California State University, Long Beach

California Accompaniment University, Continued Beach (CSULB; aswell accustomed as Continued Beach State, Cal Accompaniment Continued Beach, LBSU, or The Beach) is the third largestcampus of the 23 academy California Accompaniment University arrangement (CSU) and one of the better universities in the accompaniment of California by enrollment, its apprentice physique calculation 36,822 for the Abatement 2014 semester. As of Abatement 2014, the academy had 2,283 absolute faculty, with 36.7 percent of those adroitness on the administration track. With 5,286 alum students, the university enrolls one of the better alum apprentice populations beyond the CSU and in the accompaniment of California alone. The university is amid in the Los Altos adjacency of Continued Beach at the southeastern littoral tip of Los Angeles County, beneath than one mile from the bound with Orange County.The university offers 137 altered Bachelor's degrees, 92 types of Master's degrees, 5 Doctoral degrees including two Doctor of Education, a Ph.D in Engineering, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Nursing Practice, as able-bodied as 29 altered teaching credentials.

Long Beach Accompaniment is one of the West Coast's top universities in apprentice physique ancestral diversity, getting called the 5th a lot of assorted university in the West by U.S. News & World Report. It is aswell home to the better about adjourned art academy west of the Mississippi. The university currently operates with one of the everyman apprentice fees in the country at US$6,738 per year for full-time accepting accepting California residence. As a result, CSULB has been accustomed afresh as one of "America's Best Value Colleges" by the Princeton Review.

History
The Academy was accustomed in 1949 by California Governor Earl Warren, to serve the rapidly accretion post-World War II citizenry of Orange and Southern Los Angeles counties. Since then, CSULB has developed to become one of the state's better universities.

The academy was aboriginal called as Los Angeles-Orange County Accompaniment College. Peter Victor Peterson was its aboriginal president. It offered 25 courses, accomplished by 13 adroitness members, in two accommodation barrio at 5381 Anaheim Road in Continued Beach. In June 1950, the citizens of Continued Beach voted overwhelmingly to acquirement 322 acreage (130 ha) as a abiding campus for the college, afresh accustomed as Continued Beach Accompaniment College. The acquirement amount was about $1,000,000. Apprentice accepting grew rapidly in this new, abiding location.

Carl W. McIntosh was called the college's additional admiral in 1959. While McIntosh was president, the academy grew tremendously. Accepting surged from about 10,000 to added than 30,000, and he rapidly broadcast and revamped the curriculum. McIntosh tripled the amount of adroitness and complete 30 new buildings.Although the 1960s were a aeon of abysmal agitation on American academy campuses, McIntosh's accommodating administering style, affable and absolutely demeanor, and alertness to admittance beef on campus (so continued as it remained quiet and peaceful) helped accumulate Continued Beach Accompaniment Academy almost quiet throughout the period. In 1964, LBSC afflicted its name to California Accompaniment Academy at Continued Beach. In 1967, the California accompaniment assembly revamped the accompaniment academy system. It afflicted its name in 1968 to California Accompaniment College, Continued Beach, as allotment of these changes and began to be abundant added carefully chip into the California Accompaniment Academy system.

In 1965, CSCLB hosted the aboriginal International Carve Appointment to be captivated in the United States and the aboriginal such appointment to be captivated at a academy or university. Six sculptors from away and two from the United States created abounding of the awe-inspiring sculptures present on the campus. The accident accustomed civic media absorption from newspapers about the country, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Art in America and a six-page blush advance in Fortune Magazine.

McIntosh age-old for Montana Accompaniment University in 1969, and was succeeded by Admiral Steve Horn. The academy acquired university cachet in 1972, forth with 12 added accompaniment academy campuses. The advance was absitively by the Board of Trustees of the California Accompaniment University (CSU) system, according to absolute enrollment, admeasurement of alum programs, complication and assortment of majors and amount of doctorates captivated by adroitness at anniversary college. CSCLB appropriately became (CSULB) California Accompaniment University, Continued Beach.

Also in 1972, the campus became the home of the better library ability in the afresh 19-campus CSU system: a avant-garde six-story architectonics with a basement accommodation of about 4,000 students.

In 1995, Admiral Robert Maxson accomplished the abreast adjourned President's Advisers Program, accouterment called able California top academy valedictorians and Civic Merit finalists and semi-finalists with a abounding four-year scholarship package, including tuition, a book stipend, and housing. As of May 2010, over 1000 accepting accept accustomed the scholarship. For applicants for Abatement 2010, Civic Achievement Affairs Semifinalists/Finalists and Civic Hispanic Recognition advisers were aswell considered.

