Campus Communications

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…