State of the Campus Address: 9/11/07

George R. Blumenthal
State of the Campus Address
September 11, 2007
Music Center Recital Hall

Good afternoon everyone, I am Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal and I am pleased to welcome you all here today.

Thank you for coming.

I’ve been on this campus a long time. I’ve been a professor of astronomy and astrophysics here for 30 years. And I have to tell you that when it was first proposed to me that I give this talk, I thought that had asked me not to give a state of the university talk but rather a state of the universe address. And so I gleefully accepted, thinking that would be easy to do. And then later on I found out that it was really the state of the campus address that I was supposed to give so I’ve basically cropped my talk down to just the state of the campus. So I’m not going to do the full broad horizons that I had originally planned.

I am delighted to be in a gathering of friends of the University here today.

You must wonder why we've called you altogether like this. Well, a new academic year is about to begin and we want to celebrate today some of the successes over the past year and acknowledge the contributions of everyone who is a friend of UC Santa Cruz and the progress we’ve made together over the past year.

Each of you is closely involved through one or many of the Friends groups that provide vital support to the campus. In a sense, each of you is an insider – an ambassador. I want to inform you about the entire campus so perhaps you will consider becoming more involved and giving us your feedback about issues that the campus faces.

So, I’d like to present the bigger picture to you today of the campus. First, I’d like to talk about the campus today. Then I want to celebrate some of the ways the University is closely tied to and involved with the community in which we live. Even if you’re already very familiar with the campus I’ll bet that some of you will hear some surprises today as I tell you about the campus.

Overall, the state of the campus is excellent. We have our challenges, as I’m sure you know, but UCSC is continuing its long upward trajectory as a research and fundamental public university within California. We are in fact a vibrant, nationally ranked public research university with an uncommon dedication to undergraduate education and public service. And I might add a great record of success in education as well.

We uphold the mission of the University of California through the Master Plan for Higher Education in California. Our job is to provide access and affordability to the top students in California – the top 12½ percent of our high school graduates no matter what their affordability is for higher education. Our job is to make sure that any student in California who can benefit from a UC education has access to a UC education and can take part in that education no matter what their financial background.

We’re committed to not only financial diversity but all forms of diversity at all levels. Indeed, the campus must reflect the diverse population of the state of California, which itself is becoming ever more diverse as well.

Our students here receive a well-rounded education where they gain a commitment to service and to social justice.

Our success is reflected to some extent in our rankings as well and I’ll just mention a few to you:

• Recently the U.S. News and World Report ranked UC Santa Cruz in the top 21 percent of public research universities. And the same is true of our departments as well. We have a number of departments that have done very well in recent rankings. For example, our physics department was ranked first in the nation for the impact of its research.
• In addition, the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2007 ranked the Faculty Scholarly Productivity in our doctoral programs in music as third in the country – third in the country in music.
• The same analysis ranked our environmental toxicology program 3rd nationally – lots of thirds – and in fact there is one more third.
• UC Santa Cruz is ranked third in the country in terms of the percentage of master’s degrees in engineering awarded to women. In our school of engineering women comprise 44 percent of masters degree graduates this past year. That’s a remarkable achievement.
• In space sciences, in which we’ve always been strong, we were ranked fifth in the country.
• Our linguistics program was ranked within the top 10. I can go on and on, for example, international economics department was ranked the ninth best department in the world.
• And we’re also regarded as one of the top two research programs in computer storage technology.

So I gave you this long list, what you might notice from that list of top ranked departments is that they cut across every single academic division.We have excellent departments in all five of our academic divisions and we should be proud of the fact that that excellence is spread so broadly across the campus. And I haven’t even mentioned all of the examples that I might have.

We have outstanding faculty on this campus with real international achievement and acclaim.

• Two of our faculty members are distinguished University Professors.
• 12 members of our faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences
• 21 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

And they are winning awards all of the time. I’ll give two examples, this year. Harry Noller, our Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology, won the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, the most distinguished award in biomedical research in Germany, and also the Gairdner Award for his identification of the detailed structure and function of the ribosome.

Another example of an award is literature professor Nate Mackey who won the National Book Award for his latest book of poetry called Splay Anthem. And the National Book Award is a big deal.

