Soka University to Hold Meetings on Expansion
Administrators at Soka University in Calabasas have invited neighbors to meetings tonight and Thursday night to discuss plans for expanding the campus.
The Tokyo-based university formally announced in April that it wants to expand from an 80-student English language center for Japanese exchange students into a 5,000-student, international liberal arts college.
In August, the university cemented that intention by announcing it had acquired 332 additional acres, more than doubling its holdings in the Santa Monica Mountains to almost 600 acres.
Beyond saying they hope to reach full capacity by 2015, the administrators have been vague about what they call their vision for the campus. However, invitations to this week’s meetings indicate they now have more specific plans to be shared with the community.
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