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ConnectionUNIVERSITY OF , SANTA BARBARA | SPRING 2015, VOL. 16, NO. 2 Michael D. Young’s Legacy at UCSB Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs from 1990-2015 and family from near and far gathered—some recognizes Dr. Michael D. Young’s 25 years as in small groups and others at a large public vice chancellor for Student Affairs at UC Santa celebration in Corwin Pavilion on January 23 to Barbara and an exemplary 40-year career in offer Dr. Young their thanks, congratulations, higher education. To honor his long standing and best wishes. commitment to students and our campus UC President Janet Napolitano wrote community, the fund will support Student in a tribute to Dr. Young, “On behalf of the Affairs services and programs at UC Santa community, our Barbara that serve low-income, underserved, heartfelt and deep respect for your many and first-generation college students and accomplishments, not least of which were your initiatives that promote student mental health dedicated efforts to call attention to student and wellness. mental health issues and to provide funding PHOTO BY DAVE PALMER for the University’s efforts to help students in Your gift will help to build this legacy fund. Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Michael distress.” Please consider making a gift: D. Young retires after 25 years of service at UCSB. Former Associated Students President ONLINE BY CREDIT CARD using Harrison Weber’s tribute reflected Dr. Young’s our secure online giving website: ice Chancellor for Student Affairs commitment to students, “As vice chancellor, www.giveucsb.com/studentaffairs.htm Michael D. Young retired at the you repeatedly engaged in a visionary charge to OVER THE PHONE to discuss the end of January from the leadership ensure that students were prioritized amid the various giving options, including pledges. Vposition he held at UC Santa Barbara for 25 myriad (and often conflicting) interests of the Student Affairs Grants and Development: years. Vice Chancellor Young was beloved and University.” Catherine Boyer (805) 893-5037 or Susan respected for his genuine warmth, commitment Michael D. Young’s guidance and caring Goodale (805) 893-3530 to supporting students, and his efforts to defined generations of students. In his honor, BY MAIL. Mail your gift check payable improve the quality of life for our campus colleagues, friends, and alumni established to “UC REGENTS” with “MDY Fund” written community. The outpouring of good feelings TheMichael D. Young Endowed Fund for in the check’s memo line. Mailing address: and the number of celebrations were beyond Scholarship, Leadership, and Citizenship, Student Affairs Grants and Development, UC our wildest expectations! Hundreds of staff, the three pillars of excellence that Dr. Young Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5015 faculty, students, alumni, colleagues, politicians, championed during his career. The new fund

Mary Jacob Appointed Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Following Michael D. Young’s retirement, director of Student Academic Support Services, with a UCSB Staff Citation for Excellence the search for our next vice chancellor for and senior associate dean of Enrollment Award, and a Margaret T. Getman Service to Student Affairs is well underway. In the interim, Services. She has served on a broad range of Students Award. Mary Jacob has graciously agreed to serve as the campus committees, including participating as a Mary Jacob holds a Ph.D. in geography from acting vice chancellor for Student Affairs. member of the Student Affairs Executive Group Syracuse University. Before coming to UC Santa Since first joining UC Santa Barbara in and Computer Policy Team responsible for Barbara, she was a faculty member at Mount 1996, Mary Jacob has provided exemplary long-range planning, fiscal management, and Holyoke College, where she taught courses on leadership within our Division of Student policy development for the Division of Student global, human, and urban geography. She went Affairs in multiple roles, including director Affairs. Dr. Jacob has been deeply engaged in on to serve as associate dean of International of the Office of International Students and education-related activities at the national and Affairs, acting director of Admissions, and dean Scholars, senior associate dean and executive international levels. She has been recognized of International Affairs at Mount Holyoke.

SCHOLARSHIP | LEADERSHIP | CITIZENSHIP Art Aldritt, Professor Student Affairs Emeritus, Department of Exercise and Sport Annual Report: Studies, was responsible for the sports Everything You Need to Know coaching minor About Student Affairs That program within the You May Not Have Known to Ask department. The student experience at UC Santa Barbara PHOTO BY GEORGE includes many Student Affairs sponsored opportunities FOULSHAM for engagement, wellness, and learning. Did you know that in the academic year 2013-2014…

