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News Following the discovery in September of financial misconduct by a staff member, the Office of Student Affairs has been reorganized under the leadership of University Registrar James Quann. Page 2. Calendar The Grapes of Wrath opens this month under the direction of Mark Rucker. Members of the Joad family, who inspired Steinbeck's novel, are shown in the Horace Bristol photograph at right. Page 5. Digest It's November, which means it's time to review your benefits selections. Open Enrollment is described in a new Currents column highlighting news from the Benefits Office. Page 6. Sign up now! UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ VOL. 4, NO: 2 Published monthly by the Office of Public Information for the campus community November 1993 Chancellor's seminar series on 'Mission, Quality, and Diversity' debuts; Howard Adams is guest speaker Howard Adams To encourage dialogue on themes that he views as critical to the success of the campus, Chancellor Pister has established the Chancellor's Distinguished Seminar Series on Mission, Quality, and Diversity. The seminar series is the public part of a quarterly program in which prominent women and minorities will spend a day with faculty and students at UCSC to discuss how to improve the quality of higher education in the United States. The first speaker under the new program will be Howard Adams, executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, also known as GEM (Graduate Education for Minoriries). Adams will visit the campus on Novembet 17; his seminar, entitled "Mentoring: A Critical Element in the Development of Minority Science and Engineering Students," will begin at 4 P.M. in Room 152 of the Applied Sciences Building. According to Pister, the chang ing ethnic makeup of California's student body makes it imperative that the campus community reexamine how best to satisfy UCSC's mission. The university's charter, he notes, states that UC must adapt to the people of the state, but in terms of diversity that adaptation has not yet occurred. Within two years, no single ethnic group will constitute a majority of the state's high school graduating class. "Placing [this statistic] alongside of the present composition of the students, faculty, and staff presents in the starkest possible terms the challenge facing us, if we are to be true to the charter of our university," Pister says. "It is my hope that these seminars will provide examples and lead to action agendas to incorporate more See Seminar series on page 8 Photos: Victor Schiffrin Eight of the nine students attending UCSC through the Leadership Opportunity Awards program gathered at a reception at University House on October 11 to meet with their deans, board chairs, and other officials. The Leadership Opportunity Awards program was established last winter by Chancellor Pister to support outstanding community college students who might not otherwise have been able to attend the university. Above: with UCSC Foundation president-elect Stoddard Johnston, Chancellor Pister, and Foundation trustee and past president Anne Levin are (back row, l-r) Victor Enriquez, Raymond Miranda, Anthony Perry; (front row, l-r) Wei Yang Leung, Norma C6rdwa, Catalina Berumen, Virginia Alvarado, and Donna Kenney. Recipient Dolores Tavera is not pictured. With her husband Paul Levin, Levin provided support for the first named scholarship, the Neufeld Levin Leadership Opportunity Award. Inset: Virginia Alvarado receives a certificate from Johnston and Levin (who co-chair the award advisory committee), and Pister. Feminist scholar establishes Women's Studies Library Bettina Aptheker Feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker has donated her personal library to the Board of Women's Studies and to Kresge College. The gift, appraised at more than $30,000, establishes the Women's Studies Library—a noncirculating special collection of books and journals that is available at Kresge College by appointment to scholars, faculty, staff, students, and the public. Aptheker, a professor of women's studies and a leading scholar in the field, is hopeful that the library-will spur the creation of a women's studies research center. "I believe we have an extraordinary community of women at UCSC as scholars, students, and staff, and that a women's studies research center can both flourish and be a useful resource to those in the field wherever they may be located," says Aptheker. The collection includes more than 2,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets. Aptheker, who served as chair of the Board of Studies in Women's Studies, began a two- year leave from the university on July 1. —Jennifer McNulty Recent events boost UCSC's proposal for Fort Ord center CSC's visions for a collaborative research center at the Fort Ord military base near Monterey marched forward significantly in recent weeks, bringing planners closer to embarking on a thorough two-year feasibility study of the ambitious project. Before the study can be launched, one final hurdle must be cleared: conveyance of 1,220 acres of land to the university. The following developments boosted campus plans that will turn Fort Ord's swords into plowshares: • UCSC received roughly $725,000 from federal Department of Commerce grants to Monterey County. State and local matching funds will swell UCSC's coffers for the project to nearly $1 million. • Deputy Secretary of Defense William Perry proclaimed the region's overall blueprint for Fort Ord—including the research center and a new California State University (CSU) campus—as one of four Department of Defense "model projects" fot the conversion of former military bases to civilian uses. • The UC Regents gave the go- ahead for projecr planners to apply to the federal government for land at Fort Ord. The result of that application was uncertain as Currents went to press. UCSC's Fort Ord team—led by professor of earth sciences James Gill, director of science development Lora Martin, and director of community planning and land development Michael Houlemard—is pursuing several avenues to obtain the land at little or no cost. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives by former congressman Leon Panetta and redrafted by his successor Sam Farr is one such avenue. Ideally, the university will acquire the land in a manner that allows both public agencies and private industries to participate in building the center.. Whatever the outcome, UCSC's Fort Ord plans have gained much attention since first discussed less than two years ago. As the plans have matured, several areas of research have come into focus: global environmental change, especially in coastal regions; environmental restoration, including the use of Fort Ord itself as a laboratory; agriculture and aqua- cultute; biorechnology and biodiversity; and transportation. Within each area, planners are emphasizing information technology, instrumen- See Fort Ord on page 8 Three who helped shape UCSC die Founding librarian Donald Clark Three longtime supporters of UCSC have died in the past two months. The three— Donald Clark, Louise Cain, and Grant McConnell—made lasting contributions to the campus. Founding librarian Donald Thomas Clark, the first academic appointee under founding chancellor Dean McHenry, died October 24 at his Scotts Valley residence. Clark, who died of heart failure after a brief illness, was 82. UCSC didn't open to students until fall 1965, but Clark's tenure as founding librarian began on September 1, 1962. In an interview with the UC Santa Cruz Student Guide last year, Clark recalled that very first day at UCSC: "My job was to plan the library so it would be ready when the students came in 1965. There were no plans for the See Clark, Cain, and McConnell on page 8 Currents / November 1993
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Transcript | News Following the discovery in September of financial misconduct by a staff member, the Office of Student Affairs has been reorganized under the leadership of University Registrar James Quann. Page 2. Calendar The Grapes of Wrath opens this month under the direction of Mark Rucker. Members of the Joad family, who inspired Steinbeck's novel, are shown in the Horace Bristol photograph at right. Page 5. Digest It's November, which means it's time to review your benefits selections. Open Enrollment is described in a new Currents column highlighting news from the Benefits Office. Page 6. Sign up now! UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ VOL. 4, NO: 2 Published monthly by the Office of Public Information for the campus community November 1993 Chancellor's seminar series on 'Mission, Quality, and Diversity' debuts; Howard Adams is guest speaker Howard Adams To encourage dialogue on themes that he views as critical to the success of the campus, Chancellor Pister has established the Chancellor's Distinguished Seminar Series on Mission, Quality, and Diversity. The seminar series is the public part of a quarterly program in which prominent women and minorities will spend a day with faculty and students at UCSC to discuss how to improve the quality of higher education in the United States. The first speaker under the new program will be Howard Adams, executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, also known as GEM (Graduate Education for Minoriries). Adams will visit the campus on Novembet 17; his seminar, entitled "Mentoring: A Critical Element in the Development of Minority Science and Engineering Students," will begin at 4 P.M. in Room 152 of the Applied Sciences Building. According to Pister, the chang ing ethnic makeup of California's student body makes it imperative that the campus community reexamine how best to satisfy UCSC's mission. The university's charter, he notes, states that UC must adapt to the people of the state, but in terms of diversity that adaptation has not yet occurred. Within two years, no single ethnic group will constitute a majority of the state's high school graduating class. "Placing [this statistic] alongside of the present composition of the students, faculty, and staff presents in the starkest possible terms the challenge facing us, if we are to be true to the charter of our university," Pister says. "It is my hope that these seminars will provide examples and lead to action agendas to incorporate more See Seminar series on page 8 Photos: Victor Schiffrin Eight of the nine students attending UCSC through the