University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a

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-affiliated university with its main campus in

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, and graduate campuses in

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and

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. It claims to be California's first university, the first independent coeducational campus in California, and the first conservatory of music and first medical school on the

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. Pacific was chartered on July 10, 1851, in

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, under the name California Wesleyan College. The school moved to San Jose in 1871 and then to Stockton in 1923. Pacific is accredited by the

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. In addition to its liberal arts college and graduate school, Pacific has schools of business, dentistry, education, engineering, international studies, law, music, pharmacy, and health sciences. It is home to the papers of environmental pioneer

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in Pacific's Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives. The university also has a John Muir Center that hosts a Muir Symposium to encourage the use of John Muir's Papers. At Pacific's William Knox Holt Memorial Library, there is a museum style presentational space for Muir's Papers. The Muir Experience has on display physical and digital exhibits to inspire user interaction with Muir's work.

History

Pacific was founded on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara. It was originally named California Wesleyan College, but one month later, it petitioned to have its name changed to the University of the Pacific. In 1858, the college opened the first medical school on the

, the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific. The medical school was later affiliated with

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under the name Cooper Medical College, and in 1908 it was taken over by

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and became the

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. In 1871, the campus was moved to San Jose, to an area that came to be known as the College Park neighborhood, and opened its doors to women, becoming the first independent co-educational campus in California. In 1878, the Conservatory of Music was established at Pacific, making it the first of its kind west of the

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. In 1896, Napa College merged with the college. In 1911, the name was changed to College of the Pacific (COP). In 1923, the campus relocated from the

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to the city of Stockton becoming the first private four-year university in the Central Valley. In 1925, the San Jose campus was sold to Santa Clara College which moved its Santa Clara Prep to the campus and renamed it

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. The university expanded into graduate and professional education in the 1950s, establishing the School of Pharmacy in 1955 and the Graduate School in 1956. The School of Engineering was established in 1957. In 1961, the university resumed using the name University of the Pacific. In 1962, Pacific merged with the San Francisco College of Physicians and Surgeons (established in 1896 in

), and then in 1966, with the McGeorge School of Law (established in 1924 in

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). In the late 1960s, when federal law surrounding funding of church-associated universities came into question, Pacific stopped receiving funding from the United Methodist Church, but maintains its affiliation with the church while operating as a non-denominational school. Also in the 1960s, three new colleges were established that were modeled after British universities Oxford and Cambridge, integrating faculty and students into distinct living and learning communities: Raymond College (1962) was introduced as an accelerated, interdisciplinary liberal arts program in which students could shape their courses of study; Elbert Covell College (1963) was a unique inter-American college, with half its students from the U.S. and half from Latin America and classes taught in Spanish; and Callison College (1967) focused on non-western studies, giving students the opportunity to spend a year of their studies in Asia. These independent colleges merged with the rest of the university in 1982. In 2013, the university received an estate gift of $125 million from Robert and Jeanette Powell. It is the largest gift in the university's history. This gift increased Pacific's endowment to $334 million. That same year, Pacific awarded its highest honor, the Order of Pacific, to the Powells. In fall 2018, the university announced a planned tuition increase and budget cuts. This was the third consecutive year of such plans. In response to these financial plans and the perceived secrecy with which they had been developed, faculty voted "no confidence" in the university's president Pamela Eibeck and students protested. In May 2019, the university's board of regents approved a new health school to launch in fall 2020 with four new graduate health care programs. The board also approved merging the Gladys L. Benerd School of Education with University College to form Benerd College, a new school focused on innovative educational programs with flexible pricing and delivery methods, including hybrid and online programs for working adults.

Campuses

Stockton Campus

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films, due to its aesthetic likeness to East Coast

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universities: '' High Time'', ''

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'', '' Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'', '' The Sure Thing'', ''

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's 1973 film '' The World's Greatest Athlete'' was also shot at Pacific. The Stockton Campus is home to three main residential halls: Grace Covell Hall, Southwest Hall, and the Quad Buildings. The Quads are composed of several separate smaller residence halls in proximity to each other. Grace Covell is the largest residence hall on campus holding more than 350 students. Junior and seniors can find housing in the University Townhouses on the northwest side of campus, McCaffrey Center Apartments located in the center of campus or in the three apartment buildings: Monagan Hall, Chan Family Hall, and Calaveras Hall, which is named after the river that flows through the campus, the Calaveras River. There are also fraternity and sorority houses located on campus. In 2008, the university opened the Don and Karen DeRosa University Center (DUC), at a cost of $38 million, to centralize all campus student-centered activities. The DUC houses a central dining hall, student cafe, pub, bookstore and conference centers, replacing facilities in the McCaffrey Center. The university also built a new $20 million Biological Sciences Center in 2008 that provides advanced classroom and laboratory facilities for students studying the natural sciences and the health sciences. The university opened the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold-certified John T. Chambers Technology Center, home of the university's School of Engineering and Computer Science, in 2010. Calaveras Hall, a new apartment-style residence hall, opened in 2018. In 2019, the university renovated the William Knox Holt Memorial Library. The campus is home to

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, a non-denominational church.

