Campus Communications

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,…

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…

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…

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…

On behalf of the Campus Sustainability Council and the Student Environmental Center, I invite you to attend the Sixth Annual Campus Earth Summit Friday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Stevenson Event Center. As we move into the 21st Century, we have incredible opportunities to incorporate sustainability into every aspect of…

I wish to invite you to join me at UCSC’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on February 20, featuring Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Rep. Waters has been in the forefront of efforts to guarantee voting rights, rebuild New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and encourage congressional oversight of our nation’s policy in…

We write to inform you of a leadership transition in the Arts Division. Edward Houghton, who has admirably served as Dean of the Division of the Arts for the past 15 years, will return to teaching and research at the conclusion of the current academic year. Dean Houghton has served with tremendous distinction during his…

We are writing to apprise you with an update regarding the 2006/07 Faculty and Staff Print Directory. The print directory was published and distributed to all faculty and staff during the first week of December 2006. At that time, we became aware that certain individual listings were accidently omitted from the final data extract. As…

With mixed feelings, we write to inform you that the UC Board of Regents today appointed UCSC Engineering Dean Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang as the next chancellor of UC Merced. We are sorry to lose Dean Kang, who has led the Baskin School of Engineering with distinction since 2001, but we are thrilled about his appointment…

I am sorry to report that we have learned that longtime UCSC economist Richard Musgrave, regarded as the founder of modern public finance, died earlier this week. Richard, who was an adjunct professor on campus for many years, was 96. As his colleagues noted upon his passing, Richard was a “giant” in the field, focusing…