California State University, Monterey Bay

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California State University, Monterey Bay
Established	1994
Type	Public
Endowment	$7.0 million[1]
President	Dianne F. Harrison
Faculty	334
Undergraduates	4080
Postgraduates	140
Location	Seaside, California , United States
Campus	formerly Fort Ord
Colors	Bay Blue, Golden Sand and Valley Green
Mascot	Otter
Affiliations	California State University system
Website	www.csumb.edu

California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), is a small public university in the California State University system on the site of the former Fort Ord, on the Central Coast of California. CSUMB was founded in 1994 with a student enrollment of 654 students. As of 2007 the university had 4,080 students and 141 full-time faculty members. The institution seeks to distinguish itself through "outcomes-based education," with undergraduates required to conduct a capstone research project, and compile a portfolio demonstrating competency in their concentration, with a faculty member as advisor. In 2006, Dianne F. Harrison was elected from 3 candidates to be the new President of the University.^[2]

Contents 1 Faculty and student demographics 1.1 Faculty 1.2 Students 2 Academic programs 2.1 Undergraduate majors and concentrations[4] 2.2 Graduate degree programs[5] 3 Student life 3.1 Child care services 3.2 Student organizations 3.2.1 Delta Omega Rho 3.2.2 Nu Alpha Kappa 3.2.3 Omega Delta Phi 3.2.4 Sigma Theta Psi 3.2.5 Children Do Count Club 3.3 Goodbye, Fort Ord 4 Athletics 5 Arts 6 Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library 7 Black Box Cabaret 8 CSUMB presidential history 9 References

[edit] Faculty and student demographics

[edit] Faculty

Faculty demographics reflect those of the CSU system overall. Of 334 faculty members, 141 (42%) were employed full-time and a (113) third were tenured or tenure-tracked. More than three-quarters (77%) held doctorate degrees. Those with doctorate degrees were more likely to be employed full-time and tenured.

[edit] Students

Demographics of student body

	Undergraduate
African American	4.4%
Asian American	4.1%
White American	54.2%
Hispanic American	30.9%
Native American	1.0%
Ethnicity unreported/unknown	15.8%

As of fall 2005, the majority, 56% were less than 21 years of age, 27% between 22 and 25, 8% between 26 and 30, 5% between 31 and 40, and 4% over 41. The most common majors were Business Administration (17%), Liberal Studies (15%) and Human Communication (11%). Little more than third (37%) of students came form the tri-county area (Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito County), while 59% came from other parts of California, 2% from other U.S. states and 2% from outside the U.S. Almost a third, (30%) of students were low and almost half (46%) were first generation college students. Students were somewhat unequally distributed across class levels; 24% being Freshmen, 12% Sophomores, 23% Juniors and 32% Seniors. Only 4% were graduate students, 5% were seeking credentials and 1% were involved in post-bacclaurate studies.^[3]

[edit] Academic programs

[edit] Undergraduate majors and concentrations^[4]

Bachelor of Arts	Bachelor of Science
Collaborative Health and Human Services	Biology
Global Studies	Business Administration
Human Communication	Computer Science and Information Technology
Integrated Studies	Environmental Science, Technology & Policy
Liberal Studies	Information Technology & Communication Design
Music	Kinesiology
Psychology	Mathematics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Teledramatic Arts and Technology
Visual and Public Arts
World Languages and Cultures

[edit] Graduate degree programs^[5]

Master of Arts	Master of Public Policy	Master of Science	Executive M.B.A.
Education	Public Policy	Coastal and Watershed Science & Policy	Business Administration
Interdisciplinary Studies, Science and Technology Emphasis		Management and Information Technology
		Marine Science

[edit] Student life

Roughly two thirds of CSUMB students live on campus. Residence halls, suites and apartments (bldgs. 200s and 300s) are located within walking distance to all campus facilities. East campus housing offers additional apartment life two miles away for students and families that receives shuttle access to and from campus.

Students can walk, drive or take the campus shuttle to classes and activities. The MST bus service comes to the campus and housing communities as well. Students also enjoy going into downtown Monterey, which is a popular tourist destination, being home to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row and Old Fisherman's Wharf. Additionally, students enjoy nearby Santa Cruz, with such attractions as the Boardwalk and the Mystery Spot, let alone downtown Santa Cruz. Other popular spots near CSUMB are Carmel-by-the-Sea, the 17-mile scenic drive, World-Famous Pebble Beach Golf Resort, and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

[edit] Child care services

CSUMB offered child care services on campus from 1999-2006, the center was closed due to an unanticipated shortage of staff for the 2006-2007 school year. The center previously served toddler and preschool age children using programs for low income families. Some limited child care services are now available to a limited number of students with families.

