The JCCCSR is a permanent joint committee of the administration and the Senate, which is composed of three subcommittees focused on research, teaching, and operations. Each subcommittee is Co-Chaired by a member of the Academic Senate and a representative from campus administrative leadership. Together, these subcommittees advance sustainability, climate, and resilience goals as articulated in Leading the Change, UCSC’s strategic plan. These goals include the following:
- Building communities of care, resilience, preparedness as the campus plans to adapt to a changing climate;
- Mitigating campus emissions and decarbonizing UCSC to build an equitable, accessible, and fossil-free future;
- Stewarding the land and water to support healthy ecosystems while balancing infrastructure needs to minimize impacts;
- Advancing a circular economy in the consumption cycle;
- Teaching students about climate change to ensure that all students graduate with an understanding of climate change;
- Advancing interdisciplinary climate change research; and
- Forging relationships with Indigenous communities to enable the co-production of knowledge and action plans towards climate justice.
Contact (TBD)
Committee Info
Co-Chairs meet 2-3 times per quarter during the academic year to effectively coordinate the efforts of the teaching, research and operations subcommittees. The subcommittees meet at least once each quarter. The Co-Chairs report progress annually to the Leading the Change Implementation Committee and Academic Senate.
Related Links and Resources
Listening Session:
Possible Climate GE
December 10, 2025
11:00am – noon
via Zoom
The Joint Senate-Administration Subcommittee on Climate Teaching (JSA-CT) is developing a proposal for an interdisciplinary Climate Science, Justice, and Solutions General Education requirement. A draft of the proposal is available through this link. We invite UCSC faculty and staff to give feedback to the JSA-CT on the proposal at a listening session.
We will hold additional listening sessions (including one on Jan. 11, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–noon) and offer other ways to give feedback during winter 2026. This will include sending surveys about the proposal to course sponsoring agencies to compile information about how the proposed Climate GE class could synergize with their current climate-related undergraduate courses.