The Three New C's of CSULB: Crests, Classrooms, and Colleges

Residence halls on campus will be splitting up into three residential learning colleges.

According to Housing Director Carol Roberts-Corb, this change will focus primarily on re-naming the colleges, rather than the renovations.

Residential Learning College will be renamed Beachside College, while the International House, Residence, Los Alamitos and Los Cerritos halls will be condensed into Hillside College.The Parkside commons are said to be the only residential dorms to keep its name.

Roberts-Corb said the reason for the changes is to bring the out-of class experience and tie it to the student living experience, as well as bring faculty and students closer together.

Among name changes, each college will also be given their own crest as a way to identity the individual colleges.

"The crest idea is cool. It's very Harry Potter like, which I love! And I think it's a good way to bring students together, by having more pride with where we live," said Lisa Gee, a freshman liberal arts major.

Each college is also set to have their own living learning community where students will be able to take classes that relate to a certain subject.

The new change will be implemented starting next year.

Parkside Commons are the only dorms said to not be affected by the new plan. Image from csulb.edu