University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, one of the ten campuses of the University of California system, founded in 1965.加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（英文 University of California，Santa Cruz，简称 UCSC）是一所位于美国加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯的公立赠地研究型大学，为加州大学系统十个校区之一，创立于 1965 年。

Modelled on the Oxbridge pattern it uses a residential college system of ten small colleges, and its 2,000-acre main campus lies among redwood forests on the hills above the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay.该校仿照牛津剑桥的学院制，采用由十所小型住宿学院组成的体系，其 2,000 英亩的主校区坐落于太平洋与蒙特雷湾上方、覆盖红杉林的山丘之间。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed joint 458th, it stands joint 201st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 141st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and in the 151-200 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex records 77,243 works and 12,701,958 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校并列第 458；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 201；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 141，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 151 至 200 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 77,243 项、累计被引 12,701,958 次。

History

• Long before the campus existed the Uypi tribe of the Awaswas Nation, speakers of Mutsun Costanoan of the Ohlone peoples, lived on the land that is now the UC Santa Cruz campus.校园建成之前，阿瓦瓦斯族的乌伊皮部落——奥隆尼人中穆特松科斯塔诺安语的使用者——就居住在如今加州大学圣克鲁斯分校所在地。

• After the California Gold Rush the Cowell Lime Works operated across what is now the Santa Cruz campus until 1920.加州淘金热之后，考威尔石灰厂在如今圣克鲁斯校区的土地上经营，直到 1920 年。

• In the mid-1950s the City of Santa Cruz bid to the UC Board of Regents to build a campus in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and there was wide public support for a campus south of Berkeley.二十世纪五十年代中期，圣克鲁斯市向加州大学董事会申请在圣克鲁斯山脉的山麓建设校区，公众普遍支持在伯克利以南设立新校区。

• In December 1959 the Regents voted to focus on the Almaden Valley in San Jose, but the announcement pushed land prices up so far that purchase became impossible.1959 年 12 月，董事会表决将选址集中于圣何塞的阿尔马登谷，但消息传出后地价大涨，使购地无法实现。

• After another year of study the Regents finally selected Santa Cruz as the location of the next UC campus.又经过一年研究，董事会最终选定圣克鲁斯作为下一个加州大学校区所在地。

• The formal design process began in the late 1950s and culminated in the Long Range Development Plan of 1963.正式设计流程始于五十年代末，最终形成 1963 年的长远发展规划。

• UC President Clark Kerr, inspired by the medieval French town of Aigues-Mortes, proposed concentrating each college's buildings into distinct clusters within the forest.加州大学总校长克拉克·克尔受法国中世纪小镇艾格莫尔特启发，提议将各学院建筑集中于林中不同组团。

• The campus was built on part of the Cowell family ranch, which the University of California purchased in 1961.校园建在考威尔家族牧场的一部分之上，该地被加州大学于 1961 年购入。

• Construction started by 1964 and the university accommodated its first students in 1965, initially in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area.校舍于 1964 年动工，学校在 1965 年迎来首批学生，最初安置于如今东场运动区一带的活动房屋中。

• The founding chancellor was Dean McHenry, who with Clark Kerr wanted the campus to resemble several small liberal arts colleges in close proximity.首任校长为迪恩·麦克亨利，他与克拉克·克尔希望校园如同若干所彼此相邻的小型文理学院。

• The campus opened just as the counterculture of the 1960s arrived and quickly became known as the counterculture campus.校园开办之际恰逢二十世纪六十年代反文化运动兴起，很快以「反文化校园」著称。

• At UC Santa Cruz's first commencement in 1969 students hijacked the ceremony and denounced Kerr and McHenry.1969 年该校首届毕业典礼上，学生劫持仪式并公开谴责克尔与麦克亨利。

• Under Chancellor Robert L. Sinsheimer, who served from 1977 to 1987, the campus became less experimental and more conventional.在 1977 至 1987 年任校长的罗伯特·L·辛斯海默治下，校园由实验性转向更为常规。

