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95-639: The California Digital Library (CDL) is the eleventh library for the University of California (UC). A collaborative effort of the ten campuses, organizationally housed at the University of California Office of the President, it is responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of systems that support the shared collections of the University of California. Several CDL projects focus on collaboration with other California Universities and organizations to create and extend access to digital material to UC partners and to

190-804: A Tony Award -winning professional theatre which is partnered with the university. UC San Diego and La Jolla Playhouse share four large performance venues in the Theatre District: the Mandell Weiss Theatre , the Mandell Weiss Forum, the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, and the Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre. These venues, on top of hosting the undergraduate and graduate productions of the UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance, often host

285-550: A finding aids database for archival institutions, provides free public access to primary sources, including manuscripts, photographs, artwork, scientific data, through more than 38,000 collection guides and 200,000 digitized images and documents. Calisphere is a free website that offers educators, students, and the public access to more than one million primary sources such as photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons , works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, and other cultural artifacts . These materials reveal

380-470: A Paradise within thee, happier far." The path circles around its own garden and a large granite book-shaped block. One of the newest additions to the collection is Tim Hawkinson 's giant teddy bear made of six boulders located in between the newly constructed Calit2 buildings. Another notable campus sight was the graffiti staircase of Mandeville Hall, a series of corridors that had been tagged with graffiti by generations of students over decades of use; this

475-459: A bitter debate with Jonas Salk over where Salk's proposed institute would be located relative to the new campus. UC president Clark Kerr satisfied San Diego city donors by changing the proposed name from the University of California, La Jolla, to the University of California, San Diego. The city voted to agree to its part of the deal in 1958, and the UC Board of Regents approved construction of

570-494: A broader level of information sharing between professional staff. As congresses, Forums provide an opportunity for the DLF to continually review and assess its programs and its progress with input from the broader membership community. DLF has played a significant role in the origin or evolution of these digital library initiatives: UC San Diego The University of California, San Diego ( UC San Diego , or colloquially UCSD )

665-869: A continuing and public education program through the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies. (1966) Approximately 50,000 enrollees per year are educated in this branch of the university, which offers over 100 professional and specialized certificate programs. Courses are offered at Extended Studies facilities, located both on the main campus and off-campus, and also online. UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies offers programs in Arts & Humanities, Business & Leadership, Data Analysis & Mathematics, Digital Arts, Education, Engineering, Environment & Sustainability, International Programs, Languages, Law, Occupational Safety & Health, Pre-College, Sciences, Technology, and Writing, as well as public programs such as

760-408: A digital library infrastructure: discovery and retrieval, rights and economic models, and archiving. A report was issued to IBM on June 1, 1996. Many of the DLF's early efforts formed around defining and elaborating technical architectures for digital libraries. This work focused on interoperability and metadata standards, and work was conducted intensively by the relatively small cadre of persons from

855-604: A fleet of on-campus Zipcars , and provides free bike rentals. Additionally, since November 21, 2021, the university can be accessed by the San Diego Trolley . On that day, the existing Blue Line was extended north from downtown San Diego to UC San Diego and the University City area, the culmination of construction starting in 2016. The extension gave the campus two trolley stations: UC San Diego Health La Jolla and UC San Diego Central Campus station . A major goal of

950-649: A focus on the Z39.50 protocol to work on Open Access Initiatives and OAI-PMH . DLF began under the wing of the Council on Library and Information Resources, but spun off into its own group after a few years. It was absorbed back into CLIR in 2010. DLF has 190 members as of spring 2019. Members include larger research institutions in North America, small liberal arts colleges and their libraries, public libraries, museums, and cultural heritage organizations, but organizations such as

1045-475: A greater initiative to reduce the university's impact on the environment, a portion of the shuttle fleet has been refitted to exclusively use biodiesel fuel derived from vegetable oil. In 2023, UC San Diego Triton Transit begun operating electric shuttles for its SIO route. However, plans to expand electric bus usage are currently paused as the company who manufactures the buses has declared bankruptcy. UC San Diego also reserves parking spaces for carpools, maintains

