Pacific Union College (PUC) is a private liberal arts college in Angwin, California affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is the only four-year college in Napa County, and the twelfth oldest institution of higher education in California. As a coeducational residential college with an almost exclusively undergraduate student body, most of those who attend the college are four-year students living on campus. PUC is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission and maintains various programmatic accreditations for specific programs. Enrollment at Pacific Union College is roughly 830. The college offers about 60 undergraduate majors and three master's programs organized in 25 academic departments, with its health science degrees the largest number of those sought out by students. The campus occupies of the college's in property. History Early years (1882–1908) Pacific Union College was founded as Healdsburg Academy in Healdsburg, California, in northern Sonoma County, in 1882. The creation of schools in the state was urged by Ellen G. White and other church leaders in an effort to accommodate the Adventist Church's growing membership on the West Coast and to educate young Adventists in its cause. The academy officially opened on April 11 of that year. It was the twelfth institution of higher education founded in California, and is the second founded by the Adventist Church, the first west of the Mississippi River. Sidney Brownsberger served as its first President. Under his term, the academy focused on both conventional study of standard subjects as well as practical skills, such as dressmaking, blacksmithing, and cooking, in line with White's desire for the college. The lengthy tenure of William C. Grainger saw the heyday of the Academy's early years, but with the turn of the century, poor financial management led to increasing debt that eventually forced the academy to close in July 1908. Move to Angwin (1909–1921) Despite this failure, many church leaders – including White herself – continued to push for expanded Adventist schooling, and efforts were begun in the 1900s to find a new location to rebuild the college. Many sites were scouted out in the Central Valley and elsewhere within the state, but none came to the satisfaction of the searchers. Eventually, in 1909, the Pacific Union Conference announced that it had found a location that it could purchase: the 1,636 acres of the Angwin Resort, on Howell Mountain in neighboring Napa County. The property had been