• In 1981, after a two-year battle, the faculty narrowly voted to let students receive letter grades for the first time.1981 年，经过两年争论，教师以微弱多数首次允许学生选择字母成绩。

• By the fall of 1984, 45 per cent of students were majoring in the sciences, and computer engineering was offered as a major for the first time to take advantage of proximity to Silicon Valley.到 1984 年秋，45% 的学生主修科学，学校为借助靠近硅谷的优势首次开设计算机工程专业。

• In May 1985 Sinsheimer welcomed scientists to Santa Cruz for one of the first meetings at which the Human Genome Project was discussed.1985 年 5 月，辛斯海默在圣克鲁斯接待科学家，举行最早讨论人类基因组计划的会议之一。

• In 1986 the student body voted to adopt the banana slug rather than the sea lion as the campus mascot.1986 年，学生投票决定采用香蕉蛞蝓而非海狮作为校园吉祥物。

• In 1992 the university razed a glen known as Elfland to build colleges Nine and Ten, relocating some of the student-built structures.1992 年，学校拆平一处名为「精灵之地」的林间谷地，用以兴建九号与十号学院，并迁移了部分学生自建的构筑物。

• In 1997 an engineering school was finally launched, which became the Baskin School of Engineering, and the campus continued to rise in university rankings.1997 年，学校终于成立工学院，后发展为巴斯金工程学院，该校在大学排名中也持续上升。

• On 21 October 2017 the $72 million Coastal Biology Building officially opened on the Coastal Science Campus.2017 年 10 月 21 日，造价 7,200 万美元的沿海生物学大楼在沿海科学校区正式启用。

• In 2019 UC Santa Cruz was elected to the Association of American Universities and, with UC Irvine, was the youngest university admitted to that alliance.2019 年，加州大学圣克鲁斯分校入选美国大学协会，与加州大学欧文分校同为该联盟最年轻的入选者。

• In December 2019 more than 200 graduate student-workers began a wildcat strike by withholding fall quarter grades and demanding a cost of living adjustment of $1,412 per month.2019 年 12 月，200 余名研究生员工以扣留秋季学期成绩的方式发起野猫罢工，要求每月加发 1,412 美元的生活成本补贴。

• In August 2020 UCSC agreed to reinstate 41 graduate student-workers and granted a $2,500 annual housing stipend, although it did not grant the cost of living adjustment.2020 年 8 月，该校同意恢复 41 名研究生员工的职位，并给予每年 2,500 美元的住房补贴，但未同意发放生活成本补贴。

• In 2008 UCSC agreed to house the Grateful Dead archives at the McHenry Library, beating petitions from Stanford and UC Berkeley, and the archive opened to the public on 29 July 2012.2008 年，该校击败斯坦福与加州大学伯克利分校的申请，同意将「感恩而死」乐队的档案收藏于麦克亨利图书馆，该档案于 2012 年 7 月 29 日向公众开放。

Academics

• The university has five academic divisions and one school, namely Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, Graduate Studies and Physical and Biological Sciences, plus the Baskin School of Engineering.该校设有五个学部和一个学院，即艺术学部、社会科学学部、人文学部、研究生学部与物理与生物学部，以及巴斯金工程学院。

• Together they offer 66 graduate programs, 74 undergraduate majors and 43 minors.这些单位共提供 66 个研究生项目、74 个本科专业与 43 个辅修方向。

• Popular undergraduate majors include Art, Business Management Economics, Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics and Psychology.热门本科专业包括艺术、商业管理经济学、化学、分子与细胞生物学、物理学与心理学。

• The Baskin School of Engineering, founded in 1997, is UCSC's first and only professional school.巴斯金工程学院成立于 1997 年，是该校首个也是唯一的专业学院。

• The plant physiologist Kenneth V. Thimann, the first provost of Crown College, developed UCSC's early Division of Natural Sciences and recruited well-known science faculty.植物生理学家肯尼斯·V·蒂曼是皇冠学院首任教务长，他创建了该校早期的自然科学部并延揽知名科学教师。

