2013-14 General Catalog

The Colleges

UC Santa Cruz combines the resources of a world-class public research university with a distinctive undergraduate experience characterized by our college system. All undergraduate students and most faculty are affiliated with one of our 10 colleges, their home within the larger university. The colleges are committed to fostering a nurturing and academically thriving environment for students of all backgrounds. Each college strives to promote the attributes of a diverse and multicultural community in its own unique way. In order of founding, the colleges are Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Porter, Kresge, Oakes, College Eight, College Nine, and College Ten.

Self-contained and architecturally distinct, each college is a relatively small community of 30 to 110 faculty members and between 1,400 and 1,700 students, about half of whom live on campus. Each college has its own housing, as well as academic and recreational programming, and each is an integral part of the larger campus. The colleges have their own academic emphases and cultural traditions, although each seeks faculty and students from a variety of disciplines to foster broad intellectual interests. The colleges play a primary role in academic advising and are the center of student life. Students graduate from their college. At the same time, all university academic programs, resources, and student services are open to students of every college.

The information students need to rank their college preferences can come from a variety of sources—personal acquaintance, a campus visit, literature available from the colleges, campus web sites, and the descriptions in this section of the catalog. Entering students are asked to list several colleges in order of preference; whenever possible, students are assigned to the college of their choice.

Similarities and Differences

The colleges are small-scale residential communities, each providing an academically and socially supportive environment and offering special programs designed to help students transition to campus life, build a strong connection with the campus, and get the most out of their UCSC experience.

Most frosh choose to live on campus, as do a number of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The particular style of housing varies among the colleges, ranging from residence halls, with a mix of single, double, and triple rooms, to apartment-style housing, where students live together in small groups and may do some of their own cooking. Each college’s residential program is a team effort. Professional staff (coordinators of residential education) work with students trained as resident assistants. They help organize activities and events, provide referral information about academic or personal concerns, and assist with roommate problems.

The faculty, or fellows, of each college come from a variety of academic disciplines; many faculty have their offices in the colleges.

Each college offers a distinctive academic program for entering frosh. The required course provides a significant bridge between academic and residential life, since all frosh, regardless of major, will be in the course, and most will be in residence as well. The colleges also offer selected courses in their area of interdisciplinary emphasis and host events and speakers that enhance this focus.

Each college provides academic advising as well as academic and general campus orientations to help you plan your academic program. College academic preceptors and advisers provide advice on general academic matters outside a student’s major, including general education, choosing a major, and strategies for academic success. Psychological and personal counseling is also available in each college, and many colleges have well-developed peer advising and tutoring.

The colleges differ in architecture; each was planned by a different architect, who was encouraged to convey the distinct personality of that college through the design of its buildings and their placement in the natural environment. Above all, the colleges differ in subtle ways having to do with their intellectual and social traditions, the different designs of their student governments, and the predominant interests of their students and faculty.

Changing Colleges

Most students, having affiliated with a particular college, develop friendships and intellectual attachments there, and they remain members of that college throughout their undergraduate years. Some students find that changing academic interests draw them to a different college. During specified filing periods, students may request a change of college with the approval of both college administrations.

Cowell College

Cowell College inaugurated the Santa Cruz campus when it opened with a pioneer class of 600 students in 1965. The founding faculty shaped an educational program that challenged and enriched students through wide-ranging inquiry and disciplined study. Today, Cowell has more than 1,500 affiliated students and 60 faculty fellows. Its motto—The Pursuit of Truth in the Company of Friends—expresses a continuing commitment to create a serious academic environment within a humane and broadly inclusive community. The college is named for the S. H. Cowell Foundation, which endowed the college at its founding.

Academic Emphases

The academic theme of the college encourages students to pursue their general and disciplinary study with attention to the values of liberal arts education: understanding one’s individual perspectives by exploration of its historical background and world context. Students affiliated with the college pursue majors from all departments on campus.

In satisfying their general education requirements, first-year Cowell students are required to take the Cowell Core Course in the fall term. The core course, Cowell 80, taught in small seminar sections, seeks to develop critical reading, analytical writing, and seminar discussion skills by reading a selection of classic and contemporary texts focused on the theme of justice.

Enrichment courses are offered every term at the college, and priority is given to Cowell students. Some courses emphasize the development of skills such as public speaking or researching in library collections. Some courses take a broader perspective, examining the role of education in democracy or the epistemological bases of our judicial system.

The college also enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the campus by sponsoring events of various kinds: lectures and presentations by local faculty and visiting scholars, theatrical and musical performances, and forums and debates on topics of current interest.

Students who develop ideas for research, creative projects, community service, or internship experiences may apply to the college provost for financial support. The college also awards several annual scholarships, sponsors prizes for outstanding academic work.

The faculty fellows affiliated with the college represent all academic divisions (arts, engineering, humanities, physical and biological sciences, and social sciences). The faculty fellows guide the college academic programs and often contribute to the college-based advising system.

The college academic buildings house humanities faculty, with notable concentrations in philosophy, classics (study of ancient Greek and Latin language and civilization), and modern foreign languages, especially Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, German, and Japanese. Interdisciplinary faculty groups in visual and performance studies and in pre-and early-modern studies are centered at Cowell College.

Honors Program

Cowell participates in the UCSC First-Year Honors Program. Each year a small set of students who demonstrated high academic achievement in high school are invited to join the university-wide program.  Cowell hosts one cohort group, who are housed together in one of the residence halls. In the fall of their first year, the students take a special advanced section of the core course. During the winter, they chose one of the honors program seminars, which are offered by the colleges participating in the program. During the spring, all students in the program take a special two-unit class together, which includes special lectures and dinners.

College Community and Facilities

Cowell’s seven residence halls and three apartment buildings are arranged in three quadrangles on a hillside overlooking the city of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. About 700 students are housed in the college. Most floors are coed, with men and women sharing common lounges and other facilities, but single-gender floors are provided for those who prefer this arrangement. Apartments house continuing students, mostly juniors and seniors. The residential staff members facilitate diverse educational, social, and recreational programming to enhance the living and learning environment.

Arranged around the college’s central courtyard are the dining hall, the Page Smith Study Library, the fireside lounge, the coffee shop, and conference rooms and classrooms. The Cowell Press, where students can learn the fine technique of hand-operated letterpress printing, is a stone’s throw away from the plaza. Also nearby are the Cowell Galleries, including the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery and the Annex Gallery.

Since the college’s founding, regularly scheduled College Nights in the dining hall have offered students, staff, and faculty a special meal and a rich mix of programs. Community life is enlivened by many other scheduled and impromptu intellectual, cultural, and social events.

The Student Senate meets weekly to discuss campus issues and student government. The Senate advises the college on the allocation of funds for student activities and programs. Members of the Senate are selected each year by lot, but any student may become a voting member by steady attendance at meetings. The college’s student groups, staff, and faculty work together to create a supportive community for students from all ethnic groups, all religious traditions, and all sexual orientations and to increase awareness of the many dimensions of diversity in the community.

For more information on the college, see www2.ucsc.edu/cowell or call (831) 459-2253.

Cowell Faculty and Staff

Provost

FAYE J. CROSBY, Psychology

Fellows

ZSUZSANNA ABRAMS, German Language
RAM AKELLA, Electrical Engineering
MARK AKESON, Biomolecular Engineering
MARGARET AMIS, Literature
DANE ARCHER, Sociology
LORA BARTLETT, Classics
KAREN BASSI, Classics
DORIAN BELL, Literature
PHILLIP BERMAN, Biomolecular Science & Engineering
JAMES H. BIERMAN, Theater Arts (Drama)
RAUL BIRNBAUM, History of Art and Visual Culture
HUNTER BIVENS, Comparative and German Literature
HINRICH BOEGER, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MICHAEL BOLTE, Physical & Biological Sciences
JOHN BOWIN, Philosophy
ALEXANDRE BRANDWAJN, Computer Engineering
DONALD BRENNEIS, Anthropology
JEAN P. BRODIE, Astronomy and Astrophysics
CATHERINE CARLSTROEM, Writing
GIULIA CENTINEO, Italian Language
MICHAEL CHEMERS, Dramatic Literature
JAMES CHRISTIANSON, Writing
SANDRA CHUNG, Linguistics
PHILIP CREWS, Chemistry
NICHOLAS DAVIDENKO, Psychology
AMY ROSE DEAL, Linguistics
JONATHAN ELLIS, Philosophy
ANGELA ELSEY, French Language
MARK FRANKO, Theater Arts
SAKAE FUJITA, Japanese Language
ALEXANDER GAMBURD, Physical and Biological Sciences
RAYMOND W. GIBBS JR., Psychology
PER GJERDE, Psychology
GARY GLATZMAIER, Earth Science
DANIEL GUEVARA, Philosophy
PURAGRA GUHA THAKURTA, Astronomy and Astrophysics
GILDAS HAMEL, French Language and Classical Studies
SUSAN HARDING, Anthropology
CHARLES W. HEDRICK JR., History
THEODORE HOLMAN, Chemistry and Biochemistry
CHRISTINE HONG, Literature
THEO HONNEF, Literature
JEREMY HOURIGAN, Earth and Planetary Sciences
JOCELYN HOY, Philosophy
GRETA HUTCHISON, French Language
MICHAEL M. HUTCHISON, Economics
KIMBERLY JANNARONE, Theater Arts
CATHERINE JONES, History
ROHINTON KAMAKAKA, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
KEVIN KARPLUS, Computer Engineering
SEAN KEILEN, Literature
RAPHAEL KUDELA, Ocean Sciences
SRI KURNIAWAN, Computer Engineering
WILLIAM A. LADUSAW, Linguistics
CAMPBELL LEAPER, Psychology
BRUCE LYON, Biological Sciences
H. M. LEICESTER JR., English Literature
PATRICE L. MAGINNIS, Music
WENDY MARTYNA, Sociology
PEYMAN MILANFAR, Electrical Engineering
ADAM MILLARD-BALL, Environmental Studies
TYRUS MILLER, Literature
GLENN L. MILLHAUSER, Chemistry and Biochemistry
JOHN MUSACCHIO, Technology and Information Management
JEROME NEU, Philosophy
JASON NIELSEN, Physics
MATTHEW O'HARA, History
SHIGEKO OKAMOTO, Language
RICHARD E. OTTE, Philosophy
RAQUEL PRADO, Applied Math and Statistics
XAVIER PROCHASKA, Astronomy and Astrophysics
S. RAVI RAJAN, Environmental Studies
PACO RAMIREZ, Spanish
BETH REMAK-HONNEF, Librarian
B. RUBY RICH, Film and Digital Media
PAUL ROTH, Philosophy
SETH RUBIN, Chemistry and Biochemistry
GURIQBAL SAHOTA, Literature
FELICITY SCHAEFFER-GABRIEL, Feminist Studies
ZACK SCHLESINGER, Physics
SUSAN Y. SCHWARTZ, Earth and Planetary Sciences
PRICILLA SHAW, Literature
DEANNA SHEMEK, Italian and Comparative Literature
DAVID SMITH, Physics
ABRAHAM D. STONE, Philosophy
BENJAMIN STORM, Psychology
JOSHUA M. STUART, Biomolecular Engineering
NINA TREADWELL, Music
ANTHONY J. TROMBA, Mathematics
MARTIN H. WEISSMAN, Mathematics
AARONETTE WHITE, Psychology
PAUL WHITWORTH, Theater Arts
JAMES WILSON, Writing, College Academic Preceptor
DAVID YAGER, Arts
GARY YOUNG, Literature
EVE ZYZIK, Language

Emeriti Fellows

W. EMMANUEL ABRAHAM, Philosophy, Emeritus
GEORGE T. AMIS, English Literature, Emeritus
HARRY BERGER JR., English Literature and Art History, Emeritus
RALPH J. BERGER, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
MARGARET R. BROSE, Italian and Comparative Literature, Emerita
CHARLES W. DANIEL, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Emeritus
JOHN DIZIKES, American Studies, Emeritus
ROBERT M. DURLING, Italian and English Literature, Emeritus
MIRIAM ELLIS, French Language, Emerita
CAROL M FREEMAN, Writing, Emerita
MARY-KAY GAMEL, Classics and Comparative Literature, Emerita
ROBERT GOFF, Philosophy, Emeritus
MARGO HENDRICKS, Literature, Emerita
DAVID C. HOY, Philosophy, Emerita
CHIYOKO ISHIBASHI, Japanese Language, Emerita
VIRGINIA JANSEN, History of Art and Visual Culture, Emerita
S. PAUL KASHAP, Philosophy, Emeritus
BRUCE D. LARKIN, Politics, Emeritus
THOMAS A. LEHRER, American Studies and Mathematics, Emeritus
HERVE LEMANSEC, French Language, Emeritus
JOHN P. LYNCH, Classics, Emeritus
MELANIE J. MAYER, Psychology, Emerita
GARY B. MILES, History, Emeritus
PEGGY MILES, Writing, Emerita
ANDREW TODD NEWBERRY, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
RICHARD R. RANDOLPH, Anthropology, Emeritus
CATHERINE M. SOUSSLOFF, History of Art and Visual Culture, Emerita
AUDREY E. STANLEY, Theater Arts, Emerita
ELLEN SUCKIEL, Philosophy, Emerita
THOMAS A. VOGLER, English and American Literature, Emeritus
MICHAEL J. WARREN, English Literature, Emeritus
DAVID WELLMAN, Community Studies, Emeritus
HAYDEN WHITE, History of Consciousness, Emeritus
JOHN WILKES, Science Communication, Emeritus
STANLEY M. WILLIAMSON, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus

College Administrative Officer

E. JAMES CARTER

Staff

GABRIELA ALANIZ, Housing Office Coordinator
DEBORAH ALEXANDER, Dining Hall Manager
JOAN BLACKMER, Gallery Curator
JOSH CLINE, Coordinator for Residential Education
MAIDA CORDERO, Coordinator for Residential Education
ELIZABETH COWAN, Financial Analyst
CLAIRE CRUM, Groundskeeper
JOHN HADLEY, Coffee Shop Manager
KAREN HILKER, Associate College Programs Coordinator
ETHAN HUTCHINSON, Academic Adviser
KATIE LINDER, Provost Events Coordinator
KILEY MELICKER, College Assistant/Mailroom Manager
JED MILROY, Housing Coordinator
DAN MONKO, Facilities Asset Coordinator
MARY JAN MURPHY, Counseling Psychologist
EMILIO NAVARRO, Senior Building Maintenance Supervisor
ARMIN QUIRING, Community Safety Officer Supervisor
GARY ROE, Groundskeeper
KARA SNIDER, College Programs Coordinator
JORDY TERRILL, Building Maintenance Worker
ELIZABETH THOMPSON, Academic Preceptor
ADRIANNE WAITE, Associate College Administrative Officer
MARIA ZIMMER, Assistant to the Provost

Stevenson College

We are Stevensonians; we are free agents of history and masters of our own destinies. Every one of us is important, and we cherish our differences as much as we cherish our shared values of love, chivalry, honesty, hard work, and responsibility.

