Eleanor Roosevelt College

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icon=Roosevelt.gif|240px|ERC Logo (Trademark of UC Regents)
Motto=Developing World Citizens Through Scholarship, Leadership, and Service
Year=1988
Order=Fifth
Provost=Ann L. Craig
Dean of Students=Patricia Goen (Scott)
Asst. Dean of Students=Pedro Scotto
Dean of Academics=Sarah Spear-Barrett
Resident Dean=Rey Guerrero
Students=3,370
UCSD Percentage=17%
Status=undergraduate, liberal arts
Core Course=Making of the Modern World (MMW)
Festival=Rockin' Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt College (or ERC) is one of the six colleges located on the campus at the University of California, San Diego. The college was named after former American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a humanitarian as well as a champion of international cooperation and a major member of the early United Nations.

Founding and Academic Philosophy

The college was founded as Fifth College in 1988 in the final declining years of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and like UCSD's other colleges, reflects the time and era in which it was built. In the case of Roosevelt, the college was designed to move away from the strict "us-versus-them" worldview that characterized much of twentieth century political thought in hopes of creating a concept of global community and international cooperation. The college's motto is "Developing World Citizens Through Scholarship, Leadership, and Service," and it seeks to make that concept a reality by encouraging its students to think globally and interact on an international rather than local level.

Academic Requirements

Like all six colleges, ERC has a set list of academic requirements, often known as General Education Requirements, or GE's. ERC's educational requirements stress international learning and global interaction, and include proficiency in a foreign language, non-western art, as well as its own writing course--Making of the Modern World (MMW).

MMW is a core writing course that seeks to combine various disciplines including history, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and visual arts into a six-quarter (two year) writing course that offers a survey of the sum total of world history--not just from a eurocentric perspective, but from a more international view, including developments in China, India, Africa, and the Americas.

Location and Residence Facilities

Eleanor Roosevelt College was originally opened in 1988 in the southeastern corner of campus, the traditional "staging area" for new UCSD colleges near the Veterans Hospital and Interstate 5 surrounding the area known as Pepper Canyon. In 2003, however, following the opening of Sixth College the previous year, the college moved to its current, multimillion dollar location designed by the architect Moshe Safdie. The residential facilities are named after various global regions and seek to integrate the philosophy of the college into their design as well. There are five residence halls for freshmen students:

*Africa Hall
*Asia Hall
*Europe Hall
*Latin America Hall
*North America Hall

In addition, there are six apartment complexes for returning students:
*Earth Hall North
*Earth Hall South
*Middle East Hall
*Oceania Hall
*Geneva Hall
*Mesa Verde Hall

Finally, ERC also is home to UCSD's International House, which contains three building complexes, named after cultural sites around the globe:

*Asante House
*Cuzco House
*Kathmandu House

Geneva, Mesa Verde, Asante, Cuzco and Kathmandu are all named after World Heritage Sites, one from each region labeled in the freshman residence halls: Africa (Asante), Asia (Kathmandu), Europe (Geneva), Latin America (Cuzco), and North America (Mesa Verde).

Organization

As with all UCSD colleges, Eleanor Roosevelt College is headed by a provost, who is the organizational leader of the institution. The College is then broken down into academic affairs and student affairs. Academic Advising programs are under the academic affairs wing, while the office of student affairs is responsible for student programming as well as the residence life program at ERC. Both Student Affairs and Academic Affairs departments are headed by a Dean, with a hierarchical chain of staff beneath them.

Student Groups

ERC hosts many different student organizations in order to foster and facilitate community, including:

*SCERC (Student Council at ERC)
*PERC (Programming at ERC)
*CORE (Community OutReach Effort)
*BSERC (Bible Study at ERC)
*SPERC (Spirit at ERC)
*ERC-Television (home to several programs)

ERC was the Spirit Night champion (a yearly competition held over one week between the UCSD colleges) for the 2005-2006 academic year. ERC also won Spirit Night in 1988 as Fifth College, which was its first year as a college.

External links

* [http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/ Official Website]
* [http://colleges.ucsd.edu/ Overview of UCSD's College System]