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Academic Senate Forum: Systemwide UCAD Work Group Interim Report

Virtual Event

Zoom Forum
We invite all faculty to provide comments and questions regarding the Academic Senate Task Force on UC Adaptation to Disruptions (UCAD) Charge, and UCAD Interim Report (July, 2025).
UCAD’s purpose was to develop response strategies that aim to uphold the teaching and education, research and discovery, and public service mission areas of the University of California in the context of disruptive federal executive orders, uncertain federal and state partnerships, and evolving shifts in the higher education landscape. The report makes interim recommendations related to four key categories:
Research Funding Assistance
Academic Personnel Evaluations During Disruptions
Program Resizing and Restructuring
Need for Flexibility in Course Offerings and Modalities

59th Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Natalie Batalha

Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA
Hybrid Event

Professor Batalha’s research reveals the Universe to us, helping us better understand Earth’s origins and the possible future. Her research includes the detection and characterization of exoplanets and the study of exoplanet demographics. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Professor Batalha has been leading international collaborations of hundreds of scientists to investigate what these exoplanets are composed of and how they formed. These are simply groundbreaking observations, and it is unlikely there will be another moment in the field like this for decades.

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Fall Academic Senate Meeting

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Agenda and information coming soon.

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Distinguished Teaching Award Lecture — Teaching Week 2026

Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us as Distinguished Teaching Award recipient Laurie Palmer, Professor of Art, shares her insights on teaching. This lecture is one of the key events featured in Teaching Week 2026.
Starting in 2018-2019, the Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching on our campus. This annual award is an opportunity to acknowledge the pedagogical contributions of our colleagues that include—but also go beyond—any one particular course. It seeks to recognize an instructor that has made significant contributions to educational equity within and beyond UC Santa Cruz.

Free to the public
Last modified: Oct 23, 2025