California State University, Channel Islands

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California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI, CSU Channel Islands, known informally CI) and four-year comprehensive public university located outside of Camarillo, California in Ventura County. CI opened in 2002, as the 23 campus California State University, succeeding the Ventura County campus of CSU Northridge. CI is located halfway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles in Camarillo, at the intersection of the Oxnard Plain and the most northern of the Santa Monica Mountain range. The Channel Islands near where the university is working at a laboratory in Santa Rosa Island. CSUCI Faculty include other economic forecasters and this automatically language, Sung Won Sohn, author of Sofia Qatar, artist Jack Reilly and biologist Sean Anderson.

Channel Islands offers a variety of 53 Celsius degree, 6 won various levels (s), 19 credentials for teaching undergraduate Ed.D. In Fall 2012, the university enrolled the largest in its history-year and 10 students, including 4,920 graduate. Since its establishment, the university has awarded degrees and 7,000. In fall 2013, the university had 349 Faculty, where the 93 (or 27 percent) were on track employment.

History

The first buildings on the campus were built in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression, the project of public works to be included in Camarillo Hospital State Mental provide welfare groups unemployed.Construction thousand workers on the use of many over three years in their efforts to do everything in the hospital itself to energy plant , the amenities and facilities and plants / farm animal that will eventually support a complex of active patients and staff into the millions during work normal day. The hospital operated 1936-1997, more than six decades.

The planning for the University began in 1965, when State Senator Robert J. of marsino co-authored Senate Bill 288 calls for the establishment of a public college in the four Ventura County, and Governor Pat Brown signed a bill authorizing the study of public colleges to the country. In 1974, Dr. Joyce Kennedy established the UC / CSU Ventura Learning Center. Wire serving director Ventura CSUN Campus for over ten years.

In 1996, J. Handel Evans began as President Planning debt in early human development, four-year universities in the region. In September 1997, on the recommendation of the Chancellor and the military to incumbent local Governor, CSU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept the site of the former hospital Camarillo State for transforming it into the campus 23 CSU in. In July 1996, the CSU Board of Trustees officially adopted the California State University Channel Islands new University. In September 1997, Governor Wilson signed into law AB 623 (Jack O'Connell) to provide financial support for the transformation of the site is using campus university. A provincial government and the CSU Board of Trustees for the money to start the conversion of resources from the hospital state and campus college. In 1997, the hospital closed and the patients were taken in government-community. In August 1999, the Ventura Learning Center moved to Camarillo site as Sun-CI, satellite center for CSU Northridge.

The school chose red and silver colors of their university. Red is consistent with the tradition of the region, and because silver is a dolphin, the mascot of the University. Campus is situated on land inhabited by the Chumash history.

The CSU Board of Trustees appointed Richard R. Rush as President of California State University Channel Islands and began on June 18, was placed on the official 2001 Dr. Rush held on April 19, 2002. Although the establishment of the structures of the University, Dr. Rush has overseen and participated in the appointment of senior faculty and staff of the university. In addition, he has directed the development of master plans, strategies, education, and university. On August 16, 2002, CI opened the students transfer to higher diversity and the fall of 2003, received the first freshman class. Since January 2006, the original name of the school campus was Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics. [13] On May 17, 2007, CI had won the first freshman class and received accreditation for the first time in seven years, the maximum period allowed by the ASC. Campus under construction will continue to prepare for the projected growth of the university. Although there are about 5,300 registered students, the projected enrollment for the year 2025 and 15,000 permanent students. Dr. Rush has announced his intention to retire at the end of the academic year in June 2016, after15 years as the first president of the campus.

