SDSU president planning for more expansion

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published March 12, 2006 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

San Diego State University President Stephen Weber says despite the campus growth spurt during his first 10 years at the school, he's planning for additional expansion. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has mo

San Diego State University President Stephen Weber says despite the campus
growth spurt during his first 10 years at the school, he's planning for additional
expansion. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has more.

Weber is celebrating his 10th anniversary as university president. He's overseen
the development of at least 17 major building projects on or near the school. Speaking on the KPBS radio program These Days, he pointed to the addition of the San Diego Trolley

station as one example of a project that benefits the campus and the community.

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Weber: We're taking somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 cars off of I-8 now because of that trolley, so it's very helpful. I hope I never have to build another parking garage on San Diego State, it's not the right way to use our space- -our space is very precious and very limited.

Weber says he'll continue to lead plans for more development, including faculty and graduate student housing near I-8.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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