guerillas were killed in the raid. However, Japanese reinforcements arrived two days later, destroying UPCA facilities historical marker with the Academic Heritage Monument at the background UPCA became the first unit of the University of the Philippines to open after the war when it resumed classes on July 25, 1945, with Leopoldo Uichanco as dean. Only 125 (16%) of the original students enrolled. Likewise, only 38 professors returned to teach. UPCA used its
₱470,546 (US$10,800) share in the Philippine-US War Damage Funds (released in 1947) for reconstruction. Further
financial endowment from
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) allowed the construction of new facilities while scholarship grants, mainly from the
Rockefeller Foundation and the International Cooperation Administration-
National Economic Council, paved way for the training of UPCA faculty. From 1947 to 1958, a total of 146 faculty members had been granted
MS and
PhD scholarships in US universities. In 1972, UPCA requested
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to allow the college to secede from the University of the Philippines due to the alleged withholding of its budget and the disapproval of curricular proposals. A few weeks after the declaration of UPLB's autonomy in 1972, several CA departments and institutes were separated to form the College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, the predecessor of the
College of Arts and Sciences. Likewise, 154 faculty members were transferred to the new college. CA acquired 288 hectares of land in
La Carlota, Negros Occidental in May 1964 by effect of
Proclamation 250 of
President Diosdado Macapagal. Previous
legislations have also allocated land area and funding for the grant but were never implemented however. It currently hosts the
PCARRD-DOST La Granja Agricultural Research Center, which serves as a research center for various upland crops, and a station of the
Philippine Carabao Center. It also serves as a training site for CA students and other schools in the region. ==Organization and administration==