1947-49: P. 维克多·彼得森Los Angeles State College (LASC) opened its doors on the Vermont Avenue campus of Los Angeles City College (LACC) in August 1947.
作为LACC主席， P. 维克多·彼得森 became the acting president of the state college. Peterson was on leave from San Jose State College, where he was dean of professional education, professor of chemistry and head of the natural science department. 他得了B.A. at Iowa State Teachers College in 1917, and his M.A. in 1921. 他获得了博士学位。.D. 1930年从斯坦福大学毕业.
Fall semester at LASC started with 225 students, but the enrollment had jumped to 1,092 by spring. 学生 came from every state in the union as well as Mexico, Iran and Canada. The first class of seven students graduated in 1948.
1949-62: 霍华德年代. 麦当劳In 1949, the college welcomed its second president, 霍华德年代. 麦当劳, as well as the first of several name changes: Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts & 科学(LASCAAS).
麦当劳 was born in Salt Lake City. In 1921, he received a B.S. from Utah State Agricultural College and earned his M.A. from University of California at Berkeley in 1925. An educator and administrator, 麦当劳 was serving as president of Brigham Young University when he was selected to lead LASCAAS.
麦当劳’s term was a time of great transition as he directed both the development of educational programs and physical expansion of the college. Officials broke ground on the current location, dubbed the Ramona site at the time, in 1955 and the first 10 buildings opened to students three years later.
麦当劳 retired in 1962 after 13 years at the helm of the university.
1962-63: 阿尔伯特·D. 格雷夫斯阿尔伯特·D. 格雷夫斯 was vice president of Academic Affairs when he became acting president of LASCAAS in 1962. 格雷夫斯 held bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from Stanford University. Before coming to Los Angeles State College, he served as superintendent of the San Bernardino Schools and a professor of education at Humboldt State College.
Eighty-eight new faculty appointments were made during the year that 格雷夫斯 served as caretaker, and the college also entered into its first contract to prepare students for the U.S. 和平队. The first group of 65 volunteers was trained for service in the Dominican Republic in the areas of teacher training, music teacher training and urban community action.
1963-66: 富兰克林·阿瑟·约翰逊富兰克林·阿瑟·约翰逊 took over as the fourth president of Los Angeles State College in October 1963. Johnson came to the college from Jacksonville (Fla.) University, where he served as president for seven years. 他得了B.S. degree magna cum laude from Rutgers University in 1947. 在做他的M.A. 和Ph值.D. from Harvard University, he was chosen as a faculty scholar and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study at the London School of Economics.
During Johnson’s term, the football team was ranked No. 1 nationally and the campus was renamed once more to California State College at Los Angeles (CSCLA) when it became part of the California State College System in 1964.
Johnson left the college after President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to serve as director of the Job Corps.
The California State College chancellor announced 约翰·E. Greenlee as the fifth president in May 1966. Greenlee came to CSCLA as vice president for Academic Affairs in 1965. Prior to his appointment, he spent 30 years in college teaching and administration in Iowa—20 of them at Iowa State University.
他的B.A., M.A.， Ph值.D. were all earned at the University of Iowa where he majored in history and minored in education. At the post-doctoral level, he studied British history and higher education at the University of California at Berkeley.
The late 1960s and 1970s was another period of great change for the college. The campus converted to the quarter system in 1967 and established the first Chicano Studies Department in the nation in 1968. The University-Student Union, Simpson Tower and Salazar Hall were all built during this time. 1972年, the California State College system became The California State University and Colleges (CSUC). This campus received university status and was officially known as California State University, Los Angeles—or Cal State L.A. informally-ever自.
Greenlee retired in 1979. Greenlee Plaza, located south of the Physical Sciences building, was dedicated to him.
1979-2013: 詹姆斯米. 伐木工人詹姆斯米. 伐木工人 was selected as the sixth president in 1979. The scientist’s academic degrees, in health administration and microbiology, were conferred upon him by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Ph.D. 1969, M.A. 1963, B.A. 1962).
