Post by RunnerBall on Nov 27, 2013 9:35:36 GMT -8
History / Founding of CSUB
(Source: CSUB website)
California State University, Bakersfield was formally known as California State College, Bakersfield (CSCB). Through the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960 the "California State Colleges" became an established system with its own Board of Trustees and a State wide Chancellor. The Donahoe Act assigned different functions to the University of California (UC), California State Colleges (CSC), and California Community Colleges (CCC). The primary function of the State Colleges was broadened to include undergraduate and graduate instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, in applied fields and in the professions; doctoral degrees were authorized if offered jointly with a University of California.
The southern San Joaquin Valley had been interested in having a four-year institution of higher education in this area since the late 1950's. In the 1960's a four-year college strategy was in progress in Delano California. A decision had to be made about the geographical location for the four-year institution. The county choices for the institution included Kern, Kings, or Tulare, as these counties were at least a hundred miles from the nearest higher education institutions. A steering committee, headed by Ernest Stahlberg, Chairman of the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Delano, to work with the university in making this difficult decision. In the end, Bakersfield was chosen because it was the largest isolated metropolitan area in the United States without a senior college or university. Governor Edmond G. Brown of California signed a bill passed by the California state legislature and Senator Walter W. Stiern then appropriated funding to establish a state college in the Southern San Joaquin area.
Early staff at CSUB groundbreaking The next hurdle was to find an appropriate location in Bakersfield for the new college. More than one site was recommended. Tejon Ranch was willing to donate 400 acres in the southeast area to build the new college. Situated near Arvin, CA, "The White Wolf Grade" stretched between Bakersfield and Tehachapi and would have been a prime location because of the breathtaking view of the mountains and the easy access for commuters to Highway 58. Another location, offered by George W. Nickel, Jr., was south of the Kern River by Hwy 178 just east of Lake Ming Park.
The location selected for the new college site was offered as a gift by Kern County Land Company they donated 370 acres. The Kern County Land Co donated the land to the state of California in 1962 with the express purpose of having a state university campus in Bakersfield. The campus would be situated on a 370-acre site in southwest Bakersfield would be located on Stockdale Hwy approximately five miles west of central Bakersfield.
RombergThe State College Board of Trustees gave the green light to start with the preparations to construct California State College Bakersfield in 1965. CSB would be the 19th member; they would become the newest member of the state college system. On July 27, 1967 the Board named Dr. Paul F. Romberg as the first president.
Dr. Romberg:
Dr. Romberg He was a native of Nebraska and a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Second World War. He graduated form the University of Nebraska in 1954 with a PhD. in Biology, with an emphasis on botany and genetics. He was taught at Wabash in Indiana and Iowa State and was Vice-president of Academic Affairs at Chico State. He remained at CSB until 1974.
Romberg was the former Vice President for Academic Affairs at Chico State College. He specialized in microbiology. Dr. Romberg and team worked out of temporary offices on California Avenue to begin initial planning and oversaw the construction of phase I of the initial buildings, developing programs, ordering books and equipment, and recruiting over 22 administrators and educators. Starting with an open field on Stockdale Highway, construction began in 1969 and the school was slated to open to freshman and sophomores the following year.
Dr. Romberg formed a Foundation for CSB in 1968. There were fourteen Kern and Tulare County citizens named to the Board. Their function as the Foundation Board was to help with the fiscal means and management that allowed the college instructions and service aids not funded by the state. In addition the Foundation would permit effective administration of auxiliary activities that included a bookstore, cafeteria, community relations, endowments, grants, and scholarships.
When California State University, Bakersfield opened for classes in September 1970, it was the realization of a decades-old dream. It is especially fitting that CSUB, the 19th member of The California State University, was created from the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960.
A staunch advocate and friend of public education, Dorothy Donahoe represented the residents of Bakersfield and Kern County in the California Assembly for many years. During that period, community leaders from Bakersfield and throughout Kern County sought to bring higher education to the area.
That community-wide grassroots effort bore fruit in 1970. Since then the university has become a major intellectual and cultural center for the burgeoning southern San Joaquin Valley. The university's growth has kept pace with the community, as Bakersfield has become one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the state and the nation.
