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CSUSB ranks 27th in the nation in awarding bachelor's degrees to Hispanics*

CSUSB has been designated by the Department of Education as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. HSI's are accredited and degree-granting institutions of higher education with a full-time Hispanic student enrollment of 25 percent or more. 

*based on U.S. Dept. of Education report for 2000/2001

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CSUSB slows enrollment growth

CSUSB is curbing enrollment growth for the 2003-2004 academic year so that the campus can continue to provide quality instruction and service to its students.  The University stopped accepting new admissions applications for the coming academic year, with some exceptions, in response to a directive from CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed not to exceed enrollment targets.

CSUSB, one of the fastest growing campuses in the California State University system, scaled back its original enrollment target from 14,250 to 13,839 full-time equivalent students (FTES).  If no additional steps are taken to reduce enrollments, the campus estimates it would have nearly 15,000 FTES...more about this and other news at the CSUSB Alumni Association website.  

"Changing of the Guard" at Palm Desert Campus

Prof. Fred Jandt, longtime faculty member and former chair of the communications studies department at Cal State San Bernardino, has been named interim dean of the university’s Palm Desert Campus, replacing outgoing Dean Peter Wilson, according to university President Albert Karnig. Jandt will take the new post Sept. 1.

“Dr. Jandt is the perfect candidate for our Palm Desert Campus during this crucial time,” Karnig said. “Given his knowledge of the Palm Desert campus and its programs, his long experience on the main campus, his outstanding academic skills and his strong reputation both at the university and in the Inland Empire, he’ll be highly effective in the dean’s role. Most importantly, he’ll assure that the campus will sustain its momentum.”

Jandt, who lives in Palm Springs, chaired the committee that prepared a strategic master plan report on the Palm Desert Campus’ marketing options and future growth in 2001, as construction of the new permanent campus at Cook Street and Frank Sinatra Drive got underway. During the past academic year...more about this and other news at the CSUSB Alumni Association website.  

CSUSB professors named to USDA HSI fellows program

Three Cal State San Bernardino educators will join 12 other academics from around the country this summer in Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Fellows Program, federal officials said.

Brian Levin, an assistant professor of criminal justice; Laura Howzell Young, an associate professor in the College of Education’s department of language, literacy, and culture; and Michael Stull, director of the university’s Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, will join academics from other HSI universities...more about this and other news at the CSUSB Alumni Association website.  

Lady 'Yotes volleyball team begins play Aug. 29

So close! That’s been the story of Cal State San Bernardino’s rise to national prominence in NCAA Division II women’s volleyball over the last three years.  The team and its corps of veterans have won the past two California Collegiate Athletic Association titles and hosted the past two NCAA Pacific Regional tournaments.

A corps of seniors, hardened by three years of gritty battles against the nation’s elite volleyball teams, would like nothing more than to clear the final hurdle -- win a regional title and advance to the national tournament for the first time in the 20-year history of the program.