Crown College (California)
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For the Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, see Crown College (Minnesota).
Crown College is one of the residential colleges that makes up the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Located on the upper northern side of campus by Merrill College, Crown also borders the newly constructed Colleges Nine and Ten. Crown is made up of eight three-floor residence halls as well as having about half of the Crown-Merrill apartment buildings. The UCSC fire station is located in Crown.
Founded in 1967 when the Chancellor Dean E. McHenry invited Kenneth V. Thimann to come to Santa Cruz and head what would become Crown College and to build the science faculty at UCSC.
Because of its strong science-related roots and continuing tradition, all of the student residence buildings have science-related themes and names: Gauss House, Galen House, Rutherford House, Harvey and Maxwell Houses, etc...
Crown is also home to a decent (for college) dining hall and a cafe that, in fitting with the UCSC tradition, is called Banana Joes, or just BJ's for short.
External links
- Crown College home page (http://www2.ucsc.edu/crown)
- UC Santa Cruz home page (http://www.ucsc.edu/)
- UCSC statistics by residential college (http://planning.ucsc.edu/irps/enrollmt/FACTS03/Default.htm)