Editing University of California (section)

===Academic organization===
[[File:McHenry Library UCSC.jpg|thumb|right|[[McHenry Library]] at UC Santa Cruz.]]
Davis, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Barbara all followed Berkeley's example by aggregating the majority of [[College of Arts and Sciences|arts, humanities, and science departments]] into a relatively large College of Letters and Science. Therefore, at [[UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science|Berkeley]], [[UC Davis College of Letters and Science|Davis]], [[UCLA College of Letters and Science|Los Angeles]], and [[UCSB College of Letters and Science|Santa Barbara]], their respective College of Letters and Science is by far the single largest academic unit on each campus. The College of Letters and Science at Los Angeles is the largest academic unit in the entire UC system.<ref name="UCLAGeneralCatalog">{{cite book |last1=UCLA Registrar's Office Academic Publications |title=UCLA General Catalog 2021–22 |date=2021 |publisher=Regents of the University of California |location=Los Angeles |url=https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/browse/College%20and%20Schools/CollegeofLettersandScience/Overview |access-date=September 24, 2021 |chapter=College of Letters and Science |archive-date=May 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519034458/https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/browse/College%20and%20Schools/CollegeofLettersandScience/Overview |url-status=live }}</ref> Riverside later [[UCR College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences|separated the natural sciences]] and kept only [[UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences|social sciences grouped with arts and humanities]], an example followed by Merced at its founding (although Merced organizes its departments into schools and not colleges).

Due to President Kerr's interest in not reproducing the impersonal undergraduate experience often seen in such gigantic academic units, San Diego and Santa Cruz both implemented [[residential college]] systems inspired by British models (in which each college has distinctive general education requirements reflecting its chosen theme)<ref name="ClarkKerr5">{{cite book |last1=Kerr |first1=Clark |title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1 |date=2001 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=9780520223677 |pages=273–280 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA273 |access-date=July 20, 2020 |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905061444/https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> and grouped most academic departments into a small number of broadly defined divisions which are all independent of the colleges. In February 2022, San Diego turned its divisions into schools.

Irvine is organized into 13 schools and San Francisco is organized into four schools, all of which are relatively narrow in scope. Originally, Irvine was also going to have a College of Letters and Science, like Berkeley. But the original UCI plan, written by [[Ivan Hinderaker]], granted the college's five divisions so much autonomy from one another that by 1967, the UCI Academic Senate voted to transform the divisions into "schools" whose deans would report directly to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_419">{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/419 419]}}</ref>