Category: 60th

UCSC teams enter NCAA, competing in Division III leagues.

The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics is founded.

Academic Senate approves offering of letter grade option as supplement to narrative evaluation grading system.

Chancellor Sinsheimer presents a reorganization plan that gives management of academic programs largely to divisions and boards, and clusters faculty in disciplinary groups within colleges.

Acclaimed performer and writer the late Spalding Gray teaches a summer session course at UCSC. The experience helps spark his interest in dramatic monologue.

For the first time in campus’s history, undergraduate enrollment declines. (UC Berkeley’s “redirect program” helps bring enrollment back to normal yearly growth by 1980.)

Robert L. Sinsheimer, a genetic biologist from the California Institute of Technology, becomes UCSC’s fourth chancellor.