November 2018
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Air quality update—Nov. 19, 2018
As weather patterns have changed, the EPA Air Quality Index (AQI) for Santa Cruz has begun to improve, and is currently near the lower end of the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” range.
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Required Stronger Account Security Coming 2019
I am writing to inform you about a new security measure that will be rolling out across campus called Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). By October 2019 of next year, MFA will become mandatory for key UCSC services.
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Troubled by proposed Title IX changes
I am deeply concerned by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed rewrite of the rules governing sexual harassment and assault allegations on college campuses. The changes are incongruous with our values as an academic community.
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Last chance to see ‘Forest Law’ by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares at UC Santa Cruz
Forest Law 2014, a 38-minute multi-channel video installation and photo text assemblage based on research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is currently on display at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery through December 1.
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Land use scenarios for input
For more than a year, we have been gathering feedback as we work on a new Long Range Development Plan. An LRDP is a land use map that designates campus land according to various uses, such as academic and housing.
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American Council on Education’s Internationalization Laboratory
We’re delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for our campus: UC Santa Cruz’s participation in the American Council on Education’s 16th Internationalization Laboratory cohort.
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Air quality update
Smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County continues to impact our local air quality. The Air Quality Index (AQI) continues to indicate that Santa Cruz air quality is in the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” range.
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Podcast: Founding Oakes professor draws a crowd at provost house renaming ceremony
Founding Oakes College Provost J. Herman Blake had a warm homecoming recently at UC Santa Cruz when he was the guest of honor in a ceremony rededicating the Oakes Provost House and naming it after Blake.
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Campus opens new hub for student food security, support
A new basic needs cafe at Cowell College offers free coffee, prepared meals, a juicing station and pastries—all intended to provide low income students with healthy options and alleviate stressors related to feeding themselves.
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Sad news regarding campus benefactor Will Webster
It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of the death of Will Webster, a gifted inventor whose deep generosity has helped shape modern-day UC Santa Cruz.
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From chicken guts to ape anatomy: Adrienne Zihlman’s emerita lecture
Adrienne Zihlman delivered the 29th annual Emeriti Faculty Research Lecture, “The Inside Story of the Apes,” to a capacity crowd in the Music Center Recital Hall on November 13.
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Student pushes for authentic representation of deaf community
Chrissy Marshall became interested in making videos about deaf culture because as a child, she saw very little representation of deaf people in the media or on YouTube.