Why are we going to a semester calendar?

The Chancellor of the California State University wants to have all of our 23 CSU campuses on a similar calendar.  This will allow us to better share resources and coordinate activities.  Until recently (when conversion begain, 18 of the 23 CSU campuses used semesters and only 6 used quarters.  This is now changing with the quarter campuses converting to semester terms: CSULA and CSU Bakersfield changed to semesters in Fall 2016, CSU Pomona and CSU East Bay are moving to semesters in Fall 2018 and CSUSB in Fall 2020, respectively. 

Because community colleges also use a semester calendar, semesters will make it easier for students to transfer from community colleges to CSUSB, as well.