University of California Santa Cruz

The University of California (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) Santa Cruz, the public is one of 10 campuses in the university research universities and the University of California system. the edge of the Santa Cruz coastal community 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco in 2001 with campuses rolling acre (810 ha), lies on the Pacific Ocean and the forested hills overlooking the Monterey Bay.

Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz is considered Public Ivy institution. This progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and began as a showcase for contemporary architecture. strong support for an undergraduate student political activism and since then while retaining its reputation, both in undergraduate and graduate programs, has become a modern research university in a wide range. residential college system consists of ten small college, a small university with a great resource for college students is designed to combine the support.


History

In some of the original founders, already outlined plans for an institution like the UCSC Santa Cruz City mid- California Board of Trustees University in the development of the 1930s did so in a bid to realize their vision of opportunity did not present itself in 1950 close to build the campus of San Jose's population center Santa Cruz was chosen over a competing proposal in mountains.th site on the outskirts of Santa Cruz, to build a campus just outside the city. Santa Cruz, but the location, rather than practicality, were selected for the beauty and culminating in his remote Santa formal design process-campus.th students led the decision to develop a residential college system will most houses Cruz campus, which was launched by the 1964 1963.Constructio's Long Range Development Plan starting in the late 1950s and in college (though what is now eastern area athletic fields trailer living) in 1965 was able to meet its first students on campus contemporary architecture, it was conceived as a showcase for progressive teaching methods and undergraduate research. According Founder Chancellor Dean McHenry, dealt a major research university with a smaller college sincerity of purpose of the system was to combine the benefits of university. UC President Clark Kerr close together "several Swarthmores" (ie, a small liberal arts colleges) are modeled as a passion shared by former Stanford roommate McHenry to create a university. Roads were built campus UC Regents voted in favor of the name on campus.


Campus

2,000 acres (810 ha) campus of UCSC Santa Cruz Mountains Ben Lomond mountain ridge, 75 miles (121 km) is located south of San Francisco. Height northern limit of approximately 900 feet (270 m), a difference of 1,195 feet (364 m) to the campus entrance at 285 feet (87 m) ranges. The southern part of the campus known as the first major local Great Meadow, consists of open meadow. meadow north, most of the campus' most of the buildings lie between the redwood trees. Campus Felton city, Henry Cowell Redwoods near State Park in the north, Harvey West Park and Pogonip protect eastern and open space, in which the upper west side limited the south with the districts and the western gray whale by Ranch, Wilder Ranch State park.th a part of campus property campus remained undeveloped in the northern half was bought by 1961.Th University of California Cowell Family ranch was built on part of the state forest fire roads and hiking and biking trails outside. UC Santa Cruz students heavily wooded areas allow a recreational vehicle park in residential form of study.

shrines, dens and other students scattered around a number of rarities northern campus building. mostly twigs and other forest debris assembled these structures, formerly Elfland, a glen was concentrated in an area known as a university college demolished in 1992 to build nine and ten. Students, however, were able to save some money in transportation and construction.

Creeks traverse the UCSC campus within several ravines. campus includes pedestrian bridges connecting the ravines on pedestrian paths in several areas. The pedestrian bridge is being built on a mountain with varying heights make it possible to walk in any part of campus within 20 minutes even though the campus. At night, sometimes fogged-in orange lights to illuminate paths.

UCSC throughout the grounds are natural points of interest. "Porter Caves" is a popular site among students in the western side of the campus. Login Porter College is located in the forest between meadows and Empire Grade Road. challenging caves, narrow passages Some of these caves, through a series of wind. Wood is a popular place for nine students. tall, about 103 feet (31 meters), including a large Douglas fir tree is located on the upper campus of UCSC behind Nine Nine College. less for Wood Nine direction: Wood for many years but fear due to environmental corrosion and students injury has been a popular climbing spot, UC location services is almost impossible to special recipes, reference climb.f make for limbs off saw, experienced tree climber, UCSC Music Center meadow on the east side behind students also frequently found Sunset tree.