—Seung Kyun Joseph Mok, Stevenson Alumnus/Regents Scholar

Stevenson College is named after former statesman and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson. Our faculty, students, and staff take pride in intellectual critical inquiry, academic and civic leadership, and respect for students’ concerns about shared student governance, human rights, and social justice.

Stevenson College has a long-standing reputation for excellence in liberal education. The college strives to provide an academically, culturally, and socially supportive environment for all its members, fostering social responsibility and academic achievement. Stevenson has brought to the campus distinguished individuals such as Senator George McGovern, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Chief of the Miwok Tribe Greg Sarris, Producer Lourdes Portillo, and Associate Director-Counsel Theodore M. Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The college’s faculty and staff offer professional and personal service for the diverse needs of students. Faculty and staff assist students in all areas of their academic and social experience at Stevenson College, and are committed to instilling respect for the diverse backgrounds of Stevenson students.

Academic Emphases

• Faculty drawn from social sciences, humanities, natural sciences

• Two-quarter frosh core course

• Writing Assistants

• Junior Fellows Program

The faculty at Stevenson, drawn from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and physical and biological sciences, share a common concern for the study of social processes that shape modern society and determine the quality of our individual lives throughout various global regions and periods of world history. Linguistics, history, sociology, politics, psychology, biology, chemistry, and computer science are strongly represented in the college.

Stevenson distinguishes itself as the only college with a two-quarter core course intended to provide all first-year students with a common academic experience. The core course allows for more rigorous development of students’ critical, writing, and analytical skills. It provides a unique learning environment and a supportive intellectual community for all Stevenson first-year students. Those admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the core course at their option pending available space; lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) are able to take the core course to satisfy the C1 requirement. Stevenson alumni can be found in legal, political, educational, engineering, medical, computer and information sciences, business, and public administration careers, among others.

The Stevenson core course, Self and Society, enables students to examine the nature of the self and the relationship of the individual to society. In addition, the course fosters an intellectual commitment to the general philosophy that has helped to define Stevenson College since its inception: preservation of human dignity, the social cultivation of individual creativity and citizenship, and a belief in ethical responsibility. The core course reflects the college’s long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary and culturally diverse readings, while at the same time it affords students an opportunity to develop research interests, to acquire greater understanding of the role of research universities in contemporary societies, and to acquire the requisite skills to engage in increasingly more sophisticated intellectual work while at UCSC.

Students have the opportunity to apply for funding for special research projects each quarter. Stevenson also provides several annual scholarships and service awards, including the Michele Guard Memorial Scholarship, the Matthew Graviano Memorial Scholarship, the John Halverson Scholarship, the Sandor Callahan Scholarship Award, and the Robert Dodge Service Award.

The Stevenson College Junior Fellows Program offers juniors and seniors an opportunity to serve as instructors in Self and Society. Junior fellows, who must have completed outstanding work in Self and Society during their first year, undergo a rigorous application and selection process. Junior fellows (enrolled in Stevenson 120, Teaching Practicum) earn five course credits.

Stevenson provides writing assistance for all of its students. Stevenson Writing Assistantships are paid student positions open to juniors and seniors with excellent academic records.

College Community Programs

• College Nights

• Stevenson Student Council

• Stevenson Ethics Bowl Team

• Multicultural Advisory Committee (MAC)

• Path to a Greener Stevenson (PTAGS)

• Social and Multicultural Programs/Activities

• Stevenson Housing Association (SHA)

• Rainbow Theater

Stevenson holds regular College Nights, where joining together for a special dinner presents an opportunity for Stevenson faculty, staff, and students to get together in a social context. College Nights—such as Cinco de Mayo, Chinese New Year, and Vietnamese College Night—provide the opportunity to celebrate many different cultures. Dinner is followed by entertainment.

The Stevenson Student Council meets on Thursday evenings. This group is responsible for allocating college membership fees to student activities. The council also serves as a forum for the discussion of college and campus wide issues and appoints student representatives to college and campus wide committees.

Facilities

• Eight small residence halls

• Three apartment buildings

• Theme floors in residence halls:

• —Multicultural and Social Justice House

• —Outdoor Adventure House

• —Continuing Student House

• Coffee house

• Wagstaff Fireside Lounge

• Writers’ Center

• Stevenson Library

• Stevenson Event Center

• Silverman Conference Room

• Recreation room

Stevenson has a wide variety of facilities and activities to appeal to many tastes. The college, designed by San Francisco architect Joseph Esherick, has won many architectural awards. The buildings are situated amid redwood trees and sprawling lawns, and the main quad overlooks Monterey Bay. Stevenson is situated close to the campus bookstore, restaurants, McHenry Library, gym, and pool. There are eight small residence houses at the college providing a choice of single-gender or coed floors; each house accommodates about 65 undergraduates. The apartments provide space for 156 continuing students. Nearby are a picnic area, playing fields, and a garden.

The Stevenson Coffee House, which has become the gathering place in the college, is a friendly and inviting spot to enjoy lunch or an espresso and pastry— indoors or out on the patio. It is the scene of lively conversation, occasional musical entertainment, and chess matches. Adjoining the coffee house is the recreation room, with Ping-Pong, foosball, pool tables, and television. This area is also the site of much socializing and spontaneous group activity.

In contrast, the Stevenson Library is a striking building designed for quiet reading and study. The Wagstaff Fireside Lounge, a retreat for relaxed discussion, is also used for recitals, special lectures, meetings, and residence house activities. Art exhibits (both student and professional) are on display throughout the year in the lounge, library, and coffee house.

For more information, call (831) 459-4930 or visit the web site: stevenson.ucsc.edu.

Stevenson Faculty and Staff

Provost

ALICE YANG, History

Senate Faculty Fellows

MARTIN ABADI, Computer Science
JUDITH AISSEN, Linguistics
PRANAV ANAND, Linguistics
DAVID ANTHONY, History
NORIKO ASO, History
MURRAY BAUMGARTEN, Literature
DANE ARCHER, Sociology, Emeritus
ELLIOT ARONSON, Psychology, Emeritus
JONATHAN F. BEECHER, History, Emeritus
DORIAN BELL, Literature
ILAN BENJAMIN, Chemistry and Biochemistry
REBECCA BERNSTEIN, Astronomy and Astrophysics
PETER H. BODENHEIMER, Astronomy and Astrophysics
HINRICH ROEGER, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
ALEXANDRE BRANDWAJN, Computer Engineering
REBECCA BRASLAU, Chemistry and Biochemistry
ADRIAN BRASOVEANU, Linguistics
FRANK G. BRIDGES, Physics
BRIAN CATLOS, History
CHEN SHAOWEI, Chemistry
ALAN CHRISTY, History
MARK CIOC, History
CATHERINE R. COOPER, Psychology and Education
CYNTHIA CRUZ, Education
NATHANIEL DEUTSCH, History
MICHAEL DINE, Physics
G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF, Psychology, Emeritus
MARIA EVANGELATOU, History of Art and Visual Culture
SYLVANNA FALCON, Latin American and Latino Studies
DONKA FARKAS, Linguistics
MAYANTHI FERNANDO, Anthropology
DANA FRANK, History
HIROSHI FUKURAI, Sociology
ROBERT E. GARRISON, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
DEBORAH GOULD, Sociology
HERMAN GRAY, Sociology
MARVIN J. GREENBERG, Mathematics, Emeritus
ISEBILL V. GRUHN, Politics, Emerita
HOWARD E. HABER, Physics
CRAIG W. HANEY, Psychology
JORGE HANKAMER, Linguistics
DAVID M. HARRINGTON, Psychology
CHRISTINE HONG, Literature
MINGHUI HU, History
AIDA HURTADO, Psychology
JUNKO ITÔ, Linguistics
CATHERINE JONES, History
MICHAEL KAHN, Psychology, Emeritus
AL KELLEY, Mathematics, Emeritus
KENNETH KLETZER, Economics
PETER KENEZ, History
KENNETH KLETZER, Economics
JOSEPH P. KONOPELSKI, Chemistry and Biochemistry
ROBERT P. KRAFT, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
JEAN H. LANGENHEIM, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emerita
ROBERT A. LEVINSON, Computer Science
RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ, Politics
BORETH LY, History of Art and Visual Culture
MARC S. MANGEL, Environmental Studies
MICHAEL MATEAS, Computer Science
JAMES MCCLOSKEY, Linguistics
DENNIS C. MCELRATH, Sociology, Emeritus
GRANT MCGUIRE, Linguistics
R. ARMIN MESTER, Linguistics
MARCIA MILLMAN, Sociology
MEGAN MOODIE, Anthropology
MATT O’HARA, History
GREG O’MALLEY, History
BRAD OLSEN, Education
JAYE PADGETT, Linguistics
THOMAS F. PETTIGREW, Psychology, Emeritus
IRA POHL, Computer Science
CYNTHIA POLECRITTI, History
ANTHONY R. PRATKANIS, Psychology
CRAIG REINARMAN, Sociology
RALPH H. QUINN, Psychology
CRAIG REINARMAN, Sociology
FORREST ROBINSON, American Studies
DONALD T. SAPOSNEK, Psychology
FELICITY SCHAEFFER-GRABIEL, Latin American and Latino Studies
PETER L. SCOTT, Physics, Emeritus
BUCHANAN SHARP, History
PRISCILLA W. SHAW, English and Comparative Literature, Emerita
ELLEN SUCKIEL, Philosophy, Emerita
MARSHALL SYLVAN, Mathematics, Emeritus
RENEE TAJIMA-PENA, Community Studies
DANA TAKAGI, Sociology
HIROTAKA TAMANOI, Mathematics
KIP TÉLLEZ, Education
DAVID J. THOMAS, Politics, Emeritus
BRUCE THOMPSON, History
JOHN N. THOMPSON, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
AVRIL THORNE, Psychology
MARK TRAUGOTT, History
MICHAEL E. URBAN, Politics
MATT WAGERS, Linguistics
MARILYN WALKER, Computer Science
HOWARD H. WANG, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Emeritus
NOAH WARDRIP-FRUIN, Computer Science
MANFRED K. WARMUTH, Computer Science
RICHARD A. WASSERSTROM, Philosophy, Emeritus
CANDACE WEST, Sociology
MARILYN WESTERCAMP, History
HAROLD WIDOM, Mathematics, Emeritus
ALICE YANG, History

Lecturers and Core Course Fellows

EMILY ABBINK
SARAH AMADOR
CAREN CAMBLIN
STEPHEN CARTER
JEROME FRISK
MICHAEL JIN
EDWARD KEHLER
MATTHEW LASAR
TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN
ANDREW SCHAFER
STEPHEN SWEAT
JESSICA SAMUELS
KIVA SILVER
BRUCE THOMPSON
ROBERT TRUMBULL
AMY WEAVER
DON WILLIAMS

Honorary Fellows

JACK BASKIN
BORIS KEYSER
NORMAN LEZIN
ELEANOR MCGOVERN
CHARLES NEIDER
CHARLES H. PAGE
WILLIAM M. ROTH
ALMA SIFUENTES
F. M. GLENN WILLSON

Stevenson Fellows-in-Residence

GEORGE MCGOVERN (1982)
BELLA ABZUG (1983)
PAUL SARBANES (1983)
ARTHUR S. FLEMMING (1984)
CAROLE KING (1985)
CLARK KERR (1987)
PETER SHAFFER (1987)
DONALD MCHENRY (1988)
PAT CONROY (1990)
MOCTESUMA ESPARZA (1992)
LOURDES PORTILLO (1992)
GREG SARRIS (1997)
JESSE JACKSON (1998)
AMIRI BARAKA (1999)
RON DELLUMS (1999)
THEODORE M. SHAW (2002)

College Administrative Officer

E. JAMES CARTER

Staff

GABI ALANIZ, Office Coordinator
MARY ALVAREZ, Academic Adviser
CAREN CAMBLIN, Core Course Coordinator
CHRISTINE CHOI, College Programs Coordinator
ELIZABETH COWAN, Financial/Budget Specialist
DARLENE DENNY, Groundskeeper
CANDACE FREIWALD, Academic Services Officer
JOHN HADLEY, Coffee House Manager
DEBORAH JOYCE, Provost Assistant
JED MILROY, Housing Coordinator
GUSTAVO NOLAZCO, College Assistant/Records Coordinator/Mail Services Supervisor
STAN PRATHER, Coordinator for Residential Education
ARMIN QUIRING, CSO Supervisor
BLAKE REDDING, Coordinator for Residential Education
YUTA SANO, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
AVA SNYDER, Police Chief/Liaison
ADRIANNE WAITE, Associate College Administrative Officer
AMY WEAVER, Writing Program Coordinator
MARIE YOO, Senior Academic Preceptor

Crown College

Crown College faculty and students represent a wide variety of academic disciplines. The majority of the faculty teaches in the physical, biological and social sciences. Although Crown has more science and engineering students than any of the other colleges, most of Crown’s students major in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. This diversity of interests and academic training enriches our intellectual environment. An important goal of the college is to foster an appreciation for the contributions of diverse cultural groups and to provide an atmosphere in which issues of both diversity and common social purpose are integrated into a wide range of programs and discussions.