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1140-603: A heavily traveled pathway leading from the library to Gilman Drive, lies adjacent or close to Price Center , Center Hall, International Center, and various student services buildings, including the Student Services Center and the Career Services building. The layout of the main campus centers on the library, which is roughly surrounded by the eight residential colleges of Revelle , Muir , Marshall , Warren , Roosevelt , Sixth , Seventh , and Eighth , in addition to

1235-408: A hub for underground and politically progressive artists. Torero was invited back to the university in 2009 to create a mural called "Chicano Legacy" based on content suggested by Chicano students. The mural is a $ 10,000 digital image on a 15-by-50-foot (4.6 by 15.2 m) canvas mounted on the exterior of Peterson Hall, which includes representations of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta as well as

1330-650: A new UC campus and would now be the object of far more attention from both the university administration in Berkeley and the state government in Sacramento. UC San Diego was the first general campus of the University of California to be designed "from the top down" in terms of research emphasis. Local leaders disagreed on whether the new school should be a technical research institute or a more broadly based school that included undergraduates as well. John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics Corporation pledged one million dollars for

1425-489: A new fire station, and a 30-acre science research center, among many. UC San Diego is a large, primarily residential, public research university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges that offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree to undergraduate students. The full-time undergraduate program, which administered by Division of Undergraduate Education (2014) comprises

1520-530: A number of digital library practitioners from the member institutions and elsewhere. The forums serve as meeting places, market places, and congresses. As meeting places they provide an opportunity for the DLF Board, advisory groups, initiatives to conduct their business and to present their work to the broader membership. As market places, they provide an opportunity for member organizations to share experiences and practices with one another and in this respect support

1615-417: A pioneering cosmochemist; and Hans Suess , who had published the first paper on the greenhouse effect with Revelle in the previous year were early recruits to the faculty in 1958. Maria Goeppert Mayer , later the second female Nobel laureate in physics , was appointed professor of physics in 1960. The graduate division of the school opened in 1960 with 20 faculty in residence, with instruction offered in

1710-577: A rapid expansion of the School of Engineering , later renamed after Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs , with the construction of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and establishment of the computer science, electrical engineering, and bioengineering departments. Private donations increased from $ 15 million to nearly $ 50 million annually, faculty expanded by nearly 50%, and enrollment doubled to about 18,000 students during his administration. By

1805-400: A research institute run jointly with UC Irvine . UC San Diego also reached two financial milestones during this time, becoming the first university in the western region to raise over $ 1 billion in its eight-year fundraising campaign in 2007 and also obtaining an additional $ 1 billion through research contracts and grants in a single fiscal year for the first time in 2010. Despite this, due to

1900-550: A standard web browser. Tools are available to help submit, review, find, and use scholarly information. The program also opens the door for new monographs and journals to be created using existing articles within the repository. Currently, the repository houses over 200,000 scholarly works from 10 major disciplines: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Education, Law, Business, and Architecture. The Online Archive of California (OAC),

1995-555: Is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California , United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla , UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California . It offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 33,096 undergraduate and 9,872 graduate students, with

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2090-638: Is also closely affiliated with several regional research centers such as the Salk Institute for Biological Studies , Scripps Research , Sanford Burnham Prebys , and the Sanford Consortium . UC San Diego is considered a Public Ivy . It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and alumni have won 27 Nobel Prizes , 3 Fields Medals , 8 National Medals of Science , 8 MacArthur Fellowships and 4 Pulitzer Prizes . Additionally, of

2185-500: Is also currently under construction. The neighborhood is located in the west segment of the Pepper Canyon area of the university, next to UC San Diego Central Campus station . The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood is expected to house 1,300 transfer students and upper-division undergraduate students from all eight UC San Diego colleges in single-occupancy rooms. The Pepper Canyon West Living & Learning Neighborhood

2280-409: Is expected to open Fall 2024. The Ridge Walk North Living and Learning Community is also currently under construction at UC San Diego. This neighborhood is located in the easternmost portion of Thurgood Marshall College , and is expected to house 2,400 undergraduate students, primarily from Thurgood Marshall College. Construction is estimated to finish between Fall 2025 and Winter 2026. In May 2023,

