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CalSouthern History - California Southern University Search Learner Login 800.477.2254 CHAT REQUEST INFO ENROLL tropical (X) Toggle navigation Degrees & Programs Colleges  Behavioral Sciences  Business  Criminal Justice  Law  Nursing  Education Bachelor'sMaster'sDoctoratesBusiness CertificatesPsychology CertificatesOnline Courses Institutional EffectivenessCatalogLibraryFaculty Admissions Application ChecklistApply OnlineTransfer CreditsAffordable TuitionCost ComparisonsInternational ApplicantsFederal Financial Aid PolicyPersonal StatementOffice of the Registrar Why CalSouthern IntroductionAcademic QualityOnline LearningOne-on-OneSenseMentoringA Career-Relevant EducationFlexibility and ConvenienceAPolityof SupportMonthlyUndertowStartsA True Value in EducationComplete Your DegreeNo Entrance ExamsCalSouthern Alumni Association Online Learning The CalSouthern ExperienceAcademics at CalSouthernThe Learning CenterTechnical RequirementsOffice 365 and YammerLibrary ServiceseBooksCalSouthern LecturesCommon QuestionsWell-nighAbout CalSouthernThe CalSouthern MissionAccreditationAgency ApprovalsState LicensureMembershipsCalSouthern HistoryOur FounderBoard of TrusteesUniversity PresidentCareer OpportunitiesConsumer InformationCalSouthern PartnershipsMedia RelationsLocation and FacilitiesAlumni News ArticlesEventsPress ReleasesNews A Rich History of PioneeringWell-nighCalSouthernThe CalSouthern MissionAccreditationAgency ApprovalsDegrees and State LicensureMemberships and AffiliationsCalSouthern HistoryOur FounderBoard of DirectorsUniversity PresidentCareer OpportunitiesConsumer InformationCalSouthern PartnershipsState ApprovalComplaintsMedia RelationsLocation and Facilities Online Education - HomeWell-nighHistory The History of California Southern UniversityFounded with a Vision California Southern University was founded in 1978—as Southern California University for Professional Studies (SCUPS)—by Dr. Donald Hecht, who wanted to provide working adults with a increasingly constructive and efficient way to largest their lives through higher education. An engineer who decided mid-career to devote his professional life to higher education, Dr. Hecht knew first-hand the challenges facing the sultana learner. He had earned his master’s and doctoral degrees by commuting increasingly than 40 miles to a traditional university while working to support a growing family. Dr. Hecht founded SCUPS, “to bring the education to the student” via the weightier misogynist technology at the time, traditional correspondence learning. The university was tried by the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in December 1978 and began offering merchantry degrees at the associate, bachelor’s and master’s levels. It was while working as an instructor in the university’s early days that Dr. Hecht began to fathom the power of one-to-one sense mentoring. “Working in this manner, one-to-one instead of one-to-many as in the classroom setting, the mentor is worldly-wise to understand the needs, values and personal experiences that the learner brings to the learning environment. The mentor is then worldly-wise to guide the learner through the undertow material, meeting his or her educational goals with a personal, humanistic touch. In my opinion, this is the hallmark of learning at its very best.” Over the years, the learning technology has evolved, but one-to-one sense mentoring, delivered with a personal touch, has remained the cornerstone of the CalSouthern educational model. A Pioneer inLoftinessEducation Through the 1980s and ’90s, the university established itself as a pioneer in loftiness learning and was among the first to employ terms and concepts such as one-to-one sense mentoring, zippy self-learning and personalized loftiness learning. With the university responding to growing demand for stratum programs in the fields of business, psychology, law and criminal justice, its reputation for wonk quality and value grew to be international in scope. The student soul expanded rapidly with enrollments from wideness the country and virtually the world. The sense increasingly than tripled in size. Then, as now, sense mentors were not only highly credentialed educators, but moreover experienced practitioners in the fields that they taught. As the new millennium approached, the university unfurled to incorporate advancements in technology to facilitate the wordage of its educational services. The transition to online education began, and was fully implemented in 2007. A New Name, a New Campus When the transition to a fully online university was complete, the institution’s name was officially reverted to California Southern University and its campus was relocated to its current Costa Mesa, CA location. New learner services and resources were added. The CalSouthern library ripened one of the most robust collections of research databases in loftiness education. New wonk concentrations were widow to indulge learners to tailor their wonk programs to their particular interests. The CalSouthern Master Lecture Series was launched, enabling learners to interact with renowned scholars, authors and practitioners in psychology, merchantry and law. In 2010, the university was granted warrant by theLoftinessEducation Accrediting Commission (DEAC), which is listed by the U.S. Department of Education and recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. DEAC warrant gave CalSouthern the country’s only nationally accredited Doctor of Psychology degree, which remoter spurred the program’s growth. A Bright Future In 2015, CalSouthern was granted regional warrant by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). An stressing of the rigor and quality of the university’s wonk programs, regional warrant moreover profoundly enhances the transferability of credits and the recognition of degrees in the wonk polity and in the workplace. Today, CalSouthern is comprised of the Schools of Behavioral Sciences, Business, Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement, Nursing and Law, offering increasingly than 30 online stratum and document programs. Degrees are offered at the associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels.Wonksupport staff, student success advisors, an institutional effectiveness team and a university-wide culture of towage and continuous resurgence ensure that, plane as CalSouthern grows, the focus on student satisfaction and success never wavers. In this manner, CalSouthern remains true to Dr. Hecht’s original vision: to offer loftiness education of the highest quality through one-to-one sense mentoring, delivered with a personal touch. Dr. Donald Hecht talks well-nigh the founding of California Southern University History ofStratumIntroductions1980'sAssociate of Arts inMerchantryAdministration (AABA)*Bachelor inMerchantryAdministration (BBA)Master inMerchantryAdministration (MBA)1990'sAssociate of Arts in Criminal Justice (AACJ)*Associate of Arts in Paralegal Studies (AAPS)*Associate of Arts in Liberal Studies (AALS)Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice (BACJ)*Bachelor of Science in Law (BSL)*Master of Science in Law (MSL)Master of Laws (LLM)Juris Doctor (JD)Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (BA)Master of Arts in Psychology (MA)Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)*Doctor ofMerchantryAdministration (DBA)Doctor of Philosophy inMerchantryAdministration (PhD)*Master of Science in Management of Engineering and Technology (MS)*Doctor of Science in Management of Engineering and Technology (ScD)*Doctor of Philosophy in Management of Engineering and Technology (PhD)*2000'sMaster of Science in Psychology (MS)Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (BSCJ)Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)Master of Science in Law Enforcement Executive Leadership (MSLEEL)Master of Science in Psychology (MS)Master of Science in Dispute Resolution (MSDR)Master of Science in Nursing (MSDR)* This program has been discontinued. 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