- Office of the President
- Current Initiatives
- WSCUC Accreditation Reaffirmation
- Financial Sustainability
- 2024-25 Colleges Reorganization
- Leadership Searches
- President's Equity Council
- Other Initiatives
- Faculty and Staff Housing
- Affinity-based Student Success and Resource Centers
- Post-COVID Opportunity Scan
- Partnership for University Latine/x Success & Opportunity (PULSO)
- Review of Low Degree Conferring (LDC) Programs
- Scaling Career Services Task Force
- SWEET
- Working Professional Recruitment and Service Task Force
- Future Directions strategic planning
- Messages from the President
- Update on Leadership Searches
- Announcing Leadership Change
- Findings on 2024 belong@csueastbay Campus Climate Survey
- Join us for Science in the Park October 5
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Participates in 2024 Ballot Bowl: Voter Registration for November Elections
- President’s Budget Reduction Update
- Invitation to 91¶ÌÊÓƵ HSI Summit on September 27th
- Joint message from President and Senate Officers regarding College Reorganization Consultation Plan
- The 2024 Fall Convocation recording is now available
- Campus update – MPP position eliminations
- Administrator/Staff Reduction FAQ
- Update on Budget and Deficit Reduction Initiatives
- Announcing Interim Leadership for AY24-25
- Announcing Our New Mascot
- Provost Search Update
- Update: 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Accreditation Reaffirmation Visit Spring 2025
- Ribbon-cutting for the Queer United Student Success Center
- Progress Update: Future Directions SMART Actions
- Announcing launch of Provost search
- Title IX and DHR Update
- Upcoming Communications: Stay Tuned for Important Updates
- Title IX Updates
- 2023 Messages
- Happy Holidays from President Sandeen
- Future Directions SMART Action Update-Year One
- Statement Condemning Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
- A Message of Gratitude and Reflection
- Update on the Concord Center
- Update on Faculty-Staff Housing Task Force
- Update on Childcare Task Force
- College of Health Decision
- Updates on Leadership Searches
- CSU Directive on Low Degree-Conferring Programs
- I Stand with Immigrants
- Next Steps on the Working Professionals Task Force
- Next Steps on the Scaling Career Services Task Force
- Reminder of Support Resources Available Following Escalation in Middle East
- Welcome/Welcome Back to 91¶ÌÊÓƵ
- State of California Title IX Audit Report
- Cozen O'Connor Assessment Report
- Mildred GarcÃa Appointed 11th CSU Chancellor
- Conclusion of Cozen O’Connor Assessment
- CSU Presidential Review Criteria
- A message from Interim Chancellor - President Sandeen Triennial Review
- Recreation and University Union - Proposed Fee Increases
- 2023 Budget Principles
- Financial Stability Process Memo
- Deep Dive into Future Directions
- CSU Budget Reallocation Update
- Letter to Our Campus Community: The Death of Tyre Nichols
- Announcing new Working Professional Task Force
- Announcing new College of Health Implementation Task Force
- Announcing new Scaling Career Services Task Force
- Support for Lunar New Year Tragedy
- Title IX/DHR Update
- 2022 Messages
- Kathleen Wong(Lau), Ph.D. Named University Diversity Officer
- Reimagining the Concord Campus Update
- Staff Wellness, Enrichment and Engagement Team (SWEET)
- Sharing the Reimagining the Concord Campus Task Force report
- Upcoming Title IX Organizational Assessment visit
- Recent DACA Decision and Our Response
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Accreditation Reaffirmation Visit Spring 2025
- Chancellor Koester Message Regarding Title IX Assessment
- With Renewed Commitment to Serve Our Black Community Members
- A Message from Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester
- Staff Salary Equity Study
- Diversity Office Update
- Near-Final Future Directions Draft for Feedback
- Evelyn Buchanan Appointed Vice President for University Advancement
- Applied Sciences Center Receives Full Donor Funding
- Myeshia Armstrong appointed Vice President for Administration & Finance
- Grand Opening of Student Success Centers on Thursday, March 17
- A message from President Sandeen regarding CSU Trustees' acceptance of Chancellor Castro's resignation
- Walt Jacobs, Ph.D., named Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
- Professor Enrique Salmón appointed as 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Inaugural Tribal Liaison
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Title IX Responsibilities to Our Community
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ to return to scheduled course delivery Monday, Jan. 31
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ named to #CaliforniansForAll College Corps
- Welcome to Spring Semester 2022
- Update on the Beginning of Spring 2022 Semester
- CSU to Require Vaccination Boosters
- 2021 Messages
- With gratitude, from President Sandeen
- Telecommuting program to begin January 2022
- My Story, My Truth Assessment Results
- Launching Our Future Directions Strategic Planning Initiative
- In Support of Our DACA Students
- CSU COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement for Students, Faculty and Staff
- Updated University Guidance on Face Coverings at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ
- Looking Forward to Seeing Everyone Again
- Looking forward beyond COVID-19
- CSU to require immunization against COVID-19
- If one of us, then all of us: A statement asking for grace, compassion and togetherness
- Housing Task Force Report
- Post-COVID opportunity scan
- COVID-19 One Year Later
- Establishment of Affinity-Based Student Success Centers