Campus Learning Assistance Services had Flip the Switch 226,000+ “tutorial” contacts. Career Services hosted 500 companies and graduate schools at their annual Career Fair. for Student Recreation: Financial Aid & Scholarships awarded Welcomes the Next Fifty+ Years $65 million in grants to 10,484 students. Health & Wellness provided 12,296 pieces In the spring of 2013, UCSB students walls could talk! , The Doors, of free fruit and 3,359 free massages. voted to support the Flip the Switch for Bruce Springsteen, and the Grateful Dead The MultiCultural Center had 10,193 students Student Recreation facilities enhancement entertained here; Kobe Bryant and Shaq attend student-led events. referendum. The initiative was designed practiced here; in the 1980s students Recreation offered 65 adventure programs that to support repair, renovation, restoration, endured long lines while registering for served 8,000 participants. and lighting projects for Robertson classes here; and scores of Gauchos have The Registrar’s office conferred 7,828 degrees. Gymnasium, Pauley Track, and Storke played countless hours of Intramural Student Mental Health Coordination responded Field. At the beginning of winter quarter Sports within these walls. Now, the facility to 726 referrals. 2015, students saw the completion of is home to the Department of Recreation’s phase I of the project — a much needed Gaucho REC programming, Sport Club Student Affairs at UC Santa Barbara is made remodel of the Robertson Gymnasium Teams, ICA Men’s Volleyball, Exercise and up of 27 diverse departments, each with a unique main court. What was once a dimly lit, Sports Studies classes, student groups, and student service mission, history, and wealth of service cavernous space now sparkles with bright summer camps. offerings. Visit the annual report link below to discover LED lighting, fresh paint, new basketball Fifty-five years of non-stop use other facts and learn about services that are offered to hoops, and a gleaming refinished floor. took its toll, but with renovations now students by the Division of Student Affairs: First opened in 1959, Robertson complete the facility shines as never www.sa.ucsb.edu/home/student-affairs-annual-report Gym has served the campus as a hub of before and welcomes another fifty plus student and community activity. If these years of action. A Commitment to Diversity: UCSB Named a Hispanic-Serving Institution In recognition of its longstanding as colleges or universities in which Hispanic “I am extremely proud that UC Santa commitment to diversity and excellence, UCSB enrollment comprises a minimum of 25 percent Barbara has been recognized as a Hispanic- has been named a Hispanic-Serving Institution of the total enrollment. Total enrollment Serving Institution by the Hispanic Association (HSI) by the Hispanic Association of Colleges includes undergraduate and graduate students, of Colleges & Universities,” said UCSB & Universities. With six Nobel laureates on its both full- and part-time. As an HSI, UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang. “This milestone faculty and a ranking among the top 10 public may compete for grants and funding for a achievement reflects our vision and decades of universities in the country, UCSB is the only variety of initiatives, including support services collaborative effort and commitment to enhance HSI that is also a member of the prestigious for all students, faculty development, and the excellence and diversity at UC Santa Barbara Association of American Universities. acquisition of scientific or laboratory equipment and to provide the best possible educational Hispanic-Serving Institutions are defined for teaching. opportunities for all of our students.

2 | CAMPUS CONNECTION PHOTOS COURTESY OF DIANA COLLINS PUENTE Associated Students Making a Difference in Isla Vista Associated Students, the voice of sidewalks, lighting, and bluff fencing. The A. S. Program Board, , undergraduate students at UCSB, is heavily The Community Affairs Board organizes Isla Vista Community Relations Committee, involved and invested in the community of Isla volunteers for community service activities, and many others provide robust arts and Vista (I.V.), working through its various boards, including street cleanups, tutoring and after- culture programming within Isla Vista, such commissions, units, and elected officials to school programs, providing meals for the as Isla Vista First Fridays, Isla Vista Earth Day, address the needs of students and support the houseless, and working with the elderly, as well Concerts for the Coast, Chilla Vista, Pardall community as a whole. Every year, Associated as partnering with other organizations to serve Carnival, Movies in the Parks, and Meet Your Students (A.S.) invests more than $500,000 the needs of the community. Neighbor Day, to name a few. Additionally, A.S. in direct funding to Isla Vista community- Students focused on civic engagement are groups like Finance Board and the Isla Vista based programs and services. Student-led involved in organizing community town hall Community Resource Center provide financial groups based in A.S. focus on issues of public meetings and forums, voter registration and support to other organizations providing these safety, environmental stewardship, housing, education drives, and working with University services in Isla Vista. community service and civic engagement, arts, administration and local, county, and state The A.S. Pardall Center in Isla Vista offers culture and alternative programming, food officials to address issues of concern to the study spaces, group work areas, meeting space, access, legal assistance, and academic support community, through Associated Students Office and free access to computers, printing, and and study space, to name a few. In addition, of the President, the External Vice President Internet. On the second floor of the Pardall Associated Students provides funding for for Local Affairs, and External Vice President Center, the Isla Vista Tenants Union and the numerous efforts and initiatives that support the for Statewide Affairs. Some students report Legal Resource Center address housing issues Isla Vista community. community news through KCSB, the campus and provide legal services to students. On issues of public safety, the Public radio station, or in The Bottom Line newspaper. Currently, Associated Students is Safety Commission, External Vice President for Students interested in environmental undergoing a strategic planning process to Local Affairs, Take Back the Night, and others issues are involved in Isla Visa beach and determine ways to maximize the impact of spearhead awareness and advocacy as it relates street cleanups and environmental stewardship its investments in Isla Vista. Please visit www. to personal safety, including sexual violence, through the Environmental Affairs Board, the asiniv.org to learn more about the work of and community planning efforts to improve Coastal Fund, and the A.S. Recycling Program. Associated Students in Isla Vista.

