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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › University_of_CaliforniaUniversity of California, Santa Cruz - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. exhibits.library.ucsc.edu › exhibits › showTimeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz

    This timeline outlines the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz. A more comprehensive timeline can be found here. To navigate the timeline, click on the arrows on the sides of the main window.

  3. news.ucsc.edu › 2014 › 12The birth of UC Santa Cruz: Audacious and academic

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    UC Santa Cruz was born, along with UC Irvine and UC San Diego, as the answer to California's post-war baby boom, which was expected to flood the UC system with 215,000 students by the year 2000—four times the enrollment in 1961. The campus's location on a scenic sweep of coastal meadow and forest was chosen in March 1961 not only for its staggering...

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    UC Santa Cruz's first 652 students were class presidents, high school newspaper editors, award winners, and valedictorians. Students, the majority of them white, arrived in button-down shirts and pleated skirts having finished a heavy list of required readings: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Oscar Lewis's The Children of San...

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    By 1967, Cowell, Stevenson, and Crown colleges had been completed, and the vision of a campus governed by flexibility and experimentation was in full swing. Although at least one student likened the campus to a headless horseman without any kind of obvious direction, most thrived under the system. And, without the burden of grades, students said th...

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    The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and the sexual revolution were reshaping not only the political landscape of the late '60s but also American culture. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. The anti-war movement was growing. Hair was getting longer and skirts were getting shorter. Some 6.5 million American women...

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  4. guides.library.ucsc.edu › speccoll › universityarchivesUniversity Archives - University of California, Santa Cruz

    Jun 13, 2024 · UCSC's Regional History Project has been documenting the history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history.

    • Jessica Pigza
    • 2020

  5. history.ucsc.eduHistory Home Page - University of California, Santa Cruz

    Discover History at UC Santa Cruz. Some people think studying history means memorizing a list of facts and dates, but there’s actually a lot more to it! Learn more about UC Santa Cruz history courses, and begin your journey today.

  6. exhibits.library.ucsc.edu › exhibits › showCh. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965

    UCSC Library Digital Collections—Campus History: Photographs and Maps. This collection includes digitized photographs, maps, and architectural drawings documenting the historical development, culture and social environment of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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  8. www.ucsc.edu › about › overviewOverview – UC Santa Cruz

    Oct 9, 2023 · History. UC Santa Cruz began in 1965 as an unconventional place that was unlike other educational institutions, a place where innovation—no matter how messy—was part of the campus’s DNA.