Crown is located on a hilltop surrounded by a redwood forest. The core buildings consist of an administration office, dining commons, lounge spaces, study spaces, faculty offices, and classrooms built around a large patio and central fountain. The award-winning architecture with its white walls and high-pitched tiled roofs suggests a hillside Mediterranean village. The college’s residential facilities house approximately 800 students. The facilities at Crown College were built through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation.

Academic Emphases

From the time of its founding in 1967, issues pertaining to the role of science and technology in society have been a focus of special interest at Crown College. We approach these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the influence of social and cultural factors on the scientific enterprise, as well as the ways in which science and technology influence our society.

The Crown College core course, Crown 80A or 80B, Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies, is an interdisciplinary seminar concerning the effects of these world-changing technologies and encourages students to develop decision-making strategies to steer them. The course examines these technologies’ impacts on society using a variety of disciplinary approaches that engage the perspectives of both humanists and scientists. The fall quarter core course is required of all non-transfer students during their first quarter at UCSC. As with the core courses from our sister colleges, the development of critical reading and writing skills is a major thrust of Crown 80A and 80B.

Crown College is one of four colleges at UCSC participating in the First-Year Honors Program. This innovative new program offers a congenial and challenging academic home for a select group of well-prepared students at UC Santa Cruz. The enriched program of study includes special courses, seminars, colloquia, and other events during each quarter of the academic year. Admission to the First-Year Honors Program is by invitation during the admissions process.

The Crown Science Learning Community (SLC) is an innovative program to support first-year students who are interested in pursuing a major in engineering and the sciences. Students enrolled in this program live together, forming a supportive community promoting collaborative learning and group problem solving. To facilitate this process, SLC students are placed in a special section of Chemistry 1A or Math 3 and participate in a residentially based study group. The program is designed especially for students who have a strong interest in the sciences but feel slightly underprepared for university-level course work. It often acts as a bridge to the ACE Program in the physical and biological sciences and engineering. Participation—limited to first-year students at Crown College—requires a commitment to succeed, a willingness to work hard, and a positive attitude.

Similar to the Science Learning Community, Crown’s Engineering Learning Community focuses on underrepresented student success in engineering. Participants receive support from the Baskin School of Engineering, including tutoring, mentoring, and specialized programs. All Crown juniors and seniors can participate in the college’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, which awards $800 fellowships to student-faculty teams and encourages their interaction through undergraduate research.

College Community and Facilities

Crown sponsors a wide variety of co-curricular events spanning cultural, educational, and social areas of interest. One popular series is the Science/Public Affairs Tables, informal dinners at the Provost House offering students an opportunity to socialize with a faculty member outside the classroom and learn about his or her research.

Students become involved in Crown life by both initiating and participating in a wide range of activities. Social activities vary each year according to the interests of students. At the monthly College Night in the dining commons, a special dinner is followed by entertainment, both often sharing a common cultural theme. Some major events have become a tradition: for example, Epic Game Tournaments, the Crown Semi-Formal, and quarterly Regression Nights. Crown activities and dances draw students from all over campus. Outdoor activities organized by the student government, the College Programs Office, or residential staff range from whale watching on the Monterey Bay to ultimate Frisbee, and from backpacking to stargazing.

The Social Fiction Conference each spring brings students, staff, faculty, and community members together to focus on the intersection of social justice issues with the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and gaming.

The Crown Student Senate (CSS), the elected student government at Crown, holds open weekly meetings to recommend fund allocations for student activities and to discuss issues of concern to students and the college. CSS also sponsors events to enhance the college experience, including the very popular Casino Night.

Crown offers two types of residential facilities: residence halls and apartments. Eight traditional residence halls each house approximately 60 students in single, double, and triple rooms in a coed environment (single-gender bedrooms with unisex bathrooms) or on all-female floors. For students particularly interested in living with and learning about a special-interest environment, Crown provides the Gaming House, Outdoor Pursuits and Academic Success Houses, the Science and Engineering Learning Communities, and continuing student houses.

The college also has apartments for approximately 230 third- and fourth-year students. Like the residence halls, the apartments are built on a small scale. Each three-story building has two or three apartments per floor that house four to six students in a combination of single, double, and triple rooms and include a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and outside deck.

Other facilities in the college include the Crown Library study space; a modern computer laboratory housing Sun workstations, which provides students with access to several kinds of systems and an array of applications and instructional software selected to support academic course work; the Fireside Lounge with a piano and a flatscreen television; the Music Practice Room; and the Crown-Merrill Community Room, with a television, pool table, foosball, and ping-pong table, and provides an informal place to study, hold meetings, or just visit with friends. Dining facilities boast continuous dining and Banana Joe’s quick mart.

For general information, call the college assistant at (831) 459-2665 or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/crown/. For residential or college programs information, call the Student Life Office manager at (831) 459-4656.

Crown Faculty and Staff

Provost

F. JOEL FERGUSON, Computer Engineering

Fellows

SCOTT BRANDT, Computer Science
KENNETH W. BRULAND, Ocean Sciences, Emeritus
JOSEPH F. BUNNETT, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus
MAUREEN CALLANAN, Psychology
KENNETH L. CAMERON, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
MANEL CAMPS, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
SUE A. CARTER, Physics
PAK CHAN, Computer Engineering
NANCY N. CHEN, Anthropology
YIN-WONG CHEUNG, Economics
MARGARET L. DELANEY, Ocean Sciences
CARLOS DOBKIN, Economics
NATHANIEL DOMINY, Anthropology
CHONGYING DONG, Mathematics
MICHAEL P. DOOLEY, Economics
ÓLÖF EINARSDÓTTIR, Chemistry and Biochemistry
GABRIEL ELKAIM, Computer Engineering
SANDRA M. FABER, Astronomy and Astrophysics
JOHN FAULKNER, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
TIMOTHY FITZMAURICE, Writing, Emeritus
CORMAC FLANAGAN, Computer Science
A. RUSSELL FLEGAL, Environmental Toxicology
LAUREL R. FOX, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
MARIA CECILIA FREEMAN, Writing, Emerita
DANIEL FRIEDMAN, Economics
KWOK-CHIU FUNG, Economics
ALISON GALLOWAY, Anthropology
J. J. GARCÍA-LUNA-ACEVES, Computer Engineering
LYNDA GOFF, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emerita
MATTHEW GUTHAUS, Computer Engineering
JUDITH A. HABICHT-MAUCHE, Anthropology
DAVID HAUSSLER, Computer Science
RALPH T. HINEGARDNER, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
RICHARD P. HUGHEY, Computer Engineering
GARTH D. ILLINGWORTH, Astronomy and Astrophysics
BURT JONES, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
DAVID E. KAUN, Economics
ALAN H. KAWAMOTO, Psychology
PAUL L. KOCH, Earth and Planetary Sciences
JONATHAN M. KRUPP, Biology; Coordinator, Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory, Emeritus
NANCY KRUSOE, Writing Program, Emerita
TRACY LARRABEE, Computer Engineering
DEBRA LEWIS, Mathematics
DOUGLAS N. C. LIN, Astronomy and Astrophysics
SURESH LODHA, Computer Science
DARRELL D. E. LONG, Information Systems Management
ROBERT A. LUDWIG, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
BRUCE MARGON, Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vice Chancellor, Research
PHILLIP MCCALMAN, Economics
ETHAN MILLER, Computer Science
JOSEPH S. MILLER, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
RICHARD MONTGOMERY, Mathematics
JUDIT N. MOSCHKOVICH, Education
HARRY F. NOLLER, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MICHAEL NAUENBERG, Physics
LOISA NYGAARD, German Literature
KAREN OTTEMANN, Environmental Toxicology
TRILOKI N. PANDEY, Anthropology
GRANT H. POGSON, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
DONALD C. POTTS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
JOEL R. PRIMACK, Physics
JIE QING, Mathematics
HARTMUT F.-W. SADROZINSKI, Physics, Emeritus
THOMAS W. SCHLEICH, Chemistry and Biochemistry
MARIA SCHONBEK, Mathematics
JUDITH A. SCOTT, Education
ABRAHAM SEIDEN, Physics
HEATHER SHEARER, Writing Program
ELI A. SILVER, Earth and Planetary Sciences
NIRVIKAR SINGH, Economics
LISA C. SLOAN, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Vice Provost/Dean, Graduate Studies, Emerita
DONALD R. SMITH, Environmental Toxicology
WILLIAM T. SULLIVAN, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
EUGENE SWITKES, Chemistry and Biochemistry
KIP TÉLLEZ, Education
ROLAND G. THARP, Education and Psychology, Emeritus
JOHN F. VESECKY, Electrical Engineering
STEVEN S. VOGT, Astronomy and Astrophysics
CARL E. WALSH, Economics
MANFRED K. WARMUTH, Computer Science
MARGARET L. WILSON, Psychology
W. TODD WIPKE, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus
STANFORD E. WOOSLEY, Astronomy and Astrophysics
FITNAT YILDIZ, Environmental Toxicology
A. PETER YOUNG, Physics
JAMES ZACHOS, Earth and Planetary Sciences
JIN Z. ZHANG, Chemistry and Biochemistry

College Administrative Officer

ALEX BELISARIO

Staff

MARIA ACOSTA-SMITH, Senior Academic Preceptor
JIMMIE BROWN, Community Safety Officer Supervisor
ALLEN BUSHNELL, Special Projects Coordinator
VALERIE CHASE, Associate College Administrative Officer
SERENA DIONYSUS, College Programs Coordinator
KEN EREZ, Residential Life and Housing Office Coordinator
DENISE HAMILTON, Academic Adviser
KAIT MAHLER, Housing Coordinator
CHASTITY MENDEZ, Community Safety Officer
CATHY MURPHY-MILES, Academic Programs and Development Coordinator
CHRIS MCPHERSON, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
AMY RADOVAN, Assistant to the CAO
SHANE SANCHEZ, Coordinator for Residential Education
CHUCK SCHMIT, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
MATT SEGALE, College Assistant
KEITH STOCKER, Groundskeeper
SARAH SUTORIUS, Coordinator for Residential Education
KRISTEN WEAVER, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
JOANIE WEBBER, Assistant Budget Analyst

Merrill College

Merrill College seeks to expand its students’ awareness of their own heritage and of the diversity of cultures around the world, past and present. Merrill faculty specialize in a number of different areas of study, concentrating especially on social theory, international affairs, and social change, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including history, the social sciences, literature, and foreign language study. The college makes a special effort to be a home for students from different cultural backgrounds and for international students; it presents unique opportunities to those who value multicultural perspectives.

Merrill houses the Departments of Politics and Legal Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Merrill also hosts a Peace Corps satellite officer who helps UCSC students interested in working overseas to apply to the Peace Corps after graduation; and KZSC, the campus radio station. It also hosts the Chicano/Latino Research Center; UCSC’s Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans*, Intersex Resource Center (aka the Lionel Cantú Center); the student-run Pottery Co-op, the only one of its kind at UCSC; and the Ming Ong Computer Center, a modern computer facility with more than 40 state-of-the-art personal computers.

College Theme and Core Course

Cultural Identities and Global Consciousness is the theme of Merrill College and is reflected in the college core course. Readings highlight diverse first-person narratives or works of fiction that focus on historical or political flashpoints, and have recently included texts examining experiences in Chicano/Latino, Asian, African, and Islamic history. These works bear witness not only to conflicts and crises, but also to individual strengths and communal hopes. Students also read secondary sources related to the texts. Linked lectures, events, and films illuminate the case studies. The works studied expand international awareness and show individuals and groups dealing with critical issues of nationalism, globalization, war, economic underdevelopment, and social and gender differentials. These models identify and discuss forms of social activism that respond to and seek to overcome violence and other problems. Students formulate their own analyses in relation to these examples and share their ideas in writing and seminar discussions. The course emphasizes skills central to intellectual life at the university:  critical reading, analytical writing, and formulation of ideas for presentation and debate in seminars with peers and teachers are emphasized as students expand their global horizons.

Those admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take it at their discretion.

Other Courses and Academic Initiatives

Merrill sponsors a variety of two- and five-credit courses on topics that change from year to year, recently ranging from the benefits of reevaluation counseling, to personal empowerment, to Caribbean migrations. Enrollment in these courses is kept to a size that facilitates discussion. Additionally, students can enroll in Classroom Connection, a service-learning course in which students volunteer in local elementary school classrooms, while also engaging in classroom discussions of readings on current issues in educational theory. Participants make final presentations.

Recognizing the increasingly rigorous requirements for science majors, Merrill—in collaboration with the Academic Excellence Program—coordinates the Science Learning Community to support students majoring in the sciences. Students participating in the program enroll in small discussion sections that encourage a collaborative learning approach.

The Merrill Mentorship Program aims to prepare undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies and provides research experience and personal and professional development for Merrill students. Merrill faculty nominate a Merrill student whose interests dovetail with their own areas of research and expertise. Students who participate in the program (juniors and seniors) are employed as research assistants by their faculty mentors and receive up to $800 for the school year.

The Merrill College Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program hosts public and class presentations by national and international academics, artists, writers, and activists representing a wide variety of perspectives.

College Community and Facilities

Located on a hilltop, Merrill’s award-winning buildings thread upward through the edge of a redwood forest. The brick patios, gardens, outdoor café, and mission bell tower suggest California’s Latino heritage. Merrill offers residence-hall and apartment-style options for students. Four residence halls house approximately 500 students in two high-rise structures and two smaller buildings. Groups of about 16 students share common bathroom and lounge facilities.

The apartments, which are located a short distance from the central area of the college, house 180 continuing Merrill students. Grouped amid winding pathways and redwood trees, these three-story buildings have two or three apartments per floor. Each apartment houses four to six students in a combination of single, double, and triple rooms, and comes fully equipped with kitchen and bath, large living area, and outside deck. Facilities at the apartment complex include a large community room, plenty of outdoor space, and two laundry rooms.