CAMPUS CONNECTION | 3 Parents, Please Help Discourage “” Fall quarter saw a successful (read quiet and uneventful) Halloween in the community of Isla Vista. Similar preparations are now underway for “Deltopia,” an unsanctioned and unsponsored event in Isla Vista that takes place annually at the beginning of April. In anticipation of the presence of out-of-town visitors, UCSB’s Police COURTESY PHOTO Department (UCPD) and the Santa The Project IV Love project, started by UCSB alumnus Jordan Killebrew, aims to build a botanic garden Barbara Sheriff’s Department are at People’s Park in Isla Vista, in memory of the six lives lost on May 23, 2014. planning for substantially increased presence of officers and a zero tolerance approach to enforcing laws and ordinances in the community. UCSB Project IV Love will be enforcing no-guest policies in all University-owned residence halls and apartments and restricting parking on Creates a Place of Beauty campus to those with official university business. Student Affairs will team up with Associated Students to use and Remembrance social media, email communications, The Project IV Love website was started and campus newspaper advertising to by UCSB alumus Jordan Killebrew, Class remind UCSB students of the negative of 2010, on the Sunday following the consequences of this unplanned and tragic Friday night events in Isla Vista last unsponsored event that takes place May 23. His hope was to collect money without proper infrastructure to ensure for a permanent memorial honoring the victims in Isla Vista. Jordan has teamed up safety and security. UCSB Public Affairs with Associate Dean of Student Life and will focus its efforts on a social media Activities Katya Armistead, Woodstock’s marketing campaign targeting 18-25 Pizza owner Laura Ambrose and manager year olds from outside the UCSB/Isla James Glover, Isla Vista Recreation and Vista/Santa Barbara communities. Parks District Manager Rodney Gould, Following on the success of a campus- art professor and Isla Vista resident Kim sponsored late-night concert on Yasuda, and Greek leaders Laura Dyer and Halloween that provided a safe, fun Cricket Cleary to create a lasting memorial alternative for UCSB students, the honoring the lives that were lost during campus will offer a daytime festival the I.V. tragedy. The committee has raised on April 4 and a variety of late-night funds to create a botanic garden of native meets regularly to continue the planning events on campus, open only to UCSB plants in the heart of Isla Vista on what is currently an undeveloped area of People’s efforts and to host fundraisers to raise students, on April 3 and 4. Parents, Park. money to pay for the project and to sustain please join UCSB in communicating As part of the project, art students the garden. Regular updates are available “Keep It Local, Keep It Safe” messages in a UCSB sculpture class will design six on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ to your students in the weeks leading up memorials to place along a garden path pages/Project-IV-Love/504020476391835. to Deltopia. to honor each of the six lives that were Killebrew, quoted in a Noozhawk article lost. Benches will be placed throughout about the project, said, “Our goal is that the garden to encourage contemplation the park never dies. I think this just speaks and remembrance. A community planting to the power of being a Gaucho. I want to For information about the University’s efforts day is planned for Saturday, May 2 when permanently remember these lives.” http:// to improve the quality of life in Isla Vista, visit students and other Isla Vista and campus www.noozhawk.com/article/botanic_ https://chancellor.ucsb.edu to view recent community members can join together to garden_sculptures_memorial_isla_vista_ updates from Chancellor Henry T. Yang. create this lasting memorial. The committee rampage_20140803.

4 | CAMPUS CONNECTION Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Celebrates 15 Years The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) is proud to celebrate fifteen years of providing educational programming, social activities, advocacy, and consultation with the goal of enhancing safety, tolerance, and the quality of life in the UCSB community. RCSGD is designed to be a safe and supportive environment for all students, staff, and faculty, emphasizing resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, community that continues to grow in diversity the identity and diversity of the LGBTQ transgender, queer, and intersex students, as well and visibility. The center provides a safe and community, and advocates for systemic change as allies and those who are questioning their welcoming environment for LGBTQ students to create services, policies, and procedures that sexual orientation and/or identity. Students at and supporters to study and congregate and are inclusive of sexual and gender diversity. UCSB began organizing and voicing a need provides local and national resources, a media Dave Whitman, the center’s new director, is for support for their community in the 1970s, and reference library, a computer lab, access excited to share his vision for continuing to resulting in students, faculty, and staff making to contraceptives, and referrals to a variety grow LGBTQ initiatives at UCSB. He states, formal bids for the creation of an LGBT of campus organizations. The supportive “The opportunities we have before us to Center in 1994 and 1998. Following the vigil and engaging professional and student continue to support and challenge the UCSB for University of Wyoming student Matthew staff and volunteers seek to advocate for all and larger community to be a safe, welcoming, Shepard and student protests for the protection students, hosting ongoing awareness trainings, and nourishing environment for LGBTQ and and growth of queer support services on educational and social programs relating to all people are truly incredible. Through our campus, the University pledged its support and various intersections of their identities, and collaborative efforts, I believe that people’s an LGBT Center opened in fall 1999. Fifteen leadership and mentor opportunities for identities and best selves can be fostered in the years later, recognizing the value of LGBTQ students. spirit of love, respect, celebration and learning.” student voices and the needs of this community Through ongoing collaborations with For more information about available remains the focus of the RCSGD. campus departments and organizations, the resources, support, and events, please visit UCSB has a large and active LGBTQ RCSGD provides opportunities to celebrate http://wgse.sa.ucsb.edu/sgd.

