Academic Senate

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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

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    Joint Senate/Admin Forum — Development of Achievement Relative to Opportunity (ARO) Guidelines for UC Santa Cruz Personnel Review

    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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    Faculty Forum — The Residential College System and the First-Year Student Experience

    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Faculty Forum: The Residential College System and the First-Year Student Experience UC Santa Cruz was founded on a residential college system that combines living and learning. A core goal of our system has always been to use a shared learning experience built around the college theme to create a sense of belonging and community among first-year […]

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    Graduate Council Workshop: Future of Graduate Education at UCSC

    University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    Graduate Council will be holding a winter 2026 graduate director brown bag workshop on the future of UC Santa Cruz graduate programs When: Friday, February 20, 2026 from 11:30am–2:00pm Where: University Center Alumni Room (this is an in-person only event) Who should attend: All current and former graduate program directors. Interested faculty who are not […]

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    Distinguished Teaching Award Lecture — Teaching Week 2026

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    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