UC Santa Cruz to pilot innovative program to support employee homeownership
The program, developed jointly by UC Santa Cruz and CalHFA, is built on CalHFA’s proven shared appreciation loan framework and reflects the university’s commitment to supporting recruitment, retention, and long-term financial stability for its employees.
A reckoning in fiction: Karen Tei Yamashita returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz with acclaimed new novel Questions 27 & 28
A Deep Read interview with Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’
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Slug Start with The Peel: Your guide to beginning fall quarter!
Welcome to fall quarter! Explore Slug Start events, campus resources and opportunities to connect, get involved and make UC Santa Cruz home.
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Notice of open comment: UC Policy on Relocation Assistance Act
The University of California Office of the President invites comments on proposed revisions to the Presidential Policy on Relocation Assistance Act Policy for Real Estate Acquisition and Leases.
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UC Santa Cruz expands fleet electrification with new EV charging infrastructure
These stations are designated for UC Santa Cruz fleet vehicles 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and available for public charging in the evenings and weekends.
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Campus transitioning to new mobile parking payment vendor
All existing, publicly available ParkMobile spaces will transition to AMP by September 19, 2026.
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Courtesy notice regarding the annual payroll disclosure
The University has now released payroll datafor calendar year 2025. This disclosure parallels last year’s payroll disclosure and is consistent with similar practices at many other public institutions.
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InfoView to Sigma transition update
This spring, the Data Management team completed multiple rounds of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for most of the high-priority and high-usage InfoView corporate reports and continues to build out the back-end data infrastructure necessary to launch Sigma access to the campus community in the coming months.