The Oakes Academic Building 2nd and 3rd floors are now occupied by the Institute for Social Transformation, the Center for Labor and Community, Campus + Community, the Center for Economic Justice and ...

Get to know the Social Sciences Division Social scientists work across many sectors of society to tackle urgent global challenges, like climate change and inequality. Our division’s research can ...

Awards and scholarships administered within the UC Santa Cruz Division of Social Sciences recognize and support the exceptional achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students and help to ...

Social Sciences Computing provides computer and IT support for academic research and instruction for the Division of Social Sciences. As a unit within UCSC’s Information Technology Services (ITS) we ...

Academic personnel policies Academic Personnel is governed by a complex set of policies and procedures at both the system-wide and campus-wide levels. The Academic Personnel Manual (APM) provides a ...

Heat: Climate Change and Human Health Watch video from the 2023 event.

The Center for Economic Justice and Action (CEJA), formerly Blum Center, specializes in community-engaged, anti-poverty research that seeks to alleviate poverty, promote financial equity, and ...

I want to reach out to the broader UCSC community and any signatories of the “UCSC ANTI-RACIST FARM NOW!” document to address some of the issues raised in the petition. I also thought it might be ...

An interdisciplinary team of UC Santa Cruz students, many from the Rachel Carson College Sustainability Minor program, designed and built EcoHus, an innovative, affordable, net-zero house. The EcoHus ...

Wildfires. Flooding. Drought. The nation has faced these climate issues for centuries. Yet, there’s still a lot that can be learned from pre-colonial indigenous food and land management techniques to ...

Building on the long history of innovation in agriculture at the campus, the AgTech Alliance will support research, education, events, and workforce development related to advancing agricultural ...

CNA’s Julie Yoo and Steve Lai speak to University of California Santa Cruz Professor of Politics and Legal studies Mark Fathi Massoud in a Channel News Asia story about the current unrest in Sudan and ...