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Position DescriptionCHANCELLOR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
The Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz is the chief campus officer and executive in charge of all activities of that campus. The Chancellor has administrative authority within budgeted limits and exercises very broad delegated authority within policies established by the President of the University. Candidates for this position will have demonstrated leadership skills in an academic environment; senior experience in administration of large-scale, diverse, and complex organizations, preferably research universities, and a strong record of teaching, research, service and scholarship. The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz), the seventh of the ten UC campuses, has a tradition of excellence in academics, faculty and student achievement. The faculty currently includes 11 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 21 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and two members of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. In 2007, U.S. News and World Report placed UC Santa Cruz in the top 20 percent of national public universities. UC Santa Cruz's Physics Department was just ranked 1st in relative citation impact for all U.S. universities between 2001-2005, according to Science Watch January/February 2007. UCSC ranked 1st in the nation for its academic research impact in the field of space sciences, according to an analysis conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 2003; 11th in the nation among public universities in the quality of its research productivity in The Rise of American Research Universities; Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era, (1997); and 9th in the world in international economics, in a 2005 study by econphd.net. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz were the first to assemble a working draft of the human genome and make it available worldwide. UC Santa Cruz is home to the Institute of Marine Sciences and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, headquarters to the University of California Observatories /Lick Observatory, and sponsors two of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation: the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. As part of its Silicon Valley Initiative, UC Santa Cruz manages the University Affiliated Research Center, a partnership between the University of California and NASA. Established in 1965, UC Santa Cruz today has an enrollment of more than 15,000 students. Undergraduates pursue 60 majors in the fields of Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Physical and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences. Graduate students work towards graduate certificates, master’s degrees or Ph. D. degrees in 30 academic fields. Applications and nominations, accompanied by current résumés, may be addressed to: Alberto Pimentel, Managing Partner They should be received no later than Friday, April 27, 2007. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer |
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The University of California invites nominations and applications for the position of Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus.