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UC Santa Cruz earns the Agricultural Experiment Station designation, marking more than 50 years of industry-leading research in organic agriculture and sustainable farming practices and opening doors to expanding community impact.

The project, which will be built in phases, will help the campus meet its ambitious plan to provide more than 40 percent additional student housing by 2030.

After a year-long campuswide conversation to craft a shared vision for the future, UC Santa Cruz releases a new strategic plan, “Leading the Change: The UC Santa Cruz Strategic Plan.” With goals and metrics to measure success in five thematic areas, the plan will guide the campus’s work for the coming decade.

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.