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• Information on AMTRAK commuter train to
the Goleta depot from the north
• Emergency Ride Home Program
To learn more, please visit our website at
www.tps.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-5475 for a
free consultation on your optimal money saving
commute options. Transportation Alternative
Programs are subject to change. Please refer to
the TAP website for updated information.
UCSB Resource Center for Sexual &
Gender Diversity (RCSGD)
The Resource Center for Sexual & Gender
Diversity at UCSB is designed to be a safe and
supportive environment for all students, staff,
and faculty, emphasizing resources for the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
intersex, and ally (LGBTQIA) community, as well
as those who are questioning their sexual and/
or gender identity. The RCSGD welcomes a
diversity of racial, ethnic, religious, political, and
cultural values while advocating for the welfare
of those who have historically been marginalized
because of their sexual and/or gender identity.
The Director and Resource Center for Sexual &
Gender Diversity staff are committed to serving
the campus and larger community with
professionalism and respect. The RCSGD
provides educational programming, social
activities, advocacy, and consultation with the
goal of enhancing safety, tolerance, and quality
of life in the UCSB community.
The Resource Center for Sexual & Gender
Diversity is located in Rooms 3135 and 3137 on
the third floor of the University Center. For more
information call (805) 893-5847.
Website: www.sa.ucsb.edu/sgd/.
UCSB Bookstore
Detailed textbook and complete bookstore
information is available on the UCSB Bookstore
website: www.bookstore.ucsb.edu.
Located in the University Center, the bookstore
is open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to
5:30 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Extended
hours information is available at (805) 893-3271.
Winter quarter textbook refunds are issued
January 5 through January 16 between 9 a.m
and 4 p.m. outside the store, and before 9 a.m.
and after 4 p.m. inside the store at the customer
service counter. All sales are final on January 16.
Special orders on textbooks are taken beginning
January 12. Unsold textbooks will be
returned to publishers beginning February 2.
University Police
The University of California Santa Barbara Police
is committed to fulfilling its mission to provide a
safe, peaceful, and secure environment of
persons and facilities on the campus. A
community oriented Police Department
accomplishes these goals through education
and enforcement.
This pro-active department employs 26 sworn
full-time officers. The UC Police Officers, who
have statewide jurisdiction, maintain 24 hour
uniformed patrol on foot, bicycle, and motor
vehicles. Officers engage in crime prevention,
handling calls for service, investigating crimes,
and taking appropriate action. Paramedics and
emergency medical technicians provide lifesupport
services 24 hours a day. Both the police
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and paramedics are dispatched through the
Communications Unit located in the Public
Safety Building. Communications also handles
all campus 911 calls.
Assisting the Police Department is the
Community Service Organization which employs
50 students. The students act as the eyes and
ears for the Police Department. They also
register bikes, collect lost and found, and
provide escorts for students.
The Police Department works with the
Women’s Center Rape Prevention Education
Program. Due to the Police Department’s
innovative and pro-active stance, the 1994 report
from Crime at College lists UC Santa Barbara as
one of the safest university campuses.
Visitor Center
The Visitor Center is located on the ground floor
of the Student Affairs Administrative Services
Building (SAASB), Room 1102A. A component of
the Office of Admissions and Outreach Services,
the Visitor Center offers one-hour Freshman
Admissions presentations on weekdays at 11
a.m., and hour-long walking tours at 12 noon
and 2 p.m., excluding holidays. Saturday
Admission presentations at 11 a.m. and
Saturday tours at noon are only offered in
October and April. Transfer Advising sessions
are held each Thursday and Friday at 1 p.m.,
excluding holidays.
Website: www.admit.ucsb.edu/vcen/
Women’s Center
The Women’s Center works towards retaining
students, staff, and faculty and empowering
them to be successful within the academy and
beyond. We strive for an inclusive and equitable
campus community through advocacy, education,
and support services. The Center promotes
an understanding of the role and impact of
gender in our lives and our society. The Center
challenges sexism, racism, heterosexism,
ageism, abelism, classism, and other barriers
that inhibit full inclusion and equal power in
society in order to help people of diverse
backgrounds achieve their intellectual,
professional, and personal goals and realize
their full potential. Through our programs, we
work to support lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, questioning, and ally students,
staff, and faculty and promote a supporting and
accepting climate regardless of sexual orientation
or gender identity.
Services the center provides include: rape and
sexual harassment prevention education, crisis
counseling and advocacy for anyone affected by
sexual violence, an art gallery, research library,
lectures, films, workshops, support groups,
services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
students, and a re-entry/non-traditional student
lounge. A quarterly calendar of activities is
available.
The Women’s Center welcomes both women
and men, students, faculty, staff, and community
members.
The center is located in Building 434. Hours
are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Call (805) 893-3778 for further information or visit
the website at: www.sa.ucsb.edu/women’scenter/.
Jeanne Clery
Disclosure of
Campus Security
Policy and Campus
Crime Statistics Act
The University of California, Santa Barbara is
committed to assisting all members of the UCSB
community-students, faculty, staff and visitors-in
providing for their own safety and security. The
complete UCSB campus safety report, Dedicated
to the Safety of Our Community: The
Clery Act Campus Security Report, including
campus crime statistics, campus policies and
substance abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual
assault complaint procedures is available on-line
at www.sa.ucsb.edu/policies/
CleryActCampusSecurityReport.htm or you can
request a copy by calling the Office of Student
Life at (805) 893-7884.
This information is made available in accordance
with the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of
Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime
Statistics Act,” formerly the “Student Right to
Know and Campus Security Act.” The web site
contains information regarding campus security
and personal safety including topics such as:
crime prevention, university police law enforