President’s Message

CSM Forward 2028, the College’s five-year education master plan, details college priorities and outcomes, dis­trict and college goals, planning and strategy (to inform programming), resource allocation, facilities visioning, and long-range imagining. The education master plan is both a look backward at where we have been and a look forward to where we might want to go.

Our 100-year legacy, which we celebrate in this centen­nial year, requires us to reflect on our evolution as an in­stitution of higher education. As the times have changed so has the college. CSM has moved through the decades serving San Mateo County and connecting community members to education, resources, and workforce devel­opment. Our students are mothers, fathers, cousins, sis­ters, brothers, sons, and daughters.

We have been the community’s college through social, civic, economic, cultural, and world events. Imagine some of the events the College has seen: Women’s Suffrage, Wall Street Crashes, FDR’s New Deal, United Automobile Workers and Workers’ Rights, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Birth of Israel, NATO, Discovery of DNA, Brown vs. Board of Education, Little Rock Nine, Vietnam War, Moon Land­ing, Nixon’s Resignation, Rise of the Personal Computer, AIDS, Birth of the Internet, Berlin Wall Falls, War in Mid­dle East, Amazon.com is Born, The Age of Google Begins, International Space Station Opens, 9/11, Face­book, Hurricane Katrina, the iPhone, America’s First Af­rican American President, NASA Flies by Pluto, Wild­fires, and COVID-19. Prog­ress, integrity, and transforma­tion have defined us and as we come together, we set the course for the next five years and well into the future.