Handel Evans

"We've come a light-year from where we were at this time last year." AGE: 59 HOME: Camarillo PROFESSION: Planning president, Cal State University Channel Islands, since January 1996 LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Gaining support from California State University system trustees to request $6.5 million from Gov. Pete Wilson to begin converting the old Camarillo State Hospital into a four-year college. "The trustees are now truly behind this university," Evans said.

Cal State trustees formally launched a nationwide search Wednesday for president of Ventura County's public university, creating a committee to find a replacement for outgoing administrator Handel Evans. Governing board Chairman Laurence K. Gould will be joined by Trustees William D. Campbell, Debra S. Farar and Robert Foster on the panel charged with filling the top job at Cal State Channel Islands, planned to open in fall 2002.

The driving force behind the sometimes rocky birth of Ventura County's first public university announced Friday he will step down next year as its top administrator, setting in motion a nationwide search for his replacement.

The driving force behind the sometimes rocky birth of Ventura County's first public university announced Friday he will step down next year as its top administrator, setting in motion a nationwide search for his replacement.

One would hardly know it from your coverage of Handel Evans' crowing, but the CSU trustees have not committed to convert the Camarillo State site into CSU Channel Islands. They have wisely decided only to move the CSU Northridge Extension facility to a portion of the former hospital's grounds. Perhaps their caution is due to their recognition that there is no "crisis" of access to college for Ventura County residents. The study of access commissioned by Evans shows combined UC and CSU attendance in Ventura County slightly higher than in two comparable Southern California counties, Riverside and San Bernardino.

It is a luxury to look in the rearview mirror as we drive down the road toward the establishment of a Cal State University in Ventura County. We have traveled far in a short space of 12 months and particularly since January 1996, when the chancellor pledged his commitment to the establishment of a CSU campus in the region. In January 1998, that pledge became real with the announcement that the governor's budget identified funds to renovate the Camarillo State Hospital to house the existing off-campus center of Cal State Northridge.

Cal State trustees formally launched a nationwide search Wednesday for president of Ventura County's public university, creating a committee to find a replacement for outgoing administrator Handel Evans. Governing board Chairman Laurence K. Gould will be joined by Trustees William D. Campbell, Debra S. Farar and Robert Foster on the panel charged with filling the top job at Cal State Channel Islands, planned to open in fall 2002.

Moving dramatically to demonstrate their commitment to a Cal State University campus in Ventura County, state officials Thursday appointed the man who successfully turned an Army base into Cal State Monterey Bay to be acting president of the still-to-be-built college. In addition to the appointment of J.

The driving force behind the sometimes rocky birth of Ventura County's first public university announced Friday he will step down next year as its top administrator, setting in motion a nationwide search for his replacement.

A forum to answer questions about the new Cal State Channel Islands campus will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Camarillo City Council chambers. The school's president, J. Handel Evans, and a number of staff members will be on hand to answer questions about the campus, which is scheduled to open in a year. A new information sheet about the campus is also available at City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce and El Tecolote Restaurant. For information, call 388-5307.

The driving force behind the sometimes rocky birth of Ventura County's first public university announced Friday he will step down next year as its top administrator, setting in motion a nationwide search for his replacement.

It is a luxury to look in the rearview mirror as we drive down the road toward the establishment of a Cal State University in Ventura County. We have traveled far in a short space of 12 months and particularly since January 1996, when the chancellor pledged his commitment to the establishment of a CSU campus in the region. In January 1998, that pledge became real with the announcement that the governor's budget identified funds to renovate the Camarillo State Hospital to house the existing off-campus center of Cal State Northridge.

"We've come a light-year from where we were at this time last year." AGE: 59 HOME: Camarillo PROFESSION: Planning president, Cal State University Channel Islands, since January 1996 LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Gaining support from California State University system trustees to request $6.5 million from Gov. Pete Wilson to begin converting the old Camarillo State Hospital into a four-year college. "The trustees are now truly behind this university," Evans said.

One would hardly know it from your coverage of Handel Evans' crowing, but the CSU trustees have not committed to convert the Camarillo State site into CSU Channel Islands. They have wisely decided only to move the CSU Northridge Extension facility to a portion of the former hospital's grounds. Perhaps their caution is due to their recognition that there is no "crisis" of access to college for Ventura County residents. The study of access commissioned by Evans shows combined UC and CSU attendance in Ventura County slightly higher than in two comparable Southern California counties, Riverside and San Bernardino.

Moving dramatically to demonstrate their commitment to a Cal State University campus in Ventura County, state officials Thursday appointed the man who successfully turned an Army base into Cal State Monterey Bay to be acting president of the still-to-be-built college. In addition to the appointment of J.

* Doug Messner, a financial advisor in the Ventura County office of PaineWebber Inc., has been named corporate vice president. Messner, who also serves as a retirement planning consultant and associate branch manager, joined PaineWebber in 1987. * Handel Evans, president of California State University at Channel Islands, has joined City National Bank's Ventura County advisory board.

In one of the largest charitable gifts in county history, Oxnard rancher and philanthropist John S. Broome has donated $5 million to help establish a new library at Ventura County's emerging state university. The gift will lay the groundwork for building a state-of-the-art library at the new Cal State Channel Islands campus, which is being reconstructed from the former state mental health hospital in Camarillo.