Prior to accepting the presidency, 伐木工人 served as deputy chancellor of the State of New Jersey Department of Higher Education. He had previously been an associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, and faculty member in pharmacology and toxicology, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
By the time 伐木工人 was appointed in 1979, the campus had conferred degrees upon more than 85,000 students in 34 years and had an annual enrollment of nearly 29,000 and a faculty and staff of 2,700 full- and part-time employees. The campus mascot changed from Diablo to Golden Eagle in 1981, and Cal State L.A. received worldwide attention when it hosted the judo event in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
The university landscape transformed under 伐木工人’s leadership. Among the projects developed by 伐木工人 are: student housing, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School, 埃德蒙·G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center, 地铁站, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center, a new University-Student Union, the Golden Eagle building, the Wallis Annenberg Integrated Sciences Complex with La Kretz Hall, the Public Safety/University Police facility, 和电视, 电影, 及媒体中心.
2013-2023: 威廉一个. Covino威廉一个. Covino was selected as the university's seventh president in 2013. 科维诺只得到了B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. 他持有M。.A. degrees from CSU Northridge and the University of Southern California and earned a Ph.D. in English from USC in 1981.
Covino joined 加州大学洛杉矶分校 after a long career in higher education as an educator and scholar of rhetoric. He served as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Fresno State. He was also provost at Stanislaus State and began his career in higher education as an assistant professor at San Diego State.
在科维诺任期内, the university experienced a rise in national prominence and national 排名, saw improvement in student success metrics, and earned the distinction of being home to the most diverse faculty in the CSU. Over the past decade, 加州大学洛杉矶分校 has also climbed steadily and sharply in U.S. 新闻与世界报道 排名. 加州大学洛杉矶分校 jumped 73 spots among all private and public regional universities in the West over eight years.
在他的领导下, the university also launched the Center for Engagement, 服务, and the Public Good; established the MindMatters initiative (now called WellBeingU); added the College of Ethnic Studies; created the 加州大学洛杉矶分校 Downtown campus; and developed the CalStateLA BioSpace incubator.
Covino retired in 2023 after a decade at the helm of the university.
2023-2024: 勒罗伊米. Morishita勒罗伊米. Morishita was appointed by the CSU Board of Trustees to serve as interim president of 加州大学洛杉矶分校. Morishita began his tenure on July 31, 2023, and served until January 7, 2024.
Morishita came to 加州大学洛杉矶分校 with more than 40 years of experience in the California State University system as an educator and administrator. From 2011 to 2020, Morishita served as president of CSU East Bay. 在他的领导下, achievement at CSUEB reached new heights, with graduation and retention rates steadily increasing, while equity gaps narrowed. Morishita previously served as executive vice president for administration and finance and chief financial officer at San Francisco State University.
Morishita earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley; a master’s degree in counseling at San Francisco State University; and a Doctor of Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
2024年至今: 贝雷尼西亚·约翰逊·埃恩斯贝雷尼西亚·约翰逊·埃恩斯 was appointed by the CSU Board of Trustees to serve as president of 加州大学洛杉矶分校. Her tenure began January 8, 2024. Eanes is 加州大学洛杉矶分校’s ninth president and the first woman to serve in the position.
Eanes previously served as president of York College, City University of New York, where she provided strategic leadership and council to approximately 1,100年教师, staff and administrators, while overseeing a $91 million budget, 包括捐赠基金, fundraising and centrally administered resources. Eanes had also served as a professor in the Department of Social Work since 2019.
Her appointment as president of 加州大学洛杉矶分校 marked a return to the CSU for Eanes, who previously served as vice president for Student Affairs at California State University, Fullerton (2012 to 2019), where she delivered leadership and oversight for myriad student success programs, as well as new campus infrastructure and the university’s strategic plan.
Eanes earned a bachelor’s degree in public health from Dillard University; a master’s degree in social work from Boston University; and her doctorate in social work from Clark Atlanta University.