Campus
The campus spans 323 acreage (131 ha) beyond 84 buildings, and is amid 3 afar (5 km) from the Pacific Ocean. It has its own U.S. Postal Zip code: 90840. CSULB is amid at 1250 Bellflower Boulevard. It is belted by East 7th Street to the south, East Atherton Street to the north, Bellflower Boulevard to the west, and Palo Verde Avenue to the east.

Architecture
The architectonics of the campus is mostly of the International appearance (designed primarily by acclaimed artist Edward Killingsworth) and is actual minimalist, agreement accent instead on the agronomics that surrounds it. This naturalistic, park-like blueprint has becoming the campus abundant architectonics awards, as able-bodied as added awards from agronomical societies. Contempo architectonics maintains the adapted glass-and-brick style. The affiliation of agronomics and architectonics is credible at the school's amphitheater complex, area a close bracken of ficus copse is buried in such a way that it forms a assiduity of the pillar-supported awning at the theater's entrance. The university's allotment offices are amid in the accessible courtyard of Brotman Hall, which is "roofed" by a agnate jungle-like canopy. The Psychology architectonics is aswell notable for its soaring, aerial courtyard buried with alpine Eucalyptus trees.

Campus landmarks
The Walter Pyramid, the university's a lot of arresting antic circuitous and a lot of apparent landmark.
The University Apprentice Union (USU) architectonics is amid at the centermost of campus. The three-story bottle architectonics occupies almost 180,000 aboveboard anxiety (17,000 m2), apartment abundant offices, and alms added accidental attractions, including a abstraction lounge, a ballroom, a aliment court, a bowling alley, an arcade, and a cine theater.

The Rec and Wellness Centermost is an all-encompassing advantageous able-bodied centermost accoutrement about 125,000 aboveboard anxiety (11,600 m2) on Arctic Campus. It was completed in 2010. It includes accessories for exercise programs and aerobics classes, courts for volleyball, basketball, badminton, bedrock aggressive walls, an calm track, a apprentice lounge, and abundant more. The Centermost is adjourned and managed by CSULB's Associated Students, Incorporated.

49er basketball and volleyball abecedarian are currently played in the iconic, eighteen-story Walter Pyramid (formerly accustomed as the Continued Beach Pyramid) amid on arctic campus. The Pyramid is a advanced antic circuitous that can board over 5,000 fans, including acting basement and continuing room. Two sections of autogenous stands are adapted with ample hydraulic lifts which can lift the basement elements blaster degrees into the air, creating allowance for 5 volleyball courts or three basketball courts. The Pyramid is home to the Southern California Summer Pro League, a acclaimed advertise for accustomed and -to-be NBA basketball players.

The University Art Architecture (UAM) ranks in the top 10% of the nation's over 6,000 museums. Its abiding accumulating contains primarily abstruse expressionist paintings, works on paper, and an alfresco carve garden that began in 1966. The UAM was the aboriginal accustomed architecture in the CSU system. In addition, the museum's Gordon F. Hampton accumulating is housed at the Downtown Los Angeles law offices of Sheppard Mullin.

The campus is aswell home to the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, a 1,074-seat amphitheater called afterwards CSULB alumni Richard and Karen Carpenter.

The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden is an aesthetic retreat of confinement and beauty. A part of its abounding arresting attractions, the Garden appearance a ample pond busy with koi.

Puvunga
The campus is believed to be the area of an age-old Tongva apple and burying website accustomed as Puvunga, and is listed on the Civic Register of Historic Places. CSULB has challenged this designation, claiming they were not consulted if the appliance was filed.[citation needed] From 1992 to 1995, if the university attempted to physique a band capital and apprentice apartment on the endure abortive allocation of the campus, the Tongva humans filed a accusation and accomplished a protest, which complex physically appliance the acreage day and night to avoid off bulldozers.

Campus sustainability
The university, in its advance to abutment altitude sustainability, installed solar panels on the Brotman Hall architectonics and the Accessories Administration awning parking in 2007. The university has been demography accomplish in acclamation the claiming of sustainability, with the abutment of its apprentice government, apprentice body, and organizations, such as the Ecology Science & Policy Club.

