Posted on May 24, 2005 It was the spring of 1994. The Cold War was over. The military was busy boarding up barracks and yanking troops out of Fort Ord near Monterey when a brain trust of more than 150 educators from around the state arrived in buses. They were charged with helping create "a 21st century university on the isolated, fog-shrouded base.
– San Jose Mercury News, May 24, 2005