It’s not just our most senior, and eminent or best-known faculty the veterans winning awards. Our junior or younger faculty are doing that as well. For example, three assistant professors in computer science, mathematics, and molecular, cell and developmental biology won prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. That’s a very prestigious award for young faculty. For a campus the size of ours to have three such awards in one year is truly a remarkable achievement.

And that’s not all, we’ve got a bunch of great young faculty who are joining us this year. In fact, 29 new, very bright scholars have accepted offers to begin teaching at UC Santa Cruz this year – 29 new faculty. They span all the academic divisions. And in many divisions, and I know this is certainly true in the social sciences, we went toe-to-toe to recruit outstanding and diverse faculty, when we were competing with eminent institutions around the country. So we were successful this year, we were really quite successful in competing for the very best faculty on the job market this year.

We have two new full professors are joining our molecular, cell and developmental biology department. And I could go on and on and on, but we’re not just hiring willy-nilly, we’re not just hiring any faculty we can lay our hands on. We’re trying to do this is a systematic, thoughtful and strategic way.

In fact, we are in the process of finalizing a new academic plan that will focus our efforts over the next few years. This is the first comprehensive academic plan that the campus has had in 20 years. It is designed to be comprehensive, a blueprint and toprovide us also the ability to be nimble in terms of the directions that we move in.

It was developed from the ground up – it wasn’t just something that I sat down, or the senior management of the campus sat down, and thought up one day. These are ideas that bubbled upwards from departments through academic divisions, and with intense discussions with the faculty and the academic senate before we came up with an academic plan. So it’s not just a compilation of divisional goals. Its plans that cross-divisional boundaries. It’s multi-disciplinary programs designed to take advantage of the strengths that we have here at Santa Cruz already in a way that fulfills our mission and retains our values as an institution and helps us make choices for the future.

Basically, the plan involves focusing on six major areas of inquiry – themes if you will, that cut across disciplinary lines. Those six themes are:

• Technological developments and their societal impact
• Public documentation and communication
• Evolving environments, science and policy
• Human health studies
• Cross cultural initiatives
• Transnationalism and globalization

Those six themes will serve as a blueprint for us to consider as we look at adding new positions and developing new programs for the campus as we grow – although more slowly than we have in the past. These themes and this plan will provide guidance for how we will strategically use our existing strengths to position the campus for the future. And hopefully continue and indeed accelerate the upward trajectory that has marked UC Santa Cruz in recent years.

We have programs that meet the needs of the region and the state of California. For example, last year, our Educational Partnership Center has worked with 41,000 middle, high-school and community college students in Santa Cruz, Monterey and Santa Clara counties with the intent boosting college attendance from traditionally non-college-attending families. That’s 41,000 students in these three counties. That’s a key part of our effort to increase the diversity – both ethnic and socioeconomic – of our student population. And even if some of those students should make the wrong choice of going someplace other than UC Santa Cruz this is still a good benefit for society.

As you know, California faces a critical shortfall in the number of highly qualified math and science teachers at the K-12 level in the state. UC Santa Cruz is part of the “Cal-Teach program” with the goal of producing 1,000 new math and science teachers each and every year for the state of California.

UCSC plans on training at least 75 math and science teachers each year with students who take seminar courses along internships in local schools as they study science. We need in the state of California a much better trained workforce and the way to do that is to have well-trained, competent teachers in our schools.

Indeed, in 10 days we will be hosting the Monterey Bay Educational Consortium summit on how to attract and retain new teachers in our region of California. That will be another important contribution of this campus

One of our newest and hottest programs – in fact one of our newest and hottest majors – is our major in Health Sciences. It is extremely popular and I want to just talk about it for a second.

• It is the first program of its kind in the UC system
• Along with Business Economics it is the fastest growing major within our campus
• Our Health Sciences major is designed to prepare students so when they graduate they can go into any of the health professions – be it medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, whatever. It is a general-purpose preparation for students to go into the health sciences.
• It has an additional interesting aspect: community service is a key component of this major
• In fact, one of the requirements of the major is medical Spanish – a knowledge of medical Spanish.
• And indeed, our Health Sciences students work as part of their internships in 30 medical offices and health care clinics across the county of Santa Cruz.

They gain real world experience in doing this, with real people. They provide benefits to patients where the need is greatest for such benefits.

• And it fact they gain themselves from this wonderful experience as they contemplate careers in health sciences.

