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  1. Founding. In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds ...

  2. The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley , it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system.

  3. CSHE University of California History Websource. Since its creation by the 1868 Organic Act, the ten-campus University of California system has been a potent force in California’s emergence as one of the most diverse and dynamic societies in the world. CSHE research on the University’s rich history has produced a definitive account of the ...

  4. The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. [5]

  5. March 23, aka Charter Day, has long been a day to celebrate the birth of UC and all it has accomplished in pushing forward the boundaries of the possible. While Charter Day is a celebration of UC’s founding, it is also a day to recognize the once-hidden truths behind it. Land sold through the Morrill Act was expropriated from Native Nations ...

  6. About Berkeley. The University of California was founded in 1868, born out of a vision in the State Constitution of a university that would “contribute even more than California’s gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations.”.

  7. Public university in Berkeley, California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10][11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land ...

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