Established in 1950 as California Baptist College in El Monte, California, the new school enlisted 120 understudies amid its first year under the authority of the primary president, P. Boyd Smith. In 1953, the school moved under the wing of the California Southern Baptist Convention, that year that the principal release of the Angelos, the school yearbook, was distributed. In 1954, the school got its contract from the condition of California.
CBU James Complex
Before long, the school exceeded its offices, and, in 1955, moved its grounds to the then provincial city of Riverside.
The school moved to a more roomy 75.6 section of land grounds which as of now had developed structures that could be utilized for workplaces, classrooms, and living zones. What is currently known as the Annie Gabriel Library, was the first to be implicit 1921. In 1927, the first organization building was built while the W.E. James Building was implicit 1934. The building which now houses the pottery studio and kettle was built in 1938. In 1958, the school named its second president, Dr. Lloyd Simmons.
1960s and 1970s
In 1961 CBU got full accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. In 1964, the school started growing with the development of the Lancer Arms loft complex and the understudy populace achieved 500.
In 1968, Smith and Simmons home corridors were fabricated and named to pay tribute to the school's initial two presidents. These new dormitories took into consideration higher enlistment at the school.
In 1971, Dr. James R. Staples was named as the third school president. After two years, the Wallace Book of Life Theater was assembled. In 1978, the school's $800,000 note for the Riverside grounds was at long last paid and was smoldered in a school wide festival.
1980s and 1990s
Dr. Russell R. Tuck turned into the school's fourth president in 1984. That year, the main graduate degree was conceded and accreditation was gotten by the National Association of Schools of Music.
In 1991, Wanda's Place was set up, an on-grounds bistro named to pay tribute to a prevalent long-term school representative. After three years, Dr. Ronald L. Ellis was introduced as the fifth school president and the following year school enlistment achieved 1,000.
California Baptist College turned into the primary school on the West Coast to get accreditation by Association of College Business Schools and Programs in 1996. The following year enlistment achieved 2,000.
In September 1998, California Baptist College authoritatively got to be California Baptist University.
2000s
CBU Yeager Center Entrance
In 2000, the school's 50th commemoration was praised. The grounds again extended in 2001 with the expansion of the University Place Apartments.
The School of Music was set up in 2002 with the new Dr. Bonnie G. Metcalf School of Education following in 2003. That year, the new college perplexing, known as the Yeager Center, was opened lodging classrooms, organization workplaces, the cafeteria, PC labs, and teachers' workplaces.
The mid year of 2004 saw new lodging edifices manufactured, and in the fall the college selected its first understudies in the Masters of Music degree program.
The School of Engineering was set up in 2006. The inaugural class in the fall of 2007 had 55 understudies.
CBU included its College of Allied Health in the fall of 2010 when enlistment surpassed 4,700 understudies. Likewise in September 2010, CBU additionally opened its third grounds eatery, Brisco's Village Café.
On August 30, 2011, nursing understudy Domaine Javier was removed from California Baptist University for being a transgender lady. The reason given for Javier's removal was that she was blamed for "submitting or endeavoring to take part in extortion, or disguising character" by having connected and being acknowledged as a lady to the school. As a private organization, laws confining sex segregation don't make a difference to California Baptist University.
On August 22, 2012, CBU's four year certification programs in structural building (BSCE), electrical and PC designing (BSECE) and mechanical designing (BSME) were licensed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
On August 23, 2012, CBU devoted another working for its Dr. Robert K. Pokes School of Business.
Undergrad programs in Applied Statistics, Architecture, Aviation Science, Chemical Engineering and Software Engineering were included for Fall 2013. New MBA focuses in Accounting, Healthcare Administration and Construction Management were included, and additionally Master of Arts in Education fixations in Science Education and Leadership.
On September 8, 2015, CBU offered its first doctoral degree, a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) through The School of Nursing.
Grounds
Annie Gabriel Library
CBU Annie Gabriel Library
The Annie Gabriel Library is named out of appreciation for Miss Annie Gabriel, whose blessings empowered the underlying improvement of the accumulation.
Possessions
Notwithstanding more than 110,000 print volumes and 150,000 digital book possessions, the library gives access to more than 30,000 diaries titles and 79 databases. The library has a developing accumulation of more than 17,000 DVDs and gushing recordings. Alongside an exploration PC lab, the library is outfitted with remote administration all through the building.
Unique Collections
The Southern Baptist Depository and Archive offers books, diaries, tradition and affiliation annuals, state daily papers, Sunday school educational programs materials and other Southern Baptist distributions.
The California Baptist University Queenie Simmons Archive gives access to data on the historical backdrop of CBU through its gathering of yearbooks, grounds distributions, photos and other recorded reports, notwithstanding the gathered papers of S. G. Posey, Lawrence Nelson, and Melodie Yocum.
The P. Boyd Smith Hymnology Collection contains more than 2,100 volumes traversing three centuries and speaking to more than twenty dialects. It is an important asset for hymnologists and musicologists, and additionally history specialists of chapel music.