This major has quickly become so popular that it’s become impacted, we can’t even accept more students in the major because we don’t have enough people to teach the courses. It’s one of the reasons we’re trying to get a new Biomedical Sciences Building so we can have the laboratories to train those students so that we can increase the size of that very popular major.

Our research on campus is having an effect on our lives and the environment in a variety of ways. For example: Professor Brett Haddad’s new Center for Integrated Water Research conducts research in fresh-water issues which are of central concern not just in California and the West but throughout the world.

Or another example is in physics Professor Sue Carter’s work is developing new materials that will make solar energy cheaper to produce.

It’s not all sciences or engineering. For example, the Center for Justice and Toleranceand Community tackles issues of social justice, diversity and tolerance and builds collaborative relationships between the university and local communities that allow those communities to accomplish much more than they on their own.

Another example is the New Teacher Center, which mentors new teachers and makes a huge difference in keeping new teachers teaching in the classroom. I mentioned a few minutes ago UC’s desire to produce 1,000 new science and math teachers per year. Well, it’s great to produce them but what we now know is after five years half of all new teachers will leave the profession.

Half. So it great to produce 1,000 new teachers but if we don’t do something there will only be 500 of them left after five years. The New Teacher Center is active in 40 states trying to increase the retention rate for new teachers in the profession. That is an important contribution not just to our region but the nation as well.

Or I mightmention new programs, for example Digital Arts and New Media, which is a wonderful new program on the campus. It represents a melding of arts, engineering, social sciences and the physical sciences as well.

We as a campus have a tremendous impact on the region but we also have a tremendous impact around the globe. I’ll mention a few examples, for example, close to home for me, UC Santa Cruz manages for UC the world’s two largest telescopes at the Keck Observatory where our faculty are busy unlocking the secrets of the universe.

In fact, we just landed a $15 million grant with Cal-Tech to complete the design of the newest and largest telescope in the world – a 30-meter telescope. Now imagine a 30-meter telescope ground down to an accuracy of one wavelength of light. Thirty meters is a pretty big area. It’s something like 10 or 15 percent of the size of an American football field all ground to the accuracy of one wavelength of light. And UC Santa Cruz is doing it.

So that would change the state of the universe address next year once that is completed. Because that is the kind of thing that will really unlock the secrets of the earliest formation of galaxies and see the first stars forming in the universe.

It is UC Santa Cruz that houses the Human Genome browser. Itwas completed here, it is the web site that you go to in the world if you are doing research on genomes. It is not just the human genome browser, it is the genome browser for all living things. It’s online, it’s free. You can go there and use the genome browser as well if you like. Virtually every scientist in the world who does genomics visits our web site.

I think many of you know our marine sciences research activities at Long Marine Lab and around the Monterey Bay rival the activities of Woods Hole & the Scripps Institute. We are a world-class oceanographic institution.

We are also a pioneering institution and we take pride in the fact that we do new things. We’re not afraid to take some chances and we often succeed remarkably. We pioneered here the small college model within the structure of a major research university.

We started an innovative sustainable agriculture program which was founded here 40 years ago and has been remarkably successful.

It was UC Santa Cruz that began the History of Consciousness program –an interdisciplinary graduate program, which for more than 30 years, centered in the humanities has linked social sciences, physical sciences, and the arts.

And we offered the first interdisciplinary environmental studies PhD. That program was founded in 1994.

Well, today we have a whole bunch of newpioneering programs, some in fields whose names I wouldn’t have even recognized 10 years ago because those words didn’t even exist.

• Bio-Info-nano – nanotechnology research here and in Silicon Valley are a key part of modern American research. That was a concept that was almost not around a few years ago.
• Our work in bio-informatics, which I sure many of you are familiar with, is world famous.
• And today we have a program in computer game design focusing on artificial intelligence, and story telling. It isn’t the kind of computer games that my kids played – shoot ‘em up games – these are games that are serious, that involve serious work in art, serious work on psychology. It’s really quite impressive and what is even more impressive is that the enrollment in our computer game program is extremely high. Our graduates can go into an industry that has grown bigger than the entire motion picture industry in California.
• We do Adaptive Optics, which is at the cutting edge of technology not just for the 30-meter telescope where it allows us to see through the atmosphere while avoiding the twinkling of stars. Remember Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star? It twinkles because of the Earth’s atmosphere and adaptive optics gets rid of the twinkling, which is good for astronomers, although bad for songwriters. But adaptive optic technology also now allows people to now look at the retina of eyes and to examine people’s retinas much more carefully and accurately. So it has broad application.

