Leadership Messages
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Chancellor’s Update: Celebrating the new academic year!
Whether you are just joining us at UC Santa Cruz or are returning to campus recharged after summer break–welcome to the new academic year!
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Welcome to Fall Quarter, Banana Slugs!
Dean of Students Garrett Naiman offers a welcome message to start the 2024-25 academic year.
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University Record Management Reminder
With the 2024-25 academic year underway, we would like to encourage all faculty to consider the safe, secure destruction of inactive, confidential university administrative records while adhering to the UCSC Records Management Program and policies.
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Observing the Jewish High Holy Days and other religious holidays
Shortly after we welcome the beginning of the 2024-25 academic year, Jewish members of our community may observe the High Holy Days.
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Campus plan for transportation, parking, and traffic impacts during move-in
UC Santa Cruz is preparing to welcome more than 9,000 residential students to our community next week.
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Fall welcome and update
Let’s each take on the good work of fostering a positive community by assuming positive intent in others, demonstrating respect in our speech, writing and demeanor and practicing kindness and compassion.
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Senate Bill 108: Rights and responsibilities of free expression
As we begin the new academic year, we seek to reaffirm our Principles of Community and share important information with our campus community about the rights and the responsibilities of free expression in the context of living, working, and studying at UC Santa Cruz.
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Estimated $20 million gift for undergraduate scholarships to support educational excellence, access
I am delighted to share some wonderful news about the establishment of a new scholarship at UC Santa Cruz that will transform the lives of hundreds of our students.
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Updates on planned power outage
The residential campus is experiencing an planned power outage so campus electricians can conduct important maintenance and repairs to a primary electrical substation.
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New UCSF medical office in Santa Cruz – Meet & Greet on campus
In an effort to provide employees with more health care options, we are happy to announce that UC Santa Cruz partnered with UCSF Health to bring primary care services to employees with UC Health Plans in the Santa Cruz region.
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UC Regents Policy 4408 on Public and Discretionary Statements by Academic Units
This message lays out a process for academic campus units to come into compliance with the new Regents policy.
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UC Regents Policy 4408 on Public and Discretionary Statements by Academic Units
In the process of developing the final version of the policy, the Regents worked with systemwide Academic Senate leaders to incorporate their feedback and refine the proposed policy.