Faculty
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Campus repeats Recyclemania
UC Santa Cruz has entered the annual recycling contest Recyclemania for the second time, and organizers are hoping they can improve the campus’s ranking compared with last year.
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Earth Summit celebrates progress, cultivates ideas
Thursday’s eighth annual Earth Summit advanced a dialogue among students, faculty, staff, administration, and the Santa Cruz community regarding the campus’s commitment to sustainability.
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Staff and Academic reduction in time (START) program modification
This is to announce that effective March 1, 2009, the Staff and Academic Reduction in Time (START) Program will be modified to lower the minimum allowable reduction in time from ten percent to five percent as part of the University’s effort to implement additional strategies to respond to the State budget shortfall. For exclusively represented…
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New requirement ensures students acquire discipline-based writing experience
A new high-level writing requirement will prepare undergraduates for the demands of the 21st-century workforce.
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Four arrested for threats and violence against UC researchers
The FBI announced on February 20 that law-enforcement officers have arrested four people who are suspected of terrorizing University of California researchers.
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Literary Studies book series co-founded at UCSC to benefit from $1.16 million Mellon Foundation grant
A UC Press book series in literary studies–founded by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Richard Terdiman in collaboration with his colleague Susan Gillman and faculty from UC Berkeley and Irvine-will share a $1.16 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
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Assistance for visitors coming to UC Santa Cruz this spring
Spring is a crucial time of year for university-bound high school seniors and community college transfer students as they must decide where to enroll by May 1 or June 1. Our campus will see over 8,000 visitors during this period. This increasing number of visitors is good news for the campus and continues to show…
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Budget, pension plan are center stage at winter Staff Forum
The budget and the university pension plan were at the top of Chancellor’s Blumenthal’s remarks–and foremost on staff members’ minds–at the noontime winter Staff Forum Tuesday.
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In Memoriam: longtime UCSC faculty member Noel King
I am very saddened to communicate news that Professor Emeritus Noel King passed away this past Sunday after a lengthy illness. Many of us remember Noel’s lively presence on campus and his commanding lecture style on the subject of his expertise: comparative religious studies. Hired by the campus shortly after it opened in the 1960s,…
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Sold out Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $165,000
In the midst of a historic economic downturn, more than 310 people turned out to raise funds for scholarships and honor UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Karl Pister and his wife Rita Olsen Pister at the sixth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner Saturday ni
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