Category: 60th

In 1991, professor of theater arts Vivian Sobchack is named first dean of the newly created Arts Division.

Chancellor Stevens announces that he will resign within nine to twelve months.

U.S. Department of Education establishes the $6.4 million National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning at UCSC.

For the first time, fall enrollment exceeds 10,000 students.

Robert L. Sinsheimer Laboratories is dedicated in 1990.

McHenry Library is temporarily closed in the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The 6.9 magnitude quake, which struck on October 17,1989, has provided a wealth of data to UCSC’s earth scientists.

UC Regents approve the campus’s Long-Range Development Plan. The plan and its environmental impact report are based on a projected campus population of 12,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students in 2005.