Faculty
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Career fair peaceful, productive
Days after UCSC received a $100,000 grant in support of its veterans’ programs, the annual career fair proceeded peacefully and without demonstration.
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Write an “Ode to Santa Cruz”–winning poem to be read onstage by Garrison Keillor during May 13 show at Santa Cruz Civic
Submit your best “Ode to Santa Cruz” for a chance to win tickets to attend An Evening with Garrison Keillor at the Santa Cruz Civic. The host of A Prairie Home Companion will read the winning poem onstage at the show.
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Racism expert Thomas F. Pettigrew receives top UC honor for emeriti faculty
For some, retirement means slowing down and shifting gears. Not so for Thomas F. Pettigrew.
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Resurfacing work on lower Bay Street
The City of Santa Cruz Public Works Department has scheduled resurfacing work this week on Bay Street from West Cliff north to the railroad tracks near California Street. Today Granite Construction will prepare the road bed for resurfacing, with the majority of the work scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, 4/21 and 4/22. Commuters should anticipate…
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Campus safety, security update and scheduled CruzAlert tests
Today marks the second anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, which claimed 32 lives and wounded many more. Since that time, UCSC has taken great strides to improve safety and security on our campus and our ability to respond to both man-made and natural emergencies. At the beginning of the Fall 2008 Quarter,…
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Reminder about transportation changes on Monday
As detailed in an April 7 message from Vice Chancellor McGinty to UCSC students, a number of campus transportation and parking restrictions will be in effect on Monday, April 20, beginning at 3 p.m. and continuing into the early evening. For details, including updated information on transportation, please see the earlier message at: http://messages.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2826
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Student Brittany Guest is a special kind of coach
Brittany Guest, a fifth-year health sciences student, directs the Special Olympics program for the Santa Cruz area.
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Statement from UCSC dean concerning proposed budget cuts
Sheldon Kamieniecki, dean of Social Sciences at UCSC, issued the following statement today (April 7, 2009) regarding divisional cuts, including cuts in Community Studies, that he is considering in response to the need to reduce the division’s budget by $1.3 million, effective July 1: “As we prepare to implement what will be painful budget cuts…
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Career Center ready to help Slugs of any age
Alumni–whether unemployed or just seeking a career change–might not know that the campus Career Center is a resource that’s available to them.
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UC Santa Cruz’s fall 2009 ‘admit rate’ reflects increasing competitiveness for freshman spaces
The percentage of freshman applicants who have been admitted to UC Santa Cruz for this coming fall declined by more than 10 percent in just one year, reflecting the increasingly competitive nature of undergraduate admission to the campus.
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Leadership for Silicon Valley initiatives
In November of 2007, I had the pleasure of appointing Professor Joseph Miller to the position of Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives. Now, after more than 40 years of service to UC Santa Cruz as professor, astronomer, director of UCO/Lick Observatories, and most recently as vice provost, Professor Miller made the decision to retire…