As a University, though, we have a dedication to Undergraduate Education. As I mentioned before, we have small colleges that house students in their first year; that provide a shared living and learning environment for our students as they come to a major research university.

But more than that, we have accessibility of faculty, which makes us quite unique. Our students in remarkable numbers do research projects and senior theses with faculty members, working in their labs, working in fieldwork or just interacting with faculty in fields that don’t have labs in order to produce research results. And that shows, for example, we are No. 2 in the U.C. system in terms of the percentage of graduates who go on to get doctoral degrees.

And in Social Sciences and Humanities, we’re first in the UC system, so we are doing something right in terms of providing research experience for our students.

We can proudly look at our success in undergraduate education. But on of the goals

of the campus is to also increase the percentage of our graduate students as well. We currently have9 percent of our student body as graduate students – and the campus goal is to increase that to 15 percent, which would still be the lowest percentage within the UC system.

The number of research doctoral programs has grown. It’s grown significantly. In fact, it’s doubled from 1988 when there were 13 such doctoral programs to today when we have 29 programs.

And plans are underway for professional schools as well. One of the professional schools that we are considering seriously is a School of Management, which would be focused on globalization and technology and would most likely would be located in our Silicon Valley center.

Speaking of which, I would remind you that UC Santa Cruz is not just the place where we are sitting today. It isn’t just these 2,000 beautiful acres where we are currently located. It includes other sites and facilities as well. For example:

• The Long Marine Lab, which most of you know already.
• As well as UC Silicon Valley, where our Silicon Valley Center is located, at NASA/Ames Research Center
• We have Lick Observatory, the observatory outside San Jose on Mount Hamilton.
• We also manage the Monterey Bay Education, Science and TechnologyCenter fondly known as MBEST at the old Fort Ord army base in Marina.

In addition, we manage five Natural Reserve Sites, which range from 25 acres at Ano Nuevo to 400 acres of natural reserve on the UCSC campus.

Though our activities reach far – around the globe and even into the heavens – it is here in Santa Cruz, on the sunny side of Monterey Bay, where UCSC’s roots are. It’s our unique setting here, which has helped shape and inspire our programs on campus as well as our areas of strength.

So we feel that we have benefited as a campus enormously from our location. And we like to believe, and in fact I’m sure, that we provide benefit to the local region as well.

The budget of UC Santa Cruz is just under a half billion dollars annually. That’s a lot of money for Santa Cruz. Each year, if you consider the spending of the campus and its employees and basically the multiplier effect of every dollar spent in Santa Cruz, we contribute about $1 billion of economic activity to the Santa Cruz area.

We are the largest employer in the county. And even during tough times when jobs in the county have gone down, we’ve been able to supply jobs to people who are looking for them in the county.

For example, between 2001 and 2005, Santa Cruz County lost 6,300 jobs but in the same period, UC Santa Cruz added 355 full-time jobs. So we do present a buffer in terms of jobs.

We’re working very hard to allow entrepreneurs to start new companies hopefully working with some of the research and technology that’s being developed on campus here. We’re trying to establish a technology incubator on the Westside of Santa Cruz. What we’d like to do is leverage the knowledge that is being produced and gained here on campus to help stimulate the local economy.

Our students and staff and faculty contribute about 1 million hours of volunteer work annually. That’s a big number – hard to comprehend. You might be surprised by the breadth and depth of those contributions. In the materials you received when you came in here you’ll see how UC Santa Cruz ’s people and programs touch nearly every corner of Santa Cruz County and beyond. If you take a look at the map inside, you’ll see the breadth and types of programs.

For example, just to mention a few:

• 29 percent of students volunteer or complete unpaid
• Some of them serve meals to seniors for Meals on Wheels
• Some of them serve as coaches to Special Olympics
• Some organize and staff Bike to Work Day events
• Some work in Women’s Crisis Center, providing crisis support and staffing the crisis line.
• While others provide staff for Second Harvest Food Bank’s food drives

In all, 54 percent of staff and faculty each contribute about 11 hours a month on average per person of community service.