With the help of the Merrill’s Student Life Staff, staff and students work together to plan a diverse array of educational, social, recreational, and cultural events that include potluck dinners, intramural sports competitions, dances, musical events, film series, and a yearly outdoor Moat mural painting party. Many of these social and educational activities focus on building a multicultural community. Other facilities at Merrill include the Cultural Center, where large events like the Glitterball take place; the Baobab Lounge, which provides study space, a piano, and a television; and Merrill Academic Success (MAS), which provides Merrill students with a place to study as well as close evening access to computers and a printer. Finally, Merrill is the only college that has a student-run pottery co-op. Students can throw, fire, and glaze their works in the workshop space, which is open to Merrill students on a first-come, first-served basis. From the summer of 2013 through the fall of 2014, Merrill will be undergoing a renewal project to renovate the residence halls, update community space, and improve pathways and way-finding at the college.

The physical facilities of Merrill College were provided through a partnership of public funds and gifts from the Charles E. Merrill Trust and the family of Ming Ong. For more information, call (831) 459-2144 or visit the web site: merrill.ucsc.edu.

Merrill Faculty and Staff

Provost

ELIZABETH ABRAMS, Writing Program

Faculty Fellows

ZSUZSANNA ABRAMS, Language Program

JORGE ALADRO FONT, Spanish Literature
MARK D. ANDERSON, Anthropology
FRANK C. ANDREWS, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus
GABRIELA ARREDONDO, Latin American and Latino Studies
NORIKO ASO, History
BRENDA BARCELÓ, Spanish Language
DILIP K. BASU, History, Emeritus
ROBERT F. BERKHOFER JR., History, Emeritus
CLAUDE F. BERNASCONI, Chemistry and Biochemistry
EVA BERTRAM, Politics
JOHN G. BORREGO, Latin American and Latino Studies, Emeritus
MICHAEL K. BROWN, Politics, Emeritus
EDMUND BURKE III, History, Emeritus
JULIANNE BURTON-CARVAJAL, Literature, Emerita
CARLOS CALIERNO, Spanish Language
BENJAMIN CARSON, Music
PEDRO G. CASTILLO, History
ALAN S. CHRISTY, History
RENA V. COCHLIN, Physical Education
CINDY CRUZ, Education
GUILLERMO DELGADO-P., Anthropology
JOSHUA M. DEUTSCH, Physics
MARÍA ELENA DIAZ, History
MAY N. DIAZ, Anthropology, Emerita
KENT EATON, Politics
BERNARD L. ELBAUM, Economics
PEGGY ESTRADA, Latin American & Latino Studies
SYLVANNA FALCON, Latin American and Latino Studies
JONATHAN FOX, Latin American and Latino Studies
DANA FRANK, History
ROSA LINDA FREGOSO, Latin American and Latino Studies
WILLIAM H. FRIEDLAND, Community Studies and Sociology, Emeritus
HARDY T. FRYE, Sociology, Emeritus
CAROLE GERSTER, Core Course; Film and Digital Media
MARGARET (GRETA) A. GIBSON, Education, Emerita
DIANE P. GIFFORD-GONZÁLEZ, Anthropology
SHANNON GLEESON, Latin American and Latino Studies
WALTER L. GOLDFRANK, Sociology, Emeritus
MARÍA VICTORIA GONZÁLEZ-PAGANI, Spanish Language
FRANCESCA GUERRA, Sociology
M. LISBETH HAAS, History
GAIL B. HERSHATTER, History
KARLTON HESTER, Music
MINGHUI HU, History
JOHN W. ISBISTER, Economics, Emeritus
ROBERT P. JOHNSON, Physics
NORMA KLAHN, Latin American Literature
FLORA LU, Latin American and Latino Studies
PAUL LUBECK, Sociology
PATRICK E. MANTEY, Computer Engineering
MARK MASSOUD, Politics
JOHN MARCUM, Politics, Emeritus
DEAN MATHIOWETZ, Politics
MARIA EUGENIA MATUTE-BIANCHI, Education, Emerita
BARRY MCLAUGHLIN, Psychology, Emeritus
MARIA MORRIS, Spanish Language
OLGA NÁJERA-RAMÍREZ, Anthropology
ELLEN NEWBERRY, Writing
MATTHEW O'HARA, History
SHIGEKO OKAMOTO, Japanese Language
ANNAPURNA PANDEY, Anthropology
ALEX T. PANG, Computer Science
SARAH-HOPE PARMETER, Writing
ELEONORA PASOTTI, Politics
HECTOR PERLA, Latin American and Latino Studies
JUAN POBLETE, Literature
CLIFTON A. POODRY, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Emeritus
BENJAMIN READ, Politics
ALAN R. RICHARDS, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
CECELIA RIVAS, Latin American and Latino Studies
PAMELA A. ROBY, Sociology, Emerita
ALVARO ROMERO-MARCO, Spanish Language
BARBARA ROGOFF, Psychology
JOHN M. SCHECHTER, Music, Emeritus
STUART A. SCHLEGEL, Anthropology, Emeritus
ROGER SCHOENMAN, Politics
ANA MARIA SEARA, Portuguese Language
VANITA SETH, Politics
BAKTHAN SINGARAM, Chemistry and Biochemistry
GRAEME H. SMITH, Astronomy and Astrophysics
DAVID G. SWEET, History, Emeritus
MEGAN THOMAS, Politics
GEORGE E. VON DER MUHLL, Politics, Emeritus
DANIEL J. WIRLS, Politics
DONALD A. WITTMAN, Economics
ALICE YANG, History
PATRICIA ZAVELLA, Latin American and Latino Studies
MARTHA C. ZÚÑIGA, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
EVE ZYZIK, Spanish Language

Honorary Fellows

ZINA JACQUE
CLARK KERR (deceased)
JOHN LAIRD
ALICE LYTLE
CHARLES E. MERRILL JR.
JOHN VASCONCELLOS
YORI WADA
REV. CECIL WILLIAMS
MARDI WORMHOUDT (deceased)

Class Honorary Fellows

ROBERT TAYLOR, 1991, 1992, 1993
LEILANI FARM, 1994
MICHAEL PAUL WONG, 1995
DAVID SILVERA, 1996
ZIESEL SAUNDERS, 1997
VICTOR HERNANDEZ, 1998
MARÍA MATA, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010
WENDY BAXTER, 2000
LARRY TRUJILLO, 2001
GINA DIAZ, 2002
JOHN SCHECHTER, 2005
CURTIS SWAIN, 2006
BETH THOMPSON, 2009, 2011

College Administrative Officer

ALEX BELISARIO

Staff

JIMMIE BROWN, Community Safety Officer Supervisor
ALLEN BUSHNELL, Special Projects Coordinator
VALERIE CHASE, Associate College Administrative Officer
CONNIE CREEL, Academic Adviser
MIKE DE SMIDT, College Assistant
KEN EREZ, Residential Life and Housing Office Coordinator
SETH HODGE, College Programs Coordinator
KAIT MAHLER, Housing Coordinator
MARÍA MATA, Senior Academic Preceptor
MARILYN MCGRATH, Groundskeeper
CHASTITY MENDEZ, Community Safety Officer
BILL POOL, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
AMY RADOVAN, Assistant to the College Administrative Officer
MARIANNA SANTANA, Faculty Services
CHUCK SCHMIT, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
KELSEY STONE, Coordinator for Residential Education
KRISTEN WEAVER, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
JOANIE WEBBER, Assistant Budget Analyst
SARMA WILLIAMS, Coordinator for Residential Education

Porter College

The Porter College theme, Arts in a Multicultural Society, reflects the consensus among Porter College fellows that cultural studies and the creative process are essential aspects of a liberal education. The seminars, co-curricular activities, and cultural environment at Porter encourage creativity in all fields—from the arts to anthropology to astronomy.

Academic Emphases

Porter’s faculty includes most of the campus’s practicing artists and art scholars, though some of the college’s faculty (and about half of its students) specialize in the humanities or in the physical and biological or social sciences. The college is the administrative home of the Division of the Arts and the History of Art and Visual Culture Department.

Porter 80, the core course, focuses on writing across the arts, with concentration on the literature and arts of California and the Pacific Rim. Those who are admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the core course at their option pending available space. Lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) or better are permitted to take the core course to satisfy the C1 requirement. In Porter 80, students meet with their instructor in a seminar, and in small writing groups. They attend regular lecture/performances and participate in small sections taught by accomplished upper-division instructional assistants. The course emphasizes critical reading and writing, and close intellectual interaction with faculty and other Porter students.

The college also offers two-credit courses in a variety of areas connected to the arts. These are small classes in the practice or theory of the arts; they may involve studies in music, dance, theater, or film from a particular culture or region, exploration of careers in a field related to the arts, or creation of a show in one of the college galleries. These diverse offerings enable Porter students to explore areas of interest and to experience the significance of creativity in a university education.

The college provides fellowship funds each year to talented students pursuing original research and creative projects.

College Community and Facilities

The traditional residence halls and apartments play an important role in bringing the college community together. Students are encouraged to spend their beginning years in residence in the college, where housing is available for 1,300 students. The residence halls are divided into smaller units, with from 30 to 35 students sharing common lounges and other facilities. Theme halls include Film and Digital Media, Math, Engineering, and Sciences. Students also have a choice of quiet/intensive study, same gender, or substance-free halls. The six-person apartments are reserved for upper-division students.

Porter College is also home to the Transfer Community at Porter, a transfer student living/learning community. All on-campus incoming transfer students reside at Porter regardless of their college affiliation. Special programs are designed to help new transfer students adapt to life at UCSC.

In addition to traditional classrooms, Porter has many specialized facilities, such as student art galleries, a study center, and a dining hall that converts to a theater space. The Arts Instructional Computing Laboratories, located at Porter College, consist of two high-end labs oriented toward the arts.

Porter provides constructive opportunities for relaxation and recreation to balance the intellectual demands of a university education. The Porter Activities Office organizes formal and informal events, including open-mic nights, dances, recreational activities, and the mural painting program.

Many students and faculty perform or exhibit their work at Porter, and cultural events are a constant feature of life at the college. The dining commons has been the site of performances by artists such as Daniel Beatty, Ann Randolph, and El Teatro Campesino, as well as lectures and readings by contemporary authors such as Reyna Grande and Amiri Baraka.

Porter College facilities were constructed through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Porter-Sesnon family of Santa Cruz. Part of the gift was used to establish an endowment for the college. For more information, call (831) 459-2273 or visit the web site: porter.ucsc.edu.

Porter Faculty and Staff

Provost

SEAN KEILEN, Literature

Fellows

KEN ALLEY, Art
ELLIOT W. ANDERSON, Art
LAWRENCE ANDREWS, Film and Digital Media
MANUEL ARES JR., Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
DORIS B. ASH, Education
CHARLES ATKINSON, Writing, Emeritus
BRANDIN S. BARON-NUSBAUM, Theater Arts
AMY C. BEAL, Music
TANDY BEAL, Theater Arts
MARTIN BERGER, History of Art and Visual Culture
ROBERTO A. BOGOMOLNI, Chemistry and Biochemistry
JOYCE BRODSKY, Art, Emerita
GEORGE S. BROWN, Physics, Emeritus
LINDA C. BURMAN-HALL, Music
ELISABETH CAMERON, History of Art and Visual Culture
BENJAMIN L. CARSON, Music
ROBERT S. COE, Earth and Planetary Sciences
DAVID H. COPE, Music
WILLIAM D. COULTER, Music
E. G. CRICHTON, Art
DAVID CUTHBERT, Theater Arts
SHARON DANIEL, Film and Digital Media
CAROLYN S. DEAN, History of Art and Visual Culture
SHERWOOD DUDLEY, Music, Emeritus
KATE EDMUNDS, Theater Arts
HARLAND W. EPPS, Astronomy and Astrophysics
MARIA EVANGELATOU, History of Art and Visual Culture
MARIA V. EZEROVA, Music
M. KATHLEEN FOLEY, Theater Arts
DOYLE FOREMAN, Art, Emeritus
JEAN FOX TREE, Psycholinguistics
SUSAN FRIEDMAN, Art
GREGORY FRITSCH, Theater Arts
PATTY GALLAGHER, Theater Arts
FRANK GALUSZKA, Art
ROBERT GIGES, Core Course
JENNIFER A. GONZALEZ, History of Art and Visual Culture
IRENE GUSTAFSON, Film and Digital Media
MELISSA GWYN, Art
JOHN HAY, History of Art and Visual Culture, Emeritus
IRENE HERRMANN, Music
KARLTON E. HESTER, Music
DEE HIBBERT-JONES, Arts
ELI E. HOLLANDER, Film and Digital Media
JENNIFER HORNE, Film and Digital Media
EDWARD F. HOUGHTON, Music, Emeritus
DONNA HUNTER, History of Art and Visual Culture
KIMBERLY JANNARONE, Theater Arts
DAVID EVAN JONES, Music
JONATHAN KAHANA, Film and Digital Media
STACY KAMEHIRO, History of Art and Visual Culture
SEAN KEILEN, Literature
HI KYUNG KIM, Music
L. S. KIM, Film and Digital Media
THORNE LAY, Earth and Planetary Sciences
JIMIN LEE, Art
ANATOLE LEIKIN, Music
PETER LIMBRICK, Film and Digital Media
NORMAN LOCKS, Art
CHARLES (CHIP) L. LORD, Film and Digital Media, Emeritus
IRENE LUSZTIG, Film and Digital Media
BORETH LY, History of Art and Visual Culture
PAVEL MACHOTKA, Psychology, Emeritus
PATRICE MAGINNIS, Music
DOMINIC W. MASSARO, Psychology
WILLIAM G. MATHEWS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
JENNIE LIND McDADE, Art, Emerita
CHARLES E. McDOWELL, Computer Science
TANYA MERCHANT, Music
LETA E. MILLER, Music
MARGARET MORSE, Film and Digital Media
PAUL NAUERT, Music
DARD NEUMAN, Music
KATE O’RIORDAN, Art
NICOLE A. PAIEMENT, Music
JENNIFER A. PARKER, Art
KENNETH PEDROTTI, Electrical Engineering
LARRY POLANSKY, Music
PAUL RANGELL, Art
B. RUBY RICH, Community Studies
ELAINE YOKOYAMA ROOS, Theater Arts, Emerita
NORVID J. ROOS, Theater Arts, Emeritus  
BRUCE ROSENBLUM, Physics, Emeritus
WARREN SACK, Film and Digital Media
SHELLEY STAMP, Film and Digital Media
AUDREY E. STANLEY, Theater Arts, Emerita
BRIAN J. STAUFENBIEL, Music
ELIZABETH STEPHENS, Art
UNDANG SUMARNA, Music
DAVID SWANGER, Education and Creative Writing, Emeritus
JOHN W. TAMKUN, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
OTHMAR T. TOBISCH, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
ANDREY TODOROV, Mathematics
ALLEN VAN GELDER, Computer Science
GUSTAVO VAZQUEZ, Film and Digital Media
YIMAN WANG, Film and Digital Media
EDWARD WARBURTON, Theater Arts
LEWIS WATTS, Art
C. GORDON WELLS, Education
LINDA WERNER, Computer Science
JAMES WHITEHEAD, Computer Science
QUENTIN C. WILLIAMS, Earth and Planetary Sciences
DAVID YAGER, Art