Library Presents SAVE POINTS OF PRIDE THE UCSB is home to 6 Nobel laureates, UCSB Reads 2015 DATE 11 national institutes and centers, and Every year, UCSB and the Santa Barbara Orange Is more than 100 research units. Our community are invited to read and explore the the New campus combines breathtaking natural same book in multidisciplinary ways. UCSB Black author beauty with immense intellectual vitality Reads, now in its ninth year, is presented by the Piper Kerman and unparalleled learning opportunities UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive will give a for undergraduate students. Vice Chancellor. This year’s book is Orange Is free lecture on April 15 the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Ranked #8 in the world in terms at 8 p.m. the best-selling memoir by Piper Kerman of research impact, UCSB is shaping in Campbell the future of science, engineering, that’s also been turned into an Emmy-winning Hall, at UCSB. Netflix series. and medicine. http://www.news.ucsb. COURTESY PHOTO In Orange Is the New Black, Kerman edu/2014/014130/ucsb-places-among- chronicles the 13 months she spent at a book in their courses. Piper Kerman will visit top-10-leiden-ranking-750-major- federal women’s minimum-security prison UCSB to give a free talk on April 15th at 8 p.m. universities-world for laundering drug money. She endured in Campbell Hall — you are welcome to attend, UCSB faculty member, Shuji humiliation and abuse, but also found or watch online videos of other events the Nakamura, was awarded the 2014 Nobel friendship, generosity, and acceptance in Library is sponsoring leading up to Kerman’s Prize in Physics. relationships with her prison peers. appearance. You’re also invited to read along During the winter quarter, the Library with your UCSB student. “This book is UCSB’s Sociology Department ranked has been hosting book-related discussions, impossible to put down because [Kerman] #1 nationally in USA Today based on readings, and a photo exhibition. Activities could be your daughter,” said a findings by online database College will continue through spring quarter as well. Times review. For more information, visit Factual. Several UCSB professors have assigned the www.library.ucsb.edu/UCSBReads2015.

CAMPUS CONNECTION | 5 MARK THE DATE/ REMINDERS Class of 2015 Meningitis B Vaccine Now Available at Student Health — Drop-in Commencement Planning Begins Now immunization clinic open weekdays 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1:30-4 p.m., for UCSB students up to and including age 25. SCHEDULE OF CEREMONIES:

Spring Insight Open House, Sunday, June 7, 11 a.m. — College of Creative Studies, Campbell Hall April 11 — UCSB welcomes admitted Friday, June 12, 10 a.m. — Bren School of Environmental Science & and prospective students and their Management, Bren Courtyard families for a campus-wide open house. Visit http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/visit- All Saturday (June 13) and Sunday (June 14) ceremonies take place on the Faculty Club Green ucsb/open-house for more information. Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m. — Sciences Browse through the schedule of events Saturday, June 13, 1 p.m. — Engineering and Sciences for a look at sample lectures, activities, presentations, tours and more offered Saturday, June 13, 4 p.m. — Social Sciences I throughout the day. Sunday, June 14, 9 a.m. — Social Sciences II Spring Career Fair, April 14 — Sunday, June 14, 1 p.m. — Humanities and Arts UCSB’s largest recruiting event of the Sunday, June 14, 4 p.m. — Graduate Division year will be held on Tuesday, April 14 at the UCSB Events Center. Visit http:// Students must make a commencement reservation for an open and available ceremony in order career.sa.ucsb.edu/career-fairs/spring- to participate in commencement. Special note: Parents, please remind your student that declaring career-fair for more information. candidacy for an official degree and making a commencement reservation are two separate actions in the GOLD system. Community Housing Office Spring Please keep in mind that thousands of graduating seniors will be inviting family and friends to Rental Faire, April 16 — Students the commencement ceremonies. Students should limit their number of guests to a maximum of six will have the opportunity to meet and to help maintain a high level of comfort and decorum. For more information, call the commencement greet Isla Vista property providers and hotline at (805) 893-8289, send an email to [email protected], or visit the website at University housing representatives to www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement. For accommodations information, visit www.santabarbara.com. It secure a place for the 2015-16 rental is wise to book hotel rooms soon since space is limited, but be sure to coordinate with your student year. Visit http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/ as he or she reserves a space in a particular commencement ceremony. cho for more information.