Leadership Opportunity Awards program gathered at a reception at University House on October 11 to meet with their deans, board chairs, and other officials. The Leadership Opportunity Awards program was established last winter by Chancellor Pister to support outstanding community college students who might not otherwise have been able to attend the university. Above: with UCSC Foundation president-elect Stoddard Johnston, Chancellor Pister, and Foundation trustee and past president Anne Levin are (back row, l-r) Victor Enriquez, Raymond Miranda, Anthony Perry; (front row, l-r) Wei Yang Leung, Norma C6rdwa, Catalina Berumen, Virginia Alvarado, and Donna Kenney. Recipient Dolores Tavera is not pictured. With her husband Paul Levin, Levin provided support for the first named scholarship, the Neufeld Levin Leadership Opportunity Award. Inset: Virginia Alvarado receives a certificate from Johnston and Levin (who co-chair the award advisory committee), and Pister. Feminist scholar establishes Women's Studies Library Bettina Aptheker Feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker has donated her personal library to the Board of Women's Studies and to Kresge College. The gift, appraised at more than $30,000, establishes the Women's Studies Library—a noncirculating special collection of books and journals that is available at Kresge College by appointment to scholars, faculty, staff, students, and the public. Aptheker, a professor of women's studies and a leading scholar in the field, is hopeful that the library-will spur the creation of a women's studies research center. "I believe we have an extraordinary community of women at UCSC as scholars, students, and staff, and that a women's studies research center can both flourish and be a useful resource to those in the field wherever they may be located," says Aptheker. The collection includes more than 2,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets. Aptheker, who served as chair of the Board of Studies in Women's Studies, began a two- year leave from the university on July 1. —Jennifer McNulty Recent events boost UCSC's proposal for Fort Ord center CSC's visions for a collaborative research center at the Fort Ord military base near Monterey marched forward significantly in recent weeks, bringing planners closer to embarking on a thorough two-year feasibility study of the ambitious project. Before the study can be launched, one final hurdle must be cleared: conveyance of 1,220 acres of land to the university. The following developments boosted campus plans that will turn Fort Ord's swords into plowshares: • UCSC received roughly $725,000 from federal Department of Commerce grants to Monterey County. State and local matching funds will swell UCSC's coffers for the project to nearly $1 million. • Deputy Secretary of Defense William Perry proclaimed the region's overall blueprint for Fort Ord—including the research center and a new California State University (CSU) campus—as one of four Department of Defense "model projects" fot the conversion of former military bases to civilian uses. • The UC Regents gave the go- ahead for projecr planners to apply to the federal government for land at Fort Ord. The result of that application was uncertain as Currents went to press. UCSC's Fort Ord team—led by professor of earth sciences James Gill, director of science development Lora Martin, and director of community planning and land development Michael Houlemard—is pursuing several avenues to obtain the land at little or no cost. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives by former congressman Leon Panetta and redrafted by his successor Sam Farr is one such avenue. Ideally, the university will acquire the land in a manner that allows both public agencies and private industries to participate in building the center.. Whatever the outcome, UCSC's Fort Ord plans have gained much attention since first discussed less than two years ago. As the plans have matured, several areas of research have come into focus: global environmental change, especially in coastal regions; environmental restoration, including the use of Fort Ord itself as a laboratory; agriculture and aqua- cultute; biorechnology and biodiversity; and transportation. Within each area, planners are emphasizing information technology, instrumen- See Fort Ord on page 8 Three who helped shape UCSC die Founding librarian Donald Clark Three longtime supporters of UCSC have died in the past two months. The three— Donald Clark, Louise Cain, and Grant McConnell—made lasting contributions to the campus. Founding librarian Donald Thomas Clark, the first academic appointee under founding chancellor Dean McHenry, died October 24 at his Scotts Valley residence. Clark, who died of heart failure after a brief illness, was 82. UCSC didn't open to students until fall 1965, but Clark's tenure as founding librarian began on September 1, 1962. In an interview with the UC Santa Cruz Student Guide last year, Clark recalled that very first day at UCSC: "My job was to plan the library so it would be ready when the students came in 1965. There were no plans for the See Clark, Cain, and McConnell on page 8 Currents / November 1993 |
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