January 2022
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Updates to DRC Academic Access Letter Format
We are reaching out to you to share that the Disability Resource Center’s Academic Access Letter format has been updated effective Winter Quarter 2022.
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Expanded services offered by back-up care program
Today, we are pleased to share that there are additional forms of support available through our partnership with Bright Horizons .
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Proposed revisions to UC Policy on Supplement to Military Pay
The University of California Office of the President invites comments on proposed revisions to the UC Policy on Supplement to Military Pay.
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On-campus testing, masks, booster clinics, proof of vaccination
Here are the latest COVID-19 mitigation updates to help us prepare for a more populated campus during the winter quarter.
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National Endowment for the Arts award to support ‘Surge,’ an afrofuturism festival
Events will take place throughout the academic year, culminating in a month-long festival in May 2022 with live music concerts and dance performances.
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Campus update: Mostly in-person instruction returning; commemorating Black History Month; finalizing commencement plans
We are happy to say that we remain on schedule to return to mostly in-person instruction Jan. 31.
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UC Santa Cruz receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to connect studies of humanities, engineering
UC Santa Cruz will create a new Certificate in the Humanities introducing students enrolled in the Baskin School of Engineering to humanities disciplines aimed to help them better understand the social and cultural impacts of technological change.
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Grant supports project to digitize, preserve materials at Biblioteca Amazónica
The project will concentrate its efforts on those items within the archives that are unique to the Biblioteca Amazónica and not available elsewhere. One important inclusion will be back issues of three local newspapers — El Eco, La Razón, and El Oriente — that have never been fully digitized before.
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Rebecca Hernandez to serve as campus’s first community archivist
Rebecca Hernandez, who previous served as the director of the American Indian Resource Center, will seek out partnerships with community organizations and leaders to support the preservation of community history, with a particular focus on reaching out to traditionally underrepresented communities.
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Returning to campus: testing requirements, COVID call center, booster clinics, and more
As we plan to resume in-person instruction January 31, I write to share essential information regarding the processes and protocols for students returning to campus.
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Winter quarter instruction – instructor exception process for the return to in-person instruction; other information
We write here to provide an expanded exception program to which instructors may apply now to continue teaching remotely this winter quarter after the general return to in-person instruction on January 31.
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Supporting our Jewish community
Our thoughts are with the victims and their families of the hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday, Jan. 15.