College Administrative Officer

MICHAEL YAMAUCHI-GLEASON

Staff

LUPE ALLEN, Academic Preceptor
SUSAN J. BEACH, Assistant to the Provost
JAMES BLAINE, College Programs Coordinator
KENNETH BLAS, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
MAYA BORGUETA, Counseling Psychologist
TIFFANY BURNS, College Assistant/Mailroom Supervisor
ANNIE CATALANO, Coordinator for Residential Education
DOYLENE CHAN, Counseling Psychologist
KATHY COONEY, Associate College Administrative Officer for Student Life
JOE DePAGE, Housing Coordinator, Counseling Psychologist
DEBRA ELLIS, Coordinator for Conduct & Education
ROBERT GIGES, Academic Preceptor
ERIC PETERSON, Senior Building Maintenance Worker Supervisor
JULIE PHILLIPS, Coordinator for Residential Education
SUE ROTH, Assistant to the College Administrative Officer
MARY SIERRA, Budget and Planning Specialist
CARRIE SOWNIE, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
STEVE STRICKLEY, Groundskeeper
NICK YUKICH, Community Safety Officer Supervisor

Kresge College

Kresge has a strong academic community that emphasizes creativity, leadership, sustainability, and community. Our motto is Independence, Creativity, Community.

Academic Emphases

Kresge’s core course 80, Power and Representation, is a writing class that explores the relationships between individuals and their communities. Our goal is to empower individuals to think beyond easy answers, to express themselves clearly, to feel at home in writing, and to feel powerful in representing themselves on the page. In Power and Representation, we examine the many ways we constitute ourselves (and are constituted) as individuals in relation to communities. First, we study ideas about representation as a theoretical grounding, and then focus on representations of nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and race in critical theory, film, fiction, theater, and nonfiction. Our purpose is to create a dialogue about ourselves and our relationship to our communities as it is, as it might be, and as we might help make it.

In addition to section meetings, on Tuesday nights all students come together to watch core-related films or performers or listen to lectures. All students complete a final creative project that engages with the theme of the course.

Lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) or better are permitted to take the core course to satisfy the C1 (composition) requirement. Students who, in the Analytical Writing Placement Exam (AWPE), received a score of five or lower take a two-quarter version of the core class, designed to increase competency in college-level writing

In addition to the core course, Kresge offers a series of courses taught by guest faculty, alumni, and faculty affiliated with the college. These courses offer students the opportunity to study in small groups, focusing on topics related to faculty or alumni research interests, while at the same time enriching the standard curriculum. A new array of classes is offered each year. For example, Kresge has offered journalism, comic writing, documentary film, gardening, and service learning.

Kresge is home to the Writing Center, including the Creative Writing archives, and Writer’s House, a living/learning community for students interested in creative writing and journalism, regardless of major.

Two new living/learning communities will start in Fall 2013: The Ecovillage, for students who want to actively create a new world based on cooperation and sustainable living; and Harmony Hall, for students interested in social and restorative justice, Nonviolent Communication, and civic engagement (Kresge's Theme Housing).

Kresge also offers the following opportunities:

• The new Common Ground Center promotes social and environmental change through undergraduate-focused action-education, research, advocacy, and civic engagement.

• Transformative Action and Service Learning classes prepare students to become innovators in real-life community projects.

• The Kresge Garden is the site of our organic gardening and food systems classes, where students empower themselves by learning how to grow their own food and work together cooperatively.

Residential Life

Kresge was the sixth college to be built on the UCSC campus. The college was founded on the principle of participatory democracy as a means of encouraging a strong sense of community. Architecturally renowned, Kresge offers apartments rather than residence halls.

The Kresge apartments attract students with a sense of independence and community participation. Distinctively designed, the apartments at Kresge proper are configured for four to nine people. Kitchen and living areas look out onto the street, with other rooms facing the surrounding redwood forest. J and K Building’s three-person apartments are reserved for continuing upper-division students. These two-bedroom apartments have an efficiency-style kitchen and living area.

The Residential Life and College Programs staff at Kresge work to bring students of similar interests together academically and socially by designing fun and unique programs based on student interest. Programs that focus on celebrating the diversity of the residential community, on multicultural community building, and on enhancing academic success through music events, mural painting, and food-centered events are highlighted.

Community Life

A wide variety of events and activities shape community life at Kresge: lectures, workshops, dances, and concerts are a regular part of student life at the college. The nature and tenor of these events are a reflection of the diverse interests of students and staff, who are committed to providing voice and opportunity for all community members.

Students actively shape the college community through participation in Kresge Parliament, an openly structured student organization responsible for voting the allocation of all college membership fees in support of activities and events. Parliament and Town Meetings also serve as a forum for the discussion of college and campus-wide issues with college staff and faculty. Additionally, students can get involved in the Kresge Multicultural Education Committee (KMEC), Music Co-op, Food Co-op, Photo Co-op, or the Kresge Garden.

Transfer Students

In recognition of the wealth of diversity that transfer students bring to the community—in terms of culture and experience—Kresge is the home of STARS at Kresge, a satellite of the main STARS (Services for Transfer and Re-entry Students) program. This is a staffed facility where students can gather to relax, socialize, hold meetings, and obtain campus information and resource support in a central location regardless of college affiliation. The resource center offers workshops, social evenings, and special events tailored to meet the needs of transfer students.

STARS also offers special advising workshops and two- and three-credit courses designed to help transfers in the process of entering the university and moving forward in their careers.

Facilities

At the entrance to the college is the restful Piazzetta, with a beautiful, architecturally designed fountain, and the Kresge Garden, the biggest student-run garden on campus. Leading off from the Piazzetta are STARS at Kresge, the Commuter Lounge, and a student lounge equipped with television and DVD player. In addition to STARS at Kresge, as a unique facility on the campus, the Commuter Lounge is a place for off-campus students who want to use a kitchen, shower, or lockers while on campus. Kresge’s Photo Lab Co-op is above the Piazzetta and offers 24-hour accessibility to darkroom equipment. Adjacent to the nearby meadow are a racquetball court and an outdoor basketball court. The college includes a study center with soaring ceilings and walls of glass overlooking the forest, which also houses a writing center, a computer lab equipped with PCs for student use, and a student-run food co-op, where organic produce is sold and working memberships are available. At the top of the college are the Town Hall, the Music Co-op, and the Owl’s Nest cafe.

For more information, call (831) 459-2071 or visit the web site: kresge.ucsc.edu/.

Kresge Faculty and Staff

Provost

JUAN POBLETE, Latin American and Latino Literature and Cultural Studies

Members

RALPH H. ABRAHAM, Mathematics, Emeritus
ELIZABETH ABRAMS, Writing
BETTINA APTHEKER, Feminist Studies and History
ANJALI ARONDEKAR, Feminist Studies
KAREN BARAD, Feminist Studies
MURRAY BAUMGARTEN, English and Comparative Literature
GINA DENT, Feminist Studies
SHELLY E. ERRINGTON, Anthropology
J. PETER EUBEN, Politics, Emeritus
MARGE FRANTZ, American Studies and Feminist Studies, Emerita
CARLA FRECCERO, Literature
PASCALE GAITET, French Literature and Language
JODY GREENE, English Literature
CONN HALLINAN, Journalism, Retired
EMILY HONIG, Feminist Studies and History
AKASHA HULL, Feminist Studies and Literature, Emerita
EARL JACKSON JR., Japanese Literature
JOHN O. JORDAN, English Literature
ELISE KNITTLE, Earth and Planetary Sciences
DIANE K. LEWIS, Anthropology, Emerita
MARY KAY MARTIN, Writing, Emerita
ALMA R. MARTÍNEZ, Theater Arts
CAROLYN MARTIN SHAW, Anthropology
GEOFFREY MASON, Mathematics
KAREN C. MCNALLY, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emerita
ROBERT L. MEISTER, Politics
HELENE MOGLEN, Literature and Feminist Studies, Emerita
MADELINE MOORE, English Literature, Emerita
MARCIA OCHOA, Community Studies
MICAH PERKS Literature
LISA ROFEL, Anthropology
MATTHEW SANDS, Physics, Emeritus
JOHN H. SCHAAR, Politics, Emeritus
DANNY SCHEIE, Theater Arts
PAUL N. SKENAZY, American Literature, Emeritus
ROSWELL (ROZ) SPAFFORD, Writing, Emerita
RICHARD TERDIMAN, Literature
ANNA TSING, Anthropology
KAREN TEI YAMASHITA, Literature

College Administrative Officer

MICHAEL YAMAUCHI-GLEASON

Staff

PAM ACKERMAN, College Programs Coordinator, College Assistant
KATHY COONEY, Associate College Administrative Officer
ANNIE CATALANO, Coordinator for Residential Education
KATIE LINDER, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
SHANNON MAHONEY, Assistant to the Provost
HELEN MAYER, Academic Adviser
IAN MITCHELL, Maintenance Assistant
KALIN McGRAW, Academic Preceptor
CLAUDIA PARRISH, Transfer Center Coordinator
ERIC PETERSON, Senior Building Maintenance Worker Supervisor
NICK YUKICH, Community Safety Officer Supervisor
KATHARINA PIERINI, Groundskeeper
SUE ROTH, Assistant to the College Administrative Officer
PEG SHEMARIA, Counseling Psychologist
MARY SIERRA, Budget Analyst
JOAO SIMAS, Housing Coordinator
DEBRA ELLIS, Coordinator for Conduct and Education

Oakes College

Oakes was founded in 1972 to provide high-quality education to students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Students, staff, and faculty associated with the college believe that learning takes place not only in the classroom, but also in residential settings. For that reason, they work hard to create a multicultural community whose members strive together for certain universal goals—including equal access to educational opportunity and freedom from oppression—while simultaneously affirming and celebrating some of the distinctive aspects of the different backgrounds from which they come.

Academic Emphases

The Oakes College faculty represents a wealth of expertise from the natural sciences to the humanities, and we are proud to have some of the top scholars in the world among our faculty fellows. Our students major in nearly every discipline at UCSC—from economics and computer science, to theater arts and Latin American and Latino studies—and they are well supported by the depth and breadth of the Oakes College faculty and the extensive knowledge of our advising team. Oakes graduates have gone on to successful careers in fields such as medicine, law, education, medical research, and community service.

The Oakes core course, Communicating Diversity for a Just Society, is required of all first-year students. The course is writing intensive and examines individual and collective responses to issues of culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. Those who are admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the core course at their option pending available space; lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) or better are permitted to take the core course to satisfy the C1 requirement.

At Oakes College, we are committed to fostering student engagement and leadership within and beyond the classroom. To this end, we encourage students to develop the knowledge, skills, and cross-cultural understanding necessary to become active citizens and future leaders in their own communities, workplaces, and academic disciplines as well as in the larger U.S. society and the world as a whole. We also provide a range of resources and programs that will enable all students to succeed in their academic endeavors. Such resources include:

• The Learning Center at Oakes College serves as a location for study groups as well as tutoring and advising programs. Special assistance in writing and tutoring in a variety of subjects is offered to Oakes students and EOP students.

• The Oakes Computer Lab provides access to 20 PCs for Oakes students.

• Co-curricular programs like Oakes 4.0, Oakes Core Café, and the residential Science Community at Oakes College all offer living-learning opportunities to enhance student success and to provide students with unique opportunities for interacting with faculty in small group contexts.

• Oakes 77, Exploring Opportunities for Social Justice Field Work, provides students with the opportunity to work with a variety of community service organizations. All Oakes students are encouraged to contribute service to public agencies, schools, and community organizations in the city of Santa Cruz and in economically deprived areas of Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Oakes students serve as tutors, teachers, mentors, and community builders. Academic credit is available through the Oakes 77 course.

• Student services at Oakes include academic advising and psychological counseling.

College Community and Facilities

Oakes College, located on the west side of the UCSC campus, commands a sweeping view of Monterey Bay. Students may choose between apartment and residence hall living. The residence halls have a lounge on each floor, attractive courtyards, and views of the ocean and the city of Santa Cruz. Students can also share an apartment-style living space, which includes a common living area and small kitchen. All students participate in a University Meal Plan. Residence halls are co-ed and provide space for students in double and single rooms.

Full-time coordinators for residential education and neighborhood assistants help residents develop cooperative ways of living together. As one student put it, “Oakes is a community where people of many different backgrounds, interests, and goals form a friendly neighborhood. We share our cultures and adapt to the different lifestyles of our neighbors.” The residential program is designed to assist all students in integrating their academic and social needs. The residential staff host activities sponsored through its wellness, academic success, leadership, and social justice and diversity committees.

