Author: Guy Lasnier
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After nearly 45 years, new redwood sign graces main campus entrance
Out with the old and in with the new. After nearly 45 years of service, the iconic redwood sign at UCSC’s main entrance has been replaced with a new iconic redwood sign. Campus crews hoisted the original off its concrete pedestal Monday morning and i
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Campus provost gives early outline of budget cuts
UC Santa Cruz will need to cut between $7 million and $12.3 million from its 2008-2009 budget, Campus Provost and Executive Vice chancellor Dave Kliger told the Academic Senate Friday.
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Innovation seen emerging from new ‘smooshes’
John Kao is a fan of mashing things up to create “new smooshes.” “That’s where real innovation comes from,” says Kao, defining a “smoosh” as new collaborations or combinations. “New knowledge begins to emerge at the margins of traditional disciplines,
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Chancellor receptions bring UCSC to prospective students
More than 2,100 prospective students and their guests got a taste of UC Santa Cruz at four Chancellor’s receptions held in late March and April in southern and northern California.
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Education leaders decry potential state budget slash
Chancellor Blumenthal joined the presidents of Cabrillo College and California State University, Monterey Bay, and the Superintendent of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education in news conference at Cabrillo College April 14, calling for continued stat
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Chancellor Blumenthal appointed to state science/technology council
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal has been appointed to the California Council on Science and Technology, a group of 30 eminent scientists, engineers, scholars and business leaders from the state’s major public and private research and instructio
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Hundreds attend Seventh Annual Campus Earth Summit
The Seventh Annual Campus Earth Summit January 31 featured speakers, exhibits, workshops, organic food, and a few hecklers. Several hundred students, staff and faculty participated.
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Seventh Annual Campus Earth Summit focuses on local solutions to climate change
The Seventh Annual UC Santa Cruz Campus Earth Summit is set for Thursday, January 31, 2008, at the College Nine/Ten Multipurpose Room from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Earth Summit brings together students, staff, faculty, and administrators to challenge th
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Grounds crews clean up tons of storm debris
Campus grounds crews worked throughout the emergency campus closure January 4 and over the weekend, sweeping, scooping and cutting up approximately 80 cubic yards of accumulated material shaken loose by 60- to 80- mile-an-hour winds that buffeted the regi
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Blumenthal says highest priority is increasing faculty salaries
Chancellor George Blumenthal told the UCSC Academic Senate that a four-year plan is on track to bring faculty salaries to the levels of comparable institutions.
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Chancellor addresses community college administrators
Chancellor George Blumenthal told top community college administrators that the University of California has dramatically increased the enrollment of transfer students since setting ambitious goals in 1997, but more needs to be done.
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New annual tradition launched with Founders Day
More than 350 people celebrated the founding principles of UC Santa Cruz and the achievements of four outstanding individuals at a gala dinner October 18 at the Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz.