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University of California, Santa Cruz

March 14, 2023

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In fall 2022, its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,500 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students.[8] The university was rated as one of the "Public Ivies” as the university provides an education comparable to the Ivy League.[9]

University of California, Santa Cruz
MottoFiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let there be light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
Established1965; 58 years ago (1965)[1]
Parent institution
University of California
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$294 million (2021)[2]
ChancellorCynthia Larive
ProvostLori Kletzer
Students19,161 (fall 2020)[3]
Undergraduates17,207 (fall 2020)[3]
Postgraduates1,954 (fall 2020)[3]
Location
Santa Cruz
,
California
,
United States

37°00′N 122°04′W / 37.00°N 122.06°W / 37.00; -122.06Coordinates: 37°00′N 122°04′W / 37.00°N 122.06°W / 37.00; -122.06
CampusSmall City,[4] 6,088 acres (2,464 ha)[5]
Other campuses
NewspaperCity on a Hill Press
ColorsBlue and gold[6]
   
NicknameBanana Slugs
Sporting affiliations
MascotSammy the Slug[7]
Websitewww.ucsc.edu

Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz began with the intention to showcase progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. The residential college system consists of ten small colleges that were established as a variation of the Oxbridge collegiate university system.[10]

Among the Faculty is 1 Nobel Prize Laureate, 1 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences recipient, 12 members from the National Academy of Sciences, 28 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 40 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Eight UC Santa Cruz alumni are winners of 10 Pulitzer Prizes.[11] UC Santa Cruz is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[12] It is a member of the Association of American Universities, an alliance of elite research universities in the United States and Canada.[13]

History

Prior to campus development

Prior to Spanish colonization, the Uypi tribe of the Awaswas Nation, who spoke Mutsun Costanoan of the Ohlone peoples, lived in what is now the campus of UCSC. During this time, the missionaries of Mission Santa Cruz removed a part of the forest to build a vineyard on top of what is now the Great Meadow.

After the California Gold Rush, many mining firms came to the area. The Cowell Lime Works operated on the entirety of what is now the Santa Cruz campus until 1920.

Site selection and campus planning

Although some of the original founders had already outlined plans for an institution like UCSC as early as the 1930s, the opportunity to realize their vision did not present itself until the City of Santa Cruz made a bid to the UC Board of Regents in the mid-1950s to build a campus just outside town, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.[14] During the mid-1950s, there was widespread public sentiment in favor of the establishment of a new UC campus somewhere south of the original campus at Berkeley. In 1957, the California State Senate passed a resolution asking the Regents to consider the Monterey Peninsula, and that same year, the California State Assembly passed its own resolution asking the Regents to consider the Santa Clara Valley.[15] In December 1959, the Regents voted to focus their site selection process on the Almaden Valley in San Jose (i.e., within the Santa Clara Valley and the larger region now known as Silicon Valley), but the public announcement of the Regents' decision immediately caused property values throughout that area to increase to the extent that the Regents could no longer afford to buy the necessary land.[15] After another year of study, the Regents finally selected Santa Cruz as the location of the next UC campus.[15]

However, Santa Cruz was selected for the beauty, rather than the practicality, of its location, and its remoteness led to the decision to develop a residential college system that would house most of the students on-campus.[16] The formal design process for the Santa Cruz campus began in the late 1950s, culminating in the Long Range Development Plan of 1963.[17]

Planning the new UC campus was just as hard as picking the site. The first plan was to build the campus on what is now the Great Meadow, so it would be close to the existing city of Santa Cruz.[18] The second plan, conceived by Thomas Church, put the colleges into the redwood forest at the top of the hill above the Great Meadow.[18] This was clearly the better idea, but presented the problem of how to place the colleges inside the forest.[18] The original design for College One (Cowell College) scattered its buildings among the trees, which was sarcastically compared by one regent to "a series of motels on the shores of Lake Tahoe."[18] Having recently visited Aigues-Mortes, UC President Clark Kerr was inspired by the layout of that French medieval town to suggest concentrating each college's buildings into distinct clusters in the forest, and that is how UC Santa Cruz was actually built.[19]

Construction started by 1964, and the university was able to accommodate its first students (albeit living in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area) in 1965. The campus was intended to be a showcase for contemporary architecture, progressive teaching methods, and undergraduate research.[20][21][22] According to founding chancellor Dean McHenry, the purpose of the distributed college system was to combine the benefits of a major research university with the intimacy of a smaller college.[23][24] Kerr shared a passion with former Stanford roommate McHenry to build a university modeled as "several Swarthmores" (i.e., small liberal arts colleges) in close proximity to each other.[23][25] Both men were well aware that Santa Cruz "was located in the shadow not only of Berkeley but also of Stanford, and was bound to remain in their shadows for a very long time to come and perhaps forever."[26] Therefore, they hoped to shape a "distinctive personality" for the Santa Cruz campus and let it "flourish as first rate within its own type."[26]

The "Santa Cruz dream"

In his memoirs, Kerr ruefully recounted the myriad errors made by himself and McHenry in launching the new campus.[26] They had created Santa Cruz as the "most experimental" of the UC campuses, but opened it just in time for their cherished "Santa Cruz dream" to die amidst the counterculture of the 1960s.[26] Santa Cruz quickly became the "counterculture campus" where students and faculty either "mellowed out" among the redwood trees or turned into "activist-radical[s]".[27] For example, when Kerr came to deliver an address at UC Santa Cruz's first commencement exercises in 1969, the ceremony was hijacked by students who denounced Kerr and McHenry for having "planned and created Santa Cruz as a capitalist-imperialist-fascist plot to divert the students from their revolution against the evils of American society and, in particular, against the horrors of the Vietnam War."[28] The students then tried to award an honorary degree to Huey P. Newton (who was in jail at the time, although he went on to earn his bachelor's and doctorate degrees at Santa Cruz).[28] Kerr later recalled this episode of "guerrilla theatre" as "one of the worst afternoons of my life."[29]

According to Kerr's account, during the 1970s, the quality of UC Santa Cruz's incoming freshman classes deteriorated as Me generation students increasingly chose to matriculate at less experimental UC campuses in order to major in subjects such as engineering and business administration (both absent from Santa Cruz).[30] Another major factor behind the decrease in quality was a series of "grisly murders" around Santa Cruz,[30] which at the time was labeled the "murder capital of the world".[31] The average SAT scores of UC Santa Cruz's incoming students dropped from 1250 in the early 1970s to 1050 by the early 1980s.[30]

Sinsheimer Reforms

A series of major reforms were implemented by Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer (1977–1987) at the cost of making Santa Cruz less experimental and more conventional.[32][33][34] In 1981, after a two-year battle, the faculty narrowly voted to give students the option of receiving grades for the first time, in lieu of Santa Cruz's traditional narrative evaluations.[33] By the fall of 1984, 45% of Santa Cruz students were already majoring in the sciences, and that year, the campus offered computer engineering as a major for the first time (in order to take advantage of its proximity to Silicon Valley), followed by business economics a year later.[33] In May 1985, Sinsheimer, a molecular biologist, welcomed several scientists to Santa Cruz for one of the first meetings at which the idea of a Human Genome Project was discussed.[35]

Sinsheimer got Santa Cruz involved in intercollegiate athletics for the first time as part of NCAA Division III. In 1981, he supported student athletes' preference for the sea lion as the campus mascot, but was forced to back down in 1986 when the student body voted to support the banana slug instead.[34]

By the early 1990s, the campus was still inefficient in that average teaching loads were still light compared to other UC campuses, but SAT scores had stopped falling, the faculty was performing good research, and the campus was beginning to rise in university rankings.[32] In 1997, an engineering school was finally launched.[32]

In 2019, the University of California, Santa Cruz was elected to the Association of American Universities (AAU), the most prestigious alliance of American research universities.[36] Along with UCI, UC Santa Cruz was the youngest university to gain admittance to the AAU.[37]

2020 strike action

Main article: 2020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strike

On December 9, 2019, over 200 graduate student-workers initiated a wildcat strike by withholding Fall quarter grades with the following demands: (1) a COLA (cost of living adjustment) of $1,412/month to address the housing crisis in Santa Cruz, (2) a promise of non-retaliation against those participating in the strike, and (3) a cap on tuition for undergraduate students, to ensure that the increase in graduate student-worker pay would not increase the rent-burden and precarity of their students.[38] On February 10, 2020, graduate student-workers responded to disciplinary threats from UCSC administrators with a full teaching strike.[39] UCSC administrators' called in police from various counties to protect and serve. 17 students were arrested, and several were injured, but UCSC denied the claims of police brutality and excessive force.[40] On February 27, 2020, UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara joined the strike.[41][42] On February 28, 2020, 54 graduate student-workers were terminated[43] and continued strikes shut down the campus for at least one day the following week.[44]

 
 
McHenry Library

Impact on Santa Cruz

Although the city of Santa Cruz already exhibited a strong conservation ethic before the founding of the university, the coincidental rise of the counterculture of the 1960s together with the university's establishment fundamentally altered its subsequent development. Early student and faculty activism at UCSC pioneered an approach to environmentalism that greatly impacted the industrial development of the surrounding area.[45] The lowering of the voting age to 18 in 1971 led to the emergence of a powerful student-voting bloc.[46] A large and growing population of politically liberal UCSC alumni changed the electorate of the town from predominantly Republican[47] to markedly left-leaning, consistently voting against expansion measures on the part of both town and gown.

