Vacation at Your Alma Mater; UCSD Hosting Campus Holidays

Part vacation, part college flashback, the Triton Summer Experience offers alumni the chance to relive their college experience at UC San Diego and explore some of the campus’ most innovative programs amid a relaxing schedule of beach time, fitness classes and dining on local cuisine. A weeklong adventure happening this July, the new program seeks to reunite alumni with their alma mater—especially those who don’t live in San Diego and would like to introduce their family to the place where they spent their early formative years.

“Our goal is to bridge the alumni generation gap and begin a legacy. Although we are still a young university, we are already into our second and third generation of alumni,” said Anita Trevino Neubarth, business development coordinator for Housing, Dining and Hospitality. “This new program presents an opportunity for alumni with young families to introduce their children to UC San Diego, and possibly inspire them to attend when it is their time to choose a college.”

The itinerary includes a diverse set of activities designed to both entertain and intellectually inspire. Participants and their families will join experts at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego on the research vessel “Outer Limits” where they will traverse Mission Bay and the La Jolla coast, exploring fish populations with a remote controlled sonar vehicle. On another day visitors will be able to investigate the human body by performing a robotic operation at the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery. Throughout their stay guests will have access to a concierge and information on additional points of interest such as the Birch Aquarium and the Torrey Pines Gliderport.

Alumni will reside in The Village apartments on campus with access to The Village Theater for a family movie night and The Village Spa where guests can get a massage and learn about mindfulness techniques. Also included will be a catered lunch at Do Ho Suh’s “Fallen Star” house on the seventh floor of Jacobs School of Engineering—complete with a rooftop garden and sweeping vistas of the campus and surrounding region.

Read more about the Triton Summer Experience here.