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September 22, 2003
Fall-quarter instruction gets under way on
Thursday,
September 25
Some 6,000 students begin to move into
university
housing a week earlier
The first day of classes in the 2003-04 school year at UCSC is Thursday,
September 25. In anticipation of the new year, students began moving
into university housing on Thursday, September 18, and were scheduled
to do so through Sunday, September 21.
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| College Ten students (left to
right) Rachel McMurdie, David Herman, Han Le, and Monica Rollins
take a break while helping incoming freshmen move in on Friday,
September 19. Photos: Jennifer McNulty |
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| Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood greets
Gregory Fenves of Walnut Creek, whose daughter, Hannah, is a freshman
at UCSC. Fenves, a professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley,
is a colleague of UCSC Chancellor Emeritus Karl S. Pister. |
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| Incoming College Ten freshman
Carissa Purnell of Carmichael gets help setting up her computer
from her father, Curtis. |
Here are some facts and figures about this year's student body and
new academic programs the campus is offering:
New Academic Programs for UCSC Students:
- The Departments of Latin American and Latino Studies and
Sociology
are offering a new combined major.
- The Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and
the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are jointly
offering
a new bachelor's degree in health sciences.
- In Language Studies, concentrations in modern Hebrew and Russian
have been added.
- The Department of History is offering a new master's program.
- A new interdisciplinary master's program in digital arts/new
media
is being offered.
Enrollment:
UCSC is expecting a 2003–04 enrollment of approximately 14,500
students.
Of the 14,500 students, approximately 13,100 are expected to be undergraduates;
1,400 are projected to enroll in graduate studies over the course of
the year.
Of the 13,100 undergraduates expected to enroll in the academic year,
approximately 4,500 will be new students (3,500 freshmen and 1,000 transfer
students).
These 4,500 new undergraduates were admitted from among nearly 27,000
applicants, a record number for UCSC.
Profile of new freshmen:
Of the total number of freshmen expected, approximately 850 identified
themselves as either African American, American Indian, Asian/Asian
American, Chicano, or Latino; of the freshmen enrolled last fall, a
total of 755 were from those ethnic groups.
The most popular majors among freshmen who have already declared are
in the areas of the biological sciences and psychology, with approximately
300 students each. The Jack Baskin School of Engineering attracted approximately
200 freshmen in its majors.
Approximately 40 percent of the freshmen have not declared a major.
In an effort to better focus these students' selection of lower-division
courses, UCSC has given them the option of selecting a "cluster"
subject area of interest. Nearly 1,300 undeclared students are participating
in this advising program to date, having selected one of the following
clusters: business and economics; education; environmental sciences;
human psychology, culture, and society; information sciences, engineering,
and technology; languages, literatures, and communication; liberal arts
and area studies; life and health sciences; physical sciences and math;
and visual and performing arts and media.
Housing UCSC students:
The capacity of UCSC's university-sponsored housing this fall is projected
to total 6,143. As part of a two-day tour of all 10 colleges and the
Village, Chancellor Greenwood and a group of other senior administrators
were on hand to greet arriving students and their families.
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