Two UC Santa Cruz faculty committees released a report this week summarizing a faculty survey conducted earlier this year that describes dire impacts of the school’s budget issues on teaching and learning.

The report summarizes the survey results, which showed serious concerns about the impacts of budget cuts. 

“These [findings] include poorer curricula with poorer delivery of classes, diminished and disappearing graduate programs, diminished levels of student success in ways that exacerbate inequity, threats to our R1 [universities with robust research capabilities] status, and impingements on senate authority over curriculum,” the report reads. “Our highest campus administrators, our report finds, are communicating poorly in ways that exacerbate these negative effects.”



After three years of reporting on public safety in Iowa, Hillary joins Lookout Santa Cruz with a curious eye toward the county’s education beat. At the Iowa City Press-Citizen, she focused on how local...