A Word from the Chancellor
Welcome to the 2009-10 academic year at UC Santa Barbara! This catalog is a valuable guidebook for the year ahead. I refer to it often, and I hope you will too. I encourage you to take time to familiarize yourself with the exciting and diverse courses, programs, and extracurricular activities available to all of us on this campus.
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We have a tradition here at UC Santa Barbara of emphasizing both our undergraduate and graduate programs, and a balance of academic and extracurricular campus life. We work collaboratively to foster a friendly and supportive environment in which students, staff, and faculty from richly diverse backgrounds and perspectives can explore and learn together.
This is an extraordinary place. We are one of only 62 institutions elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Our distinguished professors are leaders in their fields and are recognized nationally and internationally with numerous accolades, including five Nobel Prizes since 1998.
Thank you for your partnership in advancing UC Santa Barbara’s quality and stature as one of the top research universities in the world. We are so glad to have you as part of our community of scholars, and of our UCSB family.
Sincerely,
Henry T. Yang