Project IV Love Community Webcast of Commencement Ceremonies Planting Day, May 2 — Community For those who cannot visit campus to attend members are invited to join together to the 2015 commencement ceremonies, there will create a lasting memorial for those who be a live webcast of the Sunday, June 7; Saturday, lost their lives in the Isla Vista tragedy June 13; and Sunday, June 14 ceremonies. The in May 2014. For information about the web link will be posted on the UC Santa Barbara event or to make a donation, visit commencement website www.ia.ucsb.edu/ http://www.projectivlove.com. commencement at the beginning of June 2015. Commencement 2015, June 13-14 Grad Fair 2015 ­— Commencement weekend 2015 UCSB Bookstore’s annual Grad Fair details will be posted as they become and cap & gown photo shoot will be held on available at http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/ Wednesday, April 29, and Thursday, April 30, career connections, job postings, networking commencement. from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the UCen lobby. Various opportunities, the Coastlines publication, campus departments and vendors will be on travel tours, and access to the alumni directory 25th Annual GIVE Project and hand to answer students’ commencement and locator service. More information can be Sale, June 20 and 21 — GIVE provides questions. Students should attend dressed to found on the Alumni Association’s website at students with a convenient way to impress for their free photo sitting. Students www.ucsbalum.com. donate, rather than toss, reusable and can pre-purchase their grad packs online at recyclable goods at the end of the 2014-15 Senior Book www.bookstore.ucsb.edu. academic year. One hundred percent of The Senior Book will feature a list of all the sale’s proceeds benefit organizations A Gift for Your Grad: Gaucho for Life graduating seniors and senior portraits taken and projects that improve the quality of Need a special graduation gift for your on campus. Graduating students can schedule life in Isla Vista. For more information son or daughter? Consider giving a gift that a portrait appointment at http://seniorbook. visit www.sa.ucsb.edu/giveiv. will last a lifetime — a life membership in the sa.ucsb.edu. Senior Books can be pre-ordered at UCSB Alumni Association. Benefits include http://seniorbook.sa.ucsb.edu for $25.

6 | CAMPUS CONNECTION Important News from Student Health Immediately upon its approval by the better protect our campus communities. We families to use these funds for this purpose. FDA in the fall, UCSB Student Health are now closer to achieving that goal, which Please consider these consequences seriously made available to students the vaccine for was announced recently by the UC Office of when making choices for your student’s health Meningococcal Serogroup B (“MenB”) called the President (http://universityofcalifornia. insurance coverage, and don’t hesitate to Trumenba®. A second vaccine (Bexsero®) has edu/news/uc-plans-require-vaccinations- contact our UCSB Student Health Insurance now been approved and will also be stocked at incoming-students). Continuing students are Office by email at [email protected] Student Health. Students can drop in without welcome to make an appointment at Student or phone (805) 893-2592 for assistance. an appointment every weekday to obtain Health if they would like their immunizations this and any other needed immunizations. records reviewed for any deficiencies, and NEW Student Health Insurance Although official recommendations for MenB Gaucho Student Health Insurance (GHI) Requirement Waiver Process immunizations have not yet been issued covers all recommended immunizations. Many parents and students had trouble from the national authorities (the Advisory We greatly appreciate parents sending last year with the UC Student Health Committee on Immunization Practices), in their student’s past immunization insurance waiver criteria and with the UCSB Student Health strongly encourages records by email as an attachment to difficult online web interface to submit the anyone in the approved age range of 10-25 [email protected] or fax waiver application. Since then, we have been years to receive the full series. MenB cases are to 805-893-2758 (be sure to include student’s working hard to improve the entire process random and devastating in this age group, and name, perm number, and date of birth). and have redesigned and reduced the required MenB immunization is the most effective way information needed. Even better, we will to prevent the disease. Further information Choosing the Best Health Care Plan now be able to verify most health insurance from the National Meningitis Association is for Your Student information continuously online for many available at http://www.nmaus.org, or feel free New health insurance plans available students, eliminating the need to re-submit to contact UCSB’s Student Health Infection to students through Covered California waiver applications each fall. Control Nurse at [email protected]. and other state exchanges as a result of the If your student has a Student Health edu or phone (805) 893-3559. Affordable Care Act may possibly reduce insurance waiver approved for the current Special permission has been obtained premium costs for students, but some plans academic year, please alert him or her to watch from Aetna, provider of the Gaucho Student with limited coverage have had negative for an email from Student Health in May. This Health Insurance (GHI) plan, to fully cover consequences for students who did not realize email will indicate if we have been able to the cost of the MenB vaccine for UCSB their coverage would be limited. Insurance verify their current waiver for the upcoming students enrolled in GHI; for those covered plans that are county-based (for example, academic year 2015-16, so that they will not by other health insurance plans, the MenB MediCal) with narrow networks will not have to submit a new waiver application. If shots can be provided for a charge that can provide anything but hospital emergency we are unable to verify insurance information be billed to a student’s BARC account. We care while students are attending school in online, we will ask the student to email or fax strongly encourage parents of students covered Santa Barbara. Students with this limited us a copy of their current insurance card, so we by other insurance plans to contact network coverage will not be able to see an orthopedist, can confirm compliance with the UC Regents’ providers to urge them to make these vaccines psychiatrist, gynecologist or surgeon without mandate that all UC students be covered by available. going back to their home county, and in many health insurance meeting minimum criteria. cases such coverage makes it difficult to obtain Further information can be found at http:// New UC Immunizations Requirement prescribed medications in Santa Barbara studenthealth.sa.ucsb.edu/gaucho-health- National attention to recent outbreaks of without large cash payments. Students may insurance/waive-ghi. Insurance waivers can serious communicable diseases has raised the think they are saving money by choosing these be cancelled at any time if coverage is lost, and level of concern about proper immunization minimal plans, yet they may end up spending the Gaucho Health Insurance (GHI) student and the role that this plays in protecting much more for out-of-pocket expenses due insurance plan can be joined at the beginning the public health. All of the Student Health to minimal coverage. UCSB Financial Aid of each quarter by contacting the UCSB directors on the ten UC campuses have been awards include the cost of the Gaucho Health Student Health Insurance Office by email at working together for several years to promote Insurance (GHI) premiums for medical, [email protected] or phone required immunizations at college entry to vision, and dental coverage, and we encourage (805) 893-2592.

