UCSD CAMPUS NOTICE University of California, San Diego |
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OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR October 26, 1998 ALL AT UCSD SUBJECT: Proposition 1A, Class Size Reduction Kindergarten-University Public Facilities Bond Act of 1998 I would like to inform you about Proposition 1A, which will appear on the November 3rd ballot, and its impact on UCSD. The Proposition is called the Class Size Reduction Kindergarten-University Public Facilities Bond Act of 1998. Proposition 1A is a statewide bond measure that would provide $9.2 billion to strengthen, repair and build public education facilities in California. Of the total, $6.7 billion would be used to construct and renovate K-12 schools. The state's three segments of public higher education--the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges--would equally share the remaining $2.5 billion in bond funds. The measure would fund capital improvements at all nine UC campuses and initial development of the university's planned 10th campus at Merced. Funding from Prop. 1A would be used to strengthen UC buildings against earthquakes, renovate aging classroom and laboratory buildings, and modernize outdated infrastructure. The bond measure also would fund new facilities to accommodate rapidly growing student enrollments, including several major projects to house programs in the sciences. Projects at UCSD to be funded by Prop. 1A include: · A new building for the natural sciences departments of Biology, Chemistry/Biochemistry and Physics. It will include instructional laboratories, research laboratories and office space, bringing together biologically oriented disciplines in an effort to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among students, researchers and faculty. The Division of Natural Sciences already is the single largest teaching and research entity on the general campus at UCSD, with undergraduate majors in the division representing 40 percent of the campus total. · Eleanor Roosevelt College, the newest member of UCSD's family of colleges, would receive funds for classrooms, a computing facility and other state of the art program space. · The Jacobs School of Engineering, expected to undergo tremendous growth in enrollment in the next decade, would receive funds to construct Engineering Building Unit 3 to provide instruction and research facilities for a combination of bioengineering and computer science programs. Supporters of Prop. 1A include the UC Board of Regents, California Taxpayers Association, California Chamber of Commerce and Congress of California Seniors. The ballot pamphlet argument opposing the measure was signed by People's Advocate Inc., the National Tax Limitation Committee and Assemblyman Tom McClintock, who maintain the measure is too large and that this year's state budget surplus could have been used to pay for education facilities. Robert C. Dynes Chancellor |