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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley , it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system.
- Midsize city, Core Campus: 178 acres (72 ha), Total: 8,164 acres (3,304 ha), 1,232 acres (499 ha)
- 45,307 (Fall 2022)
- "Let there be light"
- Oski the Bear
La Universidad de California en Berkeley (en idioma inglés University of California, Berkeley), también conocida como UC Berkeley, Berkeley o Cal, [1] es una universidad pública estadounidense con sede en Berkeley, California (Estados Unidos).
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Founding
In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds under the Morrill Act. Signed by President Lincoln in 1862, the Morrill Act provided for the capitalization of public universities by federal land grant. In 186...
Early Development
In 1871, the Board of Regents stated that women should be admitted on an equal basis with men. On November 7, 1872, Daniel Coit Gilman was inaugurated as the second president of the university. Gilman proclaimed in his inaugural address: "The charter and the name declare that this is to be the 'University of California'. It is not the University of Berlin nor of New Haven which we are to copy ... it is the University of this State. It must be adapted to this people ... It is 'of the people an...
The university came of age under the direction of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who would serve as its president from 1899 to 1919. In 1905, the "University Farm" was formed near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, Davis. Berkeley's reputation grew as President Wheeler succeeded in attracting renowned faculty to the campus and pro...
Today, Berkeley students are considered to be less politically active than their predecessors, and the city has seen higher increases in liberalism than has the campus. However, Berkeley students have become more liberal. In a poll conducted in 2005, 51% of Berkeley freshmen considered themselves liberal, 37% considered themselves moderate, and 12%...
At the time of its founding, Berkeley was the first full-curriculum public university in the state of California and thus was known as the University of California. As occurred in other states with only a single major public university, University of California was frequently shortened to California or Cal, for ease of identification. Because the s...
Bancroft.berkeley.edu: University of California, Berkeley archives — in the Bancroft Librarycollections.Lib.Berkeley.edu: "The University at the Turn of the Century: 1899-1900"— Online Exhibition.Lib.Berkeley.edu: "Roma/Pacifica: The Phoebe Hearst International Architectural Competition and the Berkeley Campus, 1896-1930"— Online Exhibition.The University of California was founded in 1868, born out of a vision in the State Constitution of a university that would “contribute even more than California’s gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations.” By the numbers. From faculty awards to the number of books in our libraries, see Berkeley through its facts and figures.
The University of California ( UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and ...
- March 23, 1868; 155 years ago
- 294,309 (Fall 2022)
The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by early 20th-century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts ), and their colleague Julia Morgan.
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