CAMPUS CONNECTION | 7 UCSBDepartment of Education Grant Awardedriefs to UCSB to Expand Mental Health Services UCSB has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand access Dear UCSB Parent, to mental health services for students, faculty, and staff. Project SERV (School Emergency If your student is a financial aid Response to Violence) provides federal funding to or major and will be held at the UCSB Events applicant, I would like to make you schools to help restore the learning environment Center. Career Services is expecting 100+ aware of a new priority deadline following major disruptive incidents on campus or employers including: Adobe Systems, Amazon. in the community. Nearly $570,000 in one-time com, California State Auditor, Oracle, Enterprise should you be selected for the funding has been made available to the campus Holdings, Verizon Wireless, Citrix Systems, Intel, federal verification process. Each to expand support services through the hire of Macy’s, Microsoft, Northwestern Mutual, and year approximately 30-40 percent additional counseling psychologists, an additional Yelp, among others. (For a full list of participants of financial aid applicants are asked social worker, and an additional student mental visit https://ucsb-csm.symplicity.com/events/ to provide verification documents to health coordinator. “UC Santa Barbara is pleased students.php?mode=list&cf=SpringCareerF confirm information provided on the to be the recipient of these Department of air). Students can take advantage of several Free Application for Federal Student Education funds which will allow us to continue workshops and events in advance designed to Aid (FAFSA). If you are part of this our work to ensure that students, faculty, and help students prepare for making the most of this group, all requested documents must staff have ready access to support services and opportunity. be returned to the Office of Financial psychological counseling,” said Senior Associate Aid and Scholarships by June 15 to be Dean for Student Life Debbie Fleming. considered for all sources of financial Student Affairs Expanding Services aid. Documents submitted after the in Isla Vista June 15 priority date will be considered Student Affairs will soon expand key services late and awards will be based on the into the community of Isla Vista improving access availability of funding. and increasing visibility for the nearly 9,000 UCSB students who live in the community. Lease Students selected for verification will be negotiations and building improvements are notified via email in early April, giving underway for a second-story suite in a county- them ample time to submit required owned building that also houses the Isla Vista Transcripts at the Speed of Life documentation. The June 15 document Medical Clinic. Three critical student services, The Office of the Registrar recently began deadline should not be confused with Counseling and Psychological Services; Student offering a new option for students sending the March 2 priority deadline to file the Mental Health Coordination; and CARE: Advocate their academic records to employers and other FAFSA or California Dream Application. Office for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and schools — secure, official PDF transcripts. PDF Sexual Misconduct will share a suite of offices transcripts are electronically delivered official with an anticipated move-in date of June 2015. UCSB transcripts sent over a secure network to The Office of Financial Aid and the email address of the recipient designated Scholarships appreciates your attention Spring Career Fair — Tuesday, April 14 by the student. They are certified by a digital to and compliance with this new Taking the time to plan for a career greatly signature and contain a variety of special security deadline. We strongly encourage parents increases a student’s chances of leading a characteristics. In addition, each page of the to communicate with their students on happy, fulfilling career and life. Research shows transcript contains the signature of the Registrar a regular basis regarding financial aid that students who take time to actively manage and the University seal, just like their more matters. By having students and parents their career goals while in school have a stronger traditional paper counterparts. complete their financial aid applications sense of purpose, earn higher incomes, are less This represents an exciting shift for students in a timely manner, we will be able to stressed, and make better job and education applying for jobs or graduate programs. In the better serve the UCSB community. choices that help them achieve their personal past, students often had to wait a week or more goals. These same students are also better for official transcripts to be delivered, by mail, to equipped to cope with changes such as moving their intended destination. Now recipients can Sincerely, between jobs, getting laid off, or changing have a student’s transcript in-hand the same careers. Studies show that young people who day it was ordered. This means that students are graduate without a career action plan are likely to less likely to miss out on last-minute scholarship face higher levels of unemployment, have lower or employment opportunities. Though not every Michael M. Miller incomes, and often find themselves in jobs with recipient will accept an electronic transcript, Director, Office of Financial Aid fewer opportunities for advancement. since the new option became available in and Scholarships The biggest recruiting event of the year is November, nearly 40% of transcript orders have open to all students regardless of grade level been for PDFs.