UCSC Chancellors
Cynthia LariveGeorge BlumenthalDenice DentonRobert Stevens (lawyer)Dean McHenry
†Died in office

Expansion plans

Plans for increasing enrollment to 19,500 students and adding 1,500 faculty and staff by 2020, and the anticipated environmental impacts of such action, encountered opposition from the city, the local community, and the student body.[48][49] City voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on UCSC to pay for the impacts of campus growth. A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university, city, county and neighborhood organizations reached an agreement to set aside numerous lawsuits and allow the expansion to occur. UCSC agreed to local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing for 67 percent of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fees.[50]

George Blumenthal, UCSC's 10th Chancellor, intended to mitigate growth constraints in Santa Cruz by developing off-campus sites in Silicon Valley. The NASA Ames Research Center campus is planned to ultimately hold 2,000 UCSC students – about 10% of the entire university's future student body as envisioned for 2020.[51][52]

In April 2010, UC Santa Cruz opened its new $35 million Digital Arts Research Center; a project in planning since 2004.[53]

The $72 million Coastal Biology Building officially opened on 21 October 2017 on the Coastal Science Campus.[54] The new campus houses the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department and faculty interested in the study of ecology and evolution in ocean, terrestrial and freshwater environments.

Campus

 
UCSC & Santa Cruz aerial view. The Great Meadow is the undeveloped area between city and university

The 2,000-acre (810 ha) UCSC campus is located 75 miles (121 km) south of San Francisco, in the Ben Lomond Mountain ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Elevation varies from 285 feet (87 m) at the campus entrance to 1,195 feet (364 m) at the northern boundary, a difference of about 900 feet (270 m). The southern portion of the campus primarily consists of a large, open meadow, locally known as the Great Meadow. To the north of the meadow lie most of the campus' buildings, many of them among redwood groves. The campus is bounded on the south by the city's upper-west-side neighborhoods, on the east by Harvey West Park[55] and the Pogonip open space preserve,[56] on the north by Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park[57] near the town of Felton, and on the west by Gray Whale Ranch, a portion of Wilder Ranch State Park.[58] The campus is built on a portion of the Cowell Family ranch, which was purchased by the University of California in 1961.[59] The northern half of the campus property has remained in its undeveloped, forested state apart from fire roads and hiking and bicycle trails. The heavily forested area has allowed UC Santa Cruz to operate a recreational vehicle park as a form of student housing.[60] In 2017 the University finished building the Coastal Science Facility for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. The facility, equipped with teaching classrooms, labs and greenhouses, is located on McAllister Way.[61]

 
Bridge across ravine.

A number of shrines, dens and other student-built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus. These structures, mostly assembled from branches and other forest detritus, were formerly concentrated in the area known as Elfland, a glen the university razed in 1992 to build colleges Nine and Ten. Students were able to relocate and save some of the structures, however.[62][63]

Creeks traverse the UCSC campus within several ravines. Footbridges span those ravines on pedestrian paths linking various areas of campus. The footbridges make it possible to walk to any part of campus within 20 minutes in spite of the campus being built on a mountainside with varying elevations.[64] At night, orange lights illuminate the occasionally fogged-in paths.[65]

There are a number of natural points of interest throughout the UCSC grounds. The "Porter Caves" are a popular site among students on the west side of campus. The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road. The caves wind through a set of caverns, some of which are challenging, narrow passages. Tree Nine is another popular destination for students. A large Douglas fir spanning approximately 103 feet (31 m) tall, Tree Nine is located in the upper campus of UCSC behind College Nine. The tree had been a popular climbing spot for many years but due to environmental corrosion and fear of student injuries, UC ground services sawed off the limbs to make it nearly impossible to climb.[66] Less experienced tree-climbers also used to frequent Sunset Tree located on the east side of the meadow behind the UCSC Music Center, but the lower branches of this tree were also cut off to make climbing the tree difficult.[67][68]

The UCSC campus is also one of the few homes to Mima Mounds in the United States. They are rare in the United States and in the world in general.

 
Panorama of Great Meadow.

Academics

 
Organic farm rows

The university has five academic divisions: Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Physical & Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences. Together, they offer 65 graduate programs, 64 undergraduate majors, and 41 minors.[69]

Popular undergraduate majors include Art, Business Management Economics, Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Psychology.[70] Interdisciplinary programs, such as Computational Media, Feminist Studies, Environmental Studies, Visual Studies, Digital Arts and New Media, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and the History of Consciousness Department are also hosted alongside UCSC's more traditional academic departments.

A joint program with UC Hastings enables UC Santa Cruz students to earn a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor degree in six years instead of the usual seven. The "3+3 BA/JD" Program between UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco accepted its first applicants in fall 2014.[71] UCSC students who declare their intent in their freshman or early sophomore year will complete three years at UCSC and then move on to UC Hastings to begin the three-year law curriculum. Credits from the first year of law school will count toward a student's bachelor's degree. Students who successfully complete the first-year law course work will receive their bachelor's degree and be able to graduate with their UCSC class, then continue at UC Hastings afterwards for two years.

 
Approaching Baskin Engineering from McLaughlin Drive
 
Baskin Engineering Plaza

Research

According to the National Science Foundation, UC Santa Cruz spent $127.5 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 144th in the nation.[72]

Although designed as a liberal arts-oriented university, UCSC quickly acquired a graduate-level natural science research component with the appointment of plant physiologist Kenneth V. Thimann as the first provost of Crown College. Thimann developed UCSC's early Division of Natural Sciences and recruited other well-known science faculty and graduate students to the fledgling campus.[73] Immediately upon its founding, UCSC was also granted administrative responsibility for the Lick Observatory, which established the campus as a major center for astronomy research.[74] Founding members of the Social Science and Humanities faculty created the unique History of Consciousness graduate program in UCSC's first year of operation.[75]

Famous former UCSC faculty members include Judith Butler and Angela Davis.

UCSC's organic farm and garden program is the oldest in the country, and pioneered organic horticulture techniques internationally.[76][77]

As of 2015, UCSC's faculty include 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 24 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 33 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1] The Baskin School of Engineering, founded in 1997, is UCSC's first and only professional school[citation needed]. Baskin Engineering is home to several research centers, including the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering[78] and Cyberphysical Systems Research Center, which are gaining recognition, as has the work that UCSC researchers David Haussler and Jim Kent have done on the Human Genome Project,[79][80] including the widely used UCSC Genome Browser.[81] UCSC administers the National Science Foundation's Center for Adaptive Optics.[82]

Off-campus research facilities maintained by UCSC include the Lick and Keck Observatories and the Long Marine Laboratory. From September 2003 to July 2016, UCSC managed a University Affiliated Research System (UARC) for the NASA Ames Research Center under a task order contract valued at more than $330 million.[83]

Rankings

UC Santa Cruz was tied for 58th in the list of Best Global Universities and tied for 83th in the list of Best National Universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report's 202 rankings.[94] In 2021, UC Santa Cruz is ranked No. 3 public university in the nation for "making an impact" and No.4 for promoting social mobility. In 2023, the university was ranked No. 5 in game/simulation development and No. 2 among the best public game design colleges in the U.S. [95]

UC Santa Cruz is ranked top 10 in excellence in undergraduate teaching in 2022 and third in research influence in 2018.[95]

In 2017 Kiplinger ranked UC Santa Cruz 50th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 3rd in California.[96] Money Magazine ranked UC Santa Cruz 41st in the country out of the nearly 1500 schools it evaluated for its 2016 Best Colleges ranking.[97] In 2016–2017, UC Santa Cruz was rated 146th in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2016 it was ranked 83rd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 296th worldwide in 2016 by the QS World University Rankings.