• Upon its founding the campus was granted administrative responsibility for the Lick Observatory, establishing it as a major centre for astronomy research.建校之初，该校即获得利克天文台的管理权，从而确立为天文学研究的重要中心。

• According to the National Science Foundation, UC Santa Cruz spent $203.883 million on research and development in 2023, ranking 138th in the nation.据美国国家科学基金会数据，该校 2023 年研发支出为 2.03883 亿美元，位居全美第 138。

• Founding members of the Social Science and Humanities faculty created the unique History of Consciousness graduate programme in the campus's first year of operation.社会科学与人文学部教师在建校首年即创办了独具特色的「意识史」研究生项目。

• The widely used UCSC Genome Browser grew out of work by researchers David Haussler and Jim Kent on the Human Genome Project.广泛使用的 UCSC 基因组浏览器，源于研究员大卫·豪斯勒与吉姆·肯特在人类基因组计划中的工作。

• The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and the Cyberphysical Systems Research Center are based in the Baskin School of Engineering.生物分子科学与工程中心与信息物理系统研究中心设于巴斯金工程学院。

• Off-campus research facilities include the Lick and Keck Observatories, the Long Marine Laboratory and the Westside Research Park.校外科研设施包括利克与凯克天文台、长海洋实验室以及西区研究园。

• From 2003 to 2016 UCSC managed a University Affiliated Research System for the NASA Ames Research Center under a task order contract worth more than $330 million.2003 至 2016 年间，该校依据一份价值逾 3.3 亿美元的任务订单合同，为美国航天局艾姆斯研究中心运营一所大学附属研究系统。

• As of 2025 the faculty included 16 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 29 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.截至 2025 年，该校教师包括 16 名美国国家科学院院士与 29 名美国艺术与科学院院士。

• The McHenry Library houses the arts and letters collection, with most scientific reading in the newer Science and Engineering Library.麦克亨利图书馆收藏艺术与人文学科文献，科学文献则多设于较新的科学与工程图书馆。

• The McHenry Special Collections include the archives of Robert A. Heinlein, the papers of Anais Nin, the papers of Kenneth Patchen and the largest collection of Edward Weston photographs in the United States.麦克亨利特藏包括罗伯特·A·海因莱因的档案、阿奈斯·宁与肯尼斯·帕琴的手稿，以及全美规模最大的爱德华·韦斯顿摄影收藏。

• In total the University Libraries contain more than 2.4 million volumes together with extensive digital collections.该校图书馆系统总藏书量超过 240 万册，并有大量数字馆藏。

• For the fall 2024 term UCSC offered admission to 46,582 freshmen out of 71,700 applicants, an acceptance rate of 65.0 per cent, with an average high school GPA of 4.01.2024 年秋季学期，该校在 71,700 名申请者中向 46,582 名新生发出录取，录取率为 65.0%，新生平均高中绩点为 4.01。

• A joint programme with UC Hastings College of the Law lets UCSC students earn a bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor in six years instead of the usual seven.该校与加州大学哈斯廷斯法学院合办项目，使学生能在六年内取得学士与法学博士学位，而非通常的七年。

• The Grateful Dead Archive is displayed in the Dead Central Gallery on the second floor of the McHenry Library and documents the band's influence in contemporary music from 1965 to 1995.「感恩而死」档案陈列于麦克亨利图书馆二层的 Dead Central 展厅，记录了该乐队在 1965 至 1995 年间对当代音乐的影响。

Campus

• The main campus lies south of San Francisco in the Ben Lomond Mountain ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains, with elevations varying from the campus entrance to the northern boundary.主校区位于旧金山以南、圣克鲁斯山脉的本洛蒙德山脊，海拔从校园入口到北界逐渐变化。

• The southern portion is dominated by a large open meadow known locally as the Great Meadow, with most buildings to the north among redwood groves.校区南部以一片开阔草地为主，当地人称之为「大草甸」，多数建筑位于其北侧的红杉林中。