2375-594: Is located between John Muir College and Thurgood Marshall College. The university currently has three Living & Learning neighborhoods under construction. The soonest to open is the Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood, which will house approximately 2,000 undergraduate students. The neighborhood is set to be the location of Eighth College . Construction began early 2022, and would take place over what were previously two parking lots. The neighborhood had an anticipated opening date of Fall 2023, but

2470-609: Is open to changing the scale of the project. The proposition is expected to reach the Regents sometime in 2024. If the proposition is accepted by the regents, the new student housing would occupy what is currently Pepper Canyon East. The university also has various planned and ongoing projects in other locations, such as at Scripps Institution of Oceanography , UC San Diego Health La Jolla, and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. These projects include renovations to Birch Aquarium ,

2565-501: The California budget crisis , the university loaned $ 40 million against its own assets in 2009 to offset a significant reduction in state educational appropriations. The salary of Pradeep Khosla , who became chancellor in 2012, has been the subject of controversy amidst continued budget cuts and tuition increases. In 2012, campus launched a 10-year, $ 2 billion fundraising campaign, which the campus completed 3 years early in 2019, making it

2660-657: The Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), the Center for Drug Discovery Innovation, and the Institute for Neural Computation. UC San Diego also maintains close ties to the nearby Scripps Research and Salk Institute for Biological Studies . In 1977, UC San Diego developed and released the UCSD Pascal programming language . The university was designated as one of the original national Alzheimer's disease research centers in 1984 by

2755-602: The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) research library, and Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) are also members. The program is staffed by employees of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The DLF program is governed by the CLIR board and a DLF advisory committee drawn from member institutions. Most of

2850-562: The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN). UC San Diego is ranked 5th as Best Public University by Academic Ranking of World Universities] and 16th in the U.S. by the Center for World University Rankings. Washington Monthly ranked the university 12th in its 2021 National University ranking, based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service. UC San Diego ranked fifth in

2945-555: The Kohn–Sham equations , used to investigate particular atoms and molecules in quantum chemistry ; and the Miller–Urey experiment , which gave birth to the field of prebiotic chemistry . Engineering, particularly computer science, became an important part of the university's academics as it matured. University researchers helped develop UCSD Pascal , an early machine-independent programming language that later heavily influenced Java ;

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3040-569: The National Institute on Aging . In 2018, UC San Diego received $ 10.5 million from the National Nuclear Security Administration to establish the Center for Matters under Extreme Pressure (CMEC). The university founded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in 1985, which provides high-performance computing for research in various scientific disciplines. In 2000, UC San Diego partnered with UC Irvine to create

3135-636: The National Science Foundation Network , a precursor to the Internet ; and the Network News Transfer Protocol during the late 1970s to 1980s. Under Richard C. Atkinson 's leadership as chancellor from 1980 to 1995, the university strengthened its ties with the city of San Diego by encouraging technology transfer with developing companies, transforming San Diego into a world leader in technology-based industries. He oversaw

3230-548: The Qualcomm Institute , which integrates research in photonics , nanotechnology , and wireless telecommunication to develop solutions to problems in energy, health, and the environment. UC San Diego also operates Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), one of the largest centers of research in earth science in the world, which predates the university itself. Together, SDSC and SIO, along with funding partner universities Caltech , SDSU , and UC Santa Barbara , manage

3325-817: The Rady School of Management , were constructed in the area adjacent to and near the Supercomputer Center, as well as Roosevelt College , a transfer student apartment complex called The Village at Torrey Pines, and the RIMAC athletic facilities. UC San Diego's Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District, located just south of Revelle College , houses the Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts. The center's facilities are shared with La Jolla Playhouse ,

3420-458: The School of Medicine . The eight colleges maintain separate housing facilities for their students and each college's buildings are differentiated by distinct architectural styles. As residential colleges were added while the university expanded, buildings in newer colleges were designed with styles that were starkly different from that of the original campus. The disparate architectural styles led Travel + Leisure , in its October 2013 issue, to name