In 2009, RePEc, an online database of research economics articles, ranked the UCSC Economics Department sixth in the world in the field of international finance.[98] In 2007, High Times magazine placed UCSC as first among US universities as a "counterculture college."[99] In 2009, The Princeton Review (with GamePro magazine) ranked UC Santa Cruz's Game Design major among the top 50 in the country.[100] In 2011, The Princeton Review and GamePro Media ranked UC Santa Cruz's graduate programs in Game Design as seventh in the nation.[101] In 2012, UCSC was ranked No. 3 in the Most Beautiful Campus list of Princeton Review.[102]

Residential colleges

The undergraduate program, with only the partial exception of those majors run through the university's Baskin School of Engineering, is still based on the version of the "residential college system" outlined by Clark Kerr and Dean McHenry at the inception of their original plans for the campus (see History, above). Upon admission, all undergraduate students have the opportunity to choose one of ten colleges, with which they usually stay affiliated for their entire undergraduate careers.[103] There are cases where some students switch college affiliations as each college holds a different graduation ceremony. Almost all faculty members are affiliated with a college as well.[103] The individual colleges provide housing and dining services, while the university as a whole offers courses and majors to the general student community.[103] Other universities with similar college systems include Rice University and the University of California, San Diego.

Each of the colleges has its own, distinctive architectural style and a resident faculty provost, who is the nominal head of his or her college.[103] An incoming first-year student will take a mandatory "core course" within his or her respective college, with a curriculum and central theme unique to that college.[103] College resident populations vary from about 750 to 1,550 students, with roughly half of undergraduates living on campus within their college community or in smaller, intramural campus communities such as the International Living Center, the Trailer Park, and the Village.[103] Coursework, academic majors and general areas of study are not limited by college membership, although colleges host the offices of many academic departments. Graduate students are not affiliated with a residential college, though a large portion of their offices, too, have historically tended to be based in the colleges. The ten colleges are, in order of establishment:

Admissions

Enrolled Freshman Admission Statistics
  2019[104] 2018[105] 2017[106] 2016[107] 2015[108]
Applicants 55,866 56,634 52,975 49,185 44,871
Admitted 28,808 27,014 27,235 28,884 23,022
Admit rate 51.6% 47.7% 51.4% 58.7% 51.3%
Enrolled 3,722 3,701 4,045 4,221 3,570
SAT (Math+Reading)*

25th-75th percentile

1200–1360 1170–1400 1160–1370 1060–1300 1070–1310
ACT range

25th-75th percentile

24–30 24–31 24–30 23–29 23–29
* SAT out of 1600

For the fall 2022 term, UCSC offered admission to 31,075 freshmen out of 77,500 applicants, an acceptance rate of 40.09%. The entering freshman class had an average high school GPA of 4.08, with the middle 50% range 3.94 to 4.28.[109][110]

Grading

For most of its history, UCSC employed a unique student evaluation system. With the exception of the choice of letter grades in science courses the only grades assigned were "pass" and "no record", supplemented with narrative evaluations. Beginning in 1997, UCSC allowed students the option of selecting letter grade evaluations, but course grades were still optional until 2000, when faculty voted to require students receive letter grades. Students were still given narrative evaluations to complement the letter grades. As of 2010, the narrative evaluations were deemed an unnecessary expenditure. Still, some professors write evaluations for all students while some would write evaluations for specific students upon request.[111] Students can still elect to receive a "pass/no pass" grade, but many academic programs limit or even forbid pass/no pass grading. A grade of C and above would receive a grade of "pass". Overall, students may now earn no more than 25% of their UCSC credits on a "pass/no pass" basis. Although the default grading option for almost all courses offered is now "graded", most course grades are still accompanied by written evaluations.[112]

Library

 
McHenry Library stacks

The McHenry Library houses UCSC's arts and letters collection, with most of the scientific reading at the newer Science and Engineering Library. The McHenry Library was designed by John Carl Warnecke.[74] In addition, the colleges host smaller libraries, which serve as quiet places to study. The McHenry Special Collections Library includes the archives of Robert A. Heinlein, the papers of Anaïs Nin, the papers and drawings of Beat poet Kenneth Patchen, the largest collection of Edward Weston photographs in the United States, the mycology book collection of composer John Cage, a large collection of works by Satyajit Ray, the Hayden White collection of 16th-century Italian printing, a photography collection with nearly half a million items, and the Mary Lea Shane Archives. The Shane Archives contains an extensive collection of photographs, letters, and other documents related to Lick Observatory dating back to 1870.[113]

A 82,000-square-foot (7,600 m2) new addition to the library opened on March 31, 2008, including a "cyber study" room and a Global Village café. The original 144,000-square-foot (13,400 m2) library reopened on June 22, 2011 after seismic upgrades and other renovations.[114][115] In total, the University Libraries contain over 2.4 million volumes.

Grateful Dead archive

In 2008, UCSC agreed to house the Grateful Dead archives at the McHenry Library.[116][117] Exhibits of Grateful Dead Archive materials are on display in the Brittingham Family Foundation's Dead Central Gallery on the 2nd Floor of McHenry Library. The Dead Central exhibit space is open during all library business hours. UCSC plans to devote an entire room at the library, to be called "Dead Central," to display the collection and encourage research.[118] UCSC beat out petitions from Stanford and UC Berkeley to house the archives. Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir said that UCSC is "a seat of neo-Bohemian culture that we're a facet of. There could not have been a cozier place for this collection to land."[119] The archive became open to the public July 29, 2012.

Student life

Most undergraduates are from California. The following tables show the ethnic and regional breakdown of the student body:

Regional Origin of 2015 Freshmen[120] Percent
Monterey Bay area and Santa Clara Valley 11.8%
San Francisco Bay Area 26.2%
Northern California 1.5%
East Central California 11.2%
Los Angeles-South Coast 25.0%
San Diego and desert areas 12.1%
Other U.S. states 4.8%
Foreign 7.2%
Unknown 0.1%
Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020
Race and ethnicity[121] Total
White 30% 30
 
Hispanic 27% 27
 
Asian 23% 23
 
Other[a] 10% 10
 
Foreign national 8% 8
 
Black 2% 2
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 28% 28
 
Affluent[c] 72% 72
 
 
Student Union
 
Quarry Plaza
 
KZSC lounge
 
Students and others gather for a "420 Day" event in Porter Meadow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, campus on April 20, 2007.

UCSC students are known for political activism. In 2005, a Pentagon surveillance program deemed student opposition to military recruiters on campus a "credible threat," the only campus antiwar action to receive the designation.[122] In February 2006, Chancellor Denice Denton got the designation removed.[123] Military recruiters declined to return to UCSC the following year, but returned in 2008 to a more low-keyed student reception and protests using elements of guerrilla theatre, rather than vandalism or physical violence.[124][125] Thanks to students passing a $3 quarterly tuition increase to support buying renewable energy in 2006, UCSC is the sixth-largest buyer of renewable energy among college campuses nationwide.[126] The Cesar Chavez Convocation is another example of student activism.

UC Santa Cruz is also well known for its cannabis culture. On April 20, 2007, approximately 2,000 UCSC students gathered at Porter Meadow to celebrate the annual "420". Students and others openly smoked marijuana while campus police stood by.[127] The once student-only event has grown since the city of Santa Cruz passed Measure K in 2006, an ordinance making marijuana use a low-priority crime for police. The 2007 event attracted a total of 5,000 participants. The university does not condone the gathering, but has taken steps to regulate the event and ensure security for all participants. On April 20, 2010, the school administration shut down the west entrance to campus and limited the number of buses that could drive through campus.[128][129] On April 20, 2013, a student by the name of Gennady Tsarinsky was arrested for the possession of more than one ounce. Although a USCS spokesperson could not confirm the exact weight of the joint possessed by Tsarinsky, it was estimated to be nearly three pounds.[130]

Another well known tradition is what is known as "First Rain". Students run around campus naked or nearly naked to celebrate the school year's first night of heavy rain. The run begins at Porter and proceeds to travel through all the other colleges, collecting more students in its train.[131]

Student government

The Student Union Assembly was founded in 1985 to better coordinate bargaining positions between students and administration on campus-wide issues.[132] All the residential colleges and six ethnic and gender-based organizations send delegates to SUA.[133] There is a total of 138 recognized student groups as of 2008.[134]

Student media

All Student media organizations are funded by a student council referendum of $3.20 per student per quarter.[135]

