Three years later, Frank Christ, Coordinator of the Learning Assistance Support System at CSU Long Beach, and a regular presenter at the UC Berkeley Summer Institutes, contacted Kurt Lauridsen, the new director of the UC Berkeley Learning Center, and Martha Maxwell, now retired in Maryland, to suggest that the Learning Assistance Support System was interested in continuing the Institute tradition as a five-year series at CSU Long Beach if there were no interest in continuing the institutes at Berkeley, Both Kurt Lauridsen and Martha Maxwell agreed that Frank Christ and his staff could continue the institute tradition at CSU Long Beach.

Appropriately, the first Summer Institute at CSU Long Beach (Seventh Annual Institute) began with a keynote address to institute participants by Martha Maxwell from her home in Maryland. This audio presentation was sponsored by Bell Telephone of California at no cost to the institute.

The CSU Long Beach series (Seventh through Eleventh), under the direction of Frank Christ and Elaine Burns, saw the introduction of an institute limit of 60 participants, special registration fee structure for Canadian educators, daily general sessions and fewer concurrent presentations, the use of presenters as mentors with mentor group breakfasts and end-of-day closure sessions, a hands-on-computer lab, and social/networking activities such as Dinner-on-the Town, learning center tours, and consultation sign-ups. Over twenty presenters made over 60 presentations to nearly 300 participants on Learning Assistance related subjects during this five-year series.

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