

But the university is not immune to its impact on the city around it, so great effort is made to reach agreement with city leaders and the local population to ensure a relatively comfortable town-gown relationship. In fact, it is the largest employer in Yolo County, by a wide margin, employing 11,704 "full-time equivalents" with an additional 1,289 season FTEs (2011 Sacramento Business Journal figures).

UC Davis is virtually a city within a city, unbound by most City of Davis rules - in fact, campus provides its own infrastructure including water supply, streets, sanitation, airport, police force and fire department. UC Davis, also referred to as "UCD," "The College", " Campus", or " University of California, Davis" (on official documents), is the institute of higher education that impacts most everything in our bucolic town.

One of the trademark UC Davis Water Towers.