  • City on a Hill Press, a weekly publication that serves as the traditional campus newspaper.
  • Fish Rap Live!, the alternative, comedic paper.
  • TWANAS, the Third World and Native American Student Press Collective publishes issues about every quarter for various communities of color at UCSC. Its peak years were during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
  • Student Cable Television (SCTV) disbanded at the beginning of the 2010 academic school year. On The Spot (OTS), replaced the defunct SCTV organization, continuing the student-run television opportunities. On The Spot airs on channel 28 only on campus.[136]
  • The Moxie Production Group, which produces content on a quarterly basis.
  • The Project, a quarterly paper, for UCSC's radical community.
  • The Disorientation Guide, published on sporadic years, introduces new students to UCSC's radical history and various political issues that face the campus and community.[137]
  • Rapt Magazine, a quarterly literary and arts magazine.
  • Leviathan Jewish Journal, a Jewish student life publication.[138]
  • On The Spot, a student-run broadcast media organization, that produces a variety of shows including Press Center Live (Sketch-Comedy), ART (Music videos), and game shows.
  • Banana Slug News, a television broadcast news program.
  • Chinquapin, an open-ended creative journal sponsored by the creative writing department.[139]
  • Turnstile, a poetry journal.
  • "Gaia Magazine," a magazine about environmental and sustainability subjects that is published once a year.
  • Red Wheelbarrow, a "literary arts" journal.[140]
  • Matchbox Magazine, an annual humanities publication, started at UCSC, that operates across many UC campuses.[141]
  • EyeCandy, an annual student-run film journal associated with the Film and Digital Media department.[142]
  • KZSC, the student-run campus radio station.[143][144]
  • Santa Cruz Indymedia, a local activist resource with a lot of UCSC content.
  • The Film Production Coalition which produces films on a quarterly basis.[145]

Housing

Most of the UCSC undergraduate housing is affiliated with one of the ten residential colleges. The residence halls, which include both shared and private rooms, typically house fifteen to twenty students per floor and have common bathrooms and lounge areas. Some halls have coed floors where men and women share bathroom facilities, others have separate bathroom facilities for men and women. Single-gender, gender-neutral and substance-free floors are also available.

All of the colleges, except for Kresge, have both residence halls and apartments. Kresge is all apartments. Apartments are typically shared by four to eight students, have common living/dining rooms, kitchens and bathrooms, and a combination of shared and private bedrooms. Apartments at colleges other than Kresge are generally reserved for students above the freshman level.

In addition to the residential colleges, housing is available at the Village on the lower quarry, populated by continuing and transfer students (in 2016–17, this will be restricted to only continuing students); the Redwood Grove Apartments, which is available to continuing student applicants from all colleges; and the University Town Center, located downtown, that serves both continuing and transfer students. The Transfer Community is located in sections of both the A and B Buildings at Porter College and over 500 residents live within this theme housing. Graduate Student Housing is available near Science Hill, and UCSC also offers Family Student Housing units as well as a Camper Park for student-owned trailers and RVs.[146]

Student housing has become an issue on and off-campus with 9% of students in 2021 reporting that they lack stable housing.[147] UCSC continues to increase enrollment each year despite a lack of campus housing, leading to more students living off-campus and driving up rental prices in Santa Cruz.[148] On February 22, 2022, the City filed a lawsuit against UCSC claiming that the university's Long Range Development Plan and Environmental Impact Report do not account for a situation in which the university increases its student population without fulfilling its promise to double its campus housing capacity.[148]

Greek life

UCSC is home to few fraternities and sororities. The first Greek organization on campus, Theta Chi, was given colony status on January 10, 1987 and chartered on October 14, 1989 (designation: Theta Iota). In the beginning, fraternities like Theta Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were met with strong opposition from the student body. Student groups like P.A.C. (People's Alternative Community), S.A.G.E. (Students Against Greek Environments), and M.A.C. (Men's Alternative Community) protested the existence of Greek life at the UCSC campus.[149] Theta Chi is now on the list of banned Greek-letter organizations.[150]

Greek life at UCSC includes fraternities Sigma Lambda Beta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Pi, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Sigma Phi Zeta, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Pi Alpha Phi, and Delta Lambda Psi, the nation's first gender neutral queer Greek organization. Sororities that are members of the National Panhellenic Council at the University of California, Santa Cruz include Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Recently in June 2016 the Theta Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta was chartered to bring a third National sorority to UC Santa Cruz.[151] Sororities on campus include Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Pi Alpha, Tri Chi, Sigma Omicron Pi, Kappa Zeta, Lambda Theta Alpha and Alpha Psi.[152] The most recent Greek lettered organization added to the campus was Zeta Phi Beta sorority, which chartered its chapter Gamma Phi as of Spring 2016.

Aside from social fraternities and sororities on campus, there are also a number of professional organizations as well. There are Kappa Gamma Delta,[153] a prehealth sorority, Sigma Mu Delta, a prehealth fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta, a pre-law fraternity, and Delta Sigma Pi, a co-ed professional business fraternity.[154]

Sustainability

Students established the Student Environmental Center (SEC) in 2001, have held annual Earth Summits, and established a sustainability funding body, the Campus Sustainability Council. In 2004, the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices was released, stating that the University of California Office of the President was committed to minimizing its impact on the environment and reducing its dependence on non-renewable energy. In 2006, a Committee on Sustainability and Stewardship (CSS) was established and a campus-wide Sustainability Assessment was completed. The following year, the pilot Sustainability Office was created to help institutionalize sustainability, coordinate communication and collaboration between the many entities already engaged in campus sustainability activities at UCSC, support policy implementation, and serve as a resource for the campus.[155]

Organizations

The following is a list of UCSC sustainability organizations, departments, gardens, and funding bodies on the UCSC campus:

  • Alliance to Save Energy's Power Save Green Campus Program (formerly known as Green Campus Program)
  • Arboretum
  • California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC)
  • Campus Sustainability Council (CSC)
  • Campus Sustainability Office
  • Carbon Fund
  • Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
  • Center for Global, International and Regional Studies
  • College Eight: Nurturing Green Entrepreneurs
  • Community Agroecology Network (CAN)
  • Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP)
  • Environmental Studies Department
  • Friends of the Community Agroecology Network (FoCAN)
  • Friends of the Sustainability Office (FoSO)
  • IDEASS
  • Kresge Garden
  • Kresge Natural Food Cooperative
  • Meatless Mondays, Beefless Thursdays & Farm Fridays in the dining halls
  • Path to a Greener Stevenson (PTAGS)
  • Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA)
  • Program Recognizing Offices Practicing Sustainability (PROPS), a green office certification program
  • Slugbotics
  • Site Stewardship Program
  • Student Environmental Center (SEC)
  • Student Environmental Center (SEC)
  • Student Sustainability Advisers (SSA)
  • Sustainability Lab
  • UCSC Climate Change Research Resources
  • UCSC Greenhouses
  • UCSC Museum of Natural History Collections
  • UCSC Natural Reserves
  • UCSC Sustainability Engineering and Ecological Design

Athletics

Main article: UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
 
East Field

UCSC competes in Division III of the NCAA, mainly as a member of the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (C2C). There are fifteen varsity sports – men's and women's basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, swimming, cross country and diving, and women's golf. UCSC teams have been Division I nationally ranked in tennis, cross country, soccer, men's volleyball, and swimming. The Men's water polo team was ranked 18th in the nation in 2006 and won the D3 national Championship, however in 2009 the team was cut due to budget cuts. UCSC maintains a number of club teams. It has won several club national championships in men's tennis, 3 in men's waterpolo and also a women's Division I championship in club rugby.

Due to mounting debt resulting from UCSC's athletic program, UCSC polled its students in 2016 on whether they would consider approving a quarterly fee that would support athletic operations. After polling showed support for a potential fee, a measure to introduce a quarterly fee passed in 2017 with 79% of voting students in favor.[156]

Notable alumni and faculty

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of California, Santa Cruz people.

Notable alumni of the University of California, Santa Cruz include co-founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P. Newton (BA 1974, PhD 1980); actress and comedian Maya Rudolph (BA 1995); founder of Huffington Post and BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti (BA 1996); filmmaker Cary Fukunaga (BA 1999); marine biologist and MacArthur Fellowship winner Stacy Jupiter (PhD 2006); acclaimed author and cultural theorist bell hooks (PhD 1983); acclaimed author Geoffrey Dunn[157][158] and several Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. Notable attendees include actor and comedian Andy Samberg and filmmaker Miranda July.

