Merrill College
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Merrill College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The theme of the college, and the name of its freshman core course, is Cultural Identities and Global Consciousness.
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[edit] Location
Merrill is located at the extreme northeastern corner of campus, east of Crown College and north of Cowell and Stevenson colleges. Situated at the top of a steep hill, Merrill has the smallest acreage of any UCSC college.
[edit] History and architecture
Merrill was founded in 1968 as the fourth college at UCSC. The first three colleges at Santa Cruz all had clearly identified academic specialties before their founding: Cowell in the humanities, Stevenson in the social sciences, and Crown in the natural sciences. However, Merrill allowed its early faculty and students to determine its theme, which eventually came to center on the Third World.
The San Francisco architectural firm of Campbell and Wong designed the buildings at Merrill College. In another break from the first colleges, Merrill did not focus on California-Mediterranean buildings centered on a quad, but instead comprised more starkly modern structures loosely arranged around a pocket of redwood trees. Most of the buildings were completed by 1970; the Crown-Merrill Apartments were added in 1986.
[edit] Academic emphases
Merrill is a campus center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and houses both the LALS academic offices and the Casa Latina library and resource center.
[edit] College programs
Merrill has the only pottery co-op in the Santa Cruz colleges. It also houses the Lionel Cantu Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Resource Center.
[edit] External links
- Merrill College home page
- UC Santa Cruz home page
- UCSC statistics by residential college
- Merrill Pottery Co-op
- GLBTI Resource Center
