Provide permanent funding to support faculty chairs and student scholarships, fellowships, and named awards in our division. Memorial endowments reflect the interests of an endowment’s namesake and nurture the campus’s educational future while perpetuating the memory of the individuals honored.

Descriptions of Social Science Endowments are listed here.

With a focus on the study of human relationships and the functioning of society, the Division of Social Sciences is an outstanding example of the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary approach at UC Santa Cruz. The division seeks to understand large issues that affect the quality of life and future prospects of all inhabitants of our planet. Students and faculty within the Division of Social Sciences, concerned with how innovation and experimentation can be used to comprehend global economic, environmental, societal, and political changes, work together to forge creative new approaches to research and learning. Emerging from these ventures is a wealth of new solutions to contemporary society’s most pressing issues.

Because of the breadth of UC Santa Cruz's scholarship and research, endowments are needed in all subject areas. You can augment an existing endowment, join with others to start a new endowment, or establish a commemorative endowment to memorialize a loved one or special event. Your generous participation in funding the division’s endowments greatly enhances efforts within the Social Sciences Division to find ways to a more just and peaceful society.

The minimum required to establish a new endowed named award is $25,000. The minimum for endowed scholarships is $50,000, and for graduate fellowships it is $200,000. Arrangements may be made to pay gift pledges over time (up to five years) or through a planned gift.

The UC Santa Cruz Foundation is a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation organized in 1974. Its purposes are to promote greater community understanding of UC Santa Cruz and to solicit gifts in support of academic programs, scholarships, and capital improvements. For the purposes of strengthening the development program and partially defraying related administrative costs, a fee of 6% is assessed on all gifts effective July 1, 2010.