Faculty
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Dominican Occupational Health Center Closure – Dec. 22 to Jan. 7
Dominican Occupational Health Center (DOHC), UCSC’s designated facility for on-the-job injuries, will be closed for two weeks, from December 24 through January 4. DOHC will reopen on Monday, January 7, 2008. During the two-week closure, Dominican Hospital Emergency Department at 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, will be UCSC’s designated facility. Supervisors should direct employees requiring…
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Update on Science Hill encampment
Campus grounds crews report that people who had camped illegally on the ground at a Science Hill site during the past six weeks departed over the weekend. While a few people remain in the trees, crews are cleaning up the site on the ground this morning. Since the people in the trees and their wooden…
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California Coastal Commission approves UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal LRDP
At a hearing today in San Francisco, the California Coastal Commission approved UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal Long Range Development Plan (CLRDP), a land-use blueprint for possible future development at the site of UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory.
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NAACP chairman to address King Convocation Jan. 30
Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak at UCSC’s 24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation January 30.
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John Mock elected to council of Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Hindi and Urdu lecturer John Mock has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) for a four-year term. The organization joins people with wide-ranging interests in the Himalayan region with the goal of increasing awareness of the unparalleled diversity of the human and natural worlds within the…
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Vice Provost Silicon Valley Initiatives
I write to inform you that following the recommendation of the search committee for the Vice Provost, Silicon Valley Initiatives, Chancellor Blumenthal and I have extended an offer of appointment to Professor Joseph Miller. Professor Miller has accepted the offer; however, final approval of the appointment is pending action by the Office of the President.…
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Ink, but not toner, cartridges recyclable on campus
Conscientiously recycling depleted cartridges from office equipment such as laser printers is laudable, but the cartridge recycling program on campus sometimes gets too much of a good thing. The program takes inkjet or laser jet cartridges, but it cannot recycle toner cartridges, according to Marie Waltrip, financial specialist for Residential, Family & Early Education Services.…
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Stewardship of campus grounds is a labor of love
Grounds Services’ Site Stewardship program takes on ecological restoration and guardianship of campus land with help from volunteers.
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UCSC appoints new associate vice chancellor for public affairs and communications
Barry Shiller, a public affairs professional with private-sector and higher-education experience, has been appointed the new associate vice chancellor for public affairs and communications at UC Santa Cruz.
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Campus Holiday Food Drive
As we begin the busy holiday season, I write to remind you that the annual Second Harvest Food Bank UCSC Holiday Food Drive is in need of donations. You can leave bags of nonperishable food items at your Mail Stop or send your check anytime to Holiday Food Drive, UCSC. Make checks payable to Second…
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Exceptions to campus holiday closure
As in the past, the UCSC campus will close during the holiday season in an effort to conserve energy at a time when university business is generally slow. This year the campus will be closed from Saturday, December 22, 2007 through Tuesday, January 1, 2008, re-opening on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. The campus community is…
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Campus provost provides update on Science Hill protest site
Nearly two weeks have passed since a group of people, many of whom are unaffiliated with the campus, established residence in trees on two parking lots on Science Hill. Between one and two dozen others have established an encampment on the ground directly below the trees. They are demonstrating against the campus’s 2005 Long-Range Development…