University of California

The University of California, usually called UC, is California's system of public research universities. It is headquartered in Oakland and made up of ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, with a combined enrollment of about 299,000 students. The system is the state's land-grant university and, under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, forms one of the state's three public postsecondary systems beside the California Community Colleges and California State University. A Board of Regents governs it, and the state constitution protects that board's autonomy from the rest of state government. It was founded on March 23, 1868, in Oakland, moved to Berkeley in 1873 and became a multicampus system between 1957 and 1960. In this atlas it is the parent system of the University of California, Merced, where sociologist Marjorie Zatz worked.