3515-424: The 10 general campuses of the University of California system, UC San Diego is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents consisting of 18 officials appointed by the governor of California , seven ex officio members, and a single student regent. The current president of the University of California is Michael Drake , and the administrative head of UC San Diego is Pradeep Khosla . Academic policies are set by

3610-482: The 2023–24 school year. In connection with the University Pro-Palestine Protests , an encampment was formed adjacent to Library Walk on May 1st, 2024. To much controversy, the encampment was cleared on UC San Diego's central campus by 200 officers in riot gear on May 6th, 2024, resulting in 64 arrests. Students responded to the arrests with a walk-out two days later. UC San Diego is located in

3705-648: The CDL's Discovery and Delivery team is the integration of library services and resources in order to remove barriers between users and content. The goal is to connect faculty, students, and staff with access to the University of California libraries' extensive research collections and beyond to the world's libraries. AGUA provides key collection data to the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) and UC Libraries Shared Print Initiative. Resource Sharing facilitates consortial borrowing and interlibrary loan from beyond

3800-570: The DMPTool is of more use when planning funding applications than in stewarding the data through its lifecycle. Digital Library Federation The Digital Library Federation ( DLF ) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of college and university libraries , public libraries, museums, and related institutions with the stated mission of "advanc[ing] research, learning, social justice, and

3895-617: The Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. As one of PKP's first official development partners, CDL undertook a review of PKP's Open Journal System, analyzing journal setup, article submission and review, account set up, and publication processes. Since late 2022, CDL has been based on the 10th floor of the Key at 12th (1100 Broadway) office tower in Oakland, California . The Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group, comprising

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3990-651: The Internet Archive, and the HathiTrust Digital Library. These projects expand the UC Libraries' ability to give faculty, students and the public access to information and support our exploration of new service models. The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego . The focus of

4085-791: The Playhouse's professional productions of plays and musicals, of which several have transferred to Broadway . Other theatre performance facilities at UC San Diego include the Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building, also located within the Theatre District, and the Arthur Wagner Theatre located in Revelle College 's Galbraith Hall. Other arts facilities include the 800-seat Mandeville Auditorium and Conrad Prebys Music Center , used by UC San Diego's music department, as well as Mandeville Center,

4180-499: The Powell Structural Systems Laboratory titled Vices and Virtues , and three metallic Eucalyptus trees by Terry Allen . The collection also includes a work by Alexis Smith consisting of a path made of a large coiling snake whose head guides towards Geisel Library, with a quote from John Milton 's Paradise Lost carved along its length: "And wilt thou not be loath to leave this Paradise, but shalt possess

4275-580: The Publishing and Digital Special Collections (DSC) teams, develops and maintains production services to enable access to the digital assets of the University of California. eScholarship is a suite of open access scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable UC departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of their scholarship. The eScholarship program provides e-print repositories where submissions can be made using

4370-696: The UC San Diego Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Helen Edison Lecture Series. UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies also plans to open a 66,000-square-foot hub at the corner of Park Boulevard and Market Street in East Village referred to as the Innovative Cultural and Education Hub. The project is slated to be completed in 2020 and plans to "advance the burgeoning tech ecosystem downtown, contribute to

4465-598: The UC San Diego campus. Most prominently, the construction of new mixed-use residential areas which the university calls "Living and Learning Neighborhoods". The neighborhoods contain residential housing, classrooms, lecture halls, dining, and occasionally underground parking. The first neighborhood constructed, the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood, was completed in 2020. The neighborhood currently primarily houses students from Sixth College , and

4560-598: The UC community manage, archive, and share its digital content. EZID (easy-eye-dee) creates and manages unique, persistent identifiers for UC researchers. The service currently uses digital object identifiers (DOIs) and Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), which can be provided prior to publication and aid in linking related datasets and articles. DMPTool helps researchers create and manage data management plans . It provides templates that researchers can customize based on their funding source and partner institutions. It has been noted that

