In the face of the state’s budget crisis, Scott Morris is working to maintain the notoriety that the guitar program and music department at California State University, Dominguez Hills earned by hosting the annual conference of the Guitar Foundation of America in 2007. This past Labor Day weekend Sept. 4-6, Morris presented the first Dominguez Hills Guitar Festival and Competition in the University Theatre and LaCorte Hall with the help of international colleagues, fellow performers, and donations of cash prizes, guitars and equipment from corporate sponsors.

When Don Gerth, former president of California State University, Dominguez Hills, wanted to bring publicity to the university during the 1984 Olympics, he offered a portion of the Carson campus to the event chairman Peter Ueberroth, who proposed that a world class cycling venue be built on the Carson campus. After the Olympics, the facility served as a sport and entertainment venue for the Los Angeles community.