is a state-funded university in San Bernardino, California, part of the California State University System. The university was founded in 1965. Enrollment in 2003 was 14,000.
CSUSB's extension campus in Palm Desert is notable for having been built entirely with private funds.
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[edit] Academics
The university's colleges are Arts and Letters, Business and Public Administration, Education, Extended Learning, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
One of CSUSB’s premier academic programs is its graduate National Security Studies (NSS) program. There are only a few other civilian graduate-level defense and national security studies programs in the United States: Georgetown University, The George Washington University, Mercyhurst College, University of Denver, and Missouri State (satellite campus located in Washington DC).
[edit] NSS in the Press
- CSUSB's NSS program becomes part of Intelligence Community's Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE) program and receives federal grant money.
[edit] Athletics
The university has facilities for basketball, volleyball, baseball, soccer, softball, swimming, and tennis. The school colors are Columbia blue and black. The school's athletics nickname is Coyotes. The Coyotes play in the California Collegiate Athletic Association in the NCAA's Division II.
[edit] Palm Desert Campus
In 1984, the College of the Desert, a public two-year community college in Palm Desert, began exploring bringing a CSU campus to the Coachella Valley. Subsequent negotiations led to establishing the temporary Coachella Valley Off-Campus Center of CSU San Bernardino. The center began offering external degree programs in fall 1986 on land leased by the College of the Desert.
In 1992, the city of Palm Desert offered to donate city land for a permanent off-campus center that it was hoped would become a future CSU campus. In 1994, the CSU Board of Trustees authorized the chancellor to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Palm Desert and its Redevelopment Agency to accept and acquire land. It designated 200 acres for a possible future CSU campus, with 40 acres designated as the site for the permanent off-campus center. The remaining 160 acres would be held pending determination by the CSU Board of Trustees that the center should become an independent campus.
The permanent campus located on Cook street () is home to upper division and graduate students who come from throughout the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree areas. Housing the campus originally at College of the Desert led to a partnership that continues to develop in many ways. The majority of Palm Desert Campus undergraduate students transfer from College of the Desert.
In 2003 the campus changed its name to the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino.
[edit] Distinguished Alumni & Persons Associated with California State University, San Bernardino
Elfstrom, Ellen Irene - 1991, M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, Co-Founder of Key West Women Writers Collective and Founder of Key West Screenwriters Group
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| Vox Veritas Vita | California State University Long Beach, California (Chancellor's Office) |
| Campuses | Bakersfield • Channel Islands • Chico • Dominguez Hills • East Bay • Fresno • Fullerton • Humboldt • Long Beach • Los Angeles • Maritime • Monterey Bay • Northridge • Pomona • Sacramento • San Bernardino • San Diego • San Francisco • San José • San Luis Obispo • San Marcos • Sonoma • Stanislaus |
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| Satellite Campuses | Antelope Valley • Irvine • Concord • Palm Desert • Imperial Valley • San Francisco (downtown) • Stockton |
| Laboratories | Desert Studies Center • Moss Landing Marine Laboratories • Mount Laguna Observatory |
| California Collegiate Athletic Association |
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| CSU Bakersfield • Chico State • CSU Dominguez Hills • CSU Los Angeles • CSU Monterey Bay • Cal Poly Pomona • CSU San Bernardino • CSU Stanislaus • Humboldt State • San Francisco State • Sonoma State • UC San Diego |