• The campus is bounded by Harvey West Park and the Pogonip preserve on the east and Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park near Felton on the north.校区东侧以哈维西公园与波戈尼普保护区为界，北侧则毗邻费尔顿附近的亨利·考威尔红杉州立公园。

• The northern half of the campus has remained undeveloped and forested apart from fire roads and hiking and bicycle trails.校区北半部除消防通道与徒步及自行车道外，始终保持未开发的森林状态。

• Since 1984 the heavily forested area allowed UC Santa Cruz to operate a recreational vehicle park as a form of student housing, though the park closed in 2024 over fire safety concerns.自 1984 年起，这片茂密林地使该校得以运营一处房车营地作为学生住宿，但该营地已于 2024 年因消防安全问题关闭。

• Footbridges span the ravines of the campus creeks, making it possible to walk to any part of campus within about 20 minutes.步行桥横跨校园溪流的沟谷，使人们能在约 20 分钟内步行抵达校园各处。

• The campus is one of the few homes to Mima Mounds in the United States, which are rare in the country and in the world.该校区是美国境内少数拥有「米马土丘」的地点之一，这类地貌在全国乃至全球都属罕见。

• A new library addition opened on 31 March 2008 with a cyber study room and a Global Village cafe, and the original library reopened in 2011 after seismic upgrades.图书馆新翼于 2008 年 3 月 31 日启用，设有网络自习室与「地球村」咖啡座；原馆经抗震加固后于 2011 年重开。

• UCSC also maintains the Coastal Science Campus, the Westside Research Park and the Silicon Valley Center in Santa Clara, along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.该校还设有沿海科学校区、西区研究园以及圣克拉拉的硅谷中心，并对圣何塞附近的利克天文台与夏威夷的凯克天文台行使管理权。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings UC Santa Cruz is placed joint 458th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校并列第 458。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is placed joint 201st.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校并列第 201。

• It is 141st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and falls in the 151-200 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中它位列第 141，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 151 至 200 区间。^[1]

• U.S. News ranked UC Santa Cruz 34th among national universities for advancing social mobility in 2026 and 5th in the nation for game and simulation development in 2024.US News 在 2026 年将该校列为全美社会流动性提升方面第 34 名的全国性大学，并于 2024 年将其游戏与模拟开发专业列为全美第 5。

• In 2022 the campus was ranked in the top 10 for excellence in undergraduate teaching and third in research influence in 2018.2022 年，该校在本科教学卓越性方面位列全美前 10，并于 2018 年在研究影响力方面位列第 3。

• According to OpenAlex, UC Santa Cruz has produced 77,243 research works attracting 12,701,958 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 77,243 项研究成果，累计被引 12,701,958 次。

• UCSC alumni include 11 winners of 13 Pulitzer Prizes and 7 MacArthur genius award fellows, together with Rhodes and Fulbright scholars.该校校友包括 13 项普利策奖的 11 位得主、7 位麦克阿瑟「天才奖」得主，以及若干罗德与富布赖特学者。

• In 2009 the RePEc database ranked the UCSC Economics Department sixth in the world in the field of international finance.据 2009 年 RePEc 数据库排名，该校经济系在国际金融领域位列世界第 6。

• In 2007 High Times magazine placed UCSC first among United States universities as a counterculture college, and in 2012 Princeton Review ranked its campus third most beautiful.2007 年《High Times》杂志将该校列为全美反文化大学第一，2012 年《普林斯顿评论》将其校园列为最美校园第三。

Student life

• UCSC students are known for political activism, and in 2005 a Pentagon surveillance programme deemed student opposition to military recruiters a credible threat.该校学生以政治活跃著称，2005 年五角大楼一项监控计划将学生对军方招募人员的反对认定为「可信威胁」。

• In 2006 students passed a $3 quarterly fee increase to support the purchase of renewable energy, making UCSC the sixth-largest buyer of renewable energy among college campuses nationwide.2006 年，学生通过每季度加收 3 美元的费用以支持购买可再生能源，使该校成为全美高校中第六大可再生能源购买方。

