CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2006 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide 191 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears THE UNIVERSITY he roots of the University of California go Berkeley site (South Hall is still standing), and in back to the gold rush days of 1849, when CAL FACTS September 1873 the University, with an enroll- Tthe drafters of the State Constitution, a ment of 191 students, moved to Berkeley. group of vigorous and farsighted people, re- • More students who earn undergraduate Fiscal problems plagued the new University, quired the legislature to “encourage by all suit- degrees at Cal complete doctorates than and it was not until the 20-year presidency of able means the promotion of intellectual, scien- graduates of any other university in the Benjamin Ide Wheeler beginning in 1899 that fi- tific, moral and agricultural improvement” of the country nances stabilized, allowing the University to people of California. • With more than 9 million volumes in 18 cam- grow in size and distinction. These early planners dreamed of a univer- pus libraries, Cal’s libraries are ranked third Early in this period Phoebe Apperson Hearst, sity which eventually, “if properly organized and nationally by the Association of Research one of the University’s most generous benefac- conducted, would contribute even more than Libraries tors, conceived of and financed an international California’s gold to the glory and happiness of competition for campus architectural plans that, advancing generations.” was modeled after that of Yale and Harvard, she stipulated, “should be worthy of the great The university that was born nearly 20 years with the addition of modern languages to the University whose material home they are to pro- later was the product of a merger between the core courses in Latin, Greek, history, English, vide for.” The competition, won by Emile Bénard College of California (a private institution) and mathematics, and natural history. With an eye to of Paris, brought Berkeley not only a building the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts future expansion, the board of trustees aug- plan but worldwide notoriety. College (a land grant institution). The College of mented the college’s Oakland holdings with the The London Spectator wrote, “On the face of California, founded by former Congregational purchase of 160 acres of land four miles north, it this is a grand scheme, reminding one of those minister Henry Durant from New England, was on a site they named Berkeley in 1866. (Cal’s famous competitions in Italy in which Brunelleschi incorporated in 1855 in Oakland. Its curriculum Charter was introduced in 1868.) and Michaelangelo took part. The conception This original tract was to be considerably does honor to the nascent citizenship of the expanded over the years. While the College of Pacific states. .” CAL STUDENT California was in its infancy, efforts continued At Oxford University, which at the time was in the state legislature to create a public educa- strapped for funds, a Latin orator said, “There POPULATION tional institution, and in 1866 the legislature took is brought a report that in California there is al- advantage of the federal Morrill Land Grant Act ready established a university furnished with Fall 2004 of 1862 to establish the Agricultural, Mining, and so great resources that even to the architects No. of Students 32,814 Mechanical Arts College. (a lavish kind of men) full permission has been Undergraduates 22,880 The college was to teach agricultural, me- given to spare no expense. Amidst the most Graduate Students 9,934 chanical arts, and military tactics “to promote pleasant hills on an elevated site, commanding a Gender Distribution the liberal and practical education of the indus- wide sea view, is to be placed a home of Uni- Male 15,920 trial classes in the several pursuits and profes- versal Science and a seat of the muses.” Female 16,894 sions in life.” Scientific and classical studies John Galen Howard, the supervising archi- were not to be excluded but were of second- tect charged with implementing the Bénard plan, STUDENT ary importance. took advantage of his “permission to spare no The boards of trustees of the College of Cali- expense” and developed a style of architecture COMPOSITION fornia and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechani- that reinterpreted the grace, dignity, and auster- Fall 2004 cal Arts College decided to merge the two ity of classical lines to suit the California envi- A multi-cultural and multi-ethnic campus. schools to their mutual advantage — one had ronment. No ethnic group forms a majority. land but insufficient funds and the other had Some of the campus’s most elegant and stately Native American 219 ample public funds but no land-on the condition structures were built during Howard’s tenure, Asian/Asian American 11,107 that the curricula of both schools be blended to among them the Hearst Memorial Mining Building African American 1,149 form “a complete university.” (1902-7), the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), Cali- Hispanic 3,008 On March 23, 1868, the governor signed into fornia Hall (1905), Doe Library (1911-17), the Caucasian 11,551 law the Organic Act that created the University Campanile (1914), Wheeler Hall (1917), Gilman Other 686 of California. The new university used the former Hall (1917), and Hilgard Hall (1918). No Ethnic Data 2,557 College of California’s buildings in Oakland until President Wheeler, a classical scholar and South Hall and North Hall were completed on the able administrator, attracted library and schol- 192 2006 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 14 COLLEGES NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING CURRENT AND SCHOOLS CAL FACULTY • Haas School of Business CURRENT FACULTY Administration George A. Akerlof Economics 2001 • College of Chemistry Daniel L. McFadden Economics 2000 • School of Education Steven Chu Physics 1997 • College of Engineering Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1986 • College of Environmental Design Charles H. Townes Physics 1964 • School of Information Donald A. Glaser Physics 1960 Management & Systems Owen Chamberlain Physics 1959 • School of Journalism • School of Law DECEASED OR NO LONGER AT CAL • College of Letters & Sciences • College of Natural Resources John C. Harsanyi Economics 1994 • School of Optometry Gerard Debreu Economics 1983 • School of Public Health Czeslaw Milosz Literature 1980 • Goldman School of Public Policy Luis Alvarez Physics 1968 • School of Social Welfare Melvin Calvin Chemistry 1961 Emilio G. Segre Physics 1959 Edwin M. McMillan Chemistry 1951 arship funds, research grants, and a distin- guished faculty to the University, and its reputa- Glenn T. Seaborg Chemistry 1951 tion grew, particularly in the fields of agricul- William F. Giauque Chemistry 1949 ture, the humanities, and engineering. John H. Northrop Chemistry 1946 Many new departments were added in the Wendell M. Stanley Chemistry 1946 early years of his presidency, and existing de- Ernest O. Lawrence Physics 1939 partments expanded. Summer sessions were begun in 1899 to train physics and chemistry teachers and before long broadened their scope. ing program was developed in response to State in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, lead- The University grew with the rapidly expand- Department concern about the poor quality of ing to the development of the first cyclotron by ing population of California and responded to consular personnel. Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human the educational needs of the developing state. In 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul began a presi- polio virus, and the discovery of a string of ele- In the early 1900s the University’s new Col- dency that lasted three decades. His principal ments heavier than uranium. lege of Commerce (now the Haas School of Busi- concern was academic excellence, and he was Nineteen members of the Berkeley faculty ness) trained students for export trade with the committed to attracting brilliant faculty in all fields. have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and Orient and funneled graduates into industries His success was particularly evident in the subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature and businesses throughout the state. physical and biological sciences. and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with During the same period a foreign service train- In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned physical sciences. In 1966, Berkeley was recognized by the American Council on Education as “the best CAL EXCELS IN THE CLASSROOM balanced distinguished university in the country.” • More than 300 student-athletes have cumulative GPAs over 3.00 • 175 student-athletes earned academic all-conference honors in 2005 2006 California Golden Bears Football Media Guide 193 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION ROBERT J. NATHAN BROSTROM JESSE H. CHOPER BIRGENEAU VICE CHANCELLOR – FACULTY CHANCELLOR ADMINISTRATION REPRESENTATIVE Robert J. Birgeneau Vice Chancellor- Jesse Choper, the Earl became the ninth chan- Administration Nathan Warren Professor of cellor of the University of Brostrom joined the Public Law and a former California, Berkeley, on University of California dean of Boalt Hall, serves Sept. 22, 2004. An inter- leadership team on as Cal’s faculty athletics nationally distinguished March 1, 2006. His representative. physicist, he is a leader position combines the Appointed to the FAR in higher education and duties of two previous position in 2004, Choper is well known for his vice chancellors, one in provides oversight and commitment to diversity business and advice in the administra- and equity in the academic community. administrative services and one in budget and tion of the athletics program. He is empowered Before coming to Berkeley, Birgeneau served finance. by the NCAA to represent Cal in dealings with four years as president of the University of As Vice Chancellor – Administration, he is both the NCAA and the Pacific-10 Conference, Toronto. He previously was dean of the School responsible for advising the chancellor and the and advises the chancellor on campus policies of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of executive vice chancellor and provost on all relating to student-athletes.