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

    www .ucsc .edu. 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 main campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › University_of_CaliforniaUniversity of California - Wikipedia

    The University of California ( UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and ...

    • March 23, 1868; 155 years ago
    • 294,309 (Fall 2022)

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Santa_Cruz,_CaliforniaSanta Cruz, California - Wikipedia

    Santa Cruz ( Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956. [10] Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz is a popular tourist destination, owing to its beaches, surf culture, and historic landmarks. Santa ...

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  5. 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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  6. guides.library.ucsc.edu › speccollSpecial Collections & Archives - University of California ...

    Mar 15, 2024 · We are here to preserve, share, and promote the Library's unique primary sources for the use of UCSC's academic community as well as the general public. Our collections include the University Archives, photographs, maps, rare books, and the archives of many individuals and organizations. These materials support a variety of research projects in ...

    • Jessica Pigza
    • 2020

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

    Mar 15, 2024 · 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 board; Elinor Heller, a regent; John Carl Warnecke, head of the campus architectural team; and Donald McLaughlin, a regent. Gordon R. Sinclair papers, 1957-1979.

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

    Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz; Homepage. Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz; EXPLORE BY CHAPTER. Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz; Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961; Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965