Sacramento Campus

Pacific's 13-acre Sacramento Campus houses graduate and professional programs and a degree completion program in the Oak Park neighborhood, south of downtown. It consists of 24 buildings, including academic facilities, four residential facilities, and a fitness center/pool. The campus includes the McGeorge School of Law, which is the only law school approved by the

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in Sacramento County. In 2015, Pacific began a transformation of its Sacramento Campus by adding graduate and professional programs. The campus now houses the School of Health Sciences, alongside McGeorge, with programs focused on law, health sciences, organizational leadership, and public policy.

San Francisco Campus

Pacific's San Francisco Campus is located in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, containing classrooms, administrative offices, a simulation laboratory and clinics offering dental care to the public through the Dugoni School of Dentistry. The San Francisco Campus also includes graduate programs in analytics, audiology, food studies, and music therapy.

Campus sustainability efforts

The university strives to promote environmental responsibility. Students are given opportunities to take part in sustainability service projects through the M.O.V.E. (Mountains, Ocean, Valley Experience) program. The on-campus dining services participates in the Farm to Fork Program, buying food locally where feasible. In 2009, students from the Residence for Earth and Environmental Living and Learning (a campus residential

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), the Students for Environmental Action, and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences designed and implemented the "Tap That" campaign, whose goal was to inform students, faculty and staff about the effects of disposable water bottles on the environment. The university has been listed in the Sierra Club's list of "Cool Schools, " of universities that value sustainability. The university opened several LEED-certified buildings, including the Don and Karen DeRosa University Center, the John T. Chambers Technology Center, and the Vereschagin Alumni House and has an interactive garden program on its Stockton and Sacramento campuses. In 2019, Pacific was ranked eighth for the sustainability of campus buildings by the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. In 2021, Pacific was ranked among the top 10 universities in the world for sustainable food and dining practices on college campuses. Pacific is currently installing solar panels over eight parking lots in the Stockton campus, which will provide over 30% of the energy needs of the Stockton campus once completed. The project also involves the installation of 16 electric car ports, in a partnership with Tesla.

Student demographics

As of 2022, the Stockton Campus had 4,594 students (3,278 undergraduates, 747 graduate, 569 first professional students). The San Francisco Campus had 694 students (16 undergraduates, 180 graduate, 498 first professional students), and the Sacramento Campus had 989 students (478 graduate, 511 first professional students).

Academics

Pacific is accredited by the

and offers more than 80 undergraduate areas of study, including 12 accelerated programs, more than 30 graduate and professional programs in 10 schools and colleges, and a continuing education program. The university's 10 schools and colleges are: *

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: San Francisco * Benerd College: Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco. *

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: The university's school of arts and sciences (liberal arts), Stockton * Conservatory of Music: The first conservatory of music on the west coast, Stockton * Eberhardt School of Business: Stockton * The Graduate School: Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco * Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy: Stockton * McGeorge School of Law: Sacramento * School of Engineering and Computer Science: Stockton * School of Health Sciences: Sacramento

Admissions

Undergraduate admission to University of the Pacific is rated as "more selective" by '' U.S. News & World Report''. For fall 2021, Pacific received 10,854 freshmen applications; 8,606 were admitted (79%). The average

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of enrolled freshmen was 3.82, while the average

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score was 1247.

Rankings

The 2021 '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranking of U.S. colleges and universities ranked University of the Pacific's undergraduate program tied at 133rd in the "Top National Universities" category. Also for 2021, USN&WR ranked Pacific 53rd in "Best Value School," tied at 93rd for "Best College for Veterans," and tied at 36th for "Top Performers on Social Mobility". The 2021 '' Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings'' ranked Pacific 96th out of nearly 800 universities. In 2022 the

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Center on Education and the Workforce ranked Pacific No. 1 in the U.S. in career earnings for low-income students who attend colleges that enroll high percentages of Pell Grant Recipients.

Athletics

Pacific had previously competed in the

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California Collegiate Athletic Association conference but left in 1950. In 1952, Pacific became a charter member of the California Basketball Association, which soon became the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC) and is now the

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(WCC). They remained in the WCAC until joining the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, now known as the

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, in 1969 for football and 1971 for other sports. Pacific dropped football after the 1995 season and returned to the WCC in 2013. Facilities on the Stockton Campus include the 2,500-seat Klein Family Field for baseball, the 350-seat Bill Simoni Field for softball, the 6,150-seat

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for basketball and volleyball, Knoles Field for soccer, Chris Kjeldsen Pool and Pacific Aquatics Center for swimming and water polo, the Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center, and the Janssen-Lagorio Gymnasium and Performance Center. University of the Pacific competes in NCAA Division I athletics as the Pacific Tigers in the West Coast Conference. After over 40 years of being in a conference (the PCAA/Big West) in which they were the only private school ever to have been a member, they returned to a league that is now composed exclusively of private, faith-based schools. (

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is affiliated with the LDS Church,

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with the

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, and the other seven members are

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.) The athletics department sponsors 17 sports: baseball, men's and women's basketball, women's cross country, women's track and field, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, women's volleyball, women's sand volleyball, and men's and women's water polo. The university's two national championships have come in women's volleyball, a sport in which the school advanced to 24 straight NCAA Tournaments (1981–2004) and appeared in nine Final Fours (2 AIAW, 7 NCAA). In fall 2019, the university hosted the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championships, where Pacific finished as the national runner-up.

