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Visit UCSC

UC Santa Cruz, located just above Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast, is uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and agriculture. Just 45 minutes from the high-tech center of ...
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Committed to more student housing

UC Santa Cruz is pursuing an ambitious plan to provide more than 40 percent additional student housing within the decade UC Santa Cruz is proud to provide campus housing to more than 9,300 students — ...
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Address and phone

Find UC Santa Cruz's address and phone number for inquiries or correspondence.
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Preserving Habitat. Expanding Opportunity.

To advance conservation, teaching, and research, UC Santa Cruz and The Conservation Fund (TCF) announced a collaboration that will conserve more than 200 acres of currently privately held land ...
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Charles Page is founding provost of Stevenson College

Charles Page is the founding provost of Stevenson College; he will be succeeded by professor of government F.M. Glenn Wilson.
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2025 faculty research projects

Javier Gonzales-Rocha, Katia Obraczka, and Bo Yang – AIRWISE: Advancing Intelligent Resilience with Wildfire-Informed Sensing for Agriculture Ingrid Parker, Rachel Meyer, and Stacy Philpott – Effects ...
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Pulitzer Prize recipients

With a reputation for teaching students to ask the hard questions, it’s not surprising that UC Santa Cruz is home to 11 winners of 13 Pulitzer Prizes. Their writing has given voice to victims and ...
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Chancellor Christensen resigns

Chancellor Mark Christensen resigns after disagreements with faculty surface over administration and organization of the campus. University Provost Angus E. Taylor is named acting chancellor.
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Founding chancellor Dean E. McHenry retires

Founding chancellor Dean E. McHenry retires; UC Berkeley professor of geology and geophysics Mark N. Christensen is named UCSC’s second chancellor.
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Chancellor Stevens will step down

Chancellor Stevens announces that he will resign within nine to twelve months. Report an accessibility barrier Land Acknowledgment Employment Privacy Accreditation ...
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Leading the change

UC Santa Cruz is continuing to pursue projects that build and support student engagement and communities. The campus began a renovation of the Bay Tree Building in winter 2026, a transformation in the ...
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Campus announces largest monetary gift in its 60-year history

An estimated $20 million scholarship fund established by the late Richard “Rick” Sabatte (Kresge ’75, psychology) will provide full four-year scholarships and living expenses to hundreds of ...