• The annual 420 gathering at Porter Meadow drew about 2,000 students in 2007, with 5,000 participants in total.2007 年在波特草甸举行的年度「420」集会吸引约 2,000 名学生，参与者总计达 5,000 人。

• Another well-known tradition is First Rain, when students run around campus naked or nearly naked to mark the school year's first night of heavy rain.另一项著名传统是「初雨」，学生会在学年首个大雨之夜赤身或近乎赤身地在校园奔跑。

• The Student Union Assembly was founded in 1985 to coordinate bargaining positions between students and administration on campus-wide issues.学生联合会成立于 1985 年，旨在就全校性议题协调学生与校方之间的诉求立场。

• UCSC has around 200 recognized student organizations registered to one of 12 focus areas, including religious, service, cultural and academic groups.该校约有 200 个获认可的学生组织，分属宗教、服务、文化与学术等 12 个重点领域。

• All student media organizations are funded by a student council referendum of $3.20 per student per quarter.所有学生媒体组织均依据学生议会公投，按每位学生每季度 3.20 美元拨款。

• City on a Hill Press is the traditional campus newspaper, while KZSC is the student-run campus radio station and On The Spot produces student television.《City on a Hill Press》是该校的传统校园报纸，KZSC 是学生运营的校园电台，On The Spot 则制作学生电视节目。

Notable people

• Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, earned his bachelor's degree in 1974 and his doctorate in 1980 at UC Santa Cruz.黑豹党联合创始人休伊·P·牛顿于 1974 年在该校获学士学位，1980 年获博士学位。

• Carol W. Greider, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is a distinguished professor at UCSC.2009 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主之一卡罗尔·W·格雷德是该校杰出教授。

• Angela Davis, the political activist and author, is a distinguished professor emerita of the History of Consciousness programme.政治活动家兼作家安吉拉·戴维斯是该校「意识史」项目的荣休杰出教授。

• David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, directs the Genomics Institute and worked on the Human Genome Project.生物分子工程教授大卫·豪斯勒主管基因组研究所，并参与了人类基因组计划。

• Sandra M. Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, helped develop the cold dark matter theory.天文学与天体物理学教授桑德拉·M·费伯协助发展了冷暗物质理论。

• Susan Wojcicki, former chief executive of YouTube, and Jonah Peretti, founder of HuffPost and BuzzFeed, are both UCSC alumnae.YouTube 前首席执行官苏珊·沃西基与赫芬顿邮报及 BuzzFeed 创始人乔纳·佩雷蒂均为该校校友。

• Maya Rudolph, the actress and comedian, earned her bachelor's degree from UCSC in 1995.演员兼喜剧演员玛雅·鲁道夫于 1995 年在该校取得学士学位。

• Marc Okrand, the linguist who created the Klingon language for Star Trek, studied at UC Santa Cruz.为《星际迷航》创造克林贡语的语言学家马克·奥克兰德曾就读于该校。

• Zhang Tao, who earned his master's and doctoral degrees in economics at UCSC, was appointed a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China.在该校取得经济学硕士与博士学位的张涛，获任命为中国人民银行副行长。

• Kathryn D. Sullivan, the astronaut and former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an alumna.宇航员、美国国家海洋和大气管理局前局长凯瑟琳·D·沙利文是该校校友。

• Cary Fukunaga, the film director known for Beasts of No Nation and the first season of True Detective, graduated from UCSC in 1999.以《无境之兽》与《真探》第一季闻名的电影导演凯瑞·福永于 1999 年毕业于该校。

• Steven Hawley, a NASA astronaut and professor at the University of Kansas, is among the university's alumni.美国航天局宇航员、堪萨斯大学教授史蒂文·霍利是该校校友。

• Dana Priest, a Washington Post reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a Rhodes Scholar, are both connected with UCSC.《华盛顿邮报》记者、两度普利策奖得主达娜·普里斯特，以及生态与进化生物学教授、罗德学者贝丝·夏皮罗，都与该校有渊源。