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PRESIDENT’S OBSERVATIONSThis fall our San Bernardinocampus is eagerly watching therenovation and expansion of theSantos Manuel Student Union.It’s one of many newly built orrenovated buildings that willenhance the student experienceat CSUSB.We’ve brought in temporarybuildings to house AssociatedStudents, Inc. (ASI), the studentunion administration, theWomen’s Resource Center,the Cross Cultural Center andother functions. The expansionwill double the space forthose student service functions,add a new theater on one side,and enclose the outdoor spaceAlbert Karnigbetween the Events Centerentrance and the main buildingwith an airy, two-story indoor atrium. Construction is due tobe completed in the summer of 2005.Students in 2001 voted to increase their activity fees inorder to finance the student union expansion – further supportedwith a gift from the San Manuel Band – and a studentfitness center. The fitness center is finally underway, after twoyears of having a temporary building housing some of its functions.This spectacular, glass-walled building will sit on the eastside of campus, on former tennis courts, and will feature stateof-the-artexercise equipment for the benefit of the campuscommunity.These are just two of several extensive projects now underwayor in the planning stages. In all, current and future constructionwill total more than $200 million.RISING NEEDS, RAISING ROOFS“...When the dust settles, we’ll have some fine new structures in which tocontinue to improve the vital educational, research and service programsthat have marked Cal State San Bernardino’s excellence.”Our new science facility will be known as the ChemicalSciences Building and is due to be completed by next January.Connected to the Biological Sciences Building, the constructionwill bring new classroom, lab and faculty office space,including three large classrooms. Next to the main building,and joined to it, will be a new science museum. This wonderfulasset to our educational environment brings the numberof museums on campus to three – together with our recentlyopened Anthropology Museum (in the College of Social andBehavioral Sciences) and the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum,dating from 1996. All three museums will be visible to oneanother, across a short expanse of lawn.After the Chemical Sciences Building is completed, we willclose parts of the 1960s-era Biological and Physical Sciencesbuildings for a much-needed update and modernization. Manyof their classes, labs and offices will move temporarily into thenew building.This fall saw the opening of the beautiful and functionalUniversity Village across Northpark Boulevard. A cooperativeventure between CSUSB and American Campus-Titan,University Village brings 480 new beds in a well-appointedapartment complex, with its own clubhouse, pool, spa and coveredparking. The university administers the complex, just as wedo with Serrano Village. University Village is now totally rented.Total beds available to live-in students now number more than1,500 – an increase from 400 just four years ago.Further east on the I-10, the Palm Desert Campus continuesto grow. The Indian Wells Center for Educational Excellence isnearing completion this winter. It includes a classroom building,which will house many of the teacher-training and credentialprograms taught there, and the 300-seat Indian Wells Theater.The theater will accommodate many large lecture classes as wellas community events. With the completion of the Indian WellsCenter, nearly all Palm Desert Campus classes will take placeat our Cook Street campus, which includes the Mary StuartRogers Gateway Building. Now the campaign continues toraise $10 million in community support to begin PDC’s HealthSciences Center, which will complete Phase I of the Palm DesertCampus.And the seemingly endless building program will not stopwith these structures. California voter approval of Proposition55 this past March gave the green light to planning for CSUSB’slong-awaited College of Education Building. Bringing togetherin one building all of the San Bernardino campus’s teacher training,credential and liberal studies faculty and classes, this edificehas been a dream that is long overdue – and sorely needed bythousands of our students and faculty. This nearly $50 millionbuilding will sit behind thelibrary, toward the mountains.With its constructionwill come the completionof a roadway around theperimeter of our campus,linking with CampusDrive, a new road the cityof San Bernardino will build out to Kendall Avenue on the campus’snorthwest side. We hope construction of the EducationBuilding will begin in 2006.All of these projects are necessary to better serve a studentpopulation that, while it dipped to 16,200 this fall, is still projectedto grow to more than 20,000 by decade’s end and 25,000in the future, making us larger than the great majority of thenation’s universities.We’re happy that when the dust settles, we’ll have some finenew structures in which to continue to improve the vital educational,research and service programs that have marked Cal StateSan Bernardino’s excellence.2CSUSBFall/Winter 2004
UpDateON CAL STATETelling the StoryOne year after its November 2003launch, ICTN News is the newsCal State San Bernardino’sleadership in forming aregional cable television networkfor the inland SouthernCalifornia area might well bethe first university-led cablenews operation in the country,according to the Radio andTelevision News DirectorsAssociation.The Inland CaliforniaTelevision Network (ICTN)debuted in November 2003with live, local television newstargeted at Inland Empireviewers, who’ve long feltunderserved by Los Angelestelevision news. Besides thelive newscast at 10 p.m.Monday-Friday on cableChannel 3, ICTN repeats thenews immediately at 10:30p.m., and rebroadcasts it at11 p.m. on the local PBS affiliateKVCR-TV, which reachesnearly 4 million satellite andcable viewers.About two months afterICTN News launched, theuniversity sampled vieweropinions as part of the eighthannual Quality of Life study inSan Bernardino County. Theresponse was a resoundingaffirmation. Viewers said theprogramming provided usefulinformation and covered goodtopics.“More than 70 percent ofthe respondents said ICTNNews is good to excellent,”said Cindi Pringle, executivedirector for ICTN. “We wereamazed and very pleased bythe ‘early returns’ on our newsproduct.”ICTN is a publicly-supported,community-basedtelevision network formed byCal State San Bernardino inpartnership with local municipalgovernments to deliverlocally targeted informationto the fast-growing InlandEmpire area. In addition tothe news, which is preparedin collaboration with two dailynewspapers in the county,The Sun and Inland ValleyDaily Bulletin, ICTN producesand transmits cultural andeducational programmingto the government accesschannels (all cable Channel3) in 15 cities: Big Bear Lake,Chino, Colton, Fontana, GrandTerrace, Highland, Loma Linda,Montclair, Ontario, RanchoCucamonga, Redlands, Rialto,San Bernardino, Upland andYucaipa.Corporate sponsorships,program underwriting, grantsand contracts are the basisof ICTN’s funding, whichwas seeded initially by federalmonies. With $1.3 million,ICTN installed digital televisionequipment at studios sharedwith KCSB-TV3 of the city ofSan Bernardino.“Cal State San Bernardinohas created a regional televisionasset for the InlandEmpire. Now it’s time for theregion to step up and supportthe area’s only local televisionnews operation through sponsorshipsand underwriting,”Pringle said. Businesses receiverecognition three times eachevening the news airs. Otheron-air announcements can beseen before and after culturaland educational programming,based upon the sponsor’swishes. Information on newssponsorship and programunderwriting is available fromPringle at (909) 384-7280.“... live, local television news targetedat Inland Empire viewers, who’velong felt underserved by Los Angelestelevision news.”NEWS CAST AND CREW — Plans for the new television station came into final focus Nov. 10, 2003, the night this picture was taken of the Inland California Television News family, representativesfrom CSUSB and KCSB-TV 3 and family and friends following the inaugural broadcast of ICTN News. (Photos by Robert Whitehead)Fall/Winter 20043CSUSB
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