A man credited with saving a South Coast university from shutting down during lean financial times has died.
Mark Mathews served as California Lutheran University’s president during a key period at the 1970’s.
He was chair of the Thousand Oaks university’s Business Administration and Economic Department in 1972 when he stepped up to oversee the campus. Mathews helped Cal Lutheran become financially healthy, increasing enrollment and doubling its annual budget.
After leaving the post eight years later, he returned to teaching at the university for another two decades before retiring in 1990. He had been suffering from congestive heart failure. Mathews was 92 years old.
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