Guests enjoy Parent Welcome Night 2008
Parent Welcome Night will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Welcome Night is open to all parents of incoming freshmen. The event is free and includes remarks by President Welty, Police Chief Huerta and ASI President Jessica Sweeten. Please click on the link below for more information and don’t forget to RSVP by August 31st!
The 3rd Annual Fresno State Farm Festival will take place from 9 am to 1 pm on Saturday, June 20, at the University’s Ornamental Horticulture-Nursery garden area at the Gibson Farm Market on Chestnut Avenue at Barstow.
The event showcasing student-produced products from the university’s 1,000 acre campus farm will be held in the market’s parking lot under tents.
This year’s festival will include live music, wine tasting, sampling of Fresno State farm products, educational workshops, kids activities and other events. Winery and farm tours will also be available.
Article courtesy of Fresno State News.
Map of Fresno State College as it appeared in the 1950s.
Born out of the need for qualified teachers to educate the pupils of the San Joaquin Valley during the Progressive Era, Fresno Normal School officially broke ground in a vacant field, with a handful of eager students and 12 faculty members - only one of whom claimed full-time status.
Since 1911, the university has expanded from a teachers college operating out of Fresno High School, to a major four-year university on 388 acres (plus a 1,011-acre University Farm) with more than 2,300 full- and part-time faculty and staff. The initial student population was 150; now it exceeds 22,000.
Black and white map of California State University, Fresno circa 2009.
The regional impact of the university has been equally dramatic. Besides being one of the region’s largest employers and strongest community partners, businesses, nonprofits, law offices, hospitals, school districts, government agencies, agricultural enterprises, health agencies and police departments teem with Fresno State graduates.
The community’s strong identification with the university is undeniable from ubiquitous Fresno State license plate frames to apparel. It is difficult to find a Valley resident without a tangible connection to Fresno State through direct personal experience, family ties or bonds of friendship. Clearly, Fresno Sate, in a manner unique to the California State University system, is woven into the fabric of this expansive, culturally diverse, fast-growing region dubbed the New California.
Now it’s time for Fresno State to mark 100 years of this symbiotic relationship with the region by collecting the individual stories of former students, employees and friends that illuminate Fresno State’s past and bring meaning to its present and future.
Photo of the old campus, now Fresno City College.
Fresno State is asking people to donate their memories by recalling that first day of classes, most-inspiring professor or how lessons abstractly learned in college were applied in their very real vocations. From the debate team to the football team, from ROTC to antiwar activists, the most senior alumnus to incoming freshman, legacies to first generations, we want to share the widely varied aspects of Fresno State’s first century.
An email account has been established to capture “Fresno State Memories” at fresnostate100@csufresno.edu or stories can be mailed to Centennial, California State University, Fresno, 5241 N. Maple Ave. M/S TA 48, Fresno, CA 93740-8027. All contributions may be used for media projects and scholarly activities related to the centennial.
Since its founding, Fresno State’s been constantly changing, but never varying from its mission: placing the community first. Now we ask you to tell us what Fresno State has meant to you.
- Dr. Daniel Cady, an Assistant Professor of History, directs Fresno State’s Central Valley Institute for Regional and Historical Studies and is a member of the Centennial Committee.
For tickets, call Jennifer at (559) 278-4189 or parentsassociation@csufresno.edu.