Now let’s talk about a more difficult issue. You’ve no doubt heard a lot about UC Santa Cruz’s Long Range Plans to be ready to meet the needs of California’s growing student population. That has presented a conflict. On the one hand, there is the need for UC Santa Cruz to grow to provide the access for qualified students in the state of California that I mentioned before. But on the other hand, there is also the impact that growth would have on the local community. And there is considerable concern that that impact would have adverse effects on the quality of life locally. And that’s a fair concern.

This has led, unfortunately, to lawsuits. And recently a Santa Cruz judge ruled that the campus needs to do further environmental review on three big issues – water, traffic and housing. This judgeacknowledged the university'sright to grow as long was we grow responsiblyto meet the needs of California's students and the judge encouraged all sides to make every effort to resolve this dispute out of court.

I am hoping we can do that. Ultimately court cases can go on forever, but I hope we can mediate disputes and find a way to achieve a resolution that will allow everyone to have a win-win situation. My personal support for that is actually why we have had negotiations in the past with the city and county. You know, I’ve said all along we’d rather commit funds to mitigation of the effects of our growth rather than to litigation. And I mean that very sincerely.

So, I’m hoping we will find a way out of this but we do have a long way to go.

There are some misperceptions about the effect of the campus on the local community that I would like to address very briefly.

For example, you might be surprised to know that UC Santa Cruz uses only 5 percent of the water the city of Santa Cruz supplies. Five percent is what our use is.

And we pay for every drop of that water at full market price.

We have aggressively conserved water over the past couple of decades and we’ve done that extremely successfully. We’ve cut per capita water use by 36 percent since 1988. Indeed, we’re using today only 19 percent more water now than we did in 1986-1987 academic year. 19 percent more water. And yet that was 20 years ago and the campus has grown by about 70 percent in the ensuing 20 years.

So although the campus has grown a lot our water use has not grown that much. And we are looking at alternative solutions. For example, whether or not we can use reclaimed water for landscaping and other uses.

Traffic is another sensitive issue in the community. Anyone who is caught in a traffic jam knows that. But the city’s own master transportation study found that UC Santa Cruz accounts for only 7 percent of the city’s peak hour traffic.

In fact, today there are about 3,000 fewer car trips to and from campus than there were in 2002. So we’ve actually decreased the number of automobile trips to campus and done that successfully.

How did we do it? We did it through innovative and aggressive transportation management. And that involves carpools, it involves vanpools, a bike shuttle. Most importantly, subsidizing the Metro Transit district to the tune of about $2 million a year to encourage more riders.

But nevertheless I recognize and I acknowledge that our presence affects nearby neighborhoods in Santa Cruz. I learned that very clearly by going and visiting neighbors in the neighborhoods and hearing from them what their concerns are about the university. So, I’ve tried to work and the campus is going to continue to work with neighborhood groups to find real solutions.

For example, this past year, we paid $25,000 for extra Santa Cruz Police patrolson Friday and Saturday nights in surrounding neighborhoods. Our “small party” campaign seeks to persuade students and others to keep their parties manageable.

I plan to continue those activities. I think it is perfectly fair for students to come here and have fun and maybe even to have parties but they have to be manageable and, you know, I would really much rather have UC Santa Cruz known as a great academic or undergraduate institution than to be known as a great party school.

I am proud of that collaboration with the city and I’m proud of others as well. For example, Santa Cruz Tickets where we collaborated with the City of Santa Cruz so that any tickets that you buy for university events or city events can all be bought from one web site.

We have a clear commitment to the stewardship of our unique campus, to our environment, and to our community. And that reflects itself in the way we run the campus as well. We have a goal to integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus operations and life. I’ve established the Campus Sustainability Subcommittee and hired a sustainability coordinator to serve as the central body charged with coordinating all sustainability initiatives.

Our first action was to endorse the development of UCSC’s Campus Sustainability Assessment, which was launched last winter and which will assess all aspects of sustainability on the campus so that we will have benchmarks against which we can mark progress and so we will have some idea where we might best commit our sustainability resources.

The campus has already met an important goal. We have purchased offsetting green energy credits so that we can argue that at least in terms of purchased offsets we are greenhouse gas neutral.

That is a remarkable achievement and it is an achievement that is due to our students. It was a student initiative that allowed this to happen. It was the students who taxed themselves to allow those green energy purchases. I applaud our students for having taken the initiative and provided the leadership in this area.

