San Diego
The University of California Board of Regents approved the design Friday for the new Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. When completed, it will be the first graduate school in the United States to focus exclusively on nations bordering the Pacific Ocean.
Construction is expected to begin in April, 1988, with a completion date scheduled for July, 1989, according to UC San Diego.
The school will consist of four buildings designed by architects Clark/Beck and Associates of San Diego in association with Kaplan, McLaughlin and Dias of San Francisco. It will be on a two-acre site next to the Institute of Americas in the northwestern section of the campus.
The buildings will house classrooms, administrative offices, meeting rooms, a library, research areas and a student commons, university spokeswoman Winifred Cox said.
The school will prepare students for careers in businesses that operate in the countries that border the Pacific Ocean, considered to be an area rapidly becoming more important in terms of world economy, culture, and politics, the university said.
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