4655-438: The UC system for UC faculty, students, and staff. UC Library Search is the primary discovery service for the collections of the UC Libraries. Zephir ingests, stores, and manages bibliographic metadata for HathiTrust. UC3 helps researchers and the UC libraries manage, preserve, and provide access to their important digital assets. Merritt is a repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets

4750-677: The Visual Arts Facilities (VAF) building, and the Structural and Material Engineerings (SME) building, used by UC San Diego's visual arts department. In 2022, UC San Diego opened the Epstein Family Amphitheater, a 2,650-seat open air performance venue featuring a year-round program (including summer) of concerts, performances, and events. More than a dozen public art projects, part of the Stuart Collection , decorate

4845-1279: The arts. UC San Diego's comprehensive graduate program, which administered by the Division of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs] (2018) is composed of several divisions and professional schools (in parentheses their founding), including Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1903), School of Medicine (1968), Institute of Engineering in Medicine (2008), School of Global Policy and Strategy (1986), Jacobs School of Engineering (1964), Rady School of Management (2001), Skaggs School of Pharmacy (2002), Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (2019), Halicioğlu Data Science Institute (2018), School of Arts and Humanities (1965), School of Biological Sciences (1961), School of Physical Sciences (1960) and School of Social Sciences (1986). The university offers 35 masters programs, 47 doctoral programs, five professional programs, and nine joint doctoral programs with San Diego State University and other UC campuses. UC San Diego has highly ranked graduate programs in biological sciences and medicine, economics, social and behavioral sciences, physics, and computer engineering. The university also offers

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4940-448: The campus and separates Jacobs Medical Center and Mesa apartment housing from the greater part of the university. The Preuss School , a college-preparatory charter school established and administered by UC San Diego, also lies on the eastern portion of the campus. Standing at the center of the university is the iconic Geisel Library , named after Dr. Seuss following a $ 20 million donation from his wife Audrey Geisel . Library Walk,

5035-573: The campus followed a rough north–south axis alongside Historic Route 101 , though construction in the following decades deviated from this, with the core of the campus shifting towards Geisel Library. The school's two engineering departments were merged into the School of Engineering (renamed the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1987 in honor of Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm, and his wife Joan Jacobs) in 1982. New buildings have been continually added as

5130-416: The campus opened in 1964, it consisted only of Revelle College and Scripps Institution of Oceanography . The school's rapid increase in enrollment and opening to undergraduate students over its first decade spurred major campus expansion. Muir , Marshall , and Warren Colleges were established and built during the late 1960s through 1980s as the student population continued to grow considerably. Initially,

5225-535: The campus. The first, and a particularly wel Sun God , a large winged creature by Niki de Saint Phalle located near the Faculty Club. Other collection pieces include Richard Fleischner 's La Jolla Project (a collection of Stonehenge -like stone blocks), Do Ho Suh 's Fallen Star (a house sitting atop an engineering building in Warren College), a table by Jenny Holzer , an installation by Bruce Nauman on

5320-521: The city's lively arts and culture scene, and connect in multiple ways with diverse neighborhoods such as Barrio Logan, the Diamond District, and Golden Hill." UC San Diego's undergraduate division is organized into eight residential colleges , each headed by its own provost . They all set their own general education requirements, manage separate administrative and advising staff, and grant unique degrees. In chronological order by date of foundation,

5415-631: The current faculty, 29 have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering , 70 to the National Academy of Sciences , 45 to the National Academy of Medicine and 110 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . When the Regents of the University of California originally authorized the San Diego campus in 1956, it was planned to be a graduate and research institution, providing instruction in

5510-422: The diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. CDL digital collections, plus the collections of over 100 libraries and institutions, can be accessed through this site with the primary purpose of providing free access to historically significant and unique items. The Collection Development and Management Program oversees and coordinates shared library collections on behalf of

5605-432: The division expands. Major additions include the San Diego Supercomputer Center , completed in 1986; Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, completed in 2003; and the Structural and Materials Engineering building, completed in 2012. Significant construction work on the previously undeveloped northern part of campus also took place during this time. Two graduate professional schools, the School of Global Policy and Strategy and

