Did you know that the UC Davis College of Letters and Science was founded with just five major departments: Botany, Chemistry, Zoology, English, and History? Letters and Science was established as the second college at UC Davis in 1951, alongside the College of Agriculture.
When transfer students arrive at UC Davis, it has always taken months before they get their academic credits evaluated. Without evaluation, they don’t know what courses they will need to graduate on time. Academic advisor Colin Goulding recently led a cross-campus effort so new transfers could plan their classes before fall registration closed. For this work, UC Davis honored Goulding with this year’s Outstanding Campus Collaborator Academic Advising Award.
Temporary Building 9, or TB 9, a metal structure constructed from old military surplus materials, has been the main creative space at UC Davis since the 1960s. The building is where the first-generation art faculty at the university’s first art department created a place to work.
Celeste Turner Wright was the first chair of the Department of English and the first woman to serve on the UC Davis faculty. She was a prolific scholar and played a fundamental role in developing the humanities at UC Davis.
The year 1969 was the beginning of what would become African American and African, Asian American, Chicana/o and Native American studies programs. Since then, these programs have been a catalyst for social and political action on campus and beyond, and cultivated a lifelong commitment to making a difference.
