University of California-Davis

at Berkeley enrolled at Davis for a single semester to obtain practical training on an actual farm alongside the Farm School students, but had to return to Berkeley to earn their degrees. Because the non-degree program at Davis was so disconnected from the traditional degree programs on the main Berkeley campus, agricultural interests began to agitate to separate Davis and the entire College of Agriculture from the University of California. This forced the regents in 1922 to silence such proposals by initially authorizing a two-year undergraduate program at Davis. By sharing faculty members between Berkeley and Davis and hiring a few more faculty members, the university was able to provide almost all courses of a "complete undergraduate program" at Davis—that is, a four-year program leading to the bachelor's degree. The first class graduated from Davis in 1926.
UC regularly appointed faculty members to joint positions at both Berkeley and Davis. This was possible because the two campuses are separated by only …