I created CTNS in the Fall, 1981, including a founding Board of Directors. Claude Welch, Dean of the GTU, put together the necessary legal documents for CTNS to gain legal status as a non-profit educational organization of the State of California. For the first years I was given use of a faculty office the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. (JSTB is a consortial member of the GTU.) A portal for the early GTU intercampus computer facility was located on the second floormen’s room just down the hall from my office! I developed syllabi for the new courses I began teaching each year to GTU seminary and doctoral students.
A couple of years later my faculty office moved to the second floor of the GTU North Building, 2465 LeConte Avenue. I shared it with our first part-time CTNS secretary. Note: The GTU purchased the North Building from a UC Berkeley fraternity during the sixties when being a fraternity was out of favor with Cal students. Later the fraternity wanted to buy it back but the GTU kept it!
As CTNS began to receive sizeable grant support from various non-profit organizations, the GTU moved the CTNS office to the Annex Building, 2452 Virginia Street. We initially had the north-east corner ground floor unit, including three administrative offices, a bathroom, and several closets. Eventually, during the JTF-Funded megaprogram “Science and the Spiritual Quest” (1998-2002), CTNS also rented the offices on the second floor of the Annex Buildingfacing north-west. And when we created and administered the JTF-Funded program, “Science and Transcendence: Advanced Research Series” (STARS) we rented an office complex at the American Baptist School of the West and another complex adjacent to it.
Finally in 2022, the GTU decided to move all of its programs into new offices in the remodeled GTU Library / Hewlitt Building. This included CTNS, the Centers for Jewish Studies, forIslamic Studies, the Center for Dharma Studies, and the Doug Adams Gallery. They are all on the ground floor of the Hewlitt Building, with the first four contiguously on the western wall and the Gallery in the north-western corner.