Campus Communications

I am delighted to announce that the UC Office of the President (UCOP) and the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) have reached an agreement on UC’s proposal to increase the wages of our lowest paid clerical employees. This is an important first step toward increasing the wages of all of our lowest paid employees. I…

I am saddened to report that on March 12, offensive and racist messages were etched on a bathroom wall at the Baskin School of Engineering. We do not yet know who is responsible for this incident. However, I want to communicate in the strongest terms possible that this type of hateful vandalism deeply disturbs many…

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…

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,…

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…