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UCSB is one of the few universities in the United States with its own beach. The campus, bordered on three sides by the Pacific Ocean, has miles of coastline as well as its own lagoon. Goleta Point, also known as Campus Point, is a rocky extension into the ocean. The campus has numerous walking and bicycle paths across campus, around the lagoon ...
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [11] Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944.
The College of Letters and Science is the largest college at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The College, which offers 90 majors and 38 minors to over 20,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, has about 700 faculty members.
The UCSB College of Letters and Science was created in 1961. [15] This was followed in 1962 by the creation of education and engineering schools. [15] According to Kerr, the objective "was to expand as fast as possible" to surround and overwhelm the old state college faculty with new university faculty. [15]
UCSB Engineering is home to the nation's first NSF-funded Quantum Foundry, a center dedicated to developing materials for quantum information-based technologies. The College operates as the West Coast hub of the American Photonics Manufacturing Institute and is a key participant in the federal Next Generation Power Electronics Institute.
The earliest teams representing UC Santa Barbara, then known as Santa Barbara State Teachers College, appeared in the 1920s with football and basketball followed shortly by baseball. [7] UCSB was one of four founding members of the California Collegiate Athletic Association, which first took place during the 1938–39 school year. [8]
Jean Fuller, Ph.D. 1989 – minority leader and member of the California State Senate; Ruth Ann Gaines, M.A. 1970 – member of the Iowa House of Representatives; Marc Grossman, B.A. 1973 – Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and United States Ambassador to Turkey; Roger Hedgecock, 1968 – former mayor of San Diego and talk radio host
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