- Welcome to Spring 2021 Semester
- Our Role in Preserving Our Democracy
- A Greeting from President Cathy Sandeen
- 2024 Campus Climate Assessment
- My Story My Truth
- Freedom of Speech & Expression
- Title IX/DHR
- Reporting and Options
- Support Services
- Confidentiality
- Title IX Coordinator
- Resources for Students
- Resources for Staff and Faculty
- Resources for Pregnant and Parenting Students
- Help a Friend
- Education & FAQs
- Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation (DHR)
- Policies and Procedures
- Cozen O'Connor Title IX and DHR Assessment
- Student Complaint Form
- NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA
- In the News
- Presidential History
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Presidential History
Fred Harcleroad (1959–1967)
The founding president of 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, Fred Harcleroad guided the institution through its formative years and played an important role in the construction of the campus, the setting up of its basic tenets and ground rules, and in plotting its course for the future. When he formally took office, the university was known as the State College for Alameda County. By 1961, the name changed to Alameda County State College, then switched two years later to California State College at Hayward.
In Harcleroad’s initial days as president, his priorities were finding a campus site, faculty and temporary classrooms. By the mid 1960s, enrollment had soared from 293 to some 4,000, instructed by a faculty of approximately 250 on the Hayward campus’ 365-acre site.
Ellis McCune (1967–1990)
Ellis McCune led the university for 23 years through times of turmoil and expansion until his retirement in 1990. He then served 18 months as acting chancellor for the California State University system.
McCune, who was known for his signature bow ties and outgoing personality, went to college later in life. After World War II, he attended UCLA where he earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees in political science. He taught at Occidental College and California State University, Northridge. McCune was the dean of academic planning for what was then called the California State Universities and Colleges system when he was tapped for the role of interim president of the 10-year-old university in Hayward.
Norma Rees (1990-2006)
Norma S. Reese came to Hayward from Massachusetts, where she had been the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Policy and Planning for the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education. A graduate of Queens College (B.A.) and Brooklyn College (M.A.) in speech pathology and audiology, she earned her Ph.D. in speech at New York University. She taught speech pathology in the CUNY system and in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ.
Dr. Rees was an officer of the Economic Development Alliance for Business in the East Bay and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area World Trade Center. Locally, she served on the board of directors of both Hayward and Oakland Chambers of Commerce and was listed in several editions of Who’s Who in America. A former president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Dr. Rees authored several books, chapters and articles on topics in speech-language-hearing.
Mohammad H. Qayoumi (2006-2011)
Mohammad H. Qayoumi was born in Afghanistan and was the first person of Afghan descent to head a major U.S. university. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from American University of Beirut and four degrees from the University of Cincinnati.
Qayoumi served his native country in various capacities, including as a senior advisor to the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan, member of the board of directors for the Central Bank of Afghanistan and eventually as a senior advisor for the Government of Afghanistan.
Before becoming president at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, he held the position of Associate Vice President for Administration at San José State University, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services at University of Missouri-Rolla; and Vice President for Administration and Finance and CFO at CSU Northridge. He later served as president of San José State University from 2011 to 2015.
Leroy M. Morishita (2011-2020)
A native Californian, Leroy M. Morishita arrived at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ as the interim president in July 2011, and was appointed permanently in January 2012 by the CSU Board of Trustees. Prior, he was Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer at San Francisco State University, and worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Salem State College and Tufts University. In 1987-88 was an Administrative Fellow to the Provost at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ (then Cal State Hayward).
During his tenure, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ imploded E. Guy Warren Hall, the landmark 13-story building in the Hayward Hills, and opened two new facilities—the Student and Faculty Support Building and the Student Support and Administration Building. Morishita served on several committees for the California State University 23 campus system, chairing the CSU STEM-NET affinity group. He also served as a commissioner of the Western Association for Senior Colleges and Universities from 2007-2013.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Counseling from San Francisco State University. He also earned a Doctorate in Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.