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  1. 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. History in the News. September 6, 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Recruitment Fellowship. May 20, 2022 History alumnus Mark Zemelman named 2022 Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Awardee. June 3, 2022 Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan Receives 2022 Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award.

  3. Mar 15, 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. Image: University of California, Santa Cruz planning: UC Regents tour the site for UC Santa Cruz: Chancellor McHenry, with Gerald Hagar, president of the regents ...

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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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

  5. Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz · Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz · Digital Exhibits UCSC Library. This timeline outlines the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz. A more comprehensive timeline can be found here. Loading Timeline...

  6. 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.

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