2012
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Lasting friendship, enduring inspiration: J. Herman Blake and Don Rothman move crowd at forum
On Friday night, when emeritus writing lecturer Don Rothman and Oakes College founding provost J. Herman Blake sat down to talk about the transformative power of education, they made than 40 years of UCSC history feel intimate, personal and immediate.
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Teaching luminaries share classroom secrets at Academic Forum
The large crowd that attended the Academic Forum at the Humanities Lecture Hall —one of the cornerstones of the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend—had a rare opportunity to hear these and other teaching secrets of renowned educators, ranging from social psychologist Elliot Aronson to noted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.
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Registration open for spring and summer 3-day ‘Garden Cruz’ classes
Intensive class will provide a solid foundation to further the lifelong study, enjoyment, and practice of organic gardening. Class instructors include Orin Martin, manager of UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden, and local organic farmers Zoe Hitchner and Sky DeMuro of Everett Family Farm.
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Walking and talking: Learning outside the classroom door
In her essay, UCSC lecturer Candace Calsoyas discusses the Aristotelian method of conversation and learning while on foot, a practice she introduced in Albania and brings to the College Eight core course.
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Women of Influence awards recognize six with UCSC connections
Faculty, staff, and alumni of UCSC accounted for six of the 100 women recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as 2012 Women of Influence.
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Family Member Verification Project Reminder
If you do not respond by May 17th, you may risk your own de-enrollment from UC insurance as well as de-enrollment of your family members.
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Celebrate the Great 88
In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, a group of UCSC students started an FCC-unauthorized campus radio station that broadcast from a clammy basement and tried to use an upside-down garbage can as an antenna. The broadcasters initially put egg cartons instead of acoustic tiles on the walls, and the disc jockeys played the…
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Hot dates
Commencement exercises events.ucsc.edu/commencement June 15–17, 2012 Whale of an Auction, Friends of Long Marine Lab seymourcenter.ucsc.edu June 23, 2012 Cowell College Founders Celebration 2012 ucsc.edu/founders October 12, 2012 Founders Day Gala Dinner Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013 events.ucsc.edu/reunion April 26–28, 2013 Campus For more events, visit:events.ucsc.edu
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Organic farming research to expand with $2.6 million grant
UC Santa Cruz will continue and expand its leading role in sustainable agriculture research with a $2.6 million federal grant to strengthen collaboration with Central Coast farmers to promote organic production in the region. Researchers at UCSC’s Environmental Studies Department and Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) will use the four-year grant from…
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From the Editor
There’s an “ivory tower” stereotype about higher education that I’d like to challenge. Critics chide academia over the sometimes esoteric nature of college studies, saying such topics have no bearing on real life—much less getting a job. Okay, sure—my own days as an English major sometimes included stalking a fictional character, Leopold Bloom. Slouched in…
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Your Turn
A Revolt Against Humiliation Ed. Note: The following letters were submitted in response to an article, “A revolt against humiliation,” that was written by faculty members Alan Richards and Edmund Burke. The article appeared in the spring 2011 issue. Alan Richards’s and Edmund Burke’s distorted perspective on the turmoil in the Middle East was inappropriate for…
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From the Chancellor
Here at UC Santa Cruz, we excel at working cooperatively toward shared goals, particularly goals that focus on social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and the common good. We are united by a spirit of “defiant optimism,” as UCSC Foundation Trustee Brandon Allgood put it recently. For students, that spirit is evident in our commitment to hands-on…