| 1849 |
1849
State Constitution passed (accepted by Congress
in 1850) with provisions regarding education,
the statewide elected position of State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and the establishment of
a state university. |
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Founding
of what would become Santa Clara University |
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Founding of what
would become the University of the Pacific |
| 1852 |
Establishment
of the State Board of Education |
| 1855 |
Founding of the
College of California in Oakland |
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Founding
of the University of San Francisco |
| 1857 |
First public normal
school in California founded in San Francisco |
| 1866 |
1st
Organic Act passed to establish a public higher
education institution in the mold of a polytechnic |
| 1868 |
2nd Organic Act
(or enabling legislation) authored by Assemblyman
John Dwinelle establishes the University of California |
| 1869 |
UC
campus opened on September 20th with 38 students |
| 1871 |
California State
Normal School moved from San Francisco |
| 1875 |
California
Teachers Association established |
| 1879 |
Article
IX of new California Constitution elevates
UC to a Public Trust |
| 1880 |
Founding of the University of Southern California |
| 1881 |
Founding of Los
Angeles State Normal School |
| 1882 |
Chinese Exclusion Law passed, suspends immigration
for ten years |
| 1884 |
State Board of
Education elevated from a statutory to a constitutional
provision |
| 1885 |
State
Supreme Court ruling forbids exclusion of Chinese
from public schools; San Francisco builds segregated
"Oriental School" |
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Stanford University
chartered by State Legislature |
| 1887 |
Founding
of Chico State Normal School |
| 1890 |
2nd Federal Morrill
Act provides annual allocations to states for
higher education |
| 1891 |
Stanford
University opens with an enrollment of 559 students
and David Starr Jordan as president |
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Throop Institute
established (later becomes Cal Tech) |
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University
Extension program established at UC Berkeley |
| 1897 |
Founding of San
Diego State Normal School |
| 1899 |
Founding
of San Francisco State Normal School |
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CTA annual meeting
provides Progressive Education platform and results
in the establishment of the Education Commission
of 1900 under a proposal by UC professor Elmer
Brown which conducts the first major study of
California's evolving education system. |
| 1900 |
UC
opens first Summer School |
| 1901 |
Founding of California
Polytechnic School (secondary school until 1927). |
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Marine
Station at La Jolla opened by UC faculty |
| 1902 |
Legislation allows
for state subsidization of public high schools |
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Normal
schools begin transition to postsecondary institutions;
most offer two-year program for high school graduates,
four-year program for graduates of grammar schools. |
| 1905 |
University Farm
School at Davis established by legislature as
a branch of UC Berkeley |
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UC
Academic Senate establishes articulation agreements
with State Normal Schools and private colleges
for transferring of students to the junior year
at UC Berkeley |
| 1906 |
SF builds "Oriental
School" (replacing burned down "Chinese
School") |
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UC
Professor Elmer Brown named 1st United States
Commissioner of Education by President Roosevelt |
| 1907 |
Caminetti Bill
provides for nation's first network of public
"Junior Colleges" provision |
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Citrus
Experiment Station established at Riverside |
| 1909 |
Founding of Santa
Barbara State Normal School |
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University
of California Farm School opens at Davis |
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First junior high
school established in Berkeley |
| 1910 |
First California public junior college established
in Fresno |
| 1911 |
Founding of Fresno
State Normal School |
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The
Division of UC Extension established at Berkeley |
| 1912 |
AB 836 sets 4-year
terms for State Board of Education, appointment
of lay members by the Governor, and the creation
of three Commissioners to report directly to the
board (creating a "Double-Headed" system)
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Alien
Land Law passed by California Legislature, prohibiting
"aliens ineligible to citizenship" from
buying land or leasing it for longer than three
years |
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Founding of Humboldt
State Normal School |
| 1915 |
Proposition 11, first voter approved UC Building
Bond Act providing $1.8
AAUP's "General Declaration of Principles"
regarding academic freedom |
| 1917 |
State Legislature
passes law providing funding for the establishment
of Junior Colleges |
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1918
SCA strengthens the independence of the UC
Regents, eliminating requirement that appointments
be confirmed by the State Senate, and dropping
reference to authority granted under the 1868
Organic Act. |
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Jessica Peixotto
becomes the first women faculty member to attain
status as a full professor at UC Berkeley. |
| 1919 |
Los
Angeles's Normal School transformed into UC's
"Southern Campus" |
| 1920 |
Legislative Review
results in "Jones Report" (chaired by
State Senator Herbert C. Jones) |
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Proposition
12, providing a State University Tax on property
(and circumventing the Legislature), rejected
by voters. |
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Proposition 16
passed, adding kindergartens to public school
budgets and creating a state high school fund,
sets minimum per pupil expenditures |
| 1921 |
Establishment
of the State Department of Education (proposed
by Jones Report), Normal Schools renamed State
Teachers Colleges (proposed by Jones Report),
andTeachers Colleges and affiliated Junior Colleges
(San Jose . . . ) placed under the State Board
of Education (proposed by the 1900 Education Commission
and Jones Report) provision |
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UC enrolls over
