The new university campus will accommodate administrative offices, classrooms and libraries for the university's schools of law and management as well as its graduate schools of management, professional psychology, holistic studies and liberal arts. The university will be moving to the new, five-acre site from leased facilities in Walnut Creek and Orinda. The university also operates a Campbell campus, a Berkeley Arts Annex, and its community counseling centers in Pleasant Hill, Oakland and Sunnyvale. All of those facilities will remain in their current locations.

Ed Del Beccaro and David Gould of the Walnut Creek office of Colliers International represented JFK in the purchase of the university site from Bank of America, with Michael Whittington of Jones Lang LaSalle representing Bank of America.

JFK has been working toward the move for more than 15 years, according to its president, Charles E. Glasser. The university plans to move into its new home at 100 Ellinwood Way in December and to begin classes in January 2004. The building it will occupy, which is near two Interstate 680 exits, will undergo a six-month improvement project that will result in large, first-floor libraries, 27 classrooms, administrative offices and other modifications to accommodate the university.

JFK specializes in graduate degree and bachelor programs designed for adult education. The university was founded in 1964 in Martinez and moved to Orinda 11 years later. It offers three bachelor degree completion programs, 15 master's degree programs, a juris doctorate and a doctorate in psychology.