  • Notable UC Santa Cruz faculty include:
  •  

    David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz

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    Angela Davis, distinguished professor emerita of History of Consciousness

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    Kenneth V. Thimann, plant physiologist and microbiologist

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    Tom Lehrer, retired musician and satirist. Lectured in American studies, Mathematics, and Musical Theater.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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The University of California Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz or UCSC is a public land grant research university in Santa Cruz California It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system Located on Monterey Bay on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz the campus lies on 2 001 acres 810 ha of rolling forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean In fall 2022 its ten residential colleges enroll some 17 500 undergraduate and 2 000 graduate students 8 The university was rated as one of the Public Ivies as the university provides an education comparable to the Ivy League 9 University of California Santa CruzMottoFiat lux Latin Motto in English Let there be light TypePublic land grant research universityEstablished1965 58 years ago 1965 1 Parent institutionUniversity of CaliforniaAccreditationWSCUCAcademic affiliationsAAUAPRUURASpace grantEndowment 294 million 2021 2 ChancellorCynthia LariveProvostLori KletzerStudents19 161 fall 2020 3 Undergraduates17 207 fall 2020 3 Postgraduates1 954 fall 2020 3 LocationSanta Cruz California United States37 00 N 122 04 W 37 00 N 122 06 W 37 00 122 06 Coordinates 37 00 N 122 04 W 37 00 N 122 06 W 37 00 122 06CampusSmall City 4 6 088 acres 2 464 ha 5 Other campusesSanta ClaraMarinaScotts ValleyNewspaperCity on a Hill PressColorsBlue and gold 6 NicknameBanana SlugsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I C2CASCMascotSammy the Slug 7 Websitewww wbr ucsc wbr eduFounded in 1965 UC Santa Cruz began with the intention to showcase progressive cross disciplinary undergraduate education innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture The residential college system consists of ten small colleges that were established as a variation of the Oxbridge collegiate university system 10 Among the Faculty is 1 Nobel Prize Laureate 1 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences recipient 12 members from the National Academy of Sciences 28 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 40 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Eight UC Santa Cruz alumni are winners of 10 Pulitzer Prizes 11 UC Santa Cruz is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 12 It is a member of the Association of American Universities an alliance of elite research universities in the United States and Canada 13 Contents 1 History 1 1 Prior to campus development 1 2 Site selection and campus planning 1 3 The Santa Cruz dream 1 4 Sinsheimer Reforms 1 5 2020 strike action 1 6 Impact on Santa Cruz 1 7 Expansion plans 2 Campus 3 Academics 3 1 Research 3 2 Rankings 4 Residential colleges 4 1 Admissions 4 2 Grading 5 Library 5 1 Grateful Dead archive 6 Student life 6 1 Student government 6 2 Student media 6 3 Housing 6 4 Greek life 7 Sustainability 7 1 Organizations 8 Athletics 9 Notable alumni and faculty 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 External linksHistory EditPrior to campus development Edit Prior to Spanish colonization the Uypi tribe of the Awaswas Nation who spoke Mutsun Costanoan of the Ohlone peoples lived in what is now the campus of UCSC During this time the missionaries of Mission Santa Cruz removed a part of the forest to build a vineyard on top of what is now the Great Meadow After the California Gold Rush many mining firms came to the area The Cowell Lime Works operated on the entirety of what is now the Santa Cruz campus until 1920 Site selection and campus planning Edit Although some of the original founders had already outlined plans for an institution like UCSC as early as the 1930s the opportunity to realize their vision did not present itself until the City of Santa Cruz made a bid to the UC Board of Regents in the mid 1950s to build a campus just outside town in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains 14 During the mid 1950s there was widespread public sentiment in favor of the establishment of a new UC campus somewhere south of the original campus at Berkeley In 1957 the California State Senate passed a resolution asking the Regents to consider the Monterey Peninsula and that same year the California State Assembly passed its own resolution asking the Regents to consider the Santa Clara Valley 15 In December 1959 the Regents voted to focus their site selection process on the Almaden Valley in San Jose i e within the Santa Clara Valley and the larger region now known as Silicon Valley but the public announcement of the Regents decision immediately caused property values throughout that area to increase to the extent that the Regents could no longer afford to buy the necessary land 15 After another year of study the Regents finally selected Santa Cruz as the location of the next UC campus 15 However Santa Cruz was selected for the beauty rather than the practicality of its location and its remoteness led to the decision to develop a residential college system that would house most of the students on campus 16 The formal design process for the Santa Cruz campus began in the late 1950s culminating in the Long Range Development Plan of 1963 17 Planning the new UC campus was just as hard as picking the site The first plan was to build the campus on what is now the Great Meadow so it would be close to the existing city of Santa Cruz 18 The second plan conceived by Thomas Church put the colleges into the redwood forest at the top of the hill above the Great Meadow 18 This was clearly the better idea but presented the problem of how to place the colleges inside the forest 18 The original design for College One Cowell College scattered its buildings among the trees which was sarcastically compared by one regent to a series of motels on the shores of Lake Tahoe 18 Having recently visited Aigues Mortes UC President Clark Kerr was inspired by the layout of that French medieval town to suggest concentrating each college s buildings into distinct clusters in the forest and that is how UC Santa Cruz was actually built 19 Construction started by 1964 and the university was able to accommodate its first students albeit living in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area in 1965 The campus was intended to be a showcase for contemporary architecture progressive teaching methods and undergraduate research 20 21 22 According to founding chancellor Dean McHenry the purpose of the distributed college system was to combine the benefits of a major research university with the intimacy of a smaller college 23 24 Kerr shared a passion with former Stanford roommate McHenry to build a university modeled as several Swarthmores i e small liberal arts colleges in close proximity to each other 23 25 Both men were well aware that Santa Cruz was located in the shadow not only of Berkeley but also of Stanford and was bound to remain in their shadows for a very long time to come and perhaps forever 26 Therefore they hoped to shape a distinctive personality for the Santa Cruz campus and let it flourish as first rate within its own type 26 The Santa Cruz dream Edit In his memoirs Kerr ruefully recounted the myriad errors made by himself and McHenry in launching the new campus 26 They had created Santa Cruz as the most experimental of the UC campuses but opened it just in time for their cherished Santa Cruz dream to die amidst the counterculture of the 1960s 26 Santa Cruz quickly became the counterculture campus where students and faculty either mellowed out among the redwood trees or turned into activist radical s 27 For example when Kerr came to deliver an address at UC Santa Cruz s first commencement exercises in 1969 the ceremony was hijacked by students who denounced Kerr and McHenry for having planned and created Santa Cruz as a capitalist imperialist fascist plot to divert the students from their revolution against the evils of American society and in particular against the horrors of the Vietnam War 28 The students then tried to award an honorary degree to Huey P Newton who was in jail at the time although he went on to earn his bachelor s and doctorate degrees at Santa Cruz 28 Kerr later recalled this episode of guerrilla theatre as one of the worst afternoons of my life 29 According to Kerr s account during the 1970s the quality of UC Santa Cruz s incoming freshman classes deteriorated as Me generation students increasingly chose to matriculate at less experimental UC campuses in order to major in subjects such as engineering and business administration both absent from Santa Cruz 30 Another major factor behind the decrease in quality was a series of grisly murders around Santa Cruz 30 which at the time was labeled the murder capital of the world 31 The average SAT scores of UC Santa Cruz s incoming students dropped from 1250 in the early 1970s to 1050 by the early 1980s 30 Sinsheimer Reforms Edit A series of major reforms were implemented by Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer 1977 1987 at the cost of making Santa Cruz less experimental and more conventional 32 33 34 In 1981 after a two year battle the faculty narrowly voted to give students the option of receiving grades for the first time in lieu of Santa Cruz s traditional narrative evaluations 33 By the fall of 1984 45 of Santa Cruz students were already majoring in the sciences and that year the campus offered computer engineering as a major for the first time in order to take advantage of its proximity to Silicon Valley followed by business economics a year later 33 In May 1985 Sinsheimer a molecular biologist welcomed several scientists to Santa Cruz for one of the first meetings at which the idea of a Human Genome Project was discussed 35 Sinsheimer got Santa Cruz involved in intercollegiate athletics for the first time as part of NCAA Division III In 1981 he supported student athletes preference for the sea lion as the campus mascot but was forced to back down in 1986 when the student body voted to support the banana slug instead 34 By the early 1990s the campus was still inefficient in that average teaching loads were still light compared to other UC campuses but SAT scores had stopped falling the faculty was performing good research and the campus was beginning to rise in university rankings 32 In 1997 an engineering school was finally launched 32 In 2019 the University of California Santa Cruz was elected to the Association of American Universities AAU the most prestigious alliance of American research universities 36 Along with UCI UC Santa Cruz was the youngest university to gain admittance to the AAU 37 2020 strike action Edit Main article 2020 Santa Cruz graduate students strike