Campus Communications
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Campus raises record $32.2 million in private gifts during 2003-04 year
For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz raised a record $32.2 million from private donors in 2003-04, an increase of 42 percent over the $22.7 million raised the year before. “This record level of support for UC Santa Cruz could not have come at a more critical time,” said Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers.…
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Fourteen new ‘blue light’ emergency phones installed
Fourteen new “blue light” emergency phones were installed on campus this summer, primarily in four large parking lots.
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: New academic year brings new students, academic offerings, housing, other facilities
SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz students began moving into university housing today (Thursday, September 16) in anticipation of the 2004-05 school year. The first day of instruction in the fall quarter is Thursday, September 23. The fall-quarter “move in” for students living on campus continues through Sunday, September 19. (See schedule, below, for photo opportunities.)…
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Gary Lease named interim dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers has appointed Professor Gary Lease as interim dean of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. An internationally recognized expert across a remarkable range of fields–including early Christian archaeology, Vatican foreign policy and canon law, German intellectual history, German Judaism, and religious/cultural evolution–Lease previously served as…
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EDITOR’S ADVISORY: You are invited to cover a tour of new apartments for 651 students on the UC Santa Cruz campus
New on-campus apartments for 651 UC Santa Cruz students will be on display during an open house and tour for local government officials, the campus community, and the news media. Students will occupy the housing when the fall quarter begins later this month. When and where: 9:30 a.m. to noon, September 9, beginning with a…
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Awards honor ‘excellence through diversity’
Efforts promoting a diverse and inclusive environment have been recognized with the UC Santa Cruz Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Excellence Through Diversity awards. Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers presented awards June 10 to the following units and individuals providing programs, courses, activities, and one-on-one mentoring that put into practice UCSC’s Principles of Community: . Chicano/Latino…
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Six faculty members named to provost positions at UC Santa Cruz
Six faculty members are being either appointed or reappointed to positions as college provosts, Lynda J. Goff, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at UC Santa Cruz, has announced. “These college provosts are fundamental to the character of UCSC,” Goff said, “A provost is the academic head of the college and is an important…
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Excellence in Teaching Award winners announced
Eight faculty members have received 2003-04 Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. Given each spring, the awards honor those who have demonstrated exemplary and inspiring teaching. Nominations are submitted by students, and the committee also reads a statement on teaching written by the nominee, as well as a letter from…
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Fourth in a series of LRDP public workshops planned for June 9
UC Santa Cruz will hold a fourth public workshop in June as part of a multiyear effort to update its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), a revision that is expected to guide the campus’s physical development through the year 2020. The public workshop on Wednesday, June 9, will take place from 6 to 9 p.m.…
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NASA Ames research director G. Scott Hubbard to speak at UCSC
NASA Ames Research Center Director G. Scott Hubbard, who was the first NASA Mars program director and served as the sole NASA representative on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, will speak at UC Santa Cruz on June 3. Hubbard will speak on “Space Exploration: The Moon and Mars–A Vision of the Future,” for the spring…
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Class of 2004’s commencement exercises begin Friday, June 11
Commencement exercises at UC Santa Cruz will be held this year on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 11-13. A total of 1,922 students are candidates for bachelor of arts, music, or science degrees. Also this spring, 232 students are eligible to receive master of arts or science degrees (of these students, 114 will complete UCSC’s…
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Governor’s Office on Volunteerism honors 51 UCSC students
The hard work of 51 UC Santa Cruz students who spent their spring break building a house, digging trenches, and repairing roofs in Mexico hasn’t gone unnoticed. GOSERV, Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office on Service and Volunteerism, has highlighted the students on its web site with a “Spotlight,” honoring the state’s “everyday heroes who give selflessly so…