5700-454: The eight colleges are: Students affiliate with a college based upon its particular philosophy and environment as majors are not exclusive to specific colleges. Revelle and Sixth enroll the largest number of undergraduate students, followed by Warren, Muir, Roosevelt, and Marshall. Each undergraduate college sets different requirements for awarding graduation and provost's honors, separate from departmental and Phi Beta Kappa honors. As one of

5795-657: The end of his chancellorship, the quality of UC San Diego graduate programs was ranked 10th in the nation by the National Research Council. The university continued to undergo further expansion during the first decade of the new millennium with the establishment and construction of two new professional schools — the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and the Rady School of Management —and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology ,

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5890-426: The faculty in 1965. A champion of the New Left , he reportedly was the first protester to occupy the administration building in a demonstration organized by his student, political activist Angela Davis . The American Legion offered to buy out the remainder of Marcuse's contract for $ 20,000; the Regents censured Chancellor William J. McGill for defending Marcuse on the basis of academic freedom , but further action

5985-413: The federal government, but Roger Revelle , then director of the Scripps Institution and main advocate for establishing the new campus, jeopardized the site selection by exposing the La Jolla community's exclusive real estate business practices, which were antagonistic to minority racial and religious groups. This outraged local conservatives, as well as Regent Edwin W. Pauley . Revelle also got involved in

6080-410: The fields of physics, biology , chemistry , and earth science . Before the main campus completed construction, classes were held in Scripps Institution of Oceanography. By 1963, new facilities on the mesa had been finished for the School of Science and Engineering, and new buildings were under construction for Social Sciences and Humanities. Ten additional faculty in those disciplines were hired, and

6175-406: The first institutions, most on a core "technical architecture committee" in DLF. For example, an early initiative led by one member of the committee, Bernie Hurley, was the articulation of an SGML DTD for encoding information about digital objects. That work, MOA2, ultimately evolved into METS . Similarly, in the area of interoperability, much of the early interest in interoperability moved form

6270-444: The former while the City Council offered free land for the latter. The original authorization for the San Diego campus given by the UC Regents in 1956 approved a "graduate program in science and technology" that included undergraduate programs, a compromise that won both the support of General Dynamics and the city voters' approval. Nobel laureate Harold Urey , a physical chemist from the University of Chicago ; James R. Arnold ,

6365-434: The group's activities are conducted by fellows and staff from member institutions who volunteer to coordinate a particular project or plan forum activities. DLF initiatives change with needs; as some projects come to fruition or find new support, the DLF invests in others, staying flexible as a catalyst for experiment and change. For example, the DLF has promoted work on the following: Forums are convened annually and include

6460-490: The kiosk structure at Chicano Park . In 2016 a mural entitled "Enduring Spell" was completed by El Mac in the Argo courtyard, UC San Diego maintains about 17,000 parking spaces and offers a number of alternative transportation options. The university runs a shuttle system, which is provided free for students, faculty, and staff, that services the main campus, UC San Diego Medical Center , university affiliated research centers, as well as nearby apartment complexes. As part of

6555-451: The likenesses of Martin Luther King Jr. and other political figures. Underground street artist Swampy created a large piece inside the Ché Café, visible through the courtyard depicting his signature mammoth skeleton. Local San Diego artist Mario Torero, in collaboration with university art students, painted a mural at the Café in commemoration of Angela Davis and Rigoberta Menchú, along with other notable political figures. The Ché Café remains

6650-510: The majority of enrollments at the university. The university offers 125 bachelor's degree programs traditionally organized into five disciplinary divisions: arts and humanities, biological sciences, engineering, mathematics and physical sciences, and social sciences. Students are also free to design special majors or engage in dual majors. 38% of undergraduates major in the social sciences, followed by 25% in biological sciences, 18% in engineering, 8% in sciences and math, 4% in humanities, and 3% in

6745-412: The most isolated UC unit in every sense: geographically, financially, and institutionally. Scripps had originally explored the simple idea of adding a small program for graduate students to its existing research program. Over time, that idea evolved into something much larger and more complex, and it was a great shock to the Scripps community to learn that Scripps was now expected to become the nucleus of

