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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system.
Dating back to its affiliation with the University of California in 1873, the UCSF School of Medicine was the only public medical school in California.This made sense in the late 19th century when most of California's population lived in Northern California and Southern California was a lightly populated desert.
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Founded in 1880 by Robert Maclay Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California, [11] [12] with an enrollment of more than 49,000 students.
The first graduate degrees were awarded from the UC Davis campus in the fall of 1949. [128] In 1961, autonomous graduate divisions and graduate councils were established on all University of California campuses to provide focused oversight of their graduate programs. [127]
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute of whether preferential treatment for minorities could reduce educational opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution.
Larry Hollyfield (born 1951 or 1952) [1] is a former college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins.He won three consecutive national championships with the Bruins from 1971 to 1973, and helped the school to a record 88-game consecutive win streak.
Matthew Perry played a Republican graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law on multiple episodes of The West Wing. Kelly Rutherford played lawyer Samantha "Sonny" Liston, a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law, on E-Ring. Joanie Caucus, a character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, attended UC Berkeley School of Law.
Robin L. Garrell is an American chemist, academic and former president of The Graduate Center, CUNY.Until 2020, Garrell served as vice provost for graduate education and dean of graduate division at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).