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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers

Kresge College: Carol Hitchcock, receptionist, 1986.

Kresge College: Carol Hitchcock, Receptionist, 1986

Kresge College: Nicolette Czarrunchick, Women's Studies administrative assistant. 1986.

Kresge College: Nicolette Czarrunchick, Women's Studies Board Assistant, 1986

Kresge College: Betsy Wootten, supervisor, Services to Academic Staff. 1986.

Kresge College: Betsy Wootten, Supervisor, Services to Academic Staff, 1986

Kresge College: Ann M. Lane, Lecturer in American Studies. 1986.

Kresge College: Ann M. Lane, Lecturer in American Studies, 1986

"Disposable Lecturers= Disposable Education." UCSC lecturers fight for better working conditions. Circa 1990s.

Disposable Lecturers=Disposable Education, flyer, Circa 1990s

Defend your Education. Clerical Strike flyer. Circa 2000s.

Defend your Education, Clerical Strike flyer, Circa 2000s

UC clerical workers strike. Poster. Circa 2000s.

UC Clerical Workers Strike flyer, Circa 2000s

"2001: A Work Odyssey." Women at Work UCSC Staff Women Retreat. 2001.

"2001: A Work Odyssey," Women at Work UCSC Staff Women Retreat, 2001

Resources

  • Video: Rolling Rally for Lecturers Rights UCSC. March 9, 2017

Oral Histories

  • Adding a Plank to the Bridge: Julia Armstrong-Zwart's Leadership at UC Santa Cruz
  • A Lifetime Commitment to Giving Voice: An Oral History of Elba R. Sánchez
  • Crossing Borders: The UCSC Women's Center, 1985-2005
  • Mike Rotkin on the Rise and Fall of Community Studies at UCSC, 1969-2010
  • Teaching Writing in the Company of Friends: An Oral History with Carol Freeman
  • With Conocimiento, Love, Spirit, and Community: Rosie Cabrera's Leadership at UC Santa Cruz, 1984-2013

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