8 | CAMPUS CONNECTION This is also good news for students ordering construction on the San Joaquin Apartments Food Justice for All paper transcripts. As the volume of paper which are slated for completion in 2016 and Students, staff, and faculty members from transcripts to be printed has decreased, they are will provide housing for approximately 1,000 universities across the state congregated at getting out the door more quickly. Most paper residents. Housing and Residential Services UCSB during the weekend of January 16-18 transcripts are now in the mail within a single strives to provide an atmosphere that is conducive for the first California Higher Education Food business day. Students (and alums) needing to living and learning for our residents and for Summit to explore the issue of student hunger to order a transcript should log into GOLD at those who use our services. You can find out more through the lens of food justice and food https://my.sa.ucsb.edu/gold/Login.aspx and about housing, dining, and our projects by visiting security. The summit began in downtown Santa select “Transcripts/Verifications” from the menu. our website at http://www.housing.ucsb.edu. Barbara at Slingshot Gallery, where Chef Pink, winner of Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen Community Housing Office Supports Students and owner of local restaurant Bacon and Brine, Living Off Campus prepared several delicious appetizers featuring UCSB’s Community Housing Office (CHO) locally raised pork for summit attendees. On knows how important it is for students to live in Saturday morning, the summit’s keynote speaker, a comfortable environment where they can relax Nikki Silvestri, spoke passionately of her efforts and feel at home. CHO is available to assist to make nutritious food more accessible to students who live in privately-owned housing with low-income individuals at People’s Grocery in housing questions, concerns, and conflicts. The Oakland. The accessibility of healthy food options Community Housing Office, located on the third is a struggle faced by many college students, floor of the UCen, is the “one-stop shop” for off- particularly in Isla Vista, where cheeseburgers campus housing needs and offers the following are far more affordable than fresh produce. Hello from UCSB Housing & Residential resources: After Silvestri’s speech, workshops were held to Services … Home of the Gauchos! CHO List — Online rental listing database allow attendees to explore the numerous issues Housing and Residential Services (H&RS) is Rental Advice and Information — surrounding food justice and security in further committed to providing the very best in University- Education about rights and responsibilities (e.g., depth. Workshop leaders included local food owned housing for our students. Students can reviewing leases, maintenance questions, etc.) producers, founders of campus food pantries, maximize their housing experience by opting Conflict Resolution — Dispute resolution and AshEL Seasunz, a spoken word artist known for our 2&2 Program which guarantees housing and mediation services for his songs about food justice and civil rights. for four years in our communities: 2 years in Videotaping Services — Move-in and Although this first summit was fairly small, the residence halls guarantees 2 years in our move-out videotaping to protect security deposits the number of people working to fight student apartments. We offer more than just a place to Rental Forms — Subleasing, inventory hunger is growing. UC Riverside has offered live —­­ we provide comfortable settings in which condition reports, tenant applications, and more to host the California Higher Education Food to learn, connect, and succeed. H&RS sponsors Setting up a Successful Household — Summit next year when we hope to see many educational and social programs as well as Roommate agreement forms, how to choose a new faces in the crowd. themed Living-Learning Communities where roommate students with similar interests can participate Subleasing Smarts Guide — CHO can Students and Faculty Share Dinner in activities with faculty and staff mentors. It’s help students set up a successful subleasing and Discussion been a great year thus far as we’ve had record- agreement and walk students through the process For years, students clambered for the breaking attendance at many of our programs, Housing Guides — Parent Housing Success opportunity to share tables at the UCSB Faculty most recently the All Hall Brawl, an event that Guide, Success Guide, Move-out Handbook, Club with their professors during Faculty Nights, encourages residents of every hall to compete in Roommate Handbook, Green Guide, and more a chance to break bread and share opinions teams in a series of games to prove their hall is Other Resources — Bus schedules, maps, during open discussion on a “hot topic.” With the best. This year, the Anacapa Anacondas were storage company lists, hotel/motel list, furniture the Faculty Club under renovation, Academic crowned champions. lists, etc. Initiatives invited dozens of faculty members to Our dining commons offer educational If your student is looking for housing, join students for dinner in an alternate location: opportunities such as Sustainability Week, Green encourage them to contact the Community Carrillo Dining Commons. Mondays, Gaucho Bright Bite, and Nutrition Housing Office and to attend the CHO’s Spring Mark Shishim, associate director of Student Week. Residential Dining continues their earth- Rental Faire on April 16, where they will have the Affairs Academic Initiatives, welcomed the friendly dining efforts by serving fresh produce, opportunity to meet and greet Isla Vista property diverse group for the evening to discuss the of which 46% is grown within 250 miles of providers and University housing representatives hot topic, “Undocumented Students.” Professor UCSB, over 25% is organic, and 38% of total to secure a place for the 2015-16 rental year. John Park, Chair of Asian American Studies, food purchases are considered sustainable. Our Visit http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/cho for a list whose research focuses on the legal history of Off-campus Meal Plan offers students the option of resources and publications and check out the human migration, provided historical context of continuing to eat in our dining commons after Rental Housing for the discussion. Between chicken piccata they’ve moved into an apartment — a perfect Success Guide and soft-serve ice cream, faculty and student transition for students preparing to live on their at http://www. participants discussed such topics as the history own after graduation. housing.ucsb. of immigration in the U.S. and the personal In order to meet our commitment to provide edu/cho/ challenges facing Dream Scholars who are not four years of University housing, we are developing success-guide. eligible for some forms of financial support, new properties. Sierra Madre Apartments will “Like” us on including Federal Work-Study. Diners lingered open this fall and will provide housing for more Facebook — long after plates were emptied, the room abuzz than 500 students. UCSB has also started ucsbcho. with suggestions for the next “hot topic.” CAMPUS CONNECTION | 9 DID YOU KNOW? ROBERTSON GYMNASIUM 85,208 UCSB undergraduate applications for fall 2015 set a record at 85,208! Continuing a decades-long trend, UC Santa Barbara saw an increase of more than 5% over last year for the number of first-year and transfer students seeking admission to the seaside campus. COURTESY PHOTO Phase 1 of the Flip the Switch for Student Recreation, a remodel of the Robertson Gymnasium, is now complete and features bright LED lighting, fresh paint, new basketball hoops, and a gleaming refinished floor.