Thus, its role as the only four-year institution within a 100-mile radius becomes even more significant as it extends higher education opportunities to this increasingly important economic and social center.
The university is committed to being a comprehensive regional university and strives for excellence in its four schools: Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Public Administration, Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, and Education. The University is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
CSUB is located on a 375-acre site in metropolitan Bakersfield, which is at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The university is comprised of 30 buildings, providing classroom, laboratory, administrative and technical support facilities. Some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students (fall 2002 figures) attend CSUB at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus in Antelope Valley. More than 90 percent of CSUB's regular faculty hold doctorate or terminal degrees.
The university operates on a quarter system from September to June with two summer sessions. CSUB has majors in 31 undergraduate academic fields, a full range of pre-professional offerings and 22 graduate-degree options.
Our students have demonstrated a remarkable record of academic achievement and outstanding scholarship. We have long been proud that student and faculty interaction is lively and vigorous, because we remain a relatively small community of scholars.
One of the benefits is that students get an opportunity which they would not get at a larger institution to conduct research and to present and publish their research. Such opportunities bring the level of their scholarship, research and writing to a new level of maturity that most undergraduate students at other institutions do not enjoy.
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Research:
Rapidly developing technology, especially computer and telecommunications technology, will have dramatic impact upon how we teach and how students learn. The Walter W. Stiern Library is a focal point of our progress toward applying technology in higher education.
The university is looking at new paradigms for teaching and learning. The new technology will change fundamentally how we teach. It will change the role of the teacher, the responsibilities of the student, the resources available to students and the environment in which the learning process takes place.
The university recognizes that change of such dramatic and fundamental nature must be handled with sensitivity and care, since both students and teachers are accustomed to more traditional ways of learning.
CSUB is home to several centers and institutes.
They include the Institute for Social and Community Research,
www.csub.edu/sociology/graduate.shtml
California Well Sample Repository,
www.wellsample.com/
Facility for Animal Care and Treatment,
www.csub.edu/fact/
Kegley Institute of Ethics, and many more.
www.csub.edu/kie/
Click here for more centers and institutes at CSUB.
www.csub.edu/centersAndInstitutes.shtml
(Source: CSUB website)
California State University, Bakersfield was formally known as California State College, Bakersfield (CSCB). Through the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960 the "California State Colleges" became an established system with its own Board of Trustees and a State wide Chancellor. The Donahoe Act assigned different functions to the University of California (UC), California State Colleges (CSC), and California Community Colleges (CCC). The primary function of the State Colleges was broadened to include undergraduate and graduate instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, in applied fields and in the professions; doctoral degrees were authorized if offered jointly with a University of California.
The southern San Joaquin Valley had been interested in having a four-year institution of higher education in this area since the late 1950's. In the 1960's a four-year college strategy was in progress in Delano California. A decision had to be made about the geographical location for the four-year institution. The county choices for the institution included Kern, Kings, or Tulare, as these counties were at least a hundred miles from the nearest higher education institutions. A steering committee, headed by Ernest Stahlberg, Chairman of the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Delano, to work with the university in making this difficult decision. In the end, Bakersfield was chosen because it was the largest isolated metropolitan area in the United States without a senior college or university. Governor Edmond G. Brown of California signed a bill passed by the California state legislature and Senator Walter W. Stiern then appropriated funding to establish a state college in the Southern San Joaquin area.
Early staff at CSUB groundbreaking The next hurdle was to find an appropriate location in Bakersfield for the new college. More than one site was recommended. Tejon Ranch was willing to donate 400 acres in the southeast area to build the new college. Situated near Arvin, CA, "The White Wolf Grade" stretched between Bakersfield and Tehachapi and would have been a prime location because of the breathtaking view of the mountains and the easy access for commuters to Highway 58. Another location, offered by George W. Nickel, Jr., was south of the Kern River by Hwy 178 just east of Lake Ming Park.
The location selected for the new college site was offered as a gift by Kern County Land Company they donated 370 acres. The Kern County Land Co donated the land to the state of California in 1962 with the express purpose of having a state university campus in Bakersfield. The campus would be situated on a 370-acre site in southwest Bakersfield would be located on Stockdale Hwy approximately five miles west of central Bakersfield.
