Local News in Brief : Trustees Urge Ventura Campus Be Expanded
An ad hoc committee of the California State University Board of Trustees recommended Tuesday that a small satellite campus in Ventura be expanded as a first step in making it the next state university.
Members of the ad hoc committee on off-campus facilities will submit a report to the board in May, urging the expansion. Ventura County does not have a four-year college.
The 19-campus CSU system now operates a 700-student campus center in an office building in Ventura. Students take upper division and extension classes through California State University, Northridge and UC Santa Barbara.
Chairman George Marcus said the committee “voted to proceed in evaluating sites up to 100 acres, to determine what a permanent off-campus center would be for the Ventura area and evaluate other solutions for off-campus needs.”
The sites to be selected would be purposefully oversized to allow for expansion and eventual conversion to a full-fledged state university, officials said.
If the trustees, the state Legislature and the governor approve the idea, a new campus center would be built in Ventura and would eventually be expanded into a four-year university.
Other sites the trustees are considering for expansion are in northern San Diego County and Contra Costa County in Northern California.
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