The CSU System dominates Money.com's list of Best Colleges in 2025 with all CSU campuses getting high marks for social mobility, affordability, academic excellence and return on investment. CSUCI and all of the other CSU campuses made Money.com's 2025 list of the "Best Colleges in America, which was released on June 25.

July 1, 2025 -- Dr. Richard Yao, President of CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI), has announced that he will step down from his role effective August 1, 2025. Yao will assume the presidency of DataPhilanthropy, the giving arm of the Jeff T. Green Family Foundation. The Foundation, led by Jeff Green, Co-Founder and CEO of the Trade Desk and signatory of The Giving Pledge, focuses on applying data science to make its philanthropic efforts as impactful as possible.

Islands Kitchen and the Sea Store Market will be open on a limited basis during the summer months.

ESRM faculty member Brenton Spies and students helped to return Northern tidewater gobies back into the Topanga Lagoon after the fish spent five months in two Southern California aquariums.

CSUCI's VP for Student Affairs Eboni Ford Turnbow, Ph.D., has been selected to participate in the '25-'26 Millennium Leadership cohort.

The ESBI marked several successes during the spring semester, not the least of which was winning an award at the New Venture Fair held at Cal Lutheran University in May.