SANDRA CHALMERS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Cal State San Marcos is creating new divisions of current colleges to help equally distribute and distinguish academic disciplines on campus.

University officials have recognized the need to restructure the current composition of colleges to help meet the need for growth and development in the university’s future.

Currently the College of Arts and Sciences (CoAS) fosters more than 50 percent of the degree programs available on campus, including 25 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science programs and 32 minors.  The new split would divide science and math disciplines into the new College of Science and Mathematics and further divide the other CoAS departments into College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Further advancements include the new addition of College of Education, Health and Human Services that will house Education, Nursing, Kinesiology and Human Development.  The College of Business Administration will not be affected by any of the new changes.

“The restructuring is rearranging departments and schools and colleges, in the case of Nursing and Education, in a way that best positions the university for moving forward,” said David Barsky, Associate Vice President of Academic Programs.

“I am confident that this will position us well to leverage our strengths and create a stronger impact with our programs.

“These structural changes truly couldn’t come at a better time than now when we are focusing on the future and what our university will look like at our 25th anniversary,” President Haynes said. “This is an important step in CSUSM becoming the highly visible leader in public higher education for this region and beyond.”

The university is currently conducting a national search for deans to lead the new colleges. This action will help fuel each discipline with leadership and faculty support for students.

These new changes now allow opportunity for growth in traditional academic offerings.  A new Video Production minor, currently in development, according to Kristine Diekman, chair of Visual and Performing Arts (VPS)will allow students interested in video production to explore a concentrated curriculum in the realm of editing and composition.

An advising and information session on other new developments for VPA, Film Studies, Mass Media and Communication studies today, from noon to 1 p.m,  in Arts 11 will be open to all interested students.

Photo courtesy of Morgan Hall