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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 annually tops 16,000 and is on pace to reach more than 20,000 by 2010.
CSUSB's extension campus in Palm Desert is notable for having been built entirely with private funds.

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Academics

NSS in the Press

Athletics

Palm Desert Campus

Distinguished Alumni & Persons Associated with California State University, San Bernardino

External links

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).
According to the CSUSB Website: CSUSB has five academic colleges, offering more than 70 degree and certificates. Many programs have earned specialized national accreditation, including business, which was the first in the Inland Empire to gain national accreditation at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Its M.B.A. program is highly respected, as are programs in computer science, geographic information and decision sciences, psychology, health, public administration, and accounting and finance, among many others. The university is one of the nation's largest teacher-training institutions, and 95 percent of the College of Education's graduates with teaching credentials are employed full-time a year after graduation. CSUSB science students are readily accepted into the most prestigious medical schools in the country. CSUSB's Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship was recognized among the nation's top regional programs for entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine.

NSS in the Press

★ [http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_security0318.4100a49.html "Cal State program wanes after Cold War, gains after Sept. 11," ''Press-Enterprise'', May 18, 2007 - podcast available ]

★ Intel U, ''Press-Enterprise'', April 16, 2007

★ Intelligence community turning to Cal State San Bernardino for training (Dec. 22, 2006)


★ CSUSB to lead seven-campus national intelligence grant (Oct. 30, 2006)

★ CSUSB's NSS program becomes part of Intelligence Community's Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE) program and receives federal grant money. Director of National Intelligence Press Release - October 30, 2006

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. They have won the NCAA DII championship in men's basketball in 1993, 1994, 1997, men's soccer in 1997 and men's swimming and diving in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.

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.

Distinguished Alumni & Persons Associated with California State University, San Bernardino

★ Anthony Adams - California State Assemblyman

★ Joe Baca, Jr. - Rialto City Councilman, former California State Assemblyman

★ Russ Bogh - former California State Assemblyman

★ Ellen Irene Elfstrom - 1991, M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, Co-Founder of Key West Women Writers Collective and Founder of Key West Screenwriters Group

External links

★ CSU San Bernardino Website
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★ Palm Desert Campus

★ Official athletics website

★ Coyote Radio

★ Theatre Arts Department