News Scrapbook 1962-1964

9 Campuses Point To 21st Century

By CHARLES DAVIS

Now with 14,020 students on its rolls and destined to reach 28,000 by 1975, SDS has built status as well as class- rooms. It is a prestigious source of engineering and sci en ti f i c talent, teachers and business minds. One logical future step at San Diego State may be joining with the Uni- versity of California's rapidly develop- ing La Jolla campus in issuing doc- tor's degrees, initially in science fields. The UC campus inside the northern San Diego city limits dates its history from 1912, when a seaside site was picked for what has since become the world . renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scripps' fleet is at any rat the biggest group of vessels in the country for oceanographic research. The Y (Continued on Page 22)

An Investment in brains is one way of looking at the many:facete~ ex- pansion of public and private higher education in the San Diego area. Now in the classrooms and labo• ratories are some 28,000 investors. These students will increase by the thousands in the foreseeable future. San Diego has breadth, diversity and vast potential at San Diego State, the University of California, Univer- sity of San Diego, California. Wes!ern University and five metropolitan Jun• ior colleges. It has two law schools, and a medi- cal school will accept its first students in the fall of 1967. The oldest institution ln terms of its location here, is San Diego State. It started as a two-year normal school in 1897, grew to a four-year liberal arts college in 1934 and added grad- uate classes in 1949.

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Cal Western: New design for living.

UC San Diego looks to the future.

Nine Campuses Point To 21st Century

probe the seven seas. Meantime, the university campus has added a challenging spectrum of • graduate Instruction and research. Its faculty includes two Nobel laureates and 14 members of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. Entering next fall will be the cam- pus' Initial complement of 150 or more freshmen The cu1Ticulum they lace will be demanding, exciting and, in the main, unlike none other in the country. First-year students for example, without exception, will study calculus, analytical geometry and linear alge. bra that are plann d tq hold as much meaning for tutu humanists as for future science majors UCSD will soar In 1970 t Is planned to house 3.225 undergtaduates and 1,950 graduate students. By 1975 its enrollments are expected to reach 19 385; by the year 2000, the total will

be 27,500. To accommodate them all the uni- versity plans a $300 million campus of 12 autonomous colleges. The idea is to maintain individuality of students in a big campus environment. After admitting the first undergrad- uates In September, UCSD's next land- mark will be to open a medical school in two years It will be the first of se,..eral professonal schools. Medical students, at the outset, will do most of their training at the new $12 million County Hospital, later spending increased time on campus. Still later a cooperative arrangement ls envl ioned with the planned $30 mil- lion Veterans Hospital The medical school will be the third such publicly supported institution In the state Within a few years, it will turn out -clasRes of 100. I faculty will total 146. In San Diego, the fast st growing

segment pf higher education in jun- ior -colleges. There was one such col• lege In the metropolitan area four years ago; today there are five. In addition, there are commercial ventures such as Electronic Technical Institute and business schools Behind California's public, locally junior colleges are ideas that have Just begun to dawn in other states. Chief among them is two years of quality, tuition . free education be- yond high school. San Diego City, San Diego Mesa, San Diego Evening, Grossmont and South- western colleges strive to train stu- dents for careers, to Instill in them general knowledge, to build cuJtural values and to provide courses the equal of any in the four-year state colleges and unh erslty to which junior college students may transfer after two years Growing \l.ith San Diego· publicly supported .in ti t·ons ar<> California controlled

Western University, started in 1952, and the University of San Diego, for which ground was broken in 1949. Both universities have their own law schools, the only law schools between Los Angeles and the Mexican border. Both have developed in recent years and are accredited. USD, operated under the San Diego Catholic Diocese, has some l,200 stu• dents at Its College for Men and Col• lege for Women, the latter operated by the Society of the Sacred Heart. Enrollment at California Western, 1,816 now, ls expected to reach 6,000 in 10 years. Recently, a three-story $500,000 classroom building was an- nounced to help meet expansion needs. The colleges and universities of San Diego arc there to develop talent. They are an investment In the future not only for students enrolled In them, but the community which is served by them

University of San Diego, on the proud eminence of Alcala Park, resembles a city of old Spain.