Overview
California Lutheran University (CLU also known as Cal Lutheran) is a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Thousand Oaks, California. Founded in 1959, Cal Lutheran is part of a 500-year-old tradition of Lutheran higher education - a tradition that expects you to ask the big questions - and find your own answers. Encouraging critical inquiry into matters of both faith and reason, CLU is dedicated to excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our intimate size and beautiful location create the perfect setting for lively debate, and a learning environment that values the individual.
CLU offers undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs through its College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and School of Education. The University offers 37 majors and 31 minors, in addition to professional preparation programs in specified fields of study. Master’s degree programs are offered in education, business administration, public policy and administration, computer science, psychology, information systems and technology, and economics. The School of Education offers doctoral programs in educational leadership and higher education leadership, and the Psychology Department offers a Psy.D. in clinical psychology.
California Lutheran University (CLU also known as Cal Lutheran) is a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Thousand Oaks, California.
Location & Facilities
Campus
The 225-acre (0.91 km2) campus occupies a gently sloping hillside amid the rolling hills of Southern California. Currently, the CLU campus is in the midst of an expansion. A new athletics center, The Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, nearly doubled the size of the developed campus with its completion in 2006. Along with the new athletics center is the new outdoor, Olympic-sized swimming pool, dubbed the Samuelson Aquatic Center. A new dormitory, Grace Hall, was opened on the southwest side of campus in 2005.
It is notable that the former chicken coops mentioned above were converted into classrooms by Jefferson A. Elmendorf, the same architect who designed The Centrum. Elmendorf worked with Dr. Dahl in master planning the campus. He started in the chicken coops with a draftsman and eventually moved into the administration building where he eventually had five draftsmen/architects working for him. Elmendorf’s architecture is quite distinctive and may be seen throughout Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
A new academic building, currently known as the Swenson Center for Academic Excellence, is also in the approval phase within the Thousand Oaks city government. This new facility will be built where the current tennis courts are located on the South side of campus, after they are transitioned to the North Campus athletic area.
Thousand Oaks, commonly referred to as "T.O." by residents, is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, in the United States. It was named after the many oak trees that grace the area, and the city seal is adorned with an oak. The region has a mild, year-round Mediterranean Climate or Dry-Summer Subtropical zone climate, with warm, sunny, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. Vegetation is typical of Mediterranean environments, with chaparral and grasses on the hillsides and numerous western valley oaks.