The Ecology Science & Policy Club (ES&P Club)has brought abutment to ecology acquaintance and sustainability through club activities, such as littoral clean-ups, hikes, plant-restoration project, tabling, conferences, bedfellow speakers, & Kaleidoscope. In 2006, the ES&P Club accurate the accession of barren urinals in the university's men's restrooms.The ES&P Club hosts an anniversary Earth Week anniversary anniversary April, including documentary screenings, discussions, and apostle series.

In addition, there has been a advance in contempo years to animate the amoebic area on campus, culminating in 2015 with the barrage of the Grow Beach University Gardens, a student-led ASI sub-group that promotes amoebic agronomical and acceptable agronomics on campus. The new garden boxes are allotment of a campus-wide accomplishment to accommodate a natural, organic, and acceptable garden adapted on campus for apprentice and adroitness use.

The university "has a absolute activity administration affairs accumulation real-time metering and energy-saving technologies such as the EnergySaver, which provides a added adult another to axis off the lights by automatically capricious the voltage to the ballasted accessories and abbreviation the ability consumed, while advancement adapted lighting levels.

Academic administration reputations
With about 4,000 students, CSULB is home to the better Physics Administration at any university in the Accompaniment of California, inching accomplished UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Cal Poly SLO. Additionally, the alum physics affairs is the better non-Ph.D. acceding affairs in the United States and is one of four Minority Bridges to the Ph.D. sites accustomed by the American Physical Society. CSU Continued Beach's Academy of the Arts has added art and architectonics majors than any added accessible university in America. CSU Continued Beach aswell produces the a lot of adept of science in nursing (MSN) graduates in the 23-campus CSU system.

U.S. News and World Report has afresh ranked CSULB engineering affairs as one of the Top 50 undergraduate programs in the nation (amongst master's akin universities), and even commended the university's programs for first-year accepting as "stellar examples of bookish programs that advance to apprentice success." In 2008, CSULB's engineering affairs accustomed its accomplished anytime baronial at amount 38. Continued Beach's programs in Accounting, Business Administration, Geography, History, Nursing, and Art are aswell able-bodied admired in the industry.[citation needed]
In addition, according to the Civic Science Foundation, CSULB is the top campus in the nation amidst Master's level-granting universities for bearing accepting who go on to acquire doctoral degrees in the Sciences.

In 2011 a new $105,000,000 "Hall of Science" ability opened which has offices and labs for associates of the biology, biochemistry and chemistry, geology, physics and science apprenticeship departments. This architectonics aswell houses a hands-on architecture for children, a ample alkali baptize abyssal analysis lab and has a greenhouse ability and anchor on the roof.

In March 2008, the music administration was renamed the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music in account of an award allowance of $16.4 actor from his estate. Cole, a Continued Beach absolute acreage investor, adept music lover, and abecedarian pianist, died in 2004. The allowance allowances the accepting of the conservatory in the anatomy of scholarships and added awards.

Admissions
Since 2009, CSU Continued Beach has become the a lot of activated to campus in the California Accompaniment University system, accepting over 45,000 applicants with a almanac low accept amount of 31.8% that year, binding out San Diego Accompaniment in amount of applicants and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) in allotment accepted. The Abatement 2010 division saw a assiduity of this trend with CSULB accepting 79,715 applications (including 47,709 apprentice applications) for admission, by far the accomplished absolute in academy history. The absolute was afresh the accomplished in the CSU system, as able-bodied as one of the accomplished a part of all universities in the nation. In accession to getting one of the three impacted CSU schools for both freshmen and transfers, the abridgement of accompaniment allotment due to California's continuing account crisis meant that CSULB could alone action accepting to 25,142 (31.5%) of the applicants; that afresh apparent the everyman allotment in academy history. In about-face 8,920 (35.5%) of those offered accepting did in actuality enroll, acceptation the absolute appliance crop amount for the Abatement 2010 division was 11.6%.

CSULB had the everyman accept amount in the CSU arrangement in abatement 2009, and the third everyman in abatement 2010 (behind San Diego State's 30% and Cal Poly's 32.5%). CSULB's boilerplate SAT account was the 12th accomplished in the CSU for the Abatement of 2012.

With a Abatement 2011 accepting amount of about 30.4%, CSU Continued Beach already afresh had the everyman accept amount in the CSU arrangement for the year. The boilerplate top academy GPA of admission freshmen for Abatement 2012 was 3.46 and the boilerplate SAT account was 1017/1600 (writing area is not considered). A basic calculation showed that the amount of apprentice applications to CSU Continued Beach for Abatement 2013 added by 3% to almost 56,000 applicants, afresh one of the accomplished numbers in the nation.