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| Motto | Ars Longa, Vita Brevis[1] |
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Motto in English | Life is short, Art endures |
| Type | Residential college |
| Established | 1969 |
| Provost | Sean Keilen |
| Undergraduates | 1,526[2] |
| Address | University of California , , 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |
| Campus | Suburban/Sylvan |
| Colors | UCSC Blue UCSC Gold |
| Website | www.porter.ucsc.edu/ |
Benjamin F. Porter College, known colloquially as Porter College, is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is located on the lower west side of the university, south of Kresge College and north of Rachel Carson College. The college was founded in 1969 as College Five and formally dedicated on November 21, 1981. On that day the college was given the motto Ars Longa, Vita Brevis (Art endures, Life is short), and a series of college symbols, including a faculty mace and a college bell, were inaugurated.
The faculty of the college has had a distinguished leadership. The provosts of the college have included the writer James B. Hall, the painter and psychologist Pavel Machotka, filmmaker Eli Hollander and composer David Cope. In early years, the college community was famous for Friday-afternoon sherry hours and afternoon croquet matches on the quad, suggesting that "l'esprit de Santa Cruz" was not far from that of Oxbridge.
- ^ About Porter Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 24, 2010
- ^ Fall Quarter Undergraduates by College (Historical), Fall 2006 data, accessed July 17, 2007