The University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco,California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.
The University of California,Irvine,is a public land-grant research university in Irvine,California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system,UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees,and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students are enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2019. The university is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity",and had $523.7 million in research and development expenditures in 2021. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996.
The California State University is a public university system in California,and the largest public university system in the world. It consists of 23 campuses and 7 off-campus centers,which together enroll 457,992 students and employ 56,256 faculty and staff members. In California,it is one of the three public higher education systems,along with the University of California and the California Community Colleges systems. The CSU system is officially incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University,and is headquartered in Long Beach,California.
The University of California,Riverside is a public land-grant research university in Riverside,California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on 1,900 acres (769 ha) in a suburban district of Riverside with a branch campus of 20 acres (8 ha) in Palm Desert. In 1907,the predecessor to UCR was founded as the UC Citrus Experiment Station,Riverside which pioneered research in biological pest control and the use of growth regulators.
The University of California,Merced is a public land-grant research university and Hispanic-serving institution located in Merced,California,and is the tenth and newest of the University of California (UC) campuses. Established in 2005,UC Merced was founded to "address chronically low levels of educational attainment in the region." UC Merced enrolls 8,321 undergraduates and 772 graduates with 63.8% of students receiving Pell Grants,more than 99% of UC Merced students coming from California,and the largest percentage of low-income students from underrepresented ethnic groups in the UC system.
Robert Joseph Birgeneau is a Canadian-American physicist and university administrator. He was the ninth chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley from 2004-13,and the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000-04.
Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a public community college with campuses in Pleasant Hill and San Ramon in Contra Costa County,California. DVC is one of three public community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District. It opened in 1949. DVC has more than 22,000 students and 300 full-time and 370 part-time instructors.
Carol Tecla Christ is an American academic administrator. In March 2017,she was named the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley,the first woman to hold that position. She succeeded outgoing Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks on July 1,2017.
The history of the University of California,Riverside,or UCR,started in 1907 when UCR was the University's Citrus Experiment Station. By the 1950s,the University had established a teaching-focused liberal arts curriculum at the site,in the spirit of a small liberal arts college,but California's rapidly growing population made it necessary for the Riverside campus to become a full-fledged general campus of the UC system,and it was so designated in 1959.
Mark George Yudof is an American law professor and academic administrator. He is a former president of the University of California (2008-2013),former chancellor of the University of Texas System (2002–2008),and former president of the University of Minnesota (1997–2002).
Daniel Gaskill Aldrich,Jr. was the founding chancellor at the University of California,Irvine from 1962 to 1984. He also served as acting chancellor at the University of California,Santa Barbara from 1986 to 1987 and acting chancellor at the University of California,Riverside from 1984 to 1985.
Rosemary S. J. Schraer was the fifth chancellor of the University of California,Riverside from 1987 to 1992. Schraer and UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Barbara Uehling were the first female chancellors in the history of the University of California.
Richard H. Herman is a former mathematician who had served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2009. He previously served there as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs since 1998. As provost he garnered support for,and administered,a “faculty excellence”program designed to bring established faculty to the institution. Over the course of his administrative tenure,sponsored research at the university increased by more than 50%.
Robert D. Grey is a long-time academic administrator and researcher and educator in the field of cellular and molecular biology. He has spent the majority of his career in positions in the University of California system,including interim provost of the UC system,acting chancellor at UC Riverside and provost and executive vice chancellor at UC Davis. He was also a well-regarded and award-winning faculty member at UC Davis.
The UCLA College of Letters and Science is the arts and sciences college of the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). It encompasses the Life and Physical Sciences,Humanities,Social Sciences,Honors Program and other programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is often called UCLA College or the College,which is not ambiguous because the College is the only educational unit at UCLA to be currently denominated as a "college." All other educational units at UCLA are currently labeled as schools or institutes.
Paul J. D'Anieri is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and former Executive Vice Chancellor &Provost of University of California,Riverside. Prior to his position at UCR,Dr. D'Anieri served as the dean of the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS),from July 2008-June 2014 and the associate dean for humanities from 2004 to 2008 and associate dean for international programs from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Kansas.
Jack Walter Peltason was the president of the University of California,and former chancellor of the University of California,Irvine. He died of Parkinson's disease in 2015.
Charles Alan Staben is an American academic professor who served as the 18th president of the University of Idaho from 2014 to 2020. Selected by the State Board of Education on November 18,2013,Staben succeeded interim president Donald Burnett on March 1,2014. He was previously provost at the University of South Dakota and the acting vice president for research at the University of Kentucky.
Joseph I. Castro is an American academic and was the eighth chancellor of the California State University. Before that,Castro was the eighth president of California State University,Fresno,and the first California native and first Mexican-American to hold the position. In 2016,he received the Ohtli Award from the Mexican government. He resigned in 2022 as CSU chancellor after accusations of mishandling sexual harassment claims against a fellow administrator.
