Sixty Years, Six Alumni
Revisit the university’s past through the recollections of your fellow Pioneers in this tribute to our 60th anniversary
Sixty years. Many universities have been around longer, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any that have had a more transformative impact on their alumni. Since the beginning, Cal State East Bay has been home to nontraditional students: working parents; police officers and teachers looking to elevate their careers; business men and women obtaining terminal degrees; nurses, engineers and computer scientists digging into rich regional opportunities; and local teens who never could have hoped to afford college if it hadn’t been for the surprising addition of one in their backyard.
Over the years, as the university has grown in size and reputation, our students have become more typical in age, but not in their aspirations or in what they achieve after graduation. Here, — a tribute to 60 years as the East Bay’s university — you’ll find memories from our alumni across six decades. Whether you attended the Hayward, Concord or Oakland campus or took online classes, whether you called this place the Alameda County State College, CSU Hayward or Cal State East Bay, we hope you’ll find and embrace your place within our proud legacy.