Student Services Center Wins Award

California State University, Chico’s new Student Services Center has received the Best of 2008 Higher Education Award of Merit by California Construction magazine. The four-story, 120,000 square-foot building, which opened this summer, was designed by BAR Architects and built by Turner Construction.

The Student Services Center was built following environmentally conscious standards established by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a program by the U.S. Green Building Council. The University is currently seeking LEED-Gold certification for the building, which would be one of the first state-funded construction projects in the CSU with that honor.

The statewide California Construction competition annually recognizes construction and design excellence throughout California.

COB Named to Best Business Schools List by “Princeton Review”

The Princeton Review, a New York-based company known for college and career guidebooks, its test-prep courses, and other education services lists CSU, Chico as one of the best business schools in the country.

Included in the just-published 2009 edition of the Princeton Review’s annual best business schools list, the CSU, Chico College of Business was cited as providing students with “a unique combination of excellent and caring professors, a well-run program, and a great environment that for its MBA student populations.”

The review conducted a three-year survey of students at the best MBA programs in the world accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and gathered statistical information on many more. According to Robert Franek, Princeton Review vice president-publishing, “We select schools for this book based on our high regard for their academic programs, institutional data, and the candid opinions of students attending them.”