Campus Communications
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Assistance for visitors coming to UC Santa Cruz this spring
Spring is a crucial time of year for university-bound high school seniors and college transfer students, since now is when they must decide where to enroll for fall. Our campus will experience an increase in visitors during this period, anticipating approximately 8,000 visitors. This increase is good news for the campus and continues to show…
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UCSC signs cooperative agreement with Korean University
Chancellor Blumenthal signed an academic cooperation agreement with representatives of a Korean Buddhist University that calls for the reciprocal exchange of faculty, staff, and students; joint research projects; and the exchange of academic publications
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CEMELA hosts research symposium at UCSC Inn
The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) recently hosted a research symposium that attracted more than 60 participants from four states.
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Important Thumbs Up Award Update, please resubmit nominations!
We regret to announce that due to a technical error, all of the Thumbs Up Awards nominations submitted until late Thursday, February 7th were not saved in the database. We have sent an e-mail to each submitter for which a nomination was received confirming their details. If you submitted AFTER 5:00 on Thursday, February 7th,…
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Winter Open Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
The Staff Advisory Board will host the Winter-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Chancellor George Blumenthal on Wednesday, February 27, from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the second Open Forum since the appointment of George Blumenthal as our new Chancellor. Please bring your questions to ask the Chancellor…
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Incidents of Vandalism and Harassment
We are writing to inform you of several recent incidents of intimidation to faculty and staff, purportedly over laboratory research involving animals. The incidents include harassing phone calls and graffiti vandalism at the victims’ homes. While property damage thankfully was not major, these events are deeply upsetting to the people involved and their families. We…
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School of Engineering Dean Finalists, Campus Visits Update
I write to provide you with an update regarding our Baskin SoE Dean finalists visits to our campus. * Professor Mark Spong’s visit has been rescheduled to: Thursday, February 14 and Friday, February 15 Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Professor Jean-Luc Gaudiot will visit Thursday, February 28 and Friday, February…
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Community Television to rebroadcast MLK Jr. Memorial Convocation
Community Television of Santa Cruz County plans several rebroadcasts of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation, which was January 30.
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UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference calls for presentations
The Seventh Annual UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference will be held July 31-August 3 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Conference organizers are seeking posters and presentations from students, faculty, and staff. Registration for the conference begins in Mar
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Rescheduling School of Engineering Dean Finalists, Campus Visit
On behalf of the School of Engineering Dean Search Committee, I write to inform you that due to inclement weather and subsequent flight cancellations in the Midwest, Dr. Spong’s campus visit has been rescheduled from tomorrow and Friday to next Thursday and Friday, February 14-15. While this is not ideal, it is unavoidable and we…
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CruzPay electronic workflow update
We are pleased to inform you that roll-out of CruzPay Electronic Workflow to our campus customers has been completed. All time reporting and supervisor approval is now done on-line via the CruzPay web interface. We currently have 1,600 staff employees, 200 academic employees (currently as timesheet approvers only) and campus senior management using the CruzPay…