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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. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity

Latin American and Latino Studies 173 course flyer: Immigrants and Latino Communities in the U.S. Taught by Suzanne Jonas. 1990s.

LALS 173: Immigrants and Latino Communities in the U.S., course flyer, 1990s

Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age. Institute of Humanities Research. Poster. 2014.

Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age, poster, 2014

Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making, 2009 (signed).

Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making, poster, 2009 (signed)

Murray Baumgarten (l) and John Jordan (r) co-founders of Dickens Project. 1986

Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan, co-founders of Dickens Project, 1986

The Dickens Universe. Flyer, 1997.

The Dickens Universe. Flyer, 1997

Beyond the Margins: The Central California Writing Project, Filmmaker Jon Silver, 2001

This 1/2 hour documentary features Don Rothman and other educators connected to UCSC who taught in Santa Cruz County schools.

From Beginning Teacher to School Principal: Pam Randall, Production of the New Teacher Center, Ellen Moir. Fillm by Jon Silver, 2007

Resources

  • Community Agroecology Network
  • Communty Studies Department
  • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program
  • Environmental Studies Department
  • Historical archive of Dickens Universe from the UCSC Dickens Project
  • History of Consciousness Department
  • The Humanities Institute, UCSC
  • Jewish Studies program
  • Latin American and Latino Studies Department
  • Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Chicano Latino Research Center)

Oral histories

  • Edges and Ecotones: Donna Haraway's Worlds at UCSC
  • Hayden White: Frontiers of Consciousness at UCSC
  • Helene Moglen and the Vicissitudes of a Feminist Administrator
  • "It Became My Case Study": Professor Michael Cowan's Four Decades at UC Santa Cruz
  • James Clifford: Tradition and Transformation at UC Santa Cruz
  • Murray's Universe: An Oral History with UCSC Professor Murray Baumgarten, 1966-2014
  • Raymond F. Dasmann: A Life in Conservation Biology
  • Stephen R. Gliessman: Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz

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