Editing California State University (section)

=== California State University and Colleges ===
[[File:California State University system headquarters.jpg|thumb|right|The first purpose-built headquarters of the California State University, built in 1976 in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]].]]
In 1966, [[James R. Mills]], a state assemblyman from San Diego, suggested studying the possibility of changing the name of the system to California State University.  Much of the leadership on this matter emerged from the San Diego area in the following years, but several bills introduced by San Diego legislators failed to pass in the face of staunch opposition from the University of California.<ref name="Gerth_Page_544">{{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=544|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKH8c1LMlZ4C&q=mills}}</ref>  The final compromise was that the system would become the California State University and Colleges.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kumar |first=Amal |date=2023 |title=The origins and evolution of academic drift at the California State University, 1960–2005 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10734-022-00832-w |journal=Higher Education |language=en |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=265–281 |doi=10.1007/s10734-022-00832-w |s2cid=247528329 |issn=0018-1560}}</ref>  Alex Sherriffs, then serving as an education advisor to Governor Reagan, later explained that he was among those who fought the name change because "most of the campuses are not, by any definition I've ever seen, a university. A university ... includes several colleges and is heavily engaged in scholarship and research. It gives the doctoral degrees".<ref>{{cite archive|first=Alex|last=Sherriffs|item=The Governor's office and public information, education, and planning, 1967–1974, an oral history conducted in 1982 by Sarah Lee Sharp|item-url=|type=|item-id=|date=|page=|pages=|fonds=|series=The Governor's Office and Public Information, And Planning, 1967–1974.|file=|box=|collection=Regional Oral History|collection-url=https://archive.org/details/govofficepub00chalrich/page/n163/mode/2up|repository=|institution=University of California, Berkeley|location=|oclc=|accession=}}</ref> Governor Ronald Reagan signed Assembly Bill 123 into law on November 29, 1971 and the board was renamed the "Trustees of the California State University and Colleges".<ref name="Gerth_Page_545">{{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=545}}</ref>

In accordance with the new systemwide name, on May 23, 1972, the board of trustees voted to rename fourteen of the nineteen CSU campuses to "California State University," followed by a comma and then their geographic designation.<ref name="Gerth_Page_548">{{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=548|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKH8c1LMlZ4C&q=%22may%2023,%201972%22}}</ref>  The five campuses exempted from renaming were the five newest state colleges created during the 1960s.<ref name="Gerth_Page_548" />

The new names were strongly disliked at certain campuses.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Celly |first1=Kirti Sawhney |last2=Knepper |first2=Brenda |date=2010 |title=The California State University: a case on branding the largest public university system in the US: Branding the California State University |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nvsm.375 |journal=International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=137–156 |doi=10.1002/nvsm.375}}</ref>  For example, CSUSF drew the humorous response "[[Response to sneezing|Gesundheit]]," and was frequently confused with [[City College of San Francisco|CCSF]], [[University of San Francisco|USF]], and [[University of California, San Francisco|UCSF]].<ref name="Greenwood">{{cite news |last1=Greenwood |first1=Noel |title=What's in a Name? Plenty, Schools Say |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 21, 1973 |pages=3, 24, 25}} Available via [[ProQuest]] Historical Newsstand.</ref>  Over Dumke's objections, state assemblyman [[Al Alquist|Alfred E. Alquist]] proposed a bill that would rename the San Jose campus back to San Jose State.<ref name="Gerth_Page_548" />  As passed and signed into law, the bill also renamed San Diego and San Francisco back to their old names.<ref name="Gerth_Page_548" /> A few years later, the Sonoma and Humboldt campuses secured passage of similar legislation.<ref name="Gerth_Page_548" />

In September 1976, the chancellor's office was moved from Los Angeles to a custom-built headquarters at 400 Golden Shore on the Long Beach waterfront.<ref name="Gerth_Page_399">{{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=399|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKH8c1LMlZ4C&q=1976+long+beach}}</ref> This was the first time CSU had owned its own headquarters building.<ref name="Gerth_Page_399" />