Contributing Institution: California State University Archives

Title: Pre-CSU System Collection

Creator: California. State Board of Education

Creator: California. State Department of Education

Identifier/Call Number: CSU.022

Physical Description: 26 boxes

Physical Description: 28 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1932-1967

Abstract: This collection contains meeting minutes, agendas and other materials from the Department of Education and its governing body, the Board of Education, which governed the California State Colleges (formerly California Teachers Colleges) prior to the creation of the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960.

Language of Material: English .

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Materials in this collection were transferred by the Chancellor's Office, California State University and collected by archives staff.

The California State University System, formally established in 1960 by the Donahoe Higher Education Act. It is the nation's largest university system, with 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers, more than 400,000 students and 42,000 faculty and staff. The CSU is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California (the others are the University of California and the California Community College System). Since 1961 more than 2 million alumni have received a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral (Ph.D. and Ed.D) degrees from the university system. It offers more than 1,800 degree programs in some 240-subject areas. Today's California State University system is the direct descendant of the California State Normal School (now, San Jose State University) established by the California Legislature on May 2, 1862. By 1895 there were four State Normal schools. In 1921, the schools were re-named the State Teacher's Schools. In 1935 the colleges were re-named the California State Colleges and were run by the State Department of Education. With the master plan created along with the Donohue Act, the California State Colleges were placed under control of the CSC Board of Trustees. In 1972 the system was renamed the California State Colleges and Universities. The term "Colleges" was dropped in 1982. Responsibility for the California State University is vested in the Board of Trustees, whose members are appointed by the Governor of the State of California. The Trustees appoint the Chancellor, who is the chief executive officer of the system, and the Presidents, who are the chief executive officers of their respective campuses. The Academic Senate of the California State University, made up of elected representatives of the faculty from each campus, recommends academic policy to the Board of Trustees through the Chancellor. Chancellors of the system include Buell Gallagher (1961-1962); Glenn S. Dumke (1962-1982); W. Ann Reynolds (1982-1990); Ellis E. McCune [Acting] (1990-1991); Barry Munitz (1991-1998); Charles B. Reed (1998-2012); Timothy White (2012-2021); Joseph I. Castro (2021-2022); Jolene Koester [Interim] (2022-2023); Mildred García (2023-present).

[Title of item], California State Board of Education Pre-CSU System Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Processed during 2004-2006 CSU System-wide Archives Processing Project.

The Executive Council Meeting Records Collection contains further copies of the State College Presidents meetings materials following the formation of the CSC/CSUC/CSU System.

This collection contains meeting minutes, agendas and other materials from the Department of Education and its governing body, the Board of Education, which governed the California State Colleges (formerly California Teachers Colleges) prior to the creation of the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960. Included are meeting minutes and reports of the California State Board of Education (1957-1961), annual reports of the State Colleges (1946-1957), Governor's Council Reports (1948-1959), State College Council materials (1952), and State College Business Managers materials(1954-1963); as well as statistical reports (1949-1967), circular letters (1947-1961), State College Presidents Meetings (1932-1961), reports from the Joint Committee on the Public Education System and the Citizens Advisory Council (1958-1960), other miscellaneous reports, correspondence, meeting materials from the Conference of Deans (1953-1961), miscellaneous conference materials (1953-1961), departmental and organizational files (1943-1961), legal opinions (1949-1959), and miscellaneous meeting materials (1951; 1957-1958).