The Wallace Collection of more than 2,400 volumes involves an individual gathering of evangelism materials given to the establishment in recognition of Dr. D. E. Wallace, previous Professor of Bible and Religious Education.
The Nie Wieder! Accumulation is a developing gathering of assets for understudies examining the Holocaust and its suggestions for Jewish-Christian relations.
School engineering
California Baptist University is known in the city of Riverside for its Mission Revival style engineering. A considerable lot of the more seasoned structures on grounds were worked amid the 1920s and 30s, a period when this specific style was well known. The Mission Inn in downtown Riverside is likewise implicit the Mission Revival style. Structures that have been based on grounds have tailed this compositional convention.
In 2004, CBU was perceived in a November 2004 article in the American School and University magazine, which perceives instruction plan fabulousness, for the development of the Yeager Center, by Kroh/Broeske Architects in Riverside. The college additionally won respects from the city of Riverside.
2005 saw the building and culmination of the JoAnn Hawkins Music Building, which houses the Collinsworth School of Music.
Another working for CBU's Jabs School of Business was devoted and opened for use in August 2012.
CBU's Campus Activities office has a scope of yearly social and recreational occasions, including Fortuna Bowl, an intramural banner football season with men's and ladies' groups that comes full circle in title diversions on the grounds front grass in November, Yule, a formal supper and night of stimulation at the Disneyland Hotel where the year's Mr. and Ms. CBU are uncovered and TWIRP (The Woman Is Required to Pay), a week-long occasion where female understudies welcome male understudies to fun exercises and occasions consistently. Highlights of the week incorporate a Barn Dance, complete with a guest, square moving, and outfit challenge, and additionally an outing to Magic Mountain.
Global Service Projects
Global Service Projects, or ISP, is the CBU-based system through which understudies can serve abroad for 3 weeks amid the late spring. An ISP group is for the most part comprised of 8–10 understudies and is driven by a CBU workforce or staff part. Since being set up in 1997, ISP groups have served in more than 40 nations on 6 mainlands. While abroad, the groups partake in an assortment of services that may incorporate music, dramatization, sports, ethnography, kids' service, and instructing English. Understudy can likewise take an interest in United States Service Projects, or USPs, which are masterminded correspondingly to ISPs however target U.S. destinations.
In 2000, the school's 50th commemoration was praised. The grounds again extended in 2001 with the expansion of the University Place Apartments.
The School of Music was set up in 2002 with the new Dr. Bonnie G. Metcalf School of Education following in 2003. That year, the new college perplexing, known as the Yeager Center, was opened lodging classrooms, organization workplaces, the cafeteria, PC labs, and teachers' workplaces.
The mid year of 2004 saw new lodging edifices manufactured, and in the fall the college selected its first understudies in the Masters of Music degree program.
The School of Engineering was set up in 2006. The inaugural class in the fall of 2007 had 55 understudies.
CBU included its College of Allied Health in the fall of 2010 when enlistment surpassed 4,700 understudies. Likewise in September 2010, CBU additionally opened its third grounds eatery, Brisco's Village Café.
On August 30, 2011, nursing understudy Domaine Javier was removed from California Baptist University for being a transgender lady. The reason given for Javier's removal was that she was blamed for "submitting or endeavoring to take part in extortion, or disguising character" by having connected and being acknowledged as a lady to the school. As a private organization, laws confining sex segregation don't make a difference to California Baptist University.
On August 22, 2012, CBU's four year certification programs in structural building (BSCE), electrical and PC designing (BSECE) and mechanical designing (BSME) were licensed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
On August 23, 2012, CBU devoted another working for its Dr. Robert K. Pokes School of Business.
Undergrad programs in Applied Statistics, Architecture, Aviation Science, Chemical Engineering and Software Engineering were included for Fall 2013. New MBA focuses in Accounting, Healthcare Administration and Construction Management were included, and additionally Master of Arts in Education fixations in Science Education and Leadership.
CBU's Campus Activities office has a scope of yearly social and recreational occasions, including Fortuna Bowl, an intramural banner football season with men's and ladies' groups that comes full circle in title diversions on the grounds front grass in November, Yule, a formal supper and night of stimulation at the Disneyland Hotel where the year's Mr. and Ms. CBU are uncovered and TWIRP (The Woman Is Required to Pay), a week-long occasion where female understudies welcome male understudies to fun exercises and occasions consistently. Highlights of the week incorporate a Barn Dance, complete with a guest, square moving, and outfit challenge, and additionally an outing to Magic Mountain.
Global Service Projects
Global Service Projects, or ISP, is the CBU-based system through which understudies can serve abroad for 3 weeks amid the late spring. An ISP group is for the most part comprised of 8–10 understudies and is driven by a CBU workforce or staff part. Since being set up in 1997, ISP groups have served in more than 40 nations on 6 mainlands. While abroad, the groups partake in an assortment of services that may incorporate music, dramatization, sports, ethnography, kids' service, and instructing English. Understudy can likewise take an interest in United States Service Projects, or USPs, which are masterminded correspondingly to ISPs however target U.S. destinations.
