Why not Santa Ana? When Santa Ana College student Lucero Garcia visited Mercado Gonzalez for the first time, she asked herself not only, “‘Why Costa Mesa?’ but also, ‘Why not Santa Ana?’” Garcia lives in the Spectrum apartments in downtown Santa Ana, across from the former North...
is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a 1,022-acre (4.1 km) site in Santa Barbara, California, 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Founded as an independent teachers' college, UCS...