Thurgood Marshall College

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Thurgood Marshall College
UC San Diego
Coordinates	32°52′57″N 117°14′30″W / 32.882575°N 117.241605°W / 32.882575; -117.241605
Motto	Developing the Scholar and the Citizen
Established	1970 (Third)
Status	Undergraduate, Liberal Arts
Colors	Marshall Red
Provost	Dr. Leslie Carver
Deans	Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Amber Vlasnik Dean of Academic Advising Emily J. Gonzales Director of Residential Life Joanne Engler Director of Dimensions of Culture Program Dr. Amanda Solomon Amorao Associate Director of Dimensions of Culture Program Dr. Emily R. Johnston
Residents	3,937 [1] (15.9% of UCSD undergraduate population)
Core course	Dimensions of Culture (DOC)
Major events	Festival: Marshall Palooza

Thurgood Marshall College (Marshall) is one of the eight undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. The college, named after Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and lawyer for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, emphasizes "scholarship, social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of [one's] role in society." Marshall College's general education requirements emphasize the culture of community involvement and multiculturalism; accordingly Marshall houses the minors in Public Service and Film Studies for the campus. Significant academic programs and departments have come out of the college over many decades: Communication, Ethnic Studies, Third World Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies & Planning, and Education Studies.

Founded as Third College in 1970 amid the student activism of the period, TMC's original aim was to help students understand their own community through a critical examination of diversity and community in the United States. Marshall College's required writing program is called Dimensions of Culture (DOC), and is a 3 quarter (1 year) sequence that explores race, identity, imagination, tradition, and the law in the United States. During President Obama's administration, the White House honored UC San Diego and Marshall College's Public Service minor and charter school outreach as exemplary community service institutions serving the United States.^[2]