History
California Miramar University was established as Pacific Western University (PWU) in February 1977. Pacific Western University operated in Brentwood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, for its first twenty years, then moved to the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, where it remained until relocating to San Diego in January 2006. The name change to California Miramar University happened in approximately March or April 2007.
According to a 2006 article in Inside Higher Education, the school changed its name because it was under new ownership and management, had changed location and wanted to emphasize that the new ownership no longer had any connection with PWU Hawaii. The article said that the school wanted to distance itself from past controversies and that it had filed for national accreditation. The university also made reference to a change in ownership and management on its website in 2007.
According to California Miramar University, CMU purchased the assets of Pacific Western University – California, including its State of California approval status, in 2005. To satisfy accreditation requirements, CMU later transferred all PWU - California institutional and student records to Education Services, which now serves as the official custodian of records.
The California Post-Secondary Education Commission and Distance Education and Training Council list CMU's date of establishment as 2005.
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