Campus

Campus is located about two miles (3 km) south of the city of Camarillo, at the bottom of Long Grade Canyon. [15] The school is located in a rich Agricultural edge Oxnard Plain and nestled into the base Drankensberg Mountains Santa Monica. The site is flat bordered by farms and marked the climax of one called Round Mountain. In the hospital's public spaces and built roads and improved to provide a campus road. University has developed a network of bus transit to serve the campus and buses Vista by providing access to the Gold Coast Transit in Oxnard and the railway station Camarillo. In gaining possession of the official country in 1998 and then 1999, California University State began the class 634-acre (257 ha) Location campus-style, especially one building with two levels of organized Quads three primary schools. In 2007, on the campus of some 153 acres (62 ha). Most of the buildings in the Mission and Spanish Colonial revival Revival architectural styles, although there are a few buildings "today". Campus is split into sections of two main North and South Quad Quad. In 2012, Del Norte and Halls Northern Areas opened a quad; other buildings in North Quad is still uninhabited and unsafe because of his age.

North Quad

The development includes North Quad 2012 Del Norte classrooms and communities Hall, which houses a great university. Solano Hall and the Grand and Petit ride gets in 2012, and the House, classrooms, and conference center. Nzanita Hall and includes classes program for the elderly and other categories different. A Hall is home to the University of Social Security and Parking Services and located next to the Business School. This is a licensed distributor for visitors. Napa Hall, including Mike Studios to restrict opened in 2010, the students of art and design. Finally, Hall University where President Office is located and other management of the various departments.

Martin V. Smith Center for Planning Decision-Making

Martin V. ( "Bud") Smith donated eight million dollars to support the construction of the California State University Channel Islands. The first school campus was named in his honor. In addition, his name marks Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics, and Martin V. Smith, professor of Land Use Studies, and Martin V. Smith Center for the planning decision. The 4,157-square-foot (386.2 m 2) building opened in the Spring of 2009 using theater major speech classrooms met. The building is a few yards of space above.

South Quad

Most campus "was developed buildings located inside the South Quad. The Bell Tower houses many classrooms on campus and office professor. The Bell Tower can be seen in many places on campus, because the length of the course.

In 2006, students Channel Islands ideas to support the design, construction and operation of a new Student Union. In-square-foot 23,000 (2100 m2) Student Union includes large areas programmable for student events and entertainment; center dining coffee shop, restaurant, deli sandwich and salad bar; the rest of the convention justice; game room, pool tables and playing computer systems; and the State Student ASI office, the Board of Anthropology Student, The Nautical Yearbook, and Channel Islands View (CI View) in the student newspaper. The Student Union also means the court the events of the outside and the assembly of the campus community.

John Spoor Broome Library

John Spoor Broome Library was designed by the painter Lord Norman Foster and named after the first major donor to the campus, John "Jack" Spoor Broome, a ranchera Oxnard and philanthropist. The library opened on April 4, 2008. One of the few buildings on campus to represent the style of Spanish mission. This 13,700-square-foot (1,270 m2) complex, which is ten times more than the previous library, home to 75,000 books, 180,000 books, electronic, and 32,000 images of art. It also assists in the planning of campus sustainability through the use of carpeting used, the lamps add a new building and existing buildings there.

During the summer of 2002, former Congressman Robert J. of marsino his wife, Norma, he established the Robert J. and Norma M. to marsino Department of Archives and special collections, which is stored in the library. To marsino, a Ventura County native, served as mayor milestone in 1958, as a senator government from 1961-1974, and later, as United States Congressman from 1974 to 1992

Teach

CI offers a degree course in twenty-two years of study. In addition, CI proposes to add a course in Geography, kinesiology and social justice for error 2014 and nutritious philosophical error 2015.

The school Academic Institutions in various departments and institutions. Four out of five institutions some mission centers and two centers, the Alzheimer's Institute and the Small Business Institute. All centers and institutions must support the mission of the CI. Mission developed certain centers and the main objective is helping CI faculty to support the mission of the university. The center features and the results curricular activities. Institutions and other entities created for the purpose of providing the service required, programs, or for consideration of disciplinary or interdisciplinary university and / or communities.

Statistics

Average GPA high school freshmen CI-boot time: 3.15
Average ACT Score: 21
Average SAT Score: 1335-1665
class size ratio: 20.1 students
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63% percent of the student population is female, while 37% percent male.