Clubs are a popular activity at CSUMB. Some popular clubs are the Black Student United, Anime Club, Pride, M.E.Ch.A, EMPOWER, Otter Christian Fellowship, and the Business Club. The Associated Students (Student Government) at CSUMB offers a variety of committees and organizations for students to take part in. Some current groups are the Academic Committee, Diversity Council, Environmental Committee, Lobby Corps, Public Relations Committee and the Technology Committee.

[edit] Student organizations

[edit] Delta Omega Rho

Delta Omega Rho is the first Greek letter organization to be fully created and founded at CSUMB. This multicultural sorority bases its organization principles on scholarship, leadership, friendship, integrity, honesty, loyalty, and unity. The primary goal of the founders was to develop an organization that every woman could be involved with regardless of race, religion, age, culture or ability.

Multiculturalism, understanding, and community service has been the driving force for this newer organization on the CSUMB campus, as they strive to bring together a well rounded sisterhood. The sorority's purpose is to build up the characteristics of each member through academics and advancement in education, as well as building leadership skills; promoting pride within each member and within the organization; and to forge a lasting relationship among all sisters.

Currently, Delta Omega Rho has focused its philanthropic efforts on groups like SPCA of Monterey County, along with many other community organizations.

[edit] Nu Alpha Kappa

Nu Alpha Kappa (ΝΑΚ), is a Latino-based fraternity which encompasses and values all cultures. Currently Nu Alpha Kappa stands as one of the largest Latino-based fraternities on the west coast. Often referred to as "NAK", Nu Alpha Kappa was founded on February 26, 1988 on the campus of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with twenty established chapters across California, Nevada, and Colorado, with the 15th chapter established here at CSUMB. From their very modest beginning, to their present status as a model for enlightened brotherhood, they are proud to live according to the mission statement adopted by their Founding Fathers.

"We, NU ALPHA KAPPA, seek to unite and involve all students in a more harmonious and brotherly atmosphere through academic, social and cultural means. There is a need to interface the various backgrounds that constitute the student body of our fraternal university chapter, in order to improve relations amongst all students and the community."

NAK National website: www.naknet.org

CSUMB Chapter website: www.nakcsumb.org

[edit] Omega Delta Phi

Omega Delta Phi is a fraternity on campus that is both active in its community and campus. They are a service/social fraternity who emphasizes on their academics, service, diversity and brotherhood. They have received numerous awards recognizing their outstanding G.P.A, service, spirit, and athletics. This fraternity competes in competitions across the nation in strolling and stepping.

[edit] Sigma Theta Psi

Sigma Theta Ps is an active sorority on campus. They are a multicultural, academic and social sorority, who uphold the values of honesty, loyalty, respect, open mindedness, leadership and academic excellence. Sigma Theta Psi's national philanthropy is Breast Cancer. Their sisterhood has dedicated itself to promote awareness of this disease, in various campus and community events. The have been recognized for their outstanding service to community and their outstanding academic excellence.

[edit] Children Do Count Club

The Children Do Count Club was established by students concerned with the closure of the child care center. The clubs main function is to provide support for child care services offered on campus and resources to students with children.

[edit] Goodbye, Fort Ord

In the past several years, professional deconstruction of abandoned Fort Ord property has increased dramatically, causing road blockages, closures and redirections. Part of the reason for the upped speed of doing this is because the buildings by the freeway are being replaced by a new Marina mall, to be opened by mid to late 2007. Another reason involves the new CSUMB President, Dianne Harrison, who is promoting the new look of the school by ridding of abandoned buildings and replacing them with the intended new construction that had been put off before her arrival.

[edit] Athletics

CSUMB athletes and sports teams are known as the Otters. A member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II, the Otters are also members of the California Collegiate Athletic Association. The Otters field fourteen sports for men and women for the fall, winter, and spring seasons. Fall sports for men include cross country and soccer. Fall sports for women include cross country, soccer, and volleyball. The winter sport for men is basketball. The winter sport for women is basketball. Spring sports for men include baseball and golf. Spring sports for women include golf, softball, and water polo. CSUMB also has a coed sailing team which competes in the fall and spring (although the spring season is more important).

CSU Monterey Bay is now part of NCAA Division II after being a member of the California Pacific Conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

The Otter Sports Center is the home to the CSUMB Otters Men's and Women's Basketball and Women's Volleyball teams. The Sports Center is affectionately known as "The Kelp Bed" referencing the floating home of the Sea Otter.

CSUMB's baseball program, which was started by a dedicated group of Otter Pioneers, begins with the start of the 2006 Baseball season. The team is coached by former minor league player and local born Rich Aldrete.

