35, San Juan Capistrano and 47,...

35, San Juan Capistrano and 47, Irvine ... Bringing higher

learning to the Costa Mesa Westside ... The duo has introduced the UC

Irvine Community Outreach Partnership Center, at 740 W. Wilson St.

... The new venture between the university and the Westside community

is designed to strengthen the connection between the school and the

community it serves, they say ... Day, the center’s executive

director and a professor for the university’s Department of Urban and

Regional Planning, hatched the idea and has done extensive work on

the Westside with various classes ... Becerra, the center’s director,

is charged with managing ongoing projects, cultivating new ventures

and cultivating funding sources ... The center is in its first year

of many more to come ... Last year’s ranking: 64 (for Day)