Crown College
Crown College is one of ten residential colleges that make up one of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz: the residential college system. It is part of the Crown-Merrill neighborhood on campus. Its theme, Science, Technology, and Society, explores the relationship of science and technology with the world around us, including both the positive and negative impacts of technology on our environment and social institutions. The facilities at Crown College were built through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation. The College has themed housing for Gaming and Computer Game Design, as well as a Outdoor Pursuits and Sustainability Community and a transfer student hub.
PARKING INFORMATION Visitors to UCSC may purchase a daily permit at the Main Entrance Kiosk (M-7) or the TAPS Sales Office (L-7). They may also utilize ParkMobile in designated hourly/daily parking spaces. The closest parking lots to this location are the Crown College "Pit" (111A) and the Crown College Circle (111B).
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🏠 Housing & The Residential Colleges
One of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz is our residential college system. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.
These ten communities, each with their own academic themes, architecture, activities, location, and support resources, provide a neighborhood for your lived campus experience. By design, our residential colleges are not connected to any specific major. This provides a wonderful opportunity to interact, live, and learn alongside fellow banana slugs from different backgrounds, countries, and experiences.
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👑 Crown College
Crown College houses the Social Fiction Conference, which provides a unique opportunity for analyzing important societal issues in the context of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, gaming and other related genres of entertainment. Crown is also home to UCSC’s annual Geek Week - a week-long series of events and programs centered around various aspects of Geekdom! The Tabletop Games Association (TGA) is a group for students interested in tabletop role playing games, card games, board games, war games, and anything else played around a table also housed at Crown College.
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