UCSC campus Mima Mounds in the United States is also one of the few home. It is generally extremely rare in the United States and around the world.

 Academic

University and master's degree programs in 33 areas, offers 63 undergraduate majors and 35 minors. Popular undergraduate majors in Arts, Business Management Economics include Molecular and Cell Biology and Psychology. Such Feminist Studies, American Studies, Environmental Studies, Visual Studies, Digital Arts and New Media and Awareness Department of the unique interdisciplinary programs such as History, also of UCSC hosted alongside more traditional academic departments.

A new joint program, a first in the University of California system, instead of the usual six-year UC Santa Cruz student provides to earn a degree and a law degree at seven. UC between Santa Cruz and San Francisco Law at UC Hastings College of the "3 + 3 BA / JD" The program will be completed less than three years in the autumn they declare first-class or early second grade intentions in 2014 UCSC students accepted the first application UCSC and then start the curriculum three years of law UC Hastings to pass. Since the first year of law school credit will count towards the student's undergraduate degree. successfully obtaining a license for first-year law student course work completed, and then the last two years to continue with their studies at UC Hastings law UCSC graduate classes will be possible.


 Research

According to the National Science Foundation, the UC Santa Cruz that the nation's 120 ranking in 2012, has spent $ 155.5 million in research and development.

Although designed as a social science oriented university, UCSC rapidly Crown College provost plant physiologist Kenneth V. Thimann first appointment with a license level purchased natural sciences research component. Thimann Department of Science and Technology has developed the UCSC campus early and fledgling other well-known science faculty and graduate students work. Social Sciences and Humanities faculty astronomy an important center for the campus founded the Lick Observatory to research.founding members, after the immediate establishment of UCSC were given administrative responsibilities and UCSC first year of Consciousness has created history unique of graduate programs work.
Famous former UCSC faculty include Angela Davis and Judith Butler.

UCSC organic farming and gardening program oldest and international organic gardening techniques pioneered in the country.

As of the year 2012, UCSC faculty Emeriti and 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Arts, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Sciences includes 26 friends 35 friends. UCSC researchers David Haussler and Jim Kent of the Human Genome Project have done as well as business engineering, Expressive Intelligence Studio UCSC's first professional school and at home young Baskin School and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Center, recognition, gaining widely used UCSC Genome browser.ucsc including Adaptive Optical National manages Science Foundation Center.

UCSC campus is maintained by the Lick and Keck Observatories and research facilities are located in Long Marine Laboratory. In September 2003, worth more than $ 330 million to build a ten year task order contract and the University Affiliated Research System (UARC) study to the University of California was awarded by NASA Ames Research Center. UCSC University of California manages UARC.

 Rankings

UC Santa Cruz US News & World Report 2016 the rankings in 2015 Kipling by US Best National Universities in the list was attached to 82 the nation's 100 best-value public colleges and Cruz UC Santa outside of universities # 63, california.money Magazine and 7 UC Santa Cruz evaluated nearly 2,000 schools Cruz 157 UC Santa out in the country in its 2015 Best Colleges ranking.th Daily Beast to evaluate the approximately 1,500 in the country outside the school 114 its 2013 Best Colleges for ranking. in 2015-2016 UC Santa Cruz Times Higher Education world University Rankings were evaluated by 144 connected to the world. [64] In 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities by # 93 in the world took place in 2015 and the QS World University Rankings by 269 worldwide.

In 2009, RePEc, an online database of research articles in international finance. economy in the world in 2007 on the UCSC Economics Department of the sixth, High Times magazine placed first among US universities UCSC "against the culture of the college." In 2009, (GamePro with the magazine), The Princeton Review country. 2011, Princeton Review's top 50 UC Santa Cruz in Game Design major in and GamePro Media Cruz seventh Game Design UC Santa in the country took place in undergraduate programs. In 2012, UCSC was ranked No.3 in the Princeton Review's list of Most Beautiful Campus ...