6840-625: The nation in terms of research and development expenditures in 2018, with $ 1.265 billion spent. Kiplinger in 2014 ranked UC San Diego 14th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 3rd in California. UC San Diego was ranked tied for 35th among national universities in the United States and tied for 8th among public universities by U.S. News & World Report ' s 2021 rankings. ScienceWatch ranks UC San Diego 7th of federally funded U.S. universities, based on

6935-484: The new campus in 1960. Because Revelle's tactless approaches to the clashes with Pauley and Salk had damaged his reputation with the Board of Regents, Kerr realized he could not nominate Revelle as the campus's first chancellor. Revelle's nomination would have become "an angry and drawn-out affair" and greatly detracted from the campus's future development. Herbert York , first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ,

7030-412: The preparation of a technological and policy proposal with specific guidelines for creating and maintaining a national digital library. Over the next nine months, DLF convened a Planning Task Force to establish working groups to consider the key technical, financial, and organizational issues to forming a national digital library, resulting in three areas of focus in which DLF could play a role in building

7125-444: The project is to ease traffic and parking on campus while providing more accessible transportation to nearby areas. As part of the university's existing public transit partnerships, all students have unlimited access to MTS regional buses and trolleys, as well as most North County Transit District transportation services, upon paying a "transportation fee" as part of registration. Several facilities are currently under construction at

7220-759: The public at large. The CDL was created as the result of a three-year planning process, beginning with the Digital Library Executive Working Group commissioned by Library Council and culminating with the Library Planning and Action Initiative commissioned by the Provost, which involved UC faculty, librarians, and administrators. On February 7, 2012, CDL partnered with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), joining several other institutions including Stanford University School of Education and

7315-471: The public good through digital library technologies." It was formed in 1995. DLF's mission is to enable new research and scholarship of its members, students, scholars, lifelong learners, and the general public by developing an international network of digital libraries . DLF relies on collaboration, the expertise of its members, and a nimble, flexible, organizational structure to fulfill its mission. To achieve this mission, DLF: The Digital Library Federation

7410-407: The residential neighborhood of La Jolla of northern San Diego , bordered by the communities of La Jolla Shores , Torrey Pines , and University City . The main campus consists of 761 buildings that occupy 1,152 acres (466 ha), with natural reserves covering about 889 acres (360 ha) and outlying facilities taking up the remaining area. The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 5) passes through

7505-422: The school's Academic Senate, a legislative body composed of all university faculty members. Nine vice chancellors manage academic affairs, research, diversity, marine sciences, student affairs, planning, external relations, business affairs, and health sciences and report directly to the chancellor. There have been a total of 2 student regents from UC San Diego, Linda Rae Sabo in 1982, an undergraduate senior at

7600-432: The sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Local citizens supported the idea, voting the same year to transfer to the university 59 acres (24 ha) of mesa land on the coast near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography . The Regents requested an additional gift of 550 acres (220 ha) of undeveloped mesa land northeast of Scripps, as well as 500 acres (200 ha) on the former site of Camp Matthews from

7695-524: The second largest student housing capacity in the nation. The university occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the Pacific coast . UC San Diego consists of 12 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools as well as 8 undergraduate residential colleges . The university operates 19 organized research units as well as 8 School of Medicine research units, 6 research centers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and 2 multi-campus initiatives. UC San Diego

7790-473: The ten UC campuses. The University of California Libraries' shared print collections consist of information resources jointly purchased or electively contributed by the libraries. Such resources are collectively governed and managed by the University Librarians. The UC Libraries are digitizing millions of books from their collections through participation in mass digitization projects with Google ,

7885-430: The ten University of California campuses. The program acquires scholarly content, manages UC's mass digitization efforts, organizes and supports shared physical library collections, and is responsible for the system-wide negotiation and licensing of shared digital materials for the UC libraries. These are the electronic journals, databases, ebooks and other e-resources licensed by CDL on behalf of and in coordination with

