Schools Renamed at Cal State Fullerton

FULLERTON — Cal State Fullerton will rename its seven schools “colleges” today to signal growth of the campus over the last 40 years into a mature university.

“It’s really a recognition of where we’ve come from and where we are now,” said Ephraim Smith, vice president of academic affairs.

With a student population of more than 27,000, the university now has the state’s largest business school, officials said.

“As the schools have grown in numbers, they’ve also grown in complexity,” Smith said. “Renaming them colleges will make it easier to subdivide each subject into specific disciplines when necessary and make administrative changes.”

The name change will apply to the schools of arts, business administration and economics, communications, engineering and computer science, humanities and social sciences, and human development and community service.