Each CSU campus has a Lobby Corps and is open to all students.

The university is the only CSU campus to earn this distinction.

A consortium of CSU campuses use it as their Desert Studies Center.

Fresno State was first of all 23 CSU campuses to offer an individual-campus doctorate.

Most online credit courses are offered with the same the term dates as those of the CSU campus.

It was founded in 1989 as the 20th CSU campus.

The university is one of the smallest of the 23 CSU campuses in California.

In 1992, the city of Palm Desert offered to donate land for a permanent satellite center that might one day become a CSU campus.

Most online and on-campus courses in the for-credit programs match the term dates of the CSU campus.

During that same period, civil rights activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city, including the burning of several buildings on the CSU campus.