Pacific Magazine

Pacific is building impactful buildings and making upgrades in such areas as technology, health care, athletics and more. These efforts serve the most students in the history of California’s first and oldest university, as they use expanding spaces to study, work and play. 

“We’ve been blessed with fantastic student leaders the whole time that I’ve been here. It’s really important to meet and build solid relationships with them because they’re speaking for their constituents as elected officials,” says President Christopher Callahan. Each month, he meets with his counterpart in student governance and her deputy, as he has with each of their predecessors since joining Pacific in 2020.

Since the launch of the Community Involvement Program more than half a century ago, Pacific has worked diligently to shift the tide for thousands of students, closing the gap between access and achievement.

Over the past 100 years, Pacific has produced innovators, change-makers and visionaries. Generations of Tigers have left their mark on the world by improving the human condition and prevailing against the odds.

Detecting ripples in space. Discovering previously unknown exoplanets. Finding the most distant galaxies in the universe. They’re among the most exciting astronomical advances of the 21st century—and Pacific’s professors are helping bring them to light.

Over the last year, six coaches moved into new head positions in the department of athletics. At the center of the changes is Dave Smart, new coach of the men's basketball program, who arrived at Pacific as one of the most successful Canadian college basketball coaches of all time. 

It’s hard to imagine that before Pacific moved its campus to Stockton in 1924, the original plot of land was nothing more than a wheatfield. Today, Pacific stands as a paragon of Collegiate Gothic architecture and is consistently recognized as one of the most beautiful college campuses in America.