Santa Cruz Residence Hall is Staying Connected UCSB Events Calendar: http://events.as.ucsb.edu going for the gold, LEED Gold! Santa UCSB Home: http://www.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-8000 Cruz Residence Hall was extensively Campus Connection Newsletter: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/parents/StayInformed/index.aspx renovated this past summer and now Campus Learning Assistance Services: http://www.clas.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-3269 offers earth-friendly living to UCSB Associated Students: http://www.as.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-2566 students. Housing & Residential Counseling & Psychological Services: http://counseling.sa.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-4411 Services is seeking a LEED (Leadership Career Services: http://career.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-4412 in Energy & Environmental Design) Division of Student Affairs: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-3651 Gold rating through a program Educational Opportunity Program: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/eop or call (805) 893-3235 administered by the U.S. Green Building Gaucho Parents website: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/parents Council. Many sustainable measures Health & Wellness Program: http://wellness.sa.ucsb.edu were incorporated into the project, Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships: http://www.finaid.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-2432 including energy efficient lighting, new Office of Student Life: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/osl or call (805) 893-4569 bathroom exhaust fans and motors, Office of the Registrar: http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-3592 double glazed windows, water efficient Orientation Programs: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/orientation or call (805) 893-3443 low-flow and dual flush fixtures, and Residential & Community Living: http://www.housing.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-2760 flooring and finish materials with high Student Health: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/studenthealth or call (805) 893-3371 recycled content. The graph above UCSB Crime Statistics: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/Policies/CleryAct or call (805) 893-7884 represents energy savings since the UCSB Bookstore: http://www.ucsbstuff.com/home.aspx or call (805) 893-3271 renovation. UCSB Wellness Program: http://wellness.sa.ucsb.edu

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