UC Merced
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| Motto | Fiat lux (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Let there be light |
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | 2005 |
| Endowment | $38.6 million (2015) |
| Chancellor | Dorothy Leland |
| Provost | Tom Peterson |
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Academic staff
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264 |
| Students | 6,268 (Fall 2014) |
| Undergraduates | 5,884 (Fall 2014) |
| Postgraduates | 384 (Fall 2014) |
| Location |
Merced, California, U.S. 37°21′58″N 120°25′25″W / 37.366°N 120.4235°WCoordinates: 37°21′58″N 120°25′25″W / 37.366°N 120.4235°W |
| Campus | Rural, 810 acres (330 ha); 7,045 acres (2,851 ha) total |
| Colors | Royal blue and gold |
| Athletics | NAIA – Cal-Pac |
| Nickname | Golden Bobcats |
| Mascot | Bobcat |
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University of California WASC |
| Website | www |
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| University rankings | |
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| National | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 152 |
| Global | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 687 |
The University of California, Merced (UC Merced or UCM), is the tenth and newest of the University of California campuses. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley in unincorporated Merced County, California, near Merced just north of Fresno, California. Established in 2005, UC Merced is the first American research university to be built in the 21st century. Most UC Merced students are from California with enrollment nearly evenly divided between Southern California, the Central Valley, and Northern California.
UC Merced claims to be the only institution in the United States to have all of its buildings on campus to be LEED certified. Its Triple Net Zero Commitment is expected to create zero net landfill waste and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020.
As the San Joaquin Valley was the state's largest and most populous region without a UC campus, on May 19, 1988, the Regents of the University of California voted to begin planning for a campus in the region in response to increasing enrollment and growth constraints at existing UC campuses. On May 19, 1995, the Regents selected the heart of the Central Valley at the Merced site, midway between Fresno and Modesto, as the location for the University of California's tenth campus. An $11 million Packard Grant for 7,030 acres (2,840 hectares) of land was donated by the Virginia Smith Trust, adjacent to Lake Yosemite, making it the largest acreage the University of California has acquired for one of its campuses. The university planned to conserve 5,030 acres (2,040 ha) from the sensitive vernal pool habitations. A public golf course known as the Merced Hills Golf Course had been constructed at the site in the early 1990s. This course was shut down to make way for the new campus when the original site for the campus was made unavailable due to the discovery of fairy shrimp - an endangered species - on the originally proposed site. Since the construction of the golf course had negated concerns about wetland and vernal pool environment considerations, building the campus at this location was easier than fighting to save the original construction site. Two small bridges on campus date from the time of the golf course.
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