We are also a key part of the Santa Cruz Climate initiative, which you will be hearing more about in the coming months. It is an effort of cooperation between the city, the county and local businesses and UC Santa Cruz to make the community of Santa Cruz greenhouse gas neutral as quickly as possible.

UC Santa Cruz will be a local host for the nationwide “Focus the Nation” event that is scheduled forJanuary 31st . You’ll be hearing a lot more about this and I hope you will join us.

A new academic year is about to begin. And next week students will starting to move in to the campus. Our student body is made up of academically strong and diverse students. Our incoming class this year is the most diverse ever.

It is a great incoming class. It includes 78 new frosh from Santa Cruz County high schools. So we do take locally.

It also includes 126 new transfer students from Cabrillo College.

Our student body is also getting smarter. We have 152 regent scholars who have selected UC Santa Cruz for this coming year. 152 Regents scholars, a new record.

Another fact that impresses me very much is that 36 percent of this year’s freshman class are the first in their families to attend college. So our role as a public university is still an important one for the state of California.

We are looking forward to another productive year.

I want to thank you all for joining us this afternoon and I want to invite you all to spend more time on campus. I hope you will take advantage of the university and enjoy your time and enjoy the university as much as you can.

Take in an Arts & Lectures event. Or attend our Founder’s Day dinner next month.

Watch one of our sports teams, like our national championship tennis team. In fact, if you didn’t know it, we won the national championship last year. Sixth national title for the UC Santa Cruz tennis team.

Stay informed. Let your neighbors and friends know about UCSC and encourage them to visit and join one of the friends groups here.

I really want to thank you for being a Friend of the campus. I hope I’ve convinced you that the campus is something that we can be proud of locally. Even our sports teams, the Banana Slugs, we can be proud of.

So let me just say a word about Banana Slugs if I might. Some of you may not remember this but I think it was in the early 1990s there was a bill proposed – and I’m serious – this is a true story. There was a bill proposed in the state Legislature to make the Banana Slug the California state mollusk.

I’m not kidding. That bill was passed by the Legislature, by both houses of the Legislature. But it was vetoed byGov. George Deukmejian. And in his veto message Gov. Deukmejian stated that making the Banana Slug into the state mollusk is not consonant with the dignity which California is known internationally.

Well, I’d like to say to you now, that we Banana Slugs feel that we are known internationally and we do have dignity. And I want to remind you about something else about Banana Slugs. Banana Slugs protect redwood seedlings. They really do. A Banana Slug would rather eat cardboard than eat a redwood seedling. They protect the Redwood trees and just like the little, teeny yellow Banana Slugs , we as a campus, we Banana Slugs we protect the redwoods as well.

Our coastal Redwoods spread their roots far and wide. And like our coastal Redwoods, UCSC’s local roots spread far and wide and have a global impact.

I thought I would finish by just reminding us all of what the vision of UC Santa Cruz is. UCSC strives to serve California as a top-ranked research university and the leading institution for the education of students, fostering a culture of excellence, inquiry, creativity, diversity, and public service in developing solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

I want to thank you all for being here today. I want to invite your comments and suggestions, and ask any of us questions during the reception that follows in just a minute. I will be available to answer questions, as will members of the campus leadership team. And I want to just say a word about them. I came into the acting chancellorship 14 months ago and I was very fortunate to inherit a team of senior leaders for the campus that is truly outstanding and I’d take a minute to introduce them and ask them to stand so you’ll know who to ask questions of when we go outside.

Alison Galloway---Vice Provost, Academic Affairs

Sheldon Kamieniecki---Dean, Social Sciences

David Kliger---Executive Vice Chancellor and Campus Provost

Bill Ladusaw—Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education

Felicia McGinty---Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs

Larry Merkley---Vice Provost, Information Technology Services

Meredith Michaels---Vice Chancellor, Planning & Budget

Charlotte Moreno—Assistant Campus Provost

Donna Murphy---Vice Chancellor, University Relations

Lynda Rogers---Assistant Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives

Carol Rossi---Campus Counsel

Ashish Sahni—Assistant Chancellor

Lisa Sloan---Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies

Virginia Steel---University Librarian

Tom Vani---Vice Chancellor, Business and Administrative Services

I want to thank you again for being here today. Now, I encourage you to stay and enjoy the reception that follows on the courtyard. Thank you very much.