California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus
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California State University, San Bernardino
California State University, San Bernardino, also known as Cal State San Bernardino or CSUSB is a public research university and one of the twenty three general campuses of the California State University system. The main campus sits on in the suburban University District of , United States, with...
, located in Palm Desert
Palm Desert, California
Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, approximately east of Palm Springs. The population was 48,445 at the 2010 census, up from 41,155 at the 2000 census...
, California
California
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, United States
United States
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. The campus is located about 40 miles (64.4 km) east of the cities of San Bernardino
San Bernardino
San Bernardino, California is a large city in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California.San Bernardino may also refer to:-Landforms:*San Bernardino , a torrent that flows through the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola...
and Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
. In 1984, the College of the Desert
College of the Desert
College of the Desert is a public two-year community college located in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California...
, a public two-year community college
Community college
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries.-Australia:Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults...
in Palm Desert, began exploring bringing a CSU campus to the Coachella Valley. Subsequent negotiations led to establishing the temporary Coachella Valley Center of Cal State San Bernardino. The center began offering external degree programs in fall 1986 on land leased by the College of the Desert.
In 1992, the city of Palm Desert offered to donate land for a permanent satellite center that might one day become a CSU campus. In 1994, the CSU Board of Trustees authorized the chancellor to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the city of Palm Desert and its redevelopment agency to accept and acquire land. It designated 200 acres (80.9 ha) for a possible future CSU campus, with 40 acres (16.2 ha) designated as the site for the permanent off-campus center. The remaining 160 acres (64.7 ha) would be held pending determination by the trustees that the center should become an independent campus.
The permanent campus, located on Cook Street, is home to upper division and graduate students throughout the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree is a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 7,414 at the 2010 census, up from 4,207 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Joshua Tree is located in the Mojave Desert at ....
areas. Housing the campus originally at College of the Desert led to a partnership that continues to develop in many ways. The majority of Palm Desert Campus undergraduate students transfer from College of the Desert.
A health sciences building for the four-year nursing program opened on the Palm Desert Campus in October 2008.
The unique public-private partnership at CSUSB's Palm Desert Campus has drawn national attention and was featured in a front-page story in the Sunday, August 5, 2003, edition of the New York Times.