California State University Channel Islands
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 2002 |
| Endowment | $12.8 million (2016) |
| President | Erika D. Beck |
| Provost | Geoffrey W. Chase |
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Academic staff
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312 (Fall 2012) |
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Administrative staff
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435 (Fall 2012) |
| Students | 6,611 (Fall 2016) |
| Undergraduates | 6,332 (Fall 2016) |
| Postgraduates | 279 (Fall 2016) |
| Location |
Camarillo, California, U.S. 34°09′43″N 119°02′37″W / 34.16205°N 119.043572°WCoordinates: 34°09′43″N 119°02′37″W / 34.16205°N 119.043572°W |
| Campus | Rural, 1,187 acres (480 ha) |
| Colors | Red & Silver |
| Nickname | The Dolphins |
| Affiliations | California State University system |
| Mascot | Ekho the Dolphin |
| Website | www |
California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI, CSU Channel Islands, known informally as CI) is a four-year public comprehensive university located outside Camarillo, California in Ventura County. CI opened in 2002, as the 23rd campus in the California State University system, succeeding the Ventura County branch campus of CSU Northridge. CI is located midway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles in Camarillo, at the intersection of the Oxnard Plain and northern most edge of the Santa Monica Mountain range. The Channel Islands are nearby where the university operates a scientific research station on Santa Rosa Island. CI faculty include one of the U.S.'s top economic forecasters, Sung Won Sohn; artist Jack Reilly; and biologist Sean Anderson.
Channel Islands offers 53 types of Bachelor's degrees, 6 different graduate (Master's) degrees, 19 teaching credentials, and a Ed.D degree. In the Fall of 2016, the university enrolled the largest number of students in its history with 6,611 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Since its establishment, the university has awarded nearly 7,000 degrees. In the Fall of 2013, the university had 349 faculty, of which 93 (or 27 percent) were on the tenure track.
The first buildings of the campus were built in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression, a public works project to house the Camarillo State Mental Hospital and provide welfare for the unemployed. Construction teams utilized several thousand laborers over the course of three years in their endeavor to create everything from the hospital itself to a power plant, local utilities, and animal husbandry/farm facilities that would eventually support a vibrant complex of patients and staff numbering into the thousands during normal weekday operations. The hospital operated from 1936–1997, more than six decades.
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