
Cal State San Bernardino will celebrate Convocation beginning at 9 a.m. in Coussoulis Arena to formally start the beginning of the 2018-19 academic year.

Faculty, staff and administrators at Cal State San Bernardino celebrated their hard work and dedication to the university with the third annual Employee Development Day and Appreciation Picnic held Sept. 13 and 14.

Seven alumni from the Class of 1968 returned to their alma mater at Cal State San Bernardino to celebrate their golden anniversary.

“This convocation is the starting point, a traditional gathering where we renew acquaintances, refresh our passion for education and reinforce the proud legacy of this great university,” CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales said.

To celebrate the grand opening of CSUSB’s new on-campus student housing community and dining complex, the university hosted a ribbon-cutting event on Sept. 17 in the courtyard of Coyote Village.

An article examining the midterm election in November cited work by Meredith Conroy, Cal State San Bernardino associate professor of political science, and two of her colleagues for the website FiveThirtyEight.

The 2017-18 academic year was one of many accomplishments and milestones at Cal State San Bernardino, and, as highlighted in this video, they formed the foundation for the anticipated successes in the 2018-19 academic year.

In its annual College Guide and Rankings, Washington Monthly magazine ranked Cal State San Bernardino in the top 10 for the categories Best Bang for the Buck in the West and for national universities with master’s programs.

Now in its 11th year, the Forbes ranking lists the top 660 colleges and universities in the country, measuring the top 20 percent of all U.S. undergraduate institutions.

The publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, in its annual rankings, has listed Cal State San Bernardino as one of the nation’s leading universities in awarding degrees to minority students, specifically Hispanics.

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has awarded an unprecedented three-year, $960,000 gift to California State University, San Bernardino to increase the college-going rates and success of Native American students.

CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Shari McMahan and CSUSB Palm Desert Campus Associate Dean Michael Salvador were the keynote speakers during the PDC’s Convocation celebration on Sept. 27.