The college staff seeks to nurture and sustain a community in which mutual respect, understanding, and concern for others are the norm. Within that atmosphere of community expectations, students are also supported and encouraged to find room for their own creative personal expression.

The other physical facilities at Oakes further support the special programs of the college and provide recreational opportunities for the students. College facilities include the Learning Center, a multipurpose room for lectures, movies, and small theater productions; a college library; a quiet space for individual study, a dining facility shared with College Eight; TV lounges in the residences and adjacent to the Oakes Café; and a small basketball court, the “Underdome.” Additional recreational facilities located close to the college include tennis courts, a large soccer field, and an indoor basketball court.

A grant from the San Francisco Foundation—from Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Foundation funds—was used in partnership with public funds for the construction of Oakes. Part of the grant was used to establish an endowed fund for the college.

For further information, call (831) 459-2558 or visit the web site: oakes.ucsc.edu.

Oakes Faculty and Staff

Provost

KIMBERLY J. LAU, Literature

Fellows

ROGER W. ANDERSON, Chemistry and Biochemistry
LAWRENCE ANDREWS, Film and Digital Media
DAVID H. ANTHONY III, History
GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN, History of Consciousness
DORIAN BELL, Literature
GEORGE R. BLUMENTHAL, Astronomy and Astrophysics
BARRY BOWMAN, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
DAVID BRUNDAGE, Community Studies
VICTOR BURGIN, History of Consciousness, Emeritus
PEDRO CASTILLO, History
LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI, Literature
JAMES T. CLIFFORD, History of Consciousness, Emeritus
CHRISTOPHER CONNERY, Chinese Literature
VILASHINI COOPPAN, Literature
MICHAEL H. COWAN, Literature and American Studies
ANGELA Y. DAVIS, History of Consciousness, Emerita
TERESA DE LAURETIS, History of Consciousness, Emerita
DAVID E. DORFAN, Physics, Emeritus
BARBARA L. EPSTEIN, History of Consciousness
MAYANTHI FERNANDO, Anthropology
PASCALE GARAUD, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
JAMES B. GILL, Earth and Planetary Sciences
SUSAN GILLMAN, American Literature
GARY GLATZMAIER, Earth and Planetary Sciences
DEBORAH GOULD, Sociology
KIRSTEN GRUESZ, Literature
DONNA J. HARAWAY, History of Consciousness
MELISSA JURICA, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
SHARON KINOSHITA, Literature and Language Studies
DAVID S. KLIGER, Chemistry and Biochemistry
ANN M. LANE, American Studies, Emerita
REGINA DAY LANGHOUT, Psychology
DIANE K. LEWIS, Anthropology, Emerita
AMY J. LONETREE, History
JUSTIN MARION, Economics
DAVID S. MARRIOTT, History of Consciousness
PRADIP K. MASCHARAK, Chemistry and Biochemistry
DEAN MATHIOWETZ, Politics
ANDREW MOORE, Ocean Sciences
SORAYA MURRAY, Film
ERIC PORTER,  History and History of Consciousness
CATHERINE RAMIREZ,  Latin American and Latino Studies
RENYA RAMIREZ,  Anthropology
ENRICO RAMIREZ-RUIZ, Astronomy and Astrophysics
STEVEN RITZ, Physics
A. CHRISTINA RAVELO, Ocean Sciences
BEN READ, Politics
B. RUBY RICH, Community Studies
MICHAEL ROTKIN, Community Studies
GURIQBAL SAHOTA, Literature
DANIEL SELDEN, Literature
MARY W. SILVER, Ocean Sciences
ALAN SPEAROT, Economics
MICHAEL STONE, Chemistry
VICTORIA STONE, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
SUSAN STROME, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
FRANK J. TALAMANTES, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Emeritus
HAI TAO, Computer Engineering
HONGYUN WANG, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
NOAH WARDRIP-FRUIN, Computer Science
HAYDEN WHITE, History of Consciousness, Emeritus
DON WILLIAMS, Culture Arts Diversity
ROB WILSON, Literature
MATTHEW WOLF-MEYER, Anthropology
JUDY YUNG, American Studies, Emerita
ALAN ZAHLER, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
ADRIENNE L. ZIHLMAN, Anthropology

Honorary Associates

J. HERMAN BLAKE
BRUCE N. COOPERSTEIN
DAVID DODSON
ALLEN B. FIELDS
DOLORES HUERTA
ELBA R. SÁNCHEZ

College Administrative Officer

SUSAN WELTE

Staff

ELIZABETH ALSBERG, Academic Adviser
HOMAYUN ETEMADI, Academic Adviser and Records Coordinator
HEIDI FLORES, Assistant to Provost
JILL FOXEN, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
JUAN GOVEA, Senior Maintenance Assistant
ELAINE KIHARA, Academic Preceptor
STEPHANIE LAI, Coordinator for Residential Education
SANDY LORD-CRAIG, Assistant Budget Analyst
MARIE MORONES, College Assistant
MARI ORTIZ-MCGUIRE, Associate College Administrative Officer
ELSA SILVA, Housing Coordinator
AMANDA STOUT, Coordinator for Residential Education
CHRIS YANG, College Programs Coordinator

College Eight

The theme of College Eight is Environment and Society, and the college has a vigorous intellectual life. The college examines environmental issues from multiple perspectives, through the social and natural sciences, engineering, public policy, and science and technology studies. College Eight offers students a sense of community and opportunities to augment academic work with a wide range of extracurricular activities. During the course of the academic year, our faculty and our many associates offer seminars, lectures, and guest classes on environmental issues and a wide range of other topics, ranging from philosophy to business.

College Eight students major in nearly every discipline offered at UCSC, while sharing a strong commitment to environmental stewardship. We seek to train our graduates to become environmentally aware green citizens. They will have the capacity to evaluate sustainability policies and strategies and the skills needed for hands-on engagement in the many projects and activities that will be required to ensure the future of the planet and human civilization.

Academic Emphases

College Eight is launching a number of exciting new initiatives aimed at furthering its mission. A three-quarter core course, Nurturing Environmental Citizenship, is taught by senior faculty from the departments of Politics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Electrical Engineering. The fall-quarter course is mandatory for all incoming freshmen, and its goal is to introduce students to environmental issues, past, present, and future. The winter-quarter course takes on the principles of environmental science, and the spring quarter course, the ability of technological innovation to address environmental challenges. In addition, two practicum internships enable students to acquire skills necessary for success in the coming green economy and to take on service-learning work with campus and community-based agencies and organizations.  Other courses include college garden internships, SCTV filmmaking, student-led classes in sustainability, and a seminar on environment in film (with more in the planning stages).

College Community and Facilities

College Eight is located on a sunny, terraced hillside on the west side of the UCSC campus, offering a spectacular view of Monterey Bay and the coastline as well as the redwood-covered hills. The college is designed to encourage interaction among resident and commuter students, faculty, and staff, with outdoor spaces for relaxing and informal opportunities to socialize.  These include small residence hall patios, grass quadrangles, and a large plaza—the heart of the college—where pedestrian traffic converges. Adjacent to the college are recreational facilities including the West Field House, tennis courts, basketball and sand volleyball courts, and playing fields. The Theater Arts and Music Centers, McHenry Library, and Porter and Oakes Colleges are a short walk from the college.

College Eight’s facilities include an academic building that accommodates the college and faculty offices, the Sociology Department, associated research centers, classrooms and a computer lab with printers. Approximately 500 students live in the college’s community of two-and three-story residence halls, which provide single, double, and triple rooms as well as suites. The residence halls include designated study lounges, laundry facilities, and lobbies that serve as living rooms—favorite places where residents gather to relax, watch television, and catch up on the news of the day. Another 300 students are housed in College Eight’s two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments.

The college’s residential staff includes both coordinators for residential education, who are full-time live-in professionals, and undergraduate resident assistants. The residential staff plans a variety of educational and recreational events, including community barbecues, outdoor movies, and student-initiated events celebrating the diversity of our community. More intimate gatherings include study breaks, coffee talks, and potlucks. The residential staff is available to ease the transition to college life, making the college a comfortable new home for our residents.

The Student Commons building contains the office of College Eight’s college programs coordinator, the office of the Student Environmental Center, and a large meeting room for student use. A study center/art gallery is located across the plaza. The lively College Eight Café features a pool table and a quiet, comfortable corner with couches. The café is a favorite haven and gathering place for students, faculty, staff, and other members of the campus community.

In conjunction with the student government and student organizations, the College Eight Student Programs Office plans social, multicultural, and educational events for the college community. Weekly Café Nights—featuring open mics, music, art shows, and guest speakers—accommodate the diverse spectra of cultural and artistic interests of the students. College Night, a quarterly cultural event, provides an opportunity for students to learn about a variety of cultures through entertainment, education, and delicious cuisine. In addition, the Student Programs Office works closely with the Student Environmental Center to bring programs that educate and build long-lasting networks, which aim to address the environmental issues affecting our world today.

Above all, College Eight seeks to create a community of inclusion, in which each person is encouraged to share and explore beliefs, worldviews, values, and ideas in an atmosphere of mutual support and trust.

For more information, contact the college at (831) 459-2361, e-mail 8housing@ucsc.edu or rrrhodes@ucsc.edu, or visit the web site: eight.ucsc.edu.

College Eight Faculty and Staff

Provost

RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ, Politics

Fellows

ANAND PRANAV, Linguistics
ERIC ASPHAUG, Earth and Planetary Sciences
NEDA ATANASOSKI, Feminist Studies
KAREN BARAD, Feminist Studies
DAVID P. BELANGER, Physics
DORIAN BELL, Literature
GIACOMO BERNARDI, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
JULIE BETTIE, Sociology
CHELSEA BLACKMORE, Anthropology
BURNEY LE BOEUF, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
ROBERT BOLTJE, Mathematics
BRUCE BRIDGEMAN, Psychology
EMILY BRODSKYE, Earth and Planetary Sciences
JEFFREY BURY, Environmental Studies
MELISSA L. CALDWELL, Anthropology
MARK CARR, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
BENJAMIN CARSON, Music
SHAOWEI CHEN, Chemistry
MARK CIOC-ORTEGA, History
BRUCE N. COOPERSTEIN, Mathematics
DANIEL P. COSTA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
BEN CROW, Sociology
ROBERT R. CURRY, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
SAMIT DASGUPTA, Mathematics
JAMES DAVIS, Computer Science
JENNIFER DERR, History
NATHANIEL DEUTSCH, History
WILLIAM DUNBAR, Computer Engineering
MELANIE DUPUIS, Sociology
DAVID DRAPER, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
TORSTEN EHRHARDT, Mathematics
SHELLY ERRINGTON, Anthropology
BRYAN H. FARRELL, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
NOAH FINNEGAN, Earth and Planetary Sciences
ANDREW FISHER, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MARGARET I. FITZSIMMONS, Environmental Studies
LAUREL FOX, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
WILLIAM H. FRIEDLAND, Community Studies and Sociology, Emeritus
HIROSHI FUKURAI, Sociology
PASCALE GARAUD, Applied Math and Statistics
J. J. GARCÍA-LUNA-ACEVES, Computer Engineering
IAN GARRICK-BETHELL, Earth and Planetary Sciences
GREGORY S. GILBERT, Environmental Studies
VIKTOR GINZBURG, Mathematics
STEPHEN R. GLIESSMAN, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
WALTER L. GOLDFRANK, Sociology, Emeritus
DAVID E. GOODMAN, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
CHRISTOPHER ASPEN GORRY, Economics
RICHARD (ED) GREEN, Biomolecular Engineering
GARY B. GRIGGS, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Institute of Marine Sciences
CLAIRE GU, Electrical Engineering
DANIEL GUEVERA, Philosophy
JULIE GUTHMAN, Social Sciences
BRENT HADDAD, Environmental Studies
JOY HAGEN, Writing
DONNA HARRAWAY, History of Consciousness, Emerita
GRANT HARTZOG, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
DAVID P. HELMBOLD, Computer Science
KAREN D. HOLL, Environmental Studies
CHRISTINE HONG, Literature
JEREMY HOURIGAN, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MINGHUI HU, History
KATE JONES, History
SHELDON KAMIENIECKI, Environmental Studies
PAUL L. KOCH, Earth and Planetary Sciences
PHOKION G. KOLAITIS, Computer Science
DAVID C. KOO, Astronomy and Astrophysics
TRACY LARRABEE, Computer Engineering
DEBORAH K. LETOURNEAU, Environmental Studies
YAT LI, Chemistry and Biochemistry
ROGER LININGTON, Chemistry and Biochemistry
SURESH K. LODHA, Computer Science
MICHAEL LOIK, Environmental Studies
SCOTT LOKEY, Chemistry and Biochemistry
FLORA LU, Environmental Studies
PAUL M. LUBECK, Sociology, Emeritus
MARK MASSOUD, Politics
MICHAEL MATEAS, Computer Science
ANDREW MATHEWS, Anthropology
CLAIRE MAX, Astronomer
PATRICK MCKERCHER, Writing
RITA MEHTA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ADAM MILLARD-BALL, Environmental Studies
DEJAN MILUTINOVIC, Applied Math and Statistics
SORAYA MURRAY, Film and Digital Media
ONUTTOM NARAYAN, Physics
PAUL NIEBANCK, Environmental Planning, Emeritus
KATIA OBRACZKA, Computer Engineering
JAMES R. O’CONNOR, Sociology, Emeritus
BRAD OLSEN, Education
ERIC PALKOVACS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
INGRID PARKER, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ART PEARL, Education, Emeritus
JOHN S. PEARSE, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
KEN PEDROTTI, Electrical Engineering
JAMES E. PEPPER, Environmental Planning, Emeritus
MAYA PETERSON, History
STACY PHILPOTT, Environmental Studies
JARMILA PITTERMAN, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
NADER POURMAND, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
DANIEL M. PRESS, Environmental Studies
JOEL R. PRIMACK, Physics
MARY BETH PUDUP, Community Studies
PETER T. RAIMONDI, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
AMY RALSTON, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
ARTHUR RAMIREZ, Dean of Engineering
DAVID M. RANK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Emeritus
JENNIFER REARDON, Sociology
CRAIG REINARMAN, Sociology
B. RUBY RICH, Film and Digital Media
LISA B. ROFEL, Anthropology
DANILYN RUTHERFORD, Anthropology
SAHOTA GURIQBAL, Literature
CHAD SALTIKOV, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
BRUNO SANSO, Applied Math and Statistics
FELICITY SCHAEFFER, Feminist Studies
DANIEL SCHEIE, Theater Arts
MARTINE D. F. SCHLAG, Computer Engineering
BRUCE SCHUMM, Physics
DANIEL SCRIPTURE, Writing
BETH SHAPIRO, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
B. SIRIAM SHASTRY, Physics
CAROL SHENNAN, Environmental Studies
DAVID SMITH, Physics
MICHAEL SOULÉ, Environmental Studies, Emeritus
ROSWELL (ROZ) SPAFFORD, Writing, Emerita
ANDREA STEINER, Community Studies
GLENN STEWART, Predatory Bird Research Group
TRISH STODDART, Education
NANCY STOLLER, Community Studies, Emerita
ANDREW SZASZ, Sociology
BRUCE THOMPSON, History
ANNA L. TSING, Anthropology
SLAWEK TULACZYK, Earth and Planetary Sciences
ZDRAVKA TZANZOVA, Environmental Studies
ANUJAN VARMA, Computer Engineering
JOHN VESECKY, Electrical Engineering
SU-HUA WANG, Psychology
SUSAN WATROUS, Writing
MARTIN WEISSMAN, Mathematics
DAVID WELLMAN, Community Studies, Emeritus
CANDACE WEST, Sociology
STEVE WHITTAKER, Psychology
TERRIE M. WILLIAMS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
CHRISTOPHER WILMERS, Environmental Studies
JAMES WILSON, Writing
RASMUS WINTHER, Philosophy
THOMAS WU, Economics
ERIKA S. ZAVALETA, Environmental Studies
JONATHAN ZEHR, Ocean Sciences
YI ZHANG, Chemistry and Biochemistry
EVE ZYZIK, Languages

