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UC Santa Cruz earns the prestigious Seal of Excelencia certification for its work as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, following a thorough data-driven review by Excelencia in Education.

UC Santa Cruz announces that the campus’s Research Center for the Americas, celebrating its 30-year anniversary, will be named in honor of social justice icon Dolores Huerta, whose legacy has influenced the center’s work and values.

Joining with 19 leading universities, UC Santa Cruz announces the formation of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities, which aims to achieve two key goals at alliance universities by 2030: double the number of Hispanic doctoral students enrolled, and increase the Hispanic professoriate by 20 percent.

Chancellor Cynthia Larive presented a bold vision for the campus’s future to the UC Regents, focusing on the campus’s four major goals: advancing student success; elevating UC Santa Cruz’s research profile; fostering an inclusive campus climate; and improving the sustainability of operations.

With a gift from anonymous donors, College Ten—a UC Santa Cruz college opened in 2002 with the theme of social justice and community—is named for John R. Lewis, the late American civil rights leader and politician.

Eminent biologist and Nobel laureate Carol Greider, known for her pioneering work on telomeres and for her powerful advocacy for increasing women and minorities in the sciences, joins the UC Santa Cruz faculty.

CZU August Lightning Complex fires sweep through the Santa Cruz Mountains, forcing an evacuation of campus—a first in its 55-year history. The crisis—combined with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—tests the campus community’s resilience.

UC Santa Cruz is elected to the prestigious Association of American Universities, an achievement that underscores the impact and quality of the campus’s research and graduate and undergraduate education.