Arts & Lectures
Arts & Lectures enriches your student’s education by presenting more than 150 events during the school year. These include performances by world-class professional dance companies, jazz and classical music ensembles, theater artists and world musicians. Approximately 40 touring artists and companies appear on campus in Campbell Hall and at theaters in downtown Santa Barbara. A&L’s community and outreach programs take many of these artists into classrooms, residence halls and other campus venues for lectures/demonstrations and meet-the-artist discussions.
Each quarter A&L screens acclaimed international cinema, the best domestic features, rarely seen documentaries and independent films. Occasionally directors introduce and discuss their work with audiences.
A&L’s special events, author’s readings and public lectures feature artists and influential figures of international stature. These presentations cover a vast range of subjects and provide an invigorating and inspiring complement to classroom study. Many of these programs are free.
Through the work-study program, A&L employs 50 students as ushers, ticket office assistants and assistants in our administrative offices. Volunteer ushers are welcome. UCSB students receive significant discounts on tickets. Additional discounts are available to students who subscribe to five or more A&L performances.
For more information, to purchase A&L gift certificates for your student, to request a free brochure describing A&L’s performing arts season or a calendar that includes quarterly films and lectures listings, please call (805) 893-3535 or visit www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.
Career Planning
Career Services offers professional counseling and a comprehensive Career Resource Room to help students with career planning and graduate school information needs. This office also provides career assessment, drop-in advising, workshops, internet access, on-campus interviews, reference letter service, and a quarterly career planning class under ED 164. Career related work experience can be gained through the Internship Program at Career Services. If you are interested in keeping abreast of career-related events and issues that affect your students, you can subscribe to Career Services’ parent newsletter Career Alliance at http://career.ucsb.edu. Visit our website at http://career.ucsb.edu for additional on-line resources.
Disabled Students Program
The Disabled Students Program (DSP) offers a variety of academic support services to students with documented disabilities. These disabilities range from visible (mobility issues, blind or low vision, deaf or hearing loss) to hidden disabilities (Learning, ADD/ADHD, or Psychological disabilities, and chronic or acute health issues). Academic accommodations range from note takers to exam accommodations, and include technological assistant equipment. DSP is located in the Student Resource Building, Room 2120. For more information, please call (805) 893-2668.
Discovery Days
The Summer Orientation staff coordinates the "Discovery Days" program, conducted during the first week of fall quarter, September 22-24, 2008. During this period many workshops are offered providing information about administrative and academic services, as well as some immediate concerns of students in their first week. Schedule planning help is available, some placement exams are offered and many tours are available. Orientation advisors will staff “the Big Info Van” near Storke Tower with campus for information and referrals to all campus services during each of the three days. The Discovery Days Calendar, mailed to all new students in early September inside the Orientation Edition of the Daily Nexus campus newspaper, lists all the events designed to introduce new students to every aspect of UCSB life. Events this year include:
- New Student Convocation, September 22th, 3-4pm
- "Aiming for Academic Excellence" Workshops by CLAS
- Campus Services Faire, Wednesday, September 24th, 11am-2pm
- Coffee Hours for Re-entry Students and their Families
- “Taste of the Town” tours of some great restaurants in Isla Vista
- “How To...” Survival Skills Workshops from O-Staffers
- Fun & Fitness Festival
- Reception for New Transfer & Re-entry Students
- “Entertainment Tonight! A Sneak Peak at Culture, Clubs and Community” Tuesday, September 23rd, 6-9pm
- Activities Faire (Mid October)
EOP Student Support Services
EOP Counselors assist the student community while focusing on low-income and first-generation students over the course of their undergraduate careers in clarifying and addressing academic, personal, career, and financial concerns. They may also assist students as advocates and mentors while sharing information about other key campus resources and service providers available at UCSB and in the community. Assistance for entering freshmen begins with the Summer Transitional Enrichment Program (STEP), a two-week residential experience where students may enroll in courses such as math, writing, chemistry and a Transitions Seminar. These courses introduce critical and independent thinking skills and techniques for attaining scholastic honors at the university level. EOP also offers other departmental services, such as the Frosh Peer Advisor and Transfer & Continuing Students Programs that are designed to assist new frosh, transfer, undergraduate parents and re-entry students. The primary goal of these services is to advise and prepare students at each respective class level to achieve post-graduation goals, such as gaining admission to a graduate/professional school or entering the job market. In addition, EOP offers a Cultural Services Program that facilitates interaction/collaboration between students of all cultural/ethnic backgrounds and allows them to gain an understanding of and appreciation for similarities and differences in each other and themselves. Five EOP Cultural Resource Centers help provide welcoming environments to celebrate and promote the history, contributions, intellectual heritage, education and growth of students. For further information about these services, visit our website at www.sa.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-4758.