College Administrative Officer

SUSAN WELTE

Staff

PAUL BIANCHINI, Facilities Asset Coordinator
JAN BURROUGHS, Academic Preceptor
JO CHAMBERLAIN, Assistant to the Provost
SANDRA LORD CRAIG, Assistant Budget Analyst
JODY CROCE, Café Manager
JASON ENDRES, Housing Coordinator
JILL FOXEN, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
CONNOR KEESE, Coordinator for Residential Education
A. PATRICE MONSOUR, Counseling Psychologist
MARI ORTIZ-MCGUIRE, Associate College Administrative Officer
SHELLEY MARSHALL, Coordinator for Residential Education
LAUREN REED, Academic Preceptor
ROBIN REBECCA RHODES, College Assistant
CURTIS SWAIN, Community Safety Officer/Supervisor
THERESA TSAO, College Programs Coordinator
BALDO ZARAGOZA, Facilities Supervisor

College Nine

At College Nine, we introduce students to our increasingly interconnected world. Students can learn about the impact of economic globalization. We also expect them to come to appreciate the diversity of cultural traditions.

—Campbell Leaper, College Nine Founding Provost

Academic Emphases

College Nine’s theme of International and Global Perspectives emphasizes the impact of our increasingly interconnected world. We consider how people around the world affect one another through global economies, politics, and culture. Some specific issues that our academic and co-curricular programs consider are economic and cultural globalization, immigration, ethnic conflicts, genocide, and human rights. Our programs seek to respect both diversity and unity in understanding individuals and societies. Students interested in these issues either as their major focus or as part of their general education are invited to join the College Nine community.

Writing Seminar

In the first-quarter frosh course, Introduction to University Discourse: International and Global Issues, students examine current issues pertinent to the college’s intellectual theme. Topics address issues such as globalization, inequities in wealth and poverty across the world, human rights, and regional conflicts.

The seminar emphasizes the development of students’ writing skills. Being able to write well is a valuable asset for success in college and in most careers. Students write several reflective and analytical papers during the quarter. Each paper undergoes at least one revision after the student receives constructive feedback from the instructor. Thus, the instructors work closely with each student throughout the quarter.

All students who enter as frosh are required to pass the college writing seminar with a grade of C or better. Those who are admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the core course at their option pending available space; lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) or better are permitted to take the core course to satisfy the C1 requirement.

Special Academic and Co-curricular Programs

Optional programs are available to involve College Nine students in academic and co-curricular activities beyond the first-quarter course. They are designed to promote students’ academic achievement and success by connecting them with faculty mentors and helping them pursue leadership experiences in particular contexts.

Global Action

In this workshop facilitated by peer instructors, students will learn about current international and global issues through interactive exercises, small group discussions, and faculty presentations. Students will develop an “action plan” to raise awareness about one or more of these concerns and take practical steps to create positive change in the world.

Service Learning: Esprit de Corps (110 and 110B) and Praxis

Students can extend their learning beyond the classroom by gaining practical experience volunteering for a school or a nonprofit organization in the Santa Cruz community. Examples include assisting in a classroom or at a homeless shelter. College Nine has its own service-learning class, Esprit de Corps (110 and 110B), taught by our service-learning coordinator. Students meet weekly to reflect on their experiences, discuss readings, and listen to speakers from the community. To complete the service experience, students develop a final paper or project related to civic engagement. The class is available all three quarters and is facilitated by students during the winter and spring. Praxis, College Nine’s community-service organization, provides another way to serve the Santa Cruz community. Praxis students meet weekly and volunteer on the weekends at a variety of locations.

Students as Teachers and Mentors

College Nine students have special opportunities to become course assistants, tutors, and student mentors for course credit. Students gain independent experience as teachers leading their own discussion sections of a College Nine course. They receive close supervision that emphasizes a collaborative approach to developing and enhancing teaching, communication, and leadership skills. The College Nine academic advisers can also direct students to other opportunities for student teaching and peer-mentoring programs on campus. These are excellent opportunities to work closely with a faculty member and to develop one’s own skills as a teacher and a leader.

Global Information Internship Program

The Global Information Internship Program (GIIP) places highly motivated students in internships with nongovernmental organizations and community groups. Students in GIIP help these organizations and groups in the use of Internet-based information and communications technologies. Interns acquire leadership and organizational skills through the “learning-by-doing” method. For more information, visit the web site at giip.org/.

Practical Activism: Tools for Local and Global Change

The annual Practical Activism Conference is a daylong, student-led event featuring keynote speakers, ten workshops, various on- and off-campus organizations, performances, and a variety of hands-on activism activities. Students gain valuable leadership and organizing skills through developing and planning this exceptional program, which involves collaboration among faculty, staff, and the local community. Visit activism.ucsc.edu for more information.

Education Abroad

The UC Education Abroad Program places students at a university in another country for one or more quarters. Studying abroad can be a valuable way to expand ones understanding of the world. Given the international focus at College Nine, students are encouraged (but not required) to develop a second language or to study abroad.

Research Opportunities

The faculty at UC Santa Cruz are highly ranked for the quality of their research. College Nine students are encouraged to take advantage of the many excellent opportunities available to work closely with faculty as research apprentices. Students will find many internship, independent study, or senior thesis programs in the departments of most majors. The College Nine academic advisers will help link students with these programs.

College Nine Pathways to Distinction

Another feature of College Nine is that qualified students may graduate with College Nine Distinction. This recognition is intended to serve as an incentive for students to pursue activities that are especially apt to help them succeed in college and beyond. Two pathways are possible:

Research and scholarship. In this pathway, students pursue research with faculty by completing three quarters (15 credits) of work on a senior thesis or a research internship. Students may be recognized with College Nine Distinction if they do a thesis or a research internship in their major on a topic related to international or global issues.

Language and culture. Students who enroll in at least three quarters (15 credits) in either Education Abroad or a foreign language (or a combination) may qualify for College Nine Distinction.

College Community

Founded in Fall 2000, College Nine is one of the newest colleges at UCSC. Consistent with UCSC’s founding vision, College Nine creates an integrated living and learning environment through engaging academic and extracurricular programs focusing on the theme of International and Global Perspectives. Students and staff collaborate to develop an array of programs exploring the many aspects of the college’s theme. Some of the programs include faculty presentations, guest speakers, debates, films, arts events, and interactive workshops. These programs bring together members of our community to learn, debate, and challenge ourselves about important issues facing us today in an atmosphere of mutual respect and engagement.

College Nights

Several times a quarter, the college community comes together to plan College Night, which is a large-scale community celebration held in the dining commons and open to all College Nine students whether or not they live on campus. These events are planned by students and focus on some element of international and global issues. College Nights include food, entertainment, and educational materials related to the theme. Past College Nights have featured international dance and music, Earth Day, and other topics relevant to the college theme.

Student Government

The College Nine Student Senate serves as the student government for College Nine and represents its students to the college and campus administrations and to the Student Union Assembly (SUA), the campuswide student governance board. The Senate appoints students to campus and college committees, consults with college administration on policy development, and provides monetary support to student organizations.

International Living Center

The International Living Center (ILC) at College Nine offers a unique living environment fostering understanding, cooperation, and friendship among upper-division students from different nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Half of the residents are students from the United States, and the other half are students from various countries around the world. Students reside in the Colleges Nine and Ten Apartments. Based out of the International Living Center, the International Affairs Group (IAG) offers all Colleges Nine and Ten community members the opportunity to engage in lively discussions about important current international issues with one another through guest speakers, film, literature, media and personal experience.

iFloor

The iFloor is a residence hall floor made up of a mix of international first-year students and U.S. first-year students who apply to live in this intentional intercultural community housed within the College Nine. This unique community offers residents opportunities to make meaningful, lifelong friendships and connections that extend beyond borders.

Think Global; Act Local

Think Global; Act Local is College Nine’s living-learning community for students who wish to practice the components of service learning. Students living on this floor will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of important social justice issues occurring in Santa Cruz and in the world at large. Students participate in local service projects several times per quarter and take the time to reflect individually and as a group upon their actions.

Co-curricular Programs and Opportunities

Getting involved in co-curricular activities is a predictor of college success. Not only do college activities help students make friends, they foster leadership and group cooperation skills. There are many opportunities at College Nine for student involvement. These include the following groups as well as many other programs, activities, and clubs.

Global Leadership Development (GLAD)

GLAD meets weekly throughout the fall quarter and provides a wide range of exercises, guest speakers, and programs designed to foster and develop participants’ efficacy as world citizens and leaders of College Nine.

CREATE

CREATE (Cultural Resources to Educate and to Empower) offers a community at College Nine for students of color to find support and empowerment through mentorship and friendship.

PHAT

PHAT (Programming House Activities Team) is a planning committee for the apartment residents who are interested in getting people out of their rooms and into their communities. Programs include the annual Haunted House and the Battle of the Buildings.

Praxis (Student Volunteer Community)

Praxis is an organization geared toward community building and social justice. By participating in Praxis, students gain exposure to a variety of Santa Cruz community agencies and explore what it means to be agents of social change.

Intercultural Community Weekend

This two-day retreat provides international and U.S. students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to explore various components of intercultural communication. Through a series of structured exercises and small-group discussions, students share perspectives on issues such as multiculturalism, values orientation, and cross-cultural communication. The goal of the workshop is to build community and friendship between international and U.S. students as well as to increase students’ understanding of the complexity of communicating across cultures.

Physical Surroundings

College Nine is situated in a redwood grove next to the Social Sciences 1 and 2 Buildings near the heart of campus. One of the campus’s Instructional Computing Labs is conveniently located in the Social Sciences 1 Building. A nature preserve serves as College Nine’s “backyard.” College Nine students have immediate access to hiking, running, and mountain bike trails in the adjacent forest.

Residence halls offer approximately 500 single, double, and triple bedrooms. These fully furnished residence halls include student lounges, recreational spaces, and Internet connections. In addition, there is a state-of-the-art dining hall with an adjoining multipurpose room and recreation lounge for both College Nine and College Ten.

College Nine and College Ten also house approximately 300 upper-division students in apartments, with 190 students in single bedrooms and the balance in double and triple rooms. All apartments have full kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and Internet connections. Ground-floor apartments have decks, and most upper apartments have private balconies.

For more information about academic or general college programs, call (831) 459-5034, e-mail jhartman@ucsc.edu or visit the College Nine web site: collegenine.ucsc.edu.

