December 15, 2016
Last week’s student forum on the Merced 2020 Project started with a history lesson.
Space constraints are nothing new at UC Merced. When the campus first opened, Chancellor Dorothy Leland said, students took classes in interesting makeshift spaces such as the California Room.
“Can you imagine that?” she asked attendees. “One hundred students utilizing the California Room as a space to learn, grow and interact with faculty. In fact, class labs were held at Castle Air Force Base. Students traveled together on CatTracks to get there.”
Read more about the forum here.