New baseball and softball fields are under construction as of fall 2006, and should be ready for usage by next fall. This new construction coincides with the arrival of President Harrison and the campus's other new construction, from the new roadside campus maps to the new library.

[edit] Arts

Programs at CSUMB are interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary. In the arts, students can major in Music and Performing Arts (MPA), Teledramatic Arts and Technology (TAT), and VIsual and Public Arts (VPA).

The World Theater is a performing arts venue that presents campus events such as guest lectures and screenings, student capstones (thesis projects) and Capstone Festivals. They present a professional performing arts season of performance, music and dance.

The Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department offers cross-disciplinary study and practice of media and live performance. The program integrates the traditional disciplines of theatre, radio, broadcast, film and new media.

The Visual & Public Arts Department displays their original artwork throughout the campus with public installations and murals that paint the campus.

Music & Performing Arts Department offers choirs and activities to enrich the culture of CSUMB. They include a Gospel Choir, a Chorale and many music performers and lecturers. It also now offers theatrical classes, transferred from the TAT major it originated from. The Music and Performing Arts major offers a concentration in Recording and Technology and houses one of the area's best recording studios.

[edit] Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library

With a groundbreaking on October 3, 2006, that included CSUMB President Dianne Harrison among the first diggers, construction on the Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library began. The intended three-floor building, with planned views of both the Monterey Bay and the Salinas Valley from the upper floors, has a completion scheduled for September 2008. It would replace the current single floor library that, like so many other buildings upon the opening of CSUMB in 1994, was reworked from preexisting buildings at Fort Ord.

Inside the new library are 136,151 square feet (12,648.8 m²) of space among the floors, with a towering central atrium drawing natural light deep into the building interior. Located at Divarty and 5th Street, and diagonally across from the Chapman Science Center, which was the first entirely new building constructed at CSUMB.

Aside from being the largest building to exist on the CSUMB campus, it will also be the greenest in terms of energy usage. Up to 30% less electricity will be needed, for example, because of floor to ceiling glass walls that would let in natural light. Additionally, ventilation techniques would operate through the floor instead of the ceiling, allowing cooler air to travel a lesser distance. Further, the light let in from the atrium would be indirect rather than direct sunlight.

In March 2008, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, headed by Clint Eastwood, donated $620,000 to the university, with $500,000 of the grant for the new library. Eastwood himself came to the campus on March 20 for an official donation to President Harrison, directly in front of the library under construction. He said, "We're happy to be involved. With the world of the Internet, libraries don't get the attention they deserve."

Donating even more than the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, specifically contributing the largest donation of $4 million of the $69 million total cost, were the Tanimura and Antle families from the Salinas valley. Accordingly, the library was named after them.

From December 1 - 5 of 2008, CSUMB held the new library's Grand Opening Week, with the Campus Opening Ceremony on December 3, and the Public Dedication Ceremony on December 5.

Additionally constructed as part of this library's creation was the new cyclical one-way roundabout that sits between the library and the science building.

[edit] Black Box Cabaret

The Black Box Cabaret has been the home of student expression since the birth of CSUMB. It opened in 1996, when business students (from the student organization BO$$), faculty and staff took a military building, originally put up temporarily, and created the BBC, a place for students and the community to express themselves.

In 2000, the BBC was shut down when it failed to comply with ADA regulations. With no plans to re-open the BBC, the students took it upon themselves and shouted "Our Box! Our choice!" 350 students and community members marched, chanted and rallied to save the building.

Students approved a $40 per year student fee (with a 5% increase every five years) to fund the BBC's $1,066,146 renovation, ensuring the Box would re-open. Summer 2001 saw the beginning of renovation and February 2002 saw the re-opening of the Black Box Cabaret. In Fall 2009, the Box's renovation debts will be paid off, and be under the full control of the Otter Student Union via CSUMB's Associated Students.

Since its original opening, the BBC has showcased student visual, theatrical and musical art. It offers food, drink and alcohol. One semesterly event that is always hosted at the BBC is called "TAPS" (Teledramatic Arts Presentation Showcase), in which students watch submitted short films made throughout the semester.

Interestingly, the Black Box Cabaret was the site of the first known public performance by the experimental rock group Space Station Wagon, and the last known public performance by Japanese Rock Group Guitar Wolf before their original bassist Bass Wolf died in 2005. It was also the only known venue for a live performance by the Mongolian-Congolese jam band 'The Thesaurus'.

[edit] CSUMB presidential history

	Name	Commenced term	Ended term
1.	Dr. Peter Plympton Smith	1994	2005
	Diane Cordero de Noriega (Interim)	2005	2006
2.	Dianne F. Harrison (Current)	2006	-

[edit] References

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