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Let there be light Building UC Merced
The University of California is turning 150 years old 1850 1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990 University of California, Berkeley University of California, Merced First Graduating Class, 1873 First Graduating Class, 2009 1868
Teaching for California, Research for the World
10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national laboratories and
Cooperative Extension embedded within 50 California counties
More patents than any $4.4 billion in research An average of four
other university (3,900) grants secured inventions a day
61 Nobel Laureates -
More than any other Awards 7% of the nation’s • 238,000 students
public university Ph.D. degrees • 198,000 faculty and staff
• 1.7 million alumni
• $46.3 billion contribution to
California economy
UC’s impact can be felt almost every day
Almost all of the industries where California leads grew out of
or has been enhanced by university-based research
3
Solar Concentrators collect
energy even on cloudy days
Invented at Merced
1 4
World’s largest cellphone company
C0-founded by UC grad Water snowpack research
Multicampus initiative
2
GFCI Outlets
Invented at Berkeley
5 Citrus disease control
Developed at Riverside
Where it all began 13th and Franklin Downtown Oakland
“This is the University of California. It is not the University of Berlin or of New Haven which we are to copy; it is not the University of Oakland or of San Francisco which we are to create, but it is the university of this state. It must be adapted to this people,… to their peculiar geographical position, the requirements of their new society and their undeveloped resources. It is ‘of the people and for the people’ - not in any low or unworthy sense, but in the highest and noblest relations to their intellectual and moral well-being.” UC President Daniel Coit Gilman, November 7, 1872
Discovery of
Knowledge
Accumulation
Beginning of and
Wisdom Dissemination
of Knowledge
From the Latin,
“Fiat Lux”North and South Hall Berkeley
Davis
Los AngelesCalifornia Master Plan for
Higher Education (1960)
An influential model
University California Community
of State College
California University System
CSU Fresno
UC Merced CSU Stanislaus Merced College
CSU BakersfieldThe University of California has a legacy of responding
to the state’s needs to educate its young people
UC Irvine, 1965
UC built three new
campuses to respond
to California’s
post-World War II
baby boom
14Demand projections in the late 1980s sparked
preliminary UCOP planning for three new campuses
David Gardner
President, University of California
“The end product is to
continue the historic
mission of the University
and to provide access for
California students…”
“Long Range Planning: Preliminary Enrollment Feasibility to 2005 by Campus”
October 1988
Source: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d15734p
15In 1990, the Regents
focused on building
one new campus
February 1990
85 sites identified
July 1990
Task Force selects
8 preferred sites
November 1992
3 finalist sites selected
May 1995UC Merced is located in California’s
fast-growing San Joaquin Valley
UC Davis
UC
Berkeley
UCSF
Yosemite
National Park
UC Merced
UC
Santa Cruz
Pacific
Ocean
UC Santa Barbara
UC
Riverside
UCLA
UC Irvine
The snowcapped Sierra Nevada overlook
construction of UC Merced’s first phase 17
UC
San DiegoInitial infrastructure Spine
February 2003
Library
QuadThe campus is located just outside the city limits of Merced
Lake
Yosemite
Castle
Airport
Commerce UC
Center Planned Bellevue Road Corridor
Merced
M Street
Transit Future
Corridor University
Community
(Proposed Housing/Commercial)
Turlock
25 miles
City of Merced
99
G Street
Corridor Future
Downtown Campus
Campus Parkway
Center connected to
Highway 99
Planned
High Speed
Rail Station
North
Sources: Google Maps, County of Merced, California High Speed Rail Authority
1 mile
Fresno Fresno
57 miles 57 milesRanchers Road
Scholars Lane
Opening Day 2005
UC Merced has grown since opening in 2005
32 buildings totalling 1.4 million square feet of teaching, research
and student life facilities
• Virtually every building is certified LEED Gold or Platinum
• ‘Triple zero’ energy, emissions and waste commitment
23Campus has grown to 7,900 students
71% are among the first in 99% of undergraduates
their families to attend a four- are Californian
year university
• 7,375 Undergraduates (Fall
2017)
• 28% from San
Joaquin Valley
• 25% from Los
Angeles County
• 22% from the Bay
Area
• 592 Graduate Students (Fall
2017)
55% majoring in science, technology engineering and
mathThe campus expansion is critically important
Addresses Critical, Existing Needs Positions campus for growth
10,000
Students
7,900
Students
2018 2020
Remedies current space Accommodates enrollment growth to
deficiencies by expanding 10,000 by increasing space in all
facilities to manageable levels categories
26The campus is doubling in size
and the project is on schedule
February 2018 Aerial View
2713 buildings are under simultaneous design and construction
Lab 2A
New Bridge
Dining
Pavilion
Up to 600 construction
workers are on site each
Granite Pass
Residences Lab 2B day
Glacier Point
Residences
February 2018
28The new bridge connects people and utilities
Future
Boardwalk
Little Lake$440 million has been invested to date 30% complete February 2018
Features a compact land use plan and open space Mixed-use student housing with ground floor classrooms
State-of-the-art research facilities and conference rooms
Largest expansion of its kind
in North America
• Capacity for 10,000 students
• Energy efficient and
LEED Gold minimum
• Long-term, performance-based
maintenance structureWebsite
For more information merced2020.ucmerced.edu
Twitter/Instagram
@merced2020
34Merced 2020 is a three phase project First buildings complete in Fall 2018
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