On December 9 2019 over 200 graduate student workers initiated a wildcat strike by withholding Fall quarter grades with the following demands 1 a COLA cost of living adjustment of 1 412 month to address the housing crisis in Santa Cruz 2 a promise of non retaliation against those participating in the strike and 3 a cap on tuition for undergraduate students to ensure that the increase in graduate student worker pay would not increase the rent burden and precarity of their students 38 On February 10 2020 graduate student workers responded to disciplinary threats from UCSC administrators with a full teaching strike 39 UCSC administrators called in police from various counties to protect and serve 17 students were arrested and several were injured but UCSC denied the claims of police brutality and excessive force 40 On February 27 2020 UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara joined the strike 41 42 On February 28 2020 54 graduate student workers were terminated 43 and continued strikes shut down the campus for at least one day the following week 44 McHenry Library Impact on Santa Cruz Edit Although the city of Santa Cruz already exhibited a strong conservation ethic before the founding of the university the coincidental rise of the counterculture of the 1960s together with the university s establishment fundamentally altered its subsequent development Early student and faculty activism at UCSC pioneered an approach to environmentalism that greatly impacted the industrial development of the surrounding area 45 The lowering of the voting age to 18 in 1971 led to the emergence of a powerful student voting bloc 46 A large and growing population of politically liberal UCSC alumni changed the electorate of the town from predominantly Republican 47 to markedly left leaning consistently voting against expansion measures on the part of both town and gown UCSC Chancellors Died in office dd Expansion plans Edit Plans for increasing enrollment to 19 500 students and adding 1 500 faculty and staff by 2020 and the anticipated environmental impacts of such action encountered opposition from the city the local community and the student body 48 49 City voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on UCSC to pay for the impacts of campus growth A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures ruling they were improperly put on the ballot In 2008 the university city county and neighborhood organizations reached an agreement to set aside numerous lawsuits and allow the expansion to occur UCSC agreed to local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans to provide housing for 67 percent of the additional students on campus and to pay municipal development and water fees 50 George Blumenthal UCSC s 10th Chancellor intended to mitigate growth constraints in Santa Cruz by developing off campus sites in Silicon Valley The NASA Ames Research Center campus is planned to ultimately hold 2 000 UCSC students about 10 of the entire university s future student body as envisioned for 2020 51 52 In April 2010 UC Santa Cruz opened its new 35 million Digital Arts Research Center a project in planning since 2004 53 The 72 million Coastal Biology Building officially opened on 21 October 2017 on the Coastal Science Campus 54 The new campus houses the Ecology amp Evolutionary Biology Department and faculty interested in the study of ecology and evolution in ocean terrestrial and freshwater environments Campus Edit UCSC amp Santa Cruz aerial view The Great Meadow is the undeveloped area between city and university The 2 000 acre 810 ha UCSC campus is located 75 miles 121 km south of San Francisco in the Ben Lomond Mountain ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains Elevation varies from 285 feet 87 m at the campus entrance to 1 195 feet 364 m at the northern boundary a difference of about 900 feet 270 m The southern portion of the campus primarily consists of a large open meadow locally known as the Great Meadow To the north of the meadow lie most of the campus buildings many of them among redwood groves The campus is bounded on the south by the city s upper west side neighborhoods on the east by Harvey West Park 55 and the Pogonip open space preserve 56 on the north by Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park 57 near the town of Felton and on the west by Gray Whale Ranch a portion of Wilder Ranch State Park 58 The campus is built on a portion of the Cowell Family ranch which was purchased by the University of California in 1961 59 The northern half of the campus property has remained in its undeveloped forested state apart from fire roads and hiking and bicycle trails The heavily forested area has allowed UC Santa Cruz to operate a recreational vehicle park as a form of student housing 60 In 2017 the University finished building the Coastal Science Facility for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department The facility equipped with teaching classrooms labs and greenhouses is located on McAllister Way 61 Bridge across ravine A number of shrines dens and other student built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus These structures mostly assembled from branches and other forest detritus were formerly concentrated in the area known as Elfland a glen the university razed in 1992 to build colleges Nine and Ten Students were able to relocate and save some of the structures however 62 63 Creeks traverse the UCSC campus within several ravines Footbridges span those ravines on pedestrian paths linking various areas of campus The footbridges make it possible to walk to any part of campus within 20 minutes in spite of the campus being built on a mountainside with varying elevations 64 At night orange lights illuminate the occasionally fogged in paths 65 There are a number of natural points of interest throughout the UCSC grounds The Porter Caves are a popular site among students on the west side of campus The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road The caves wind through a set of caverns some of which are challenging narrow passages Tree Nine is another popular destination for students A large Douglas fir spanning approximately 103 feet 31 m tall Tree Nine is located in the upper campus of UCSC behind College Nine The tree had been a popular climbing spot for many years but due to environmental corrosion and fear of student injuries UC ground services sawed off the limbs to make it nearly impossible to climb 66 Less experienced tree climbers also used to frequent Sunset Tree located on the east side of the meadow behind the UCSC Music Center but the lower branches of this tree were also cut off to make climbing the tree difficult 67 68 The UCSC campus is also one of the few homes to Mima Mounds in the United States They are rare in the United States and in the world in general Panorama of Great Meadow Academics Edit Organic farm rows The university has five academic divisions Arts Engineering Humanities Physical amp Biological Sciences and Social Sciences Together they offer 65 graduate programs 64 undergraduate majors and 41 minors 69 Popular undergraduate majors include Art Business Management Economics Chemistry Molecular and Cell Biology Physics and Psychology 70 Interdisciplinary programs such as Computational Media Feminist Studies Environmental Studies Visual Studies Digital Arts and New Media Critical Race amp Ethnic Studies and the History of Consciousness Department are also hosted alongside UCSC s more traditional academic departments A joint program with UC Hastings enables UC Santa Cruz students to earn a bachelor s degree and Juris Doctor degree in six years instead of the usual seven The 3 3 BA JD Program between UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco accepted its first applicants in fall 2014 71 UCSC students who declare their intent in their freshman or early sophomore year will complete three years at UCSC and then move on to UC Hastings to begin the three year law curriculum Credits from the first year of law school will count toward a student s bachelor s degree Students who successfully complete the first year law course work will receive their bachelor s degree and be able to graduate with their UCSC class then continue at UC Hastings afterwards for two years Approaching Baskin Engineering from McLaughlin Drive Baskin Engineering Plaza Research Edit According to the National Science Foundation UC Santa Cruz spent 127 5 million on research and development in 2018 ranking it 144th in the nation 72 Although designed as a liberal arts oriented university UCSC quickly acquired a graduate level natural science research component with the appointment of plant physiologist Kenneth V Thimann as the first provost of Crown College Thimann developed UCSC s early Division of Natural Sciences and recruited other well known science faculty and graduate students to the fledgling campus 73 Immediately upon its founding UCSC was also granted administrative responsibility for the Lick Observatory which established the campus as a major center for astronomy research 74 Founding members of the Social Science and Humanities faculty created the unique History of Consciousness graduate program in UCSC s first year of operation 75 Famous former UCSC faculty members include Judith Butler and Angela Davis UCSC s organic farm and garden program is the oldest in the country and pioneered organic horticulture techniques internationally 76 77 As of 2015 UCSC s faculty include 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences 24 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 33 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1 The Baskin School of Engineering founded in 1997 is UCSC s first and only professional school citation needed Baskin Engineering is home to several research centers including the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering 78 and Cyberphysical Systems Research Center which are gaining recognition as has the work that UCSC researchers David Haussler and Jim Kent have done on the Human Genome Project 79 80 including the widely used UCSC Genome Browser 81 UCSC administers the National Science Foundation s Center for Adaptive Optics 82 Off campus research facilities maintained by UCSC include the Lick and Keck Observatories and the Long Marine Laboratory From September 2003 to July 2016 UCSC managed a University Affiliated Research System UARC for the NASA Ames Research Center under a task order contract valued at more than 330 million 83 Rankings Edit Academic rankingsNationalForbes 84 87THE WSJ 85 255U S News amp World Report 86 83Washington Monthly 87 91GlobalARWU 88 151 200QS 89 347THE 90 201 250U S News amp World Report 91 105 National Program Rankings 92 Program RankingEarth Sciences 19English 35Physics 37Economics 53Computer Science 49Biological Sciences 62Fine Arts 64Sociology 71Mathematics 71Education 73History 79Chemistry 79Engineering 83Political Science 89Psychology 90 Global Subject Rankings 93 Program RankingSpace Science 9Geosciences 86Biology amp Biochemistry 87Molecular Biology amp Genetics 88Environment Ecology 93Arts amp Humanities 157Plant amp Animal Science 210Physics 213Computer