Social Sciences
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Press forum on January 28: The crisis in schools
National leaders discuss underprepared teachers, the crisis facing poor districts, risk to students More than half of all new teachers in California last year entered the profession underprepared, and teachers who lack full credentials are concentrated in the state’s poorest schools. In 2000-01, 1.7 million children in California attended schools in which 20 percent of…
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Fall 2002 freshman applications to UCSC up 6 percent
Undergraduate applications to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for fall 2002 increased 6 percent among freshman applicants and 5.3 percent among transfer students compared to the totals received last year. A total of 24,275 prospective students applied by the November deadline for admission to UCSC. The UCSC increases are in sync with systemwide increases…
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UCSC cancer survivor will carry the Olympic torch January 18
Elizabeth Conerly was a broke UC Berkeley student as Mother’s Day approached last year, but being penniless inspired her to give the best gift ever: Conerly nominated her mother, Trish Virgadamo, a longtime UCSC employee, to carry the Olympic torch on a segment of its cross-country journey to Salt Lake City. The nomination, and the…
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Pruning workshops January 26 and February 2 take the guesswork out of fruit-tree care
New this year: Learn to prune as your kids study “Birds in the Garden” on February 2 If the annual ritual of pruning fruit trees fills you with dread, relieve your anxiety by attending a pruning workshop with fruit-tree expert Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Martin will offer…
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UCSC education prof shares prize from Modern Language Association
Gordon Wells, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named corecipient of the 21st annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America. Wells and Hossein Nassaji of Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, shared the prize for their article, “What’s the Use of Triadic…
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Mystified by fruit trees? Answers are free on January 12
Have you been lusting after your neighbor’s lemon tree? Attracted by the bounty of a friend’s apple tree? Coveting the apricot tree down the block, yet too intimidated by the care of fruit trees to add these beauties to your garden? Fear no more, for help is on the way. Fruit tree expert Orin Martin,…