Administration

On July 1, 2020, Christopher Callahan became the university's 26th president. Callahan, the founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at

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, was selected after a nationwide search and a unanimous decision by the university's board of regents. The president is selected by the university's board of regents. The board has up to 35 members, many of whom are alumni, and strives to include graduates of all three campuses and professional schools. Former members include former NASA Astronaut José M. Hernández and former

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owner Alex G. Spanos.

Fraternities and sororities

About 10% of students are members of a social fraternity or sorority at University of the Pacific, where there are three on-campus social fraternity houses and three on-campus social sorority houses overseen by the university. In addition to the four social fraternities and three social sororities, there are four multicultural organizations. There are also a variety of professional organizations and fraternities.

Fraternities

* Theta Chi—Iota Eta chapter *

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—Kappa Nu chapter * Sigma Chi—Kappa Sigma chapter *

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—Eta Kappa chapter

Sororities

* Alpha Phi—Iota Gamma chapter * Delta Gamma—Delta Epsilon chapter * Kappa Alpha Theta—Phi chapter

Multicultural fraternities

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—Alpha Nu chapter * Xi Chi Sigma

Multicultural sororities

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- Sigma chapter *

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- Delta chapter

Professional fraternities

* Alpha Chi Sigma—Chemistry: Beta Pi chapter *

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—Pre-Health: Tau chapter *

Delta Sigma Pi Delta Sigma Pi () (officially the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, Inc.) is a coeducational professional business fraternity and one of the largest in the United States. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the School ...

—Business: Lambda Mu chapter * Kappa Delta Epsilon—Honors Education Fraternity: Delta Eta chapter *

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—Pharmacy: Gamma Nu chapter *

Mu Phi Epsilon Mu Phi Epsilon () is a co-ed international professional fraternity, professional music fraternity. It has over 75,000 members in 227 collegiate chapters and 113 Alumnus/a, alumni chapters in the US and abroad. History Mu Phi Epsilon was founde ...

—Music: Mu Eta chapter *

Rho Pi Phi Rho Pi Phi International Pharmaceutical Fraternity () is a co-ed professional fraternity that dedicates itself to the profession of pharmacy and to friendship, professionalism, and community service. Rho Pi Phi was founded on January 20, 1919 ...

—Pharmacy: Lambda Sigma Delta chapter * Omega Eta Epsilon—Language: Alpha chapter *

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—Pharmacy: Alpha Psi * Phi Epsilon Kappa—Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences: Eta Kappa chapter * Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia—Music: Beta Pi chapter * Sigma Alpha Iota—Music: Eta Omega chapter *

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—Earth Sciences: Eta Upsilon chapter *

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—Engineering: Lambda Delta chapter *

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—Pharmacy: Alpha Xi

Service fraternities

Alpha Phi Omega Alpha Phi Omega (), commonly known as APO, but also A-Phi-O and A-Phi-Q, is a coeducational service fraternity. It is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of over 25,0 ...

— Alpha Alpha Xi chapter, Section A-2, Region A - Installed 3/28/1981

Honor societies

* Beta Alpha Psi *

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* Mortar Board * Omicron Delta Epsilon *

Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha Theta () is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. It has more than 400,000 members, with new members numbering about 9,000 a year through its 970 chapters. Founding Phi Alpha The ...

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

Phi Kappa Phi The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (or simply Phi Kappa Phi or ) is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study, and to promote the "unity and democracy of education ...

* Rho Chi *

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Notable alumni

* Arif Alvi, MS 1984, 13th

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, BA 1996, Newbery Medal-winning author * Irene Roberts (mezzo-soprano), 2006, mezzo-soprano with the Deutsche Oper Berlin *

Brad Schumacher Bradley Darrell Schumacher (born March 6, 1974) is an American former competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer ...

, 1997, 2005, Olympian: 1996 swimming, two-time gold medalist, and 2000 water polo * Robert D. Sharp, BA, seventh Director of the

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. *

Alex Spanos Alexander Gus Spanos (September 28, 1923 – October 9, 2018) was an American billionaire real estate developer, founder of the A. G. Spanos Companies, and the majority owner of the San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football Lea ...

, owner of the Los Angeles Chargers, real estate developer *

Robert M. Widney Robert Maclay Widney (December 23, 1838 – November 14, 1929) was an American lawyer, judge, and one of the founders of the University of Southern California (USC). History He was born in Piqua, Ohio. He was the older brother of Joseph Widne ...

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Pacific Athletics website
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University of the Pacific University of the Pacific may refer to: *University of the Pacific (Colombia) *University of the Pacific (Ecuador) *University of the Pacific (Peru) * University of the Pacific (United States) *University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh * University of ...