14,000 students; largest higher education institution
in the nation |
| 1923 |
State
Teachers Colleges offer B.A. in education. |
| 1927 |
Bill abolishes
the positions of the three higher education Commissioners
(see 1917) |
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UC
Regents change name of the "Southern Branch"
to the University of California - Los Angeles. |
| 1928 |
SCA 26 (sponsored
by Jones and new Superintendent William Cooper
and defeated by the voters) would have given Legislature
the power to appoint a "Director of Education"
to supersede the elected position of Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
| 1929 |
California
Commission for the Study of Educational Problems
established by a bill sponsored by Senator Jones
composed of 9 lay members |
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Senator J. M. Inman
bill proposing the conversion of Sacramento Junior
College into a four-year program with its own
board (thus independent of the State Board of
Education and the UC Regents). Bill defeated. |
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UCLA
moved to Westwood campus from downtown Los Angeles |
| 1930 |
Report of the Commission
recommends election of State Board and appointment
of the State Superintendent |
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State
Board authorizes extension of teacher credential
programs to 4-years for specialized fields at
Fresno, San Diego and San Jose |
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Founding of the
California Junior College Federation (1930-1947) |
| 1931 |
At
the urging of Sproul, the State Legislature contracts
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching to study California higher education,
resulting in the 1932 Suzzallo Report |
| 1932 |
Suzzallo
Report |
| 1933 |
State
Council for Educational Planning and Coordination
established (proposed by Suzzallo Report) |
| 1934 |
Proposition 11
rejected, would have abolished the State Superintendent
position, created a Director of Education, and
made the State Board of Education elected (Reflected
Suzzallo Report recommendation) |
| 1935 |
Inman Bill renames State Teachers Colleges to
"State Colleges" and gives them authority
in statute to grant the B.A. in select liberal
arts fields and only in areas that are applicable
to teaching at the secondary level. |
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Santa Barbara County
Chamber of Commerce proposed the transfer of SB
State College to UC -- rejected by Regents |
| 1939 |
Bill
introduced by Senator Clarence Ward and Assemblyman
Alfred Robertson proposes to transfer Santa Barbara
and Fresno State Colleges to UC -- Regents oppose
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| 1941 |
Another Bill introduced
to transfer Santa Barbara to UC- - Regents oppose |
| 1944 |
Regent accept Santa Barbara at the urging of Sproul
and under a plan to absorb one-by-one each of
the State Colleges. |
| 1945 |
Creation of the
Liaison Committee (at the suggestion of State
Board member Joseph Loeb and supported by Sproul).
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College
of Engineering and a School of Medicine established
at UCLA |
| 1946 |
Proposition 3 passed,
banning the transfer of any State College to UC
or any other institution outside of the "Public
School System" |
| 1948 |
Strayer
Report (authored by George Strayer and Aubrey
Douglass) |
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Founding of the
California Junior College Association (supersedes
CJCF) |
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Bill
passed allowing State Colleges to offer M.A .
in select fields |
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"Tenney Committee"
of the California Legislature Investigates infiltration
of communists in public education |
| 1950 |
UC
Regents dismiss thirty-two faculty for not signing
the university's Loyalty Oath |
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California Legislature
passes Levering Act requiring loyalty oath of
all state employees |
| 1952 |
Proposition 2 passed, provides increase in state
funding of local schools to $180 per pupil. |
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Proposition 3 passed,
extends property tax exemption to nonprofit private
schools; intended to "help solve the shortage
of schools" |
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Tolman
v. Underhill decision orders reinstatement of
UC faculty fired |
| 1953 |
State Board Education
and the Regents complete agreement on engineering
education sanctioning State College programs up
to the Masters level. |
| 1955 |
Restudy
Report issued |
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California repeals
its alien land laws |
| 1957 |
Additional Centers Report issued by Liaison Committee |
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Bill establishes
state colleges in Fullerton, Hayward and Stanislaus |
| 1958 |
Appointment
of Clark Kerr as UC president (1958-66) |
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Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown (Dem) Governor; Democratic majority in the
Assembly and Senate (first time in 80 years) |
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Bill
established a state college in Northridge |
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Federal National
Defense Education Act passed Establishment of
NASA |
| 1959 |
State
Board of Education and UC Regents hold two joint
meetings
California Legislature passed the Unruh Civil
Rights Act forbidding racial discrimination in
business transactions. |
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ACR 88 requesting
completion by the UC Regents and the State Board
of Education of a Master Plan for Higher Education
sponsored by Assemblywoman Dorothy Donahoe (D-Berkersfield)
and Assemblyman Walter Stierns |
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Appointment
of the Master Plan Survey Team |
| 1960 |
Submission of California
Master Plan for Higher Education completed |
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Passage
of the Donahoe Act (placing major portion of plan
into statute) |
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Constitutional
amendment provides for members on the new
Board of Trustees of the State College to serve
eight year terms |
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Bills
establish CSU campuses at Dominguez Hills, San
Bernardino and Sonoma |
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UC Regents approve
new campus at Irvine
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