Past Events

May 22 – May 23, 2023

Higher Education’s Labor Upsurge

UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community is pleased to host a two-day workshop on the growing labor movement in higher education. This event aims to bring together worker-organizers to share insights, lessons, strategic perspectives, organizing models, questions, and challenges from our various struggles.

Across the United States and beyond, academic workers are unionizing and taking strike action in staggering numbers. Since 2013, over 120 new faculty union chapters have won recognition. Last year, amidst the largest academic worker strike in history, graduate student-workers at nearly a dozen institutions filed for union election.

We will be joined by Carolina Bank Muñoz (CUNY), Ian Gavigan (Rutgers), Jamie Woodcock (University of Essex), Roberto Mozzachiodi (Goldsmiths), Barry Eidlin (McGill), and more! Full program here.

This event will be held at the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences building located at 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

And if you can’t attend in person, the event will also be live-streamed. Pls register for the conference and use this link to watch the live-stream from anywhere.

The workshop is free, but registration is required. Join us!

Register here

Questions? Contact Sarah Mason at the Center for Labor and Community at saemason@ucsc.edu

Sponsored by: Center for Labor and Community, Institute for Social Transformation, and UC Santa Cruz Faculty Association.

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All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

UC Santa Cruz October 26-28, 2022

3-day national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships, hands-on research and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change.

Co-presented by URBAN and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation

No Place Like Home: The Santa Cruz Affordable Housing Crisis Report: 19 October 2017, 7-9pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz

Survey Results, Art Exhibit & Kick-off of Affordable Housing Week

This campus-community event will unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz & Watsonville. We will share the results of over 1700 surveys and interviews with local residents and how they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art exhibit on the meanings of “home.” Finally, the event kicks off Affordable Housing Week, with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups participating in an open discussion of responses to the crisis and sharing information about strategies, campaigns and up-coming events seeking a way forward.