College Nine Faculty and Staff

Provost

HELEN SHAPIRO,* Division of Social Sciences; Sociology

Fellows (Charter Fellows*)

JOSHUA AIZENMAN,* Economics
DILIP BASU,* History
CHELSEA BLACKMORE, Anthropology
DONALD BRENNEIS,* Anthropology
EDMUND BURKE III,* History, Emeritus
MELISSA CALDWELL, Anthropology
NANCY CHEN,* Anthropology
WEIXIN CHENG,* Environmental Studies
MARK CIOC,* History
CATHERINE COOPER, Psychology
BEN CROW,* Sociology
KENT EATON, Politics
BERNARD ELBAUM, Economics
JONATHAN A. FOX,* Latin American and Latino Studies
K. C. FUNG,* Economics
MARGARET A. GIBSON,* Education and Anthropology
STEPHEN R. GLIESSMAN,* Environmental Studies
WALTER L. GOLDFRANK,* Sociology, Emeritus
JUNE A. GORDON,* Education
ISEBILL V. GRUHN,* Politics, Emerita
JULIE GUTHMAN, Community Studies
TONY HOFFMAN, Psychology
MICHAEL M. HUTCHISON, * Economics
DAVID E. KAUN,* Economics
KENNETH KLETZER,* Economics
CAMPBELL LEAPER,* Founding College Provost; Psychology
HERBERT K. LEE III, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
DANIEL T. LINGER,* Anthropology
RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ,* Politics
SURESH K. LODHA,* Computer Science
FLORA LU, Latin American and Latino Studies
PAUL M. LUBECK,* Sociology
STEVEN MCKAY, Sociology
MEGAN MOODIE, Anthropology
JAYE PADGETT,* Linguistics
INGRID PARKER, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
JENNIFER POOLE, Economics
JON ROBINSON, Economics
LISA ROFEL, Anthropology
DANILYN RUTHERFORD, Anthropology
HELEN SHAPIRO, Sociology
JEROME SHAW, Education
NIRVIKAR SINGH,* Economics
MICHAEL E. URBAN,* Politics
CARTER WILSON,* Community Studies, Emeritus

College Administrative Officer

DEANA SLATER

Senior Academic Preceptor

ROBERT TAYLOR

Staff

ABBEY ASHER, Service Learning Coordinator
TIM BARBOUR, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
WENDY BAXTER, Director of Academic and Cocurricular Programs
DENISE BOOTH, Academic Adviser
SARA BRANLEY, Academic Adviser
JULIANA FINDLAY, Cocurricular Programs Assistant
KYOKO FREEMAN, College Programs Coordinator
MONICA GANDHI, Housing/ Student Life Assistant
JANE HARTMAN, Assistant to the College Administrative Officer
MIRA HUTTON, Coordinator for Residential Education
HASHIM JIBRI, Coordinator for Residential Education
AUDREY KIM, Psychologist
ROBIN KIRKSEY, Financial Analyst
JESSICA LAWRENCE, Assistant to the Provost
JENNIFER LEE, Housing Coordinator
MAURÍCIO MAGDALENO, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
SHERYL MCCARTNEY, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
KAREN O’HANLON, College Assistant
ERIC PETERSON, Senior Building Maintenance Supervisor
ERIN RAMSDEN, Cocurricular Programs Coordinator
BILL REID, Groundskeeper
CHRIS SALERNO, Reservations and Events Coordinator
REGGIE SHAW, JR, Coordinator for Residential Education
CURTIS SWAIN, Community Safety Officer
SARAH WOODSIDE, Associate College Administrative Officer

College Ten

Our goal at College Ten is to foster students’ concerns for social justice and their respect for diversity. This appreciation develops through both understanding and practice. Students can study the roots of social problems such as prejudice, ethnic hatreds, poverty, and political oppression. Another form of learning can occur through involvement in community organizations and other agencies. In these ways, we hope our students can contribute to the makings of a better world.

—Campbell Leaper, College Ten Founding Provost

Academic Emphases

College Ten’s theme of Social Justice and Community addresses a range of social problems and their impact on all members of society. In particular, the academic and co-curricular programs consider the injustices that many people confront in their lives. Possible community and governmental policies for addressing social, political, and economic inequalities are also examined. In addition, the college provides students with opportunities to make their own positive contributions to social change through community involvement or scholarly research.

The college curriculum explores the causes and consequences of social injustice in several ways. Students examine the roots of prejudice, discrimination, and violence directed toward groups based on their ethnicity, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political views. They also consider the causes and consequences of poverty both within the United States and around the world.

Writing Seminar

In the first-quarter frosh course, Introduction to University Discourse: Social Justice and Community, students examine current issues pertinent to the college’s intellectual theme. Students explore issues such as poverty, discrimination, and economic injustice and address ways that communities, governments, and businesses can address inequities in society.

The seminar emphasizes the development of students’ writing, reading, and speaking skills. Being able to write well is a valuable asset for success in college and later in most careers. Students write several reflective and analytical papers during the quarter. Each paper undergoes at least one revision after the student receives constructive feedback from the instructor. Thus, the instructors work closely with each student throughout the quarter.

All students who enter as frosh are required to pass the college writing seminar with a grade of C or better. Those who are admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the core course at their option pending available space; lower-division transfer students who, prior to enrolling, have not completed at least one UC-transferable college English composition course with a minimum grade of C (2.0) or better are permitted to take the core course to satisfy the C1 requirement.

Special Academic and Co-curricular Programs

Optional programs are available to involve College Ten students in academic and co-curricular activities beyond the first-quarter core course. They are designed to promote students’ academic achievement and success by connecting them with faculty mentors and helping them pursue leadership experiences in particular contexts.

Social Justice Issues Workshop

College Ten students have the option of enrolling in the Social Justice Issues Workshop in winter quarter. This two-credit course meets once per week and can be taken in addition to a regular 15-credit academic load. The workshop offers a small, dynamic learning community in which members explore important issues of personal and cultural identity; social, political, and environmental concerns; and community-mindedness. The class emphasizes small-group experiential learning through structured exercises and group activities, and also includes discussions, film presentations, and guest speakers.

Service Learning: Esprit de Corps (110 and 110B) and Praxis

Students can extend their learning beyond the classroom by gaining practical experience volunteering for a school or nonprofit in the Santa Cruz community for credit. Examples include assisting in a classroom or at a homeless shelter. College Ten has its own service-learning class, Esprit de Corps (110 and 110B), taught by our service-learning coordinator. Students meet weekly to reflect on their experiences, discuss readings, and listen to speakers from the community. To complete the service experience, students develop a final project related to civic engagement. The class is available all three quarters and is facilitated by students during the winter and spring. Praxis, College Ten’s community-service organization, provides another way to serve the Santa Cruz community. Praxis students meet weekly and volunteer on the weekends at a variety of locations.

Practical Activism: Tools for Local and Global Change

The annual Practical Activism Conference is a daylong, student-led event featuring keynote speakers, 10 workshops, various on-and off-campus organizations, performances, and a variety of hands-on activism activities. Students gain valuable leadership and organizing skills through developing and planning this exceptional program, which involves collaboration among faculty, staff, and the local community. Visit activism.ucsc.edu for more information.

Students as Teachers and Mentors

College Ten students have special opportunities to become course assistants, tutors, and student mentors for course credit. Students gain independent experience as teachers leading their own discussion sections of a College Ten course. They receive close supervision that emphasizes a collaborative approach to developing and enhancing teaching, communication, and leadership skills. The College Ten academic advisers can also direct students to other opportunities for student teaching and peer-mentoring programs on campus. These are excellent opportunities to work closely with a faculty member and to develop one’s own skills as a teacher and a leader.

Research Opportunities

The faculty at UC Santa Cruz are highly ranked for the quality of their research. College Ten students are encouraged to take advantage of the many excellent opportunities available to work closely with faculty as research apprentices. Students will find many internship, independent study, or senior thesis programs in the departments of most majors. The College Ten academic advisers will help link students with these programs.

College Ten Pathways to Distinction

We understand that learning styles and educational commitments are unique and personal. Therefore, students are recognized with College Ten Distinction upon successful completion of three quarters (15 credits) of experiential course work in Service and Leadership and/or Research and Scholarship focused on social justice and diversity issues. Applicable courses in service-learning and research opportunities with faculty can fulfill the criteria for distinction. This recognition is intended to serve as an incentive for students to pursue activities that are apt to help them succeed in college and beyond.

College Community

Founded in Fall 2002, College Ten is the newest college at UCSC. Consistent with UCSC’s founding vision, College Ten creates an integrated living-and-learning environment through engaging academic and extracurricular programs focusing on the theme of Social Justice and Community. Students and staff collaborate to develop an array of programs exploring the many aspects of social justice. Some of the programs include faculty presentations, guest speakers, debates, films, arts events, and interactive workshops. These programs bring together members of our community to learn, debate, and challenge ourselves about important issues facing us today in an atmosphere of mutual respect and engagement.

College Nights

Several times a quarter, students and staff work together to plan College Nights, which are large-scale community celebrations held in the dining commons and open to all College Ten students whether or not they live on campus. College Nights include food, entertainment, and educational materials related to a theme. Past College Night themes have included International Dance and Music, Earth Day, and other topics relevant to the college theme.

Student Government

The College Ten Student Senate serves as the student government for College Ten and represents its students to the college and campus administrations and to the Student Union Assembly (SUA), the campuswide governance board. The Senate appoints students to campus and college committees, consults with college administration on policy development, and provides monetary support to student organizations.

Rumi’s Field

Named after a renowned peace-seeking Sufi poet, Rumi’s Field offers a space for student who wish to learn, live and interact, using the skills of Nonviolent Communication. Taught and practiced around the globe, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) strengthens one’s ability to inspire compassion from others and respond compassionately even under difficult circumstances. This mixed community of College Ten first-year and continuing students will offer the opportunity to engage in dialog and resolve conflict using NVC consciousness as a tool for personal and societal transformation.

Co-curricular Programs and Opportunities

Getting involved in co-curricular activities is a predictor of college success. Not only do college activities help students make friends, they foster leadership and group cooperation skills. There are many opportunities at College Ten for student involvement. These include the following groups as well as many other programs, activities, and clubs.

CREATE

The purpose of CREATE (Cultural Resources to Educate and to Empower) is to facilitate the ongoing discussion of diversity issues at College Ten and in our living communities, learn about and promote multiculturalism, plan activities, and help students and staff have a resource for inclusiveness and training.

ENGAGE

ENGAGE (Explore New Growth and Gain Experience) offers students the opportunity to explore and develop their own beliefs, values, and feelings about current issues and social concerns. Students gain leadership skills through collaborating on a community action project, and develop relationships and experience to become leaders in the College Ten community. ENGAGE meets weekly throughout fall quarter.

PHAT

PHAT (Programming House Activities Team) is a planning committee for the apartment residents who are interested in getting people out of their rooms and into their communities. Programs include the annual Haunted House, the Battle of the Buildings, and Freestyle Fridays.

Multicultural Community Weekend

This two-day retreat provides students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to explore aspects of social justice, diversity, and community through a series of exercises and discussions (both structured and informal). Participants explore issues impacting our individual identities (e.g., race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion), increase their understanding of the complexities of communicating across diverse experiences and backgrounds, build communication skills, and share in celebrating and deconstructing the diversity of our community. The Multicultural Community Weekend is optional; students apply for this opportunity in the fall.

Terry Freitas Café

Located at College Ten, Terry Freitas Café is a favorite gathering place. It is open nightly for social justice performances, music, and social interaction.

Physical Surroundings

College Ten is situated in a redwood grove next to the Social Sciences 1 and 2 Buildings near the heart of campus. One of the campus’s Instructional Computing Labs is conveniently located in Social Sciences 1. A nature preserve serves as College Ten’s “backyard.” College Ten students have immediate access to hiking, running, and mountain bike trails in the adjacent forest. Residence halls offer approximately 500 single, double, and triple bedrooms. These fully furnished residence halls include student lounges, recreational spaces, and Internet connections. In addition, there is a state-of-the-art dining hall with an adjoining game room and student lounge for both Colleges Nine and Ten. Colleges Ten and Nine also house approximately 300 upper-division students in apartments, with 190 students in single bedrooms and the balance in double and triple rooms. All apartments have full kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and Internet connections. Ground-floor apartments have decks, and most upper apartments have private balconies.

For more information about academic or general college programs, call (831) 459-5034, e-mail jhartman@ucsc.edu or visit the College Ten web site: collegeten.ucsc.edu.

College Ten Faculty and Staff

Provost

HELEN SHAPIRO, Division of Social Sciences; Sociology

Fellows
Charter Fellows*

NAMEERA AKHTAR,* Psychology
BETTINA APTHEKER, Feminist Studies and History
MARGARITA AZMITIA, Psychology
HEATHER BULLOCK,* Psychology
GEORGE C. BUNCH, Education
MAUREEN CALLANAN, Psychology
MARTIN M. CHEMERS,* Psychology, Emeritus
JOHN BROWN CHILDS,* Sociology, Emeritus
FAYE CROSBY,* Psychology
ROBERT FAIRLIE,* Economics
ALISON GALLOWAY, Anthropology
RICARD GIL, Economics
RONALD GLASS, Education
DEBORAH GOULD, Sociology
MIRIAM GREENBERG, Sociology
PHILLIP HAMMACK, Psychology
SHELDON KAMIENIECKI, Environmental Studies
CAMPBELL LEAPER,* Founding College Provost, Psychology
EDUARDO MOSQUEDA, Education
RODNEY OGAWA, Education
DANIEL PRESS,* Environmental Studies
S. RAVI RAJAN,* Environmental Studies
JENNIFER REARDON, Sociology
CRAIG REINARMAN,* Sociology
ROGER SCHOENMAN, Politics
TRAVIS SEYMOUR, Psychology
DANA TAKAGI,* Sociology
MATTHEW WOLF-MEYER, Anthropology
EILEEN ZURBRIGGEN,* Psychology

College Administrative Officer

DEANA SLATER

Senior Academic Preceptor

ROBERT TAYLOR

Staff

ABBEY ASHER, Service Learning Coordinator
TIM BARBOUR, Assistant College Programs Coordinator
WENDY BAXTER, Director of Academic and Cocurricular Programs
SARA BRANLEY, Academic Adviser
AMANDA COOK, Coordinator for Residential Education
JULIANA FINDLAY, Cocurricular Programs Assistant
KYOKO FREEMAN, College Programs Coordinator
MONICA GANDHI, Interim Housing/ Student Life Assistant
JANE HARTMAN, Assistant to the College Administrative Officer
ROBIN KIRKSEY, Financial Analyst
JESSICA LAWRENCE, Assistant to the Provost
ALEXANDER LEE, Academic Adviser
JENNIFER LEE, Housing Coordinator
MAURÍCIO MAGDALENO, Senior Building Maintenance Worker
AMY MANDELL, College Counselor
KAREN O’HANLON, College Assistant
ERIC PETERSON, Senior Building Maintenance Supervisor
JOSÉ REYES-OLIVAS, Cocurricular Programs Coordinator
CHRIS SALERNO, Reservations  and Events Coordinator
MICHELLE SASSE, Groundskeeper
REGGIE SHAW JR., Coordinator for Residential Education
CURTIS SWAIN,  Community Safety Officer
SARAH WOODSIDE, Associate College Administrative Officer

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