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Student Support
The Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity offers a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or ally (LGBTQIA). Located on the 3rd floor of the Student Resource Building (room 3112), the Resource Center is open 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday, and 10am to 5pm on Fridays (with reduced hours during summer). Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to stop by the 'Rainbow Lounge' to watch a video, study, read a magazine, or use a computer in our David Bohnett Cybercenter. The Resource Center also provides resources such as a lending library of over 1,000 educational books and 250 videos on various topics and sponsors a variety of cultural and educational events throughout the year. For more information call (805) 893-5847, or visit our homepage: www.sa.ucsb.edu/sgd.
Late Night Social Programming
The Office of Student Life provides leadership and support for Late Night Social Programming, a university-wide effort that focuses on changing the campus social culture through creating and supporting non-alcoholic or non-alcoholic centered activities and venues. The Office of Student Life in collaboration with student organizations, Associated Students, campus departments and local businesses develops regular alcohol-free options and provides new entertainment and recreational opportunities as an alternative to partying in the Isla Vista community. The UCSB After Dark Social Programming Fund$ mini grant program awards monies to student organizations sponsoring non-alcoholic or non-alcoholic-centered activities on Thursday, Friday and Saturday late nights as alternatives to the local party scene. The UCSB After Dark Weekend Calendar, a UCSB weekly entertainment guide highlighting Thursday, Friday and Saturday night alcohol-free and non-alcohol centered events happening on campus, around Isla Vista and in the communities of Goleta and Santa Barbara. The calendar appears as a half-page ad in the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus, each Thursday and is accessible online at www.sa.ucsb.edu/osl/afterdarkcalendar.
Legal Resource Center
A.S. Legal Resource Center provides free legal consultation and education to all UCSB undergraduate and graduate students. Services include assistance with arrests, tickets, leases, credit problems, accidents, consumer problems, employment, family law, and other issues. The office, staffed by Santa Barbara attorneys, can be reached at (805) 893-4246 to schedule an appointment. The office is open Monday-Friday from 12-5pm; 6550 Pardall Rd., suite B. Walk-ins are welcome.
Library
The Libraries at the University of California, Santa Barbara include Davidson Library and the Arts Library. Interdisciplinary Studies 1, a 1.0 unit credit class, is offered each quarter to help students learn to perform library research at the university level. We recommend students take this class before their junior year. Librarians are available to help students at the Reference desk or by appointment. The UCSB Libraries have a collection of 2.8 million volumes, 18,000 serials and provide access to more than 6,000 electronic journals and books. Computers and wireless internet is available. There is plenty of space for students to study in a safe, a supportive environment (food and drink allowed).For more information: library.ucsb.edu.
MultiCultural Center
The MultiCultural Center (MCC) promotes multicultural awareness, interaction and education by presenting a myriad of programs from various cultures, both national and international, such as the Race Matters Series that foster a multi-ethnic worldview. The MCC lounge is open for students to relax or study. The MCC also provides a theater and meeting rooms for programs of a social or educational nature. The MCC is located in the University Center and can be reached at (805) 893-8411.
Office of Student Life
Services include general assistance with problem solving and referrals, personal emergencies, letters of recommendation, and administrative withdrawals. Staff members work with students to provide leadership education and opportunities, and also assist in planning and scheduling many co-curricular activities and educational programs. The staff assists organizations with leadership training and development, program planning, fundraising, trustee accounts, publicity and promotion, and special projects. The Office of Student Life provides an organization directory on the web at www.sa.ucsb.edu/campusorgs//, which lists purposes and contacts for approximately 300 campus organizations. If students do not find an organization that interests them, the staff will help them to start one.
