The State - News from June 14, 1989

Bill Stacy, the president of Southeast Missouri State University, has been named by the trustees of the California State University system to head its 20th campus--a new university in San Marcos in northern San Diego County. Stacy’s appointment surprised and disappointed many people involved in the four-month-long search process because he was not the first choice of either community leaders, faculty, staff or students. But CSU Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds said Stacy, 50, was the first choice of the trustees. Stacy, who will be paid between $100,000 and $110,000 in his new post, was asked to report for duty by the end of July. The new university will accept its first few hundred students in the fall of 1990 in buildings now leased by San Diego State University, which now offers upper-division courses in San Marcos. The San Marcos campus will be constructed on a 300-acre site, once a chicken ranch, with the first academic buildings opening for upper-division students in the fall of 1992.