RombergThe State College Board of Trustees gave the green light to start with the preparations to construct California State College Bakersfield in 1965. CSB would be the 19th member; they would become the newest member of the state college system. On July 27, 1967 the Board named Dr. Paul F. Romberg as the first president.
Dr. Romberg:
Dr. Romberg He was a native of Nebraska and a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Second World War. He graduated form the University of Nebraska in 1954 with a PhD. in Biology, with an emphasis on botany and genetics. He was taught at Wabash in Indiana and Iowa State and was Vice-president of Academic Affairs at Chico State. He remained at CSB until 1974.
Romberg was the former Vice President for Academic Affairs at Chico State College. He specialized in microbiology. Dr. Romberg and team worked out of temporary offices on California Avenue to begin initial planning and oversaw the construction of phase I of the initial buildings, developing programs, ordering books and equipment, and recruiting over 22 administrators and educators. Starting with an open field on Stockdale Highway, construction began in 1969 and the school was slated to open to freshman and sophomores the following year.
Dr. Romberg formed a Foundation for CSB in 1968. There were fourteen Kern and Tulare County citizens named to the Board. Their function as the Foundation Board was to help with the fiscal means and management that allowed the college instructions and service aids not funded by the state. In addition the Foundation would permit effective administration of auxiliary activities that included a bookstore, cafeteria, community relations, endowments, grants, and scholarships.
When California State University, Bakersfield opened for classes in September 1970, it was the realization of a decades-old dream. It is especially fitting that CSUB, the 19th member of The California State University, was created from the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960.
A staunch advocate and friend of public education, Dorothy Donahoe represented the residents of Bakersfield and Kern County in the California Assembly for many years. During that period, community leaders from Bakersfield and throughout Kern County sought to bring higher education to the area.
That community-wide grassroots effort bore fruit in 1970. Since then the university has become a major intellectual and cultural center for the burgeoning southern San Joaquin Valley. The university's growth has kept pace with the community, as Bakersfield has become one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the state and the nation.
Thus, its role as the only four-year institution within a 100-mile radius becomes even more significant as it extends higher education opportunities to this increasingly important economic and social center.
The university is committed to being a comprehensive regional university and strives for excellence in its four schools: Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Public Administration, Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, and Education. The University is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
CSUB is located on a 375-acre site in metropolitan Bakersfield, which is at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The university is comprised of 30 buildings, providing classroom, laboratory, administrative and technical support facilities. Some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students (fall 2002 figures) attend CSUB at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus in Antelope Valley. More than 90 percent of CSUB's regular faculty hold doctorate or terminal degrees.
The university operates on a quarter system from September to June with two summer sessions. CSUB has majors in 31 undergraduate academic fields, a full range of pre-professional offerings and 22 graduate-degree options.
Our students have demonstrated a remarkable record of academic achievement and outstanding scholarship. We have long been proud that student and faculty interaction is lively and vigorous, because we remain a relatively small community of scholars.
One of the benefits is that students get an opportunity which they would not get at a larger institution to conduct research and to present and publish their research. Such opportunities bring the level of their scholarship, research and writing to a new level of maturity that most undergraduate students at other institutions do not enjoy.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Research:
Rapidly developing technology, especially computer and telecommunications technology, will have dramatic impact upon how we teach and how students learn. The Walter W. Stiern Library is a focal point of our progress toward applying technology in higher education.
The university is looking at new paradigms for teaching and learning. The new technology will change fundamentally how we teach. It will change the role of the teacher, the responsibilities of the student, the resources available to students and the environment in which the learning process takes place.
The university recognizes that change of such dramatic and fundamental nature must be handled with sensitivity and care, since both students and teachers are accustomed to more traditional ways of learning.
CSUB is home to several centers and institutes.
They include the Institute for Social and Community Research,
www.csub.edu/sociology/graduate.shtml
California Well Sample Repository,
www.wellsample.com/
Facility for Animal Care and Treatment,
www.csub.edu/fact/
Kegley Institute of Ethics, and many more.
www.csub.edu/kie/
Click here for more centers and institutes at CSUB.
www.csub.edu/centersAndInstitutes.shtml