University of California, Santa Cruz
Public university in Santa Cruz
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| 2024 | University of California, Santa Cruz offered admission to 46,582 freshmen out of 71,700 applicants for the fall term, with an acceptance rate of 65.0%. The entering freshman class had an average high school GPA of 4.01, ranging from 3.87 to 4.22. |
| 2024 | UCSC announced the closure of the camper park due to rising concerns about fire safety, mold issues, and increasing maintenance requests. |
| 2023 | The university was ranked No. 5 in game/simulation development and No. 2 among the best public game design colleges in the U.S. |
| 2023 | UC Santa Cruz spent $234.3 million on research and development, ranking 55th in the nation according to the National Science Foundation. |
| 2022 | UC Santa Cruz was ranked top 10 in excellence in undergraduate teaching. |
| February 22 2022 | The city of Santa Cruz filed a lawsuit against UCSC, challenging the university's Long Range Development Plan due to increasing student enrollment without proportional housing capacity expansion. |
| 2021 | 9% of UCSC students reported lacking stable housing, highlighting a significant student housing crisis on campus. |
| 2021 | UC Santa Cruz was ranked the No. 3 public university in the nation for 'making an impact' and No. 4 for promoting social mobility. |
| December 2020 | University of California, Santa Cruz graduate student workers initiated a widespread strike action, demanding increased compensation and better working conditions. The strike involved multiple academic workers who withheld their labor to protest current employment terms. |
| August 7 2020 | UCSC agreed to reinstate 41 graduate student-workers, seal their disciplinary records, and reinstate funding guarantees. The university also granted a $2,500 annual housing stipend, but did not meet the original COLA and tuition cap demands. |
| February 28 2020 | 54 graduate student-workers were terminated, and continued strikes shut down the campus for at least one day. |
| February 27 2020 | UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara joined the UCSC graduate student-workers' strike. |
| February 10 2020 | Graduate student-workers responded to disciplinary threats with a full teaching strike. Police were called in, resulting in 17 student arrests and several injuries. |
| 2019 | Theta Chi fraternity was banned from campus due to a fatal hazing incident involving a student's death. |
| 2019 | Elected to the Association of American Universities (AAU), becoming one of the youngest universities to gain admittance to this prestigious research university alliance. |
| December 9 2019 | Over 200 graduate student-workers initiated a wildcat strike by withholding Fall quarter grades, demanding a cost of living adjustment (COLA) of $1,412/month, non-retaliation, and a cap on undergraduate tuition. |
| July 1 2019 | Cynthia Larive becomes chancellor of UC Santa Cruz |
| 2018 | UC Santa Cruz was ranked third in research influence. |
| 2017 | A quarterly athletic fee measure passed with 79% student voter approval to support athletic program operations. |
| 2017 | Kiplinger ranked UC Santa Cruz 50th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 3rd in California. |
| 2017 | UCSC established four new academic divisions: Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Graduate Studies, alongside the existing Physical & Biological Sciences division. |
| 2017 | Renovations to the campus' Quarry Amphitheater were completed. |
| October 21 2017 | The $72 million Coastal Biology Building was officially opened on the Coastal Science Campus, housing the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department. |
| 2016 | UCSC conducted a student poll to explore support for a quarterly fee to support athletic operations. |
| 2016 | Zeta Phi Beta sorority chartered its chapter Gamma Phi in the Spring semester. |
| 2016 | Money Magazine ranked UC Santa Cruz 41st in the country out of nearly 1500 schools in its Best Colleges ranking. |
| July 2016 | UCSC concluded its management of the University Affiliated Research System (UARC) for the NASA Ames Research Center. |
| June 2016 | The Theta Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta was chartered, bringing a third National sorority to UC Santa Cruz. |
| 2015 | Still Woozy (musician) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| September 2014 | UC Santa Cruz launched the first cohort of the '3+3 BA/JD' joint program with UC Hastings College of the Law, allowing students to earn a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor in six years. |
| April 20 2013 | Student Gennady Tsarinsky was arrested for possession of marijuana, estimated to be nearly three pounds. |
| 2012 | UCSC was ranked No. 3 in the Most Beautiful Campus list of Princeton Review. |
| July 29 2012 | The Grateful Dead Archive became open to the public at McHenry Library, with exhibits displayed in the Dead Central Gallery. |
| 2011 | The Princeton Review and GamePro Media ranked UC Santa Cruz's graduate programs in Game Design as seventh in the nation. |
| June 22 2011 | McHenry Library reopened after completing seismic upgrades and renovations. |
| 2010 | Student Cable Television (SCTV) disbanded at the beginning of the academic school year, and was replaced by On The Spot (OTS), which continues student-run television opportunities on campus channel 28. |
| April 2010 | UC Santa Cruz opened its new $35 million Digital Arts Research Center, a project that had been in planning since 2004. |
| April 20 2010 | School administration shut down the west entrance to campus and limited bus traffic during the annual '420' event. |
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