Editing University of California, Davis (section)

===Promotion to general campus===

For much of its early history, Davis was treated as an offsite department of the main campus in Berkeley, and its chief administrative officer was a director who reported to the dean of the College of Agriculture at Berkeley.<ref name="DavisProspectus">{{cite journal |title=Prospectus of the College of Agriculture, 1925-1926 |journal=University of California Bulletin  |series=Third Series |date=May 1925 |volume=18 |issue=3 |page=Inside front cover |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PX3xXB6LOoC&pg=PP2}} This source indicates that by 1925, the College of Agriculture was stating that letters of inquiry should be addressed to either the dean of the college at Berkeley or the director of the "branch" of the college at Davis.  Before the [[World Wide Web]] was invented, persons interested in learning about a particular academic institution had to send a request by [[mail]] for a "prospectus" which was a glorified [[brochure]].</ref> In 1944, the title became assistant dean and in 1951, the title was upgraded to [[Provost (education)|provost]]. In May 1952, the university appointed [[Harry R. Wellman]] as its first vice-president—agricultural sciences in charge of a new Division of Agriculture, which included the existing statewide College of Agriculture at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and Riverside; the agricultural extension field stations; and the county farm offices.<ref name="Stadtman_Page358">{{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/358 358]}}</ref> The provosts at Davis and Riverside reported to the president through this new vice-president (rather than through the College of Agriculture).<ref name="Stadtman_Page358" />

[[Stanley B. Freeborn]] served as Davis's first provost from 1952 to 1958 and then as its first chancellor from 1958 to 1959 (in anticipation of its promotion to a general campus).<ref name="Dingemans_Page_46">{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA46 |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref> However, Freeborn retired in 1959 after only one year as chancellor, then died the next year.

In October 1959, Davis was formally designated by the regents as a general campus and its chancellor was vested with the same autonomy as the chancellors at UC Berkeley and UCLA—meaning that like them, Davis's chancellor would now report directly to the university's president.<ref name="Stadtman_Page406">{{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|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/406 406–407]}}</ref> The Board of Regents declared that Davis's College of Agriculture "will continue to be the University's major center of teaching and research in agriculture, which will remain a dominant emphasis".<ref name="Stadtman_Page406" /> The board also suggested that the Davis campus should give "special attention" to "opportunities" to be of service to the state government due to its proximity to the state capital at [[Sacramento]].<ref name="Stadtman_Page406" /> Finally, the board set an enrollment target of 6,000 students by 1970.<ref name="Stadtman_Page406" />

Most of Davis's initial development as a UC general campus was supervised by its second chancellor, [[Emil M. Mrak]], who served from 1959 to 1969.<ref name="Dingemans_Page_57">{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA57 |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref> Mrak fondly recalled his bicycle-riding days as a child among the orchards of the [[Santa Clara Valley]], and during his chancellorship, he worked hard to make the Davis campus into a [[bicycle-friendly]] place.<ref name="Dingemans_Page_57" /> When Mrak retired in 1969, the campus administration building was named Mrak Hall in his honor.<ref name="Dingemans_Page_58">{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA58 |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref>

Davis's Graduate Division was established in 1961. This was followed by the creation of the College of Engineering in 1962.<ref name="Stadtman_Page406" /> The School of Law opened for classes in fall 1966, and the School of Medicine began instruction in fall 1968.<ref name="Stadtman_Page406" /> In a period of increasing activism, a [[Native American studies]] program was started in 1969, one of the first at a major university; it was later developed into a full department within the university.