Science 298Chemistry 440Social Sciences amp Public Health 444 UC Santa Cruz was tied for 58th in the list of Best Global Universities and tied for 83th in the list of Best National Universities in the United States by U S News amp World Report s 202 rankings 94 In 2021 UC Santa Cruz is ranked No 3 public university in the nation for making an impact and No 4 for promoting social mobility In 2023 the university was ranked No 5 in game simulation development and No 2 among the best public game design colleges in the U S 95 UC Santa Cruz is ranked top 10 in excellence in undergraduate teaching in 2022 and third in research influence in 2018 95 In 2017 Kiplinger ranked UC Santa Cruz 50th out of the top 100 best value public colleges and universities in the nation and 3rd in California 96 Money Magazine ranked UC Santa Cruz 41st in the country out of the nearly 1500 schools it evaluated for its 2016 Best Colleges ranking 97 In 2016 2017 UC Santa Cruz was rated 146th in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings In 2016 it was ranked 83rd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 296th worldwide in 2016 by the QS World University Rankings In 2009 RePEc an online database of research economics articles ranked the UCSC Economics Department sixth in the world in the field of international finance 98 In 2007 High Times magazine placed UCSC as first among US universities as a counterculture college 99 In 2009 The Princeton Review with GamePro magazine ranked UC Santa Cruz s Game Design major among the top 50 in the country 100 In 2011 The Princeton Review and GamePro Media ranked UC Santa Cruz s graduate programs in Game Design as seventh in the nation 101 In 2012 UCSC was ranked No 3 in the Most Beautiful Campus list of Princeton Review 102 Residential colleges EditThe undergraduate program with only the partial exception of those majors run through the university s Baskin School of Engineering is still based on the version of the residential college system outlined by Clark Kerr and Dean McHenry at the inception of their original plans for the campus see History above Upon admission all undergraduate students have the opportunity to choose one of ten colleges with which they usually stay affiliated for their entire undergraduate careers 103 There are cases where some students switch college affiliations as each college holds a different graduation ceremony Almost all faculty members are affiliated with a college as well 103 The individual colleges provide housing and dining services while the university as a whole offers courses and majors to the general student community 103 Other universities with similar college systems include Rice University and the University of California San Diego Each of the colleges has its own distinctive architectural style and a resident faculty provost who is the nominal head of his or her college 103 An incoming first year student will take a mandatory core course within his or her respective college with a curriculum and central theme unique to that college 103 College resident populations vary from about 750 to 1 550 students with roughly half of undergraduates living on campus within their college community or in smaller intramural campus communities such as the International Living Center the Trailer Park and the Village 103 Coursework academic majors and general areas of study are not limited by college membership although colleges host the offices of many academic departments Graduate students are not affiliated with a residential college though a large portion of their offices too have historically tended to be based in the colleges The ten colleges are in order of establishment The 10 Residential Colleges Cowell College Stevenson College Crown College Merrill College Porter College Kresge College Oakes College Rachel Carson College College Nine John R Lewis College Admissions Edit Enrolled Freshman Admission Statistics 2019 104 2018 105 2017 106 2016 107 2015 108 Applicants 55 866 56 634 52 975 49 185 44 871Admitted 28 808 27 014 27 235 28 884 23 022Admit rate 51 6 47 7 51 4 58 7 51 3 Enrolled 3 722 3 701 4 045 4 221 3 570SAT Math Reading 25th 75th percentile 1200 1360 1170 1400 1160 1370 1060 1300 1070 1310ACT range 25th 75th percentile 24 30 24 31 24 30 23 29 23 29 SAT out of 1600For the fall 2022 term UCSC offered admission to 31 075 freshmen out of 77 500 applicants an acceptance rate of 40 09 The entering freshman class had an average high school GPA of 4 08 with the middle 50 range 3 94 to 4 28 109 110 Grading Edit For most of its history UCSC employed a unique student evaluation system With the exception of the choice of letter grades in science courses the only grades assigned were pass and no record supplemented with narrative evaluations Beginning in 1997 UCSC allowed students the option of selecting letter grade evaluations but course grades were still optional until 2000 when faculty voted to require students receive letter grades Students were still given narrative evaluations to complement the letter grades As of 2010 update the narrative evaluations were deemed an unnecessary expenditure Still some professors write evaluations for all students while some would write evaluations for specific students upon request 111 Students can still elect to receive a pass no pass grade but many academic programs limit or even forbid pass no pass grading A grade of C and above would receive a grade of pass Overall students may now earn no more than 25 of their UCSC credits on a pass no pass basis Although the default grading option for almost all courses offered is now graded most course grades are still accompanied by written evaluations 112 Library Edit McHenry Library stacks The McHenry Library houses UCSC s arts and letters collection with most of the scientific reading at the newer Science and Engineering Library The McHenry Library was designed by John Carl Warnecke 74 In addition the colleges host smaller libraries which serve as quiet places to study The McHenry Special Collections Library includes the archives of Robert A Heinlein the papers of Anais Nin the papers and drawings of Beat poet Kenneth Patchen the largest collection of Edward Weston photographs in the United States the mycology book collection of composer John Cage a large collection of works by Satyajit Ray the Hayden White collection of 16th century Italian printing a photography collection with nearly half a million items and the Mary Lea Shane Archives The Shane Archives contains an extensive collection of photographs letters and other documents related to Lick Observatory dating back to 1870 113 A 82 000 square foot 7 600 m2 new addition to the library opened on March 31 2008 including a cyber study room and a Global Village cafe The original 144 000 square foot 13 400 m2 library reopened on June 22 2011 after seismic upgrades and other renovations 114 115 In total the University Libraries contain over 2 4 million volumes Grateful Dead archive Edit In 2008 UCSC agreed to house the Grateful Dead archives at the McHenry Library 116 117 Exhibits of Grateful Dead Archive materials are on display in the Brittingham Family Foundation s Dead Central Gallery on the 2nd Floor of McHenry Library The Dead Central exhibit space is open during all library business hours UCSC plans to devote an entire room at the library to be called Dead Central to display the collection and encourage research 118 UCSC beat out petitions from Stanford and UC Berkeley to house the archives Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir said that UCSC is a seat of neo Bohemian culture that we re a facet of There could not have been a cozier place for this collection to land 119 The archive became open to the public July 29 2012 Student life EditMost undergraduates are from California The following tables show the ethnic and regional breakdown of the student body Regional Origin of 2015 Freshmen 120 PercentMonterey Bay area and Santa Clara Valley 11 8 San Francisco Bay Area 26 2 Northern California 1 5 East Central California 11 2 Los Angeles South Coast 25 0 San Diego and desert areas 12 1 Other U S states 4 8 Foreign 7 2 Unknown 0 1 Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020 Race and ethnicity 121 TotalWhite 30 30 Hispanic 27 27 Asian 23 23 Other a 10 10 Foreign national 8 8 Black 2 2 Economic diversityLow income b 28 28 Affluent c 72 72 Student Union Quarry Plaza KZSC lounge Students and others gather for a 420 Day event in Porter Meadow at the University of California Santa Cruz campus on April 20 2007 UCSC students are known for political activism In 2005 a Pentagon surveillance program deemed student opposition to military recruiters on campus a credible threat the only campus antiwar action to receive the designation 122 In February 2006 Chancellor Denice Denton got the designation removed 123 Military recruiters declined to return to UCSC the following year but returned in 2008 to a more low keyed student reception and protests using elements of guerrilla theatre rather than vandalism or physical violence 124 125 Thanks to students passing a 3 quarterly tuition increase to support buying renewable energy in 2006 UCSC is the sixth largest buyer of renewable energy among college campuses nationwide 126 The Cesar Chavez Convocation is another example of student activism UC Santa Cruz is also well known for its cannabis culture On April 20 2007 approximately 2 000 UCSC students gathered at Porter Meadow to celebrate the annual 420 Students and others openly smoked marijuana while campus police stood by 127 The once student only event has grown since the city of Santa Cruz passed Measure K in 2006 an ordinance making marijuana use a low priority crime for police The 2007 event attracted a total of 5 000 participants The university does not condone the gathering but has taken steps to regulate the event and ensure security for all participants On April 20 2010 the school administration shut down the west entrance to campus and limited the number of buses that could drive through campus 128 129 On April 20 2013 a student by the name of Gennady Tsarinsky was arrested for the possession of more than one ounce Although a USCS spokesperson could not confirm the exact weight of the joint possessed by Tsarinsky it was estimated to be nearly three pounds 130 Another well known tradition is what is known as First Rain Students run around campus naked or nearly naked to celebrate the school year s first night of heavy rain The run begins at Porter and proceeds to travel through all the other colleges collecting more students in its train 131 Student government Edit The Student Union Assembly was founded in 1985 to better coordinate bargaining positions between students and administration on campus wide issues 132 All the residential colleges and six ethnic and gender based organizations send delegates to SUA 133 There is a total of 138 recognized student groups as of 2008 update 134 Student media Edit All Student media organizations are funded by a student council referendum of 3 20 per student per quarter 135 City on a Hill Press a weekly publication that serves as the traditional campus newspaper Fish Rap Live the alternative