Campus Communications
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UARC researcher dies
The campus has learned that Tsuyoshi Goka, a member of UCSC’s University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), died late last week from a stroke. A UCSC employee since December 2003, Tsuyoshi was a senior researcher with the UARC at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. He was 63. Tsuyoshi had a long and distinguished career…
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Longtime staff member dies
It is with sadness that I write to inform you that Robert Jones, former captain with the UCSC Police Department, died at his home last night after a three-year struggle to recover from a tragic bike accident. He was 52 years old. Robert joined the campus community in November 1990, when he was hired as…
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Student Employee Recognition Award Program (SERAP) 2007
The Career Center is pleased to announce that campus supervisors will once again have an opportunity to publicly reward and recognize their outstanding student employees who continue to dedicate their abundant talent and skills to UCSC. The 13th annual UCSC Student Employee Recognition Award Program outdoor reception and ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 11,…
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ITS Service Announcement For CruzTime Users
Last Friday, March 2, 2007, we installed the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules for 2007 and subsequent years on the CruzTime calendar system. With this update in place, we now ask you to undertake a little maintenance on your end. Please review meeting times which were already scheduled between the new and old DST…
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CruzMail e-mail maintenance
This Friday, March 9, from 11 p.m. until 8 a.m. Saturday morning, CruzMail, the campus e-mail system, will be taken offline for maintenance. This work is a continuation of last week’s work to migrate data from the existing storage system to a new storage system to improve performance. During this work, CruzMail will be unavailable.…
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Visitors to UC Santa Cruz This Spring
As you know, 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. Because of this, our campus will experience an increase in visitors during this period, as we do every year. If admitted or prospective students…
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Daylight Savings Time Changes
Daylight Savings Time will begin three weeks earlier this year on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, as a result of the Energy Policy Act passed by Congress in 2005. This change will impact the way electronic devices, including computers, report the correct time. Operating systems, servers, mobile devices,…
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CruzTime and CruzMail Maintenance
To prepare for the early arrival of Daylight Savings Time, Information Technology Services (ITS) will conduct maintenance work on the campus calendar system, CruzTime, and on the campus email system, CruzMail, beginning this Friday, March 2. Specific maintenance outage information follows: On Friday, March 2, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. the campus calendar system,…
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Addition of Domestic Partner to Staff Personnel Policies
The following Personnel Policies for Staff Members (PPSM) have been revised to include the category of domestic partner: . PPSM 2 Definition of Terms. The definition of domestic partner has been added so that all references to domestic partner in the PPSM shall be consistently defined. . PPSM 21 G. Appointment of Near Relative. Domestic…
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Student Town Hall
The Student Union Assembly would like to invite the UCSC community to the Student Town Hall. We hope you will join us in a dialogue about issues on campus like: Diversity, Responses to Student Activism, Quality of Education, Funding, Student Services, and Administrative Sensitivity to student needs. We know that some of these topics are…
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Compton Superior Court Judge Kelvin D. Filer speaks March 12 at UC Santa Cruz
As a Superior Court Judge in the Southern California city of Compton, Kelvin D. Filer sees more than his share of cases involving murder, drugs, and gang violence. As a product of the same neighborhood, Filer is a powerful role model who has devoted himse
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Winter 2007 Staff Brown Bag Forum
The Staff Advisory Board will host the winter-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal on Tuesday, February 27, from 12:30 to 1:40 p.m., in Classroom Unit 2. Topics to be discussed include the staff advisor position to the Board of Regents and an update on pension issues, diversity working groups, and…