Community development efforts and special projects focus on a broad spectrum of issues affecting students, their parents, and other campus and community constituencies. These include student life issues in the community of Isla Vista, campus and community-based alcohol and drug abuse prevention and education, crime reporting and campus security, voter registration, support for alternative social and entertainment programming, and special events such as UCSB’s annual New Student Convocation.
Office of Judicial Affairs
The protection of scholastic integrity and the prevention of academic dishonesty are fundamental to the mission of the Office of Judicial Affairs. The office provides education about the enforcement of general campus regulations including various forms of discriminatory harassment. Hate incidents may be reported to the Hate Incidents Response Coordinator, (805) 893-5016.
The staff works to foster interactions among students, campus organizations, the University, and the local community. The office is located in the Student Resource Building in the Office of Student Life. (805) 893-4569 or (805) 893-4550; www.sa.ucsb.edu/osl.
Transportation & Parking Services
All members of the UCSB community take pride in our beautiful campus. We strive to reduce demands on the earth’s resources by using our resources efficiently and responsibility. We encourage all UCSB students to take advantage of the many alternative transportation options available on our campus. Conservation minded UCSB students skateboard, ride the train, carpool or ride the bus. All students pay a small fee as part of their registration and are entitled to ride on any bus in the Metropolitan Transit District simply by showing their registration sticker on their ID card to the bus driver. This excellent bus service covers all of the Santa Barbara area. We strongly recommend that students do not bring vehicles to campus as parking is extremely limited.
UCSB parking permits are required on all vehicles parked on campus. Students living within two miles of UCSB are not permitted to purchase a parking permit. Students living outside the 2-mile exclusion radius may purchase a commuter “C” permit. A limited number of parking permits are sold to on-campus residents. Residential parking permits and lot assignments are awarded on a “first-come, first-served” basis.
All students are entitled to a night and weekend parking permit for free which they may pick up each month at the Parking Services Office or purchase cling-on-window permit for $4.95 for the school year.
On behalf of Transportation & Parking Services we welcome your student to UCSB. Please visit us at www.tps.ucsb.edu additional information about Transportation & Parking options for students. Please do not hesitate to contact us at salesoffice@park.ucsb.edu if you need additional information.
Travel Services
The Greyhound bus and Amtrak train depots are located in downtown Santa Barbara (there is also a small Amtrak stop near campus in Goleta). The Santa Barbara Airport is located just northeast of UCSB, less than five minutes from campus and is served by several major airlines. The reasonably priced Santa Barbara Airbus to and from Los Angeles International Airport is available from Goleta and Santa Barbara. For all travel needs, call STA Travel (805) 968-5151 in the University Center, or visit their website at www.sta.com. They have many discounted specials for air, cruises, hotels and more. STA Travel also books all reservations for their customers from their office in the UCen. They are travel experts for students and their friends and families.
University Center
The University Center (UCen) features eight dining facilities and a newly remodeled food court area, The Hub. Also found at the UCen are the UCSB Bookstore, Fed Ex/Kinko’s, seven meeting rooms, the Corwin Pavilion Conference Center, a post office and check cashing agency, a travel agency, student organization offices, and plenty of couches for studying and/or lounging in between classes. The UCen is home to Associated Students (A.S.), the student government organization. A.S. provides a notetaking service, ticket office, and cashier’s office. Also located at the UCen are the Community Affairs Board, the MultiCultural Center and Theater, the Community Housing Office, and the Graduate Students Association. In addition, the UCen has two computer lounges. Visit our website: www.ucen.ucsb.edu
Women's Center
The Women’s Center is a place to study, relax, meet friends, attend programs, view art in the gallery, do research in the Center’s library, or obtain referrals to services on-campus and in the community. The Women’s Center offers workshops, films and lectures that examine and expand the educational, professional and personal opportunities of students. The Rape and Sexual Harassment Prevention Education Programs provide confidential assistance as well as educational programming to help prevent sexual assault and harassment. The Women’s Center also provides services for re-entry/non-traditional and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gendered students and assists students, faculty and staff in navigating through the University system. Women and men are welcome at the Center and its activities. The Women’s Center is located in the Student Resource Building, on the first floor in Room 1220. We are open Monday through Thursday 9:00am - 9:00pm and Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, (805) 893-3778; www.sa.ucsb.edu/women'scenter.
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