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Guide to the Campus Site Selection Documents, 1960-1968
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Title: Campus Site Selection Documents,
Date (inclusive): 1960-1968
Creator:
California State University Dominguez Hills
Extent: 10 boxes
Repository:
Department of Archives and Special Collections.
University Library.
California State Library, Dominguez Hills.
University Library.
California State Library, Dominguez Hills.
Carson, California 90747
Language:
English.
All materials are open to the public unless specific restrictions are imposed.
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[Identification of item], Campus Site Selection Documents, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections.
University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
California State University Dominguez Hills was established by the legislature of the state of California in 1960 as a branch
of the California State College system to serve southwest Los Angeles. Its first name, South Bay State College, was chosen
to reflect that orientation. Its first president, Leo F. Cain, was appointed in January, 1962, and consulting architect and
the college planning staff were appointed later that year.
The process of selecting a site took over five years. Suggestions for possible sites were solicited and the responses were
such that, at one time or another, over forty possible sites were considered. The major early contenders for the college were
the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the City of Torrance, and the Fox Hills area near Culver City. Disputes over the relative merits
and drawbacks of these and other sites involved local city councils, businessmen, citizens' groups, the State College Trustees,
local State Senators and the college's planning staffs. Reports and counter-reports, resolutions and counter-resolutions,
charges and counter-charges, and reams of correspondence for and against various sites bear witness to the heat of the controversy.
The press had a field day. It was not until the fall of 1965, when the college, now named California State College at Palos
Verdes, had already opened to a limited number of students in rented facilities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula that the Dominguez
Hills site, a relatively new contender, was selected.
Beginning this collection and providing considerable aid in sorting out the tangle of events through 1965 are chronological
histories of the site selection process compiled by the college planning staff. In addition to material documenting controversial
issues and wide citizen involvement in the site selection debate, the collection contains considerable material, mostly in
the form of site reports, illustrating the importance of geographic, demographic, seismological, transportational, economic,
political, social, and even aesthetic considerations employed in efforts to influence the decision of the Trustees. Also included
are documents concerning the acquisition of the Dominguez Hills site, including numerous maps and photographs of the site.
Includes: Published background sources, Trustees minutes, site reports, maps, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings.
- Folder 1
- Chronological histories of site selection
- Folder 2
- Site criteria
- Folder 3-28
- General site proposals, reports and data, maps, correspondence; materials on two or more sites
- Folder 29-59
- Reports, correspondence, etc., on specific sites, arranged alphabetically
- Folder 29-30
- Del Amo
- Folder 31-31d
- Dominguez Hills
- Folder 32
- Fort MacArthur
- Folder 33-40
- Fox Hills
- Folder 41
- Friendship Park
- Folder 42
- Lynwood
- Folder 43
- Nortronics
- Folder 44-49
- Palos Verdes
- Folder 50
- Playa del Rey
- Folder 51
- Rancho San Pedro
- Folder 52
- Rolling Hills
- Folder 53-59
- Torrance