Editing California State University (section)

=== State Colleges ===
[[File:W.K. Kellogg old stables at Cal Poly Pomona.png|thumb|Founded in 1938, the southern campus of the California State Polytechnic School became the independent [[California State Polytechnic University, Pomona]] in 1966.]]
In 1932, the [[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]] was asked by the state legislature and governor to perform a study of California higher education.<ref name="Gerth7" /> The so-called "Suzzallo Report" (after the Foundation's president, [[Henry Suzzallo]]) sharply criticized the State Teachers Colleges for their intrusion upon UC's liberal arts prerogative<ref name="SuzzalloReport_Page_44">{{cite book |last1=The Commission of Seven |title=State Higher Education in California: Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |date=1932 |publisher=California State Printing Office |location=Sacramento |pages=44–48 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9r29p2g2;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00021&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00019&brand=oac4 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> and recommended their transfer to the [[Regents of the University of California]] (who would be expected to put them back in their proper place).<ref name="Gerth7" /><ref name="SuzzalloReport_Page_22">{{cite book |last1=The Commission of Seven |title=State Higher Education in California: Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |date=1932 |publisher=California State Printing Office |location=Sacramento |pages=22–25 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9r29p2g2;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00016&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00015&brand=oac4 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> This recommendation spectacularly backfired when the faculties and administrations of the State Teachers Colleges rallied to protect their independence from the Regents.<ref name="Gerth7" /> In 1935, the State Teachers Colleges were formally upgraded by the state legislature to State Colleges and were expressly authorized to offer a full four-year liberal arts curriculum, culminating in bachelor's degrees, but they remained under the Department of Education.<ref name="Gerth7" />
[[File:Golden bear (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[California State University Maritime Academy]] was founded in 1929 as the California Nautical School.]]
During [[World War II]], a group of local [[Santa Barbara County, California|Santa Barbara]] leaders and business promoters (with the acquiescence of college administrators) were able to convince the state legislature and governor to transfer [[University of California, Santa Barbara|Santa Barbara State College]] to the University of California in 1944.<ref name="Gerth8">{{cite book|last1=Gerth|first1=Donald R.|title=The People's University: A History of the California State University|date=2010|publisher=Berkeley Public Policy Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-87772-435-3|page=39}}</ref> After losing a ''second'' campus to UC, the state colleges' supporters arranged for the [[Constitution of California|California state constitution]] to be amended in 1946 to prevent it from happening again.<ref name="Gerth8" />
The period after World War II brought a great expansion in the number of state colleges.  Additional state colleges were established in Los Angeles, [[California State University, Sacramento|Sacramento]], and [[Long Beach]] from 1947 to 1949, and then seven more state colleges were authorized to be established between 1957 and 1960. Six more state colleges were founded after the enactment of the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960, bringing the total number to 23.