7980-545: The time, and Haley Weddle in 2019, a graduate student at the time. The Nature Index lists UC San Diego as 6th in the United States for research output by article count in 2019. In 2020, UC San Diego spent $ 1.403 billion on research, the 6th highest expenditure among academic institutions in the United States. The National Science Foundation ranked UC San Diego 7th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $ 1.42 billion. The university operates several organized research units, including

8075-478: The university announced the construction of Triton Center, a new facility near University Center that will host numerous student services along with an Alumni & Welcome Center. It is expected to open Winter of 2026. In September 2023, chancellor Pradeep Khosla announced his intention to present a housing proposition to the Regents of the University of California . The housing proposition currently aims to house an additional 6,000 students, though Khosla states he

8170-486: The university as one of the ugliest campuses in America, likening it to "a cupboard full of kitchen appliances whose function you can't quite fathom." In addition to its academic and housing facilities, the campus features eucalyptus groves, Birch Aquarium , and several major research centers. The Scripps Institution owns a sea port and several open ocean vessels for marine research. Several large shake facilities, including

8265-492: The war. Early research activity and faculty quality, notably in the sciences, was integral to shaping the focus and culture of the university. Even before UC San Diego had its own campus, faculty recruits had already made significant research breakthroughs, such as the Keeling Curve , a graph that plots rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and was the first significant evidence for global climate change ;

8360-607: The whole site was designated the First College of the new campus (it was later renamed after Roger Revelle). York resigned as chancellor that year and was replaced by John Semple Galbraith . The undergraduate program accepted its first class of 181 freshman at Revelle College in 1964. Second College was founded in 1964, on the land deeded by the federal government, and named after environmentalist John Muir two years later. The School of Medicine also accepted its first students in 1966. Political theorist Herbert Marcuse joined

8455-726: The world record holding Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table, used for earthquake simulations, are also maintained by the university. The university has actively sought to reduce carbon emissions and energy usage on campus, earning a "gold" sustainability performance rating in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) survey. It was also praised in The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition for its strong commitment to sustainability in its academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation. When

8550-703: The youngest university in the United States to have completed a $ 2 billion fundraiser. On November 27, 2017, the university announced it would leave its longtime athletic home of the California Collegiate Athletic Association , an NCAA Division II league, to begin a transition to NCAA Division I in 2020. It joined the Big West Conference , already home to four other UC campuses ( Davis , Irvine , Riverside , Santa Barbara ). The university transitioned to NCAA Division I competition on July 1, 2020. The transition period will run through

8645-623: Was averted after local leaders expressed support for Marcuse. Further student unrest was felt at the university, as the United States increased its involvement in the Vietnam War during the mid-1960s, when a student raised a Viet Minh flag over the campus. Protests escalated as the war continued and were only exacerbated after the National Guard fired on student protesters at Kent State University in 1970. Over 200 students occupied Urey Hall, with one student setting himself on fire in protest of

8740-488: Was extended due to construction delays. The Theatre District Living & Learning Neighborhood is currently scheduled to open between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. The only currently open building is the Podemos building, which contains housing as well as academic instruction rooms. The Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood features an underground parking garage. The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood

8835-540: Was formed on May 1, 1995, by twelve academic libraries, the New York Public Library , U.S. Library of Congress , U.S. National Archives and Records Administration , and the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA). The purpose of the organization was to create a distributed, open, digital library. In September 1995, CPA received a nine-month planning grant from IBM for $ 100,000 on behalf of DLF to support

8930-638: Was recently replaced with the Graffiti Art Park. Students in the university's visual arts department also create temporary public art installations as part of their coursework. In 2007, the university sponsored a $ 56,000 performance art project to develop a sense of community at the sprawling campus. Shepard Fairey , most notable for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster , painted a mural at the Ché Café , one of UC San Diego's most famous buildings and collectives, on an outside wall facing Scholars Drive, that features

9025-454: Was selected instead. York planned the main campus according to the " Oxbridge " model, relying on many of Revelle's ideas. According to Kerr, "San Diego always asked for the best," though this created much friction throughout the UC system, including with Kerr himself, because UC San Diego often seemed to be "asking for too much and too fast." Kerr attributed UC San Diego's "special personality" to Scripps, which for over five decades had been

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