Destined to Become a Department? Urban Studies at UC San Diego, 1969 to 2025
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This official act was the culmination of a planning process begun fifty years earlier.It began as an item on a list of student activists' demands.In Winter quarter 1969, when faculty planning for Third College (later to be renamed Thurgood Marshall College) was already long underway, the Black Student Council (BSC) set to work drafting an independent plan for a college where Black and Chicano students, in the words of Angela Davis, "could acquire the knowledge and skills we needed in order to more effectively wage our liberation struggles." 2 The earliest draft of this plan that can be found in the UC San Diego archives-an undated typescript proposal for "Patrice Lumumba College," with penciled corrections that may have been introduced at the request of the Mexican-American Youth Association (MAYA)-outlined a curriculum in "Urban and Rural Development" alongside several other core courses.Chancellor William McGill later wrote that he opposed the curriculum demands of the BSC and MAYA as "Third World propaganda unworthy of a university." 3 What the student activists specifically requested under the heading of Urban and Rural Development, however, was little more than an opportunity to learn about mainstream city planning."Among the topics to be covered are housing, transportation, environmental control, nutrient procurement, elimination, and fair 1 Elizabeth H. Simmons to Pradeep K.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.039 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".