California State University Sacramento - Statesman Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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“It’s an ideal location for a vital University.” $120 million, the University provides employment opportunities for more than 2,500 faculty and staff and shares it’s expertise in countless other ways to improve the quality of life in the community. The Greater Sacramento area, with approximately 1.3 million residents, is the fastest growing metropolitan community of its size in the nation. The reasons for this growth, healthy employment rates, economic development and the high quality of life, enhance “‘out of class experiences’, so important to student personal and professional development.

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California State University, Sacramento is California’s Capital Campus CSUS, one of the major members of the nation’s largest system of senior public higher education, is celebrating it’s fortieth year of providing quality education. What sets the University apart from other collegiate institutions is it’s unique location in California’s capital city. Let’s look at the impact of this setting. The budget of the State of California, when compared to the nations of the world, ranks among the top five. Much of this budget is administered in downtown Sacramento, five miles west of the CSUS campus. The ensuing governmental process enhances the CSUS educational experience in a number of ways, from the internship, part-time employment and career opportunities available to students to the many part-time faculty members who bring with them the relevancy of their concurrent professional employment in the governmental process. Some colleges have an invisible ‘ivy covered’’ wall around them which isolates them from their community. For them, the community does not play an important part in their life of the college or their students. Not so in Sacramento! CSUS is a college without walls! The University has a love affair with it’s Community. With an annual budget of over

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CSUS facilities offer A Beautiful Campus Setting The CSUS campus, located alongside the historic American River on the eastern edge of Sacramento, is as vital now as it was more than 100 years ago when the site served as the western trailhead for the Pony Express. Originally housed on the campus of the then Sacramento Junior College, the University moved to it’s present site of nearly 300 acres in 1955. The tree-studded campus, with over 25 buildings, has an enrollment of more than 23,000 students. Projected enrollment increases have prompted a flurry of planned facility developments in the next few years. These developments include a new engineering building, a five-story classroom building, a major library addition, a new children’s center and a second story addition to the bookstore. Also planned is a major addition to the residence halls, which currently house more than 1,000 single students in facilities which are among the most attractive in California public higher education. An important adjunct to