comedic paper TWANAS the Third World and Native American Student Press Collective publishes issues about every quarter for various communities of color at UCSC Its peak years were during the 1970s 1980s and 1990s Student Cable Television SCTV disbanded at the beginning of the 2010 academic school year On The Spot OTS replaced the defunct SCTV organization continuing the student run television opportunities On The Spot airs on channel 28 only on campus 136 The Moxie Production Group which produces content on a quarterly basis The Project a quarterly paper for UCSC s radical community The Disorientation Guide published on sporadic years introduces new students to UCSC s radical history and various political issues that face the campus and community 137 Rapt Magazine a quarterly literary and arts magazine Leviathan Jewish Journal a Jewish student life publication 138 On The Spot a student run broadcast media organization that produces a variety of shows including Press Center Live Sketch Comedy ART Music videos and game shows Banana Slug News a television broadcast news program Chinquapin an open ended creative journal sponsored by the creative writing department 139 Turnstile a poetry journal Gaia Magazine a magazine about environmental and sustainability subjects that is published once a year Red Wheelbarrow a literary arts journal 140 Matchbox Magazine an annual humanities publication started at UCSC that operates across many UC campuses 141 EyeCandy an annual student run film journal associated with the Film and Digital Media department 142 KZSC the student run campus radio station 143 144 Santa Cruz Indymedia a local activist resource with a lot of UCSC content The Film Production Coalition which produces films on a quarterly basis 145 Housing Edit Most of the UCSC undergraduate housing is affiliated with one of the ten residential colleges The residence halls which include both shared and private rooms typically house fifteen to twenty students per floor and have common bathrooms and lounge areas Some halls have coed floors where men and women share bathroom facilities others have separate bathroom facilities for men and women Single gender gender neutral and substance free floors are also available All of the colleges except for Kresge have both residence halls and apartments Kresge is all apartments Apartments are typically shared by four to eight students have common living dining rooms kitchens and bathrooms and a combination of shared and private bedrooms Apartments at colleges other than Kresge are generally reserved for students above the freshman level In addition to the residential colleges housing is available at the Village on the lower quarry populated by continuing and transfer students in 2016 17 this will be restricted to only continuing students the Redwood Grove Apartments which is available to continuing student applicants from all colleges and the University Town Center located downtown that serves both continuing and transfer students The Transfer Community is located in sections of both the A and B Buildings at Porter College and over 500 residents live within this theme housing Graduate Student Housing is available near Science Hill and UCSC also offers Family Student Housing units as well as a Camper Park for student owned trailers and RVs 146 Student housing has become an issue on and off campus with 9 of students in 2021 reporting that they lack stable housing 147 UCSC continues to increase enrollment each year despite a lack of campus housing leading to more students living off campus and driving up rental prices in Santa Cruz 148 On February 22 2022 the City filed a lawsuit against UCSC claiming that the university s Long Range Development Plan and Environmental Impact Report do not account for a situation in which the university increases its student population without fulfilling its promise to double its campus housing capacity 148 Greek life Edit UCSC is home to few fraternities and sororities The first Greek organization on campus Theta Chi was given colony status on January 10 1987 and chartered on October 14 1989 designation Theta Iota In the beginning fraternities like Theta Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were met with strong opposition from the student body Student groups like P A C People s Alternative Community S A G E Students Against Greek Environments and M A C Men s Alternative Community protested the existence of Greek life at the UCSC campus 149 Theta Chi is now on the list of banned Greek letter organizations 150 Greek life at UCSC includes fraternities Sigma Lambda Beta Tau Kappa Epsilon Sigma Pi Lambda Phi Epsilon Sigma Phi Zeta Alpha Epsilon Pi Pi Alpha Phi and Delta Lambda Psi the nation s first gender neutral queer Greek organization Sororities that are members of the National Panhellenic Council at the University of California Santa Cruz include Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Kappa Gamma Recently in June 2016 the Theta Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta was chartered to bring a third National sorority to UC Santa Cruz 151 Sororities on campus include Delta Sigma Theta Sigma Lambda Gamma Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi alpha Kappa Delta Phi Gamma Phi Beta Kappa Kappa Gamma Sigma Pi Alpha Tri Chi Sigma Omicron Pi Kappa Zeta Lambda Theta Alpha and Alpha Psi 152 The most recent Greek lettered organization added to the campus was Zeta Phi Beta sorority which chartered its chapter Gamma Phi as of Spring 2016 Aside from social fraternities and sororities on campus there are also a number of professional organizations as well There are Kappa Gamma Delta 153 a prehealth sorority Sigma Mu Delta a prehealth fraternity Alpha Phi Omega a coed service fraternity Phi Alpha Delta a pre law fraternity and Delta Sigma Pi a co ed professional business fraternity 154 Sustainability EditStudents established the Student Environmental Center SEC in 2001 have held annual Earth Summits and established a sustainability funding body the Campus Sustainability Council In 2004 the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices was released stating that the University of California Office of the President was committed to minimizing its impact on the environment and reducing its dependence on non renewable energy In 2006 a Committee on Sustainability and Stewardship CSS was established and a campus wide Sustainability Assessment was completed The following year the pilot Sustainability Office was created to help institutionalize sustainability coordinate communication and collaboration between the many entities already engaged in campus sustainability activities at UCSC support policy implementation and serve as a resource for the campus 155 Organizations Edit The following is a list of UCSC sustainability organizations departments gardens and funding bodies on the UCSC campus Alliance to Save Energy s Power Save Green Campus Program formerly known as Green Campus Program Arboretum California Student Sustainability Coalition CSSC Campus Sustainability Council CSC Campus Sustainability Office Carbon Fund Center for Agroecology amp Sustainable Food Systems Center for Global International and Regional Studies College Eight Nurturing Green Entrepreneurs Community Agroecology Network CAN Education for Sustainable Living Program ESLP Environmental Studies Department Friends of the Community Agroecology Network FoCAN Friends of the Sustainability Office FoSO IDEASS Kresge Garden Kresge Natural Food Cooperative Meatless Mondays Beefless Thursdays amp Farm Fridays in the dining halls Path to a Greener Stevenson PTAGS Program in Community and Agroecology PICA Program Recognizing Offices Practicing Sustainability PROPS a green office certification program Slugbotics Site Stewardship Program Student Environmental Center SEC Student Environmental Center SEC Student Sustainability Advisers SSA Sustainability Lab UCSC Climate Change Research Resources UCSC Greenhouses UCSC Museum of Natural History Collections UCSC Natural Reserves UCSC Sustainability Engineering and Ecological DesignAthletics EditMain article UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs East Field UCSC competes in Division III of the NCAA mainly as a member of the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference C2C There are fifteen varsity sports men s and women s basketball tennis soccer volleyball swimming cross country and diving and women s golf UCSC teams have been Division I nationally ranked in tennis cross country soccer men s volleyball and swimming The Men s water polo team was ranked 18th in the nation in 2006 and won the D3 national Championship however in 2009 the team was cut due to budget cuts UCSC maintains a number of club teams It has won several club national championships in men s tennis 3 in men s waterpolo and also a women s Division I championship in club rugby Due to mounting debt resulting from UCSC s athletic program UCSC polled its students in 2016 on whether they would consider approving a quarterly fee that would support athletic operations After polling showed support for a potential fee a measure to introduce a quarterly fee passed in 2017 with 79 of voting students in favor 156 Notable alumni and faculty EditFor a more comprehensive list see List of University of California Santa Cruz people Notable alumni of the University of California Santa Cruz include co founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P Newton BA 1974 PhD 1980 actress and comedian Maya Rudolph BA 1995 founder of Huffington Post and BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti BA 1996 filmmaker Cary Fukunaga BA 1999 marine biologist and MacArthur Fellowship winner Stacy Jupiter PhD 2006 acclaimed author and cultural theorist bell hooks PhD 1983 acclaimed author Geoffrey Dunn 157 158 and several Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Notable attendees include actor and comedian Andy Samberg and filmmaker Miranda July Notable UC Santa Cruz alumni include Huey P Newton co founder of the Black Panther Party Maya Rudolph actress and comedian Jonah Peretti founder of Huffington Post and BuzzFeed Cary Fukunaga film director writer and cinematographer Reyna Grande award winning Mexican author Andy Samberg actor and comedian Kathryn D Sullivan Astronaut and former NOAA Administrator Susan Wojcicki former CEO of YouTube Stefano Bloch academic graffiti artist and author bell hooks critically acclaimed author and cultural theorist Gillian Welch singer songwriterNotable UC Santa Cruz faculty include David Haussler professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz Angela Davis distinguished professor emerita of History of Consciousness Kenneth V Thimann plant physiologist and microbiologist Tom Lehrer retired musician and satirist Lectured in American studies Mathematics and Musical Theater See also EditShakespeare Santa Cruz University of California Santa Cruz ArboretumNotes Edit Other consists of Multiracial Americans amp those who prefer to not say The percentage of students who received an income based federal Pell grant intended for low income students 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