Campus Resources

Many departments on campus offer training related to their areas of expertise. Below are links to their service pages and training programs:

• Risk Services’ Wellness Center
  • UC Santa Cruz Faculty & Staff Wellness Program, through UCSC Healthy Campus, strives to create a healthy campus community and work environment through integrated programs and services designed to provide tools and skills for leading healthy lifestyles and preventing injury and illness.

• My UC Career
  • This online development portal is available to all UC faculty, academic personnel, staff and students seeking to advance their career. Six self-paced modules help users discover their internal UC career mobility options, highlight accomplishments and identify how they can achieve their career goals within UC.

• Office of the Ombuds
  • The Office of the Ombuds at the University of California, Santa Cruz was re-established in 2023 to provide confidential, neutral, informal, and independent dispute resolution and mediation services to members of the UCSC community, predicated on the principles of fairness, equity, and respect.

• Digital Accessibility: Siteimprove Academy
  • Siteimprove Academy is UC’s e-learning resource for web accessibility onboarding and training. UCSC’s Risk Services office provides Siteimprove Academy’s courses on accessibility free for staff and faculty.

• UCSC Healthy Campus Network Project Playlist
  • With an award from Healthy Campus Network, Learning & Development  in conjunction with the Office of Online Education produced a series of videos on personal mental wellbeing practices featuring campus leaders (featuring Marlene Tromp, on Growth Mindset, Jody Greene, presenting Basic Sanity Here and Now, Bettina Aptheker on Cultivating a Relaxed and Compassionate Mind, & Meg Corman on both Mindfulness and a Body Scan practice). 

• Academic Personnel Office
• Academic Information Systems (AIS)
• Athletics & Recreation (ATH-REC)
• ITS Instructional Computing/Faculty Instructional Technology Center
• ITS Professional Development & Training
• Campus Financial Management Program
• Office of Emergency Services
• Contract & Grant
• CruzBuy
• Email
• Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S)
• Financial Affairs
• Financial Information System (FIS)
• Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Planning & Budget, including UC Santa Cruz Data Warehouse & Financial Managers Workbench
• UC Santa Cruz Extension
• UC MANAGING IMPLICIT BIAS SERIES (BUNDLE)
  • The UC Managing Implicit Bias Series is a series of six eCourses designed to increase awareness of implicit bias and reduce its impact at the University. The program further reinforces the University’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Managing Implicit Bias Certificate contains the following six self-paced, online interactive courses:
    • What is Implicit Bias?
    • The Impact of Implicit Bias
    • Managing the Influence of Implicit Bias – Awareness
    • Common Forms of Bias
    • Managing the Impact of Implicit Bias – Mindfulness and Conscious De-Biasing
    • Managing Implicit Bias in the Hiring Process
      • Those who complete all six courses will receive a certificate in Managing Implicit Bias and their coursework will count towards completion of the UC People Management Series and Certificate.