Featured Profiles
December 16, 2022
UC Global Health Institute Features Community Studies
March 8, 2019
UC Global Health Institute recognizes our long standing commitment to health justice.
Facing Race Conference in Detroit
February 27, 2019
With scholarship support from the Community Studies Program, undergraduate student Aracely Contreras attended the 2018 bi-annual Facing Race conference in Detroit, Michigan.
Mary Beth Pudup Named to Inaugural Board of UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
February 13, 2019
Community Studies'Mary Beth Pudup is among 19 leading University of California scholars in a variety of fields--ranging from religious studies and law to medicine and philosophy—who have been named to the inaugural academic advisory board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
Donald A. Strauss Scholarship Foundation
January 23, 2019
Community Studies Alum Tim Galarneau is a former recipient of the Donald A. Staruss Scholarship. The Strauss Scholarship applications are available! Applications are due February 4, 2019.
June 7, 2018
Community Studies student John S. Kenney receives the Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship for outstanding involvement within campus community
Remembering William H. Friedland
February 23, 2018
From community organizer to organic farmer to immigrant champion
November 22, 2017
Community Studies major and CASFS Apprenticeship graduate combines farming and food justice work
From community organizer to organic farmer to immigrant champion
November 22, 2017
Community Studies major and CASFS Apprenticeship graduate combines farming and food justice work
CMMU Alum Named CEO of Santa Cruz Community Foundation
September 24, 2017
Santa Cruz Community Foundation finds new leader in nonprofit vet Susan True.
Letter from the Field
August 2, 2017
Class of 1984 alumni Barbara Garcia receives the Don Catalano Distinguished Alumni Award
February 28, 2017
Alumni Jered Lawson mentors new generation of Community Studies majors on field study at Pie Ranch
February 27, 2017
Katie Sweeney awarded the 2016 Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
May 25, 2016
Cecilia Peña-Govea Wins Dean's Award for Thesis
May 6, 2016
New Traditions
January 27, 2015
The Community Studies B.A. Program has inaugurated a new tradition to mark its revival as the longest running interdisciplinary degree program at UCSC and (if that weren't enough) to celebrate its pioneering academic curriculum of campus and field study learning dedicated to social justice. On Thursday, January 29 the Community Studies class of 2015 presented its work in a classic poster session in Oakes College.
History and Philosophy of Community Studies
February 9, 2011
The article that follows originally appeared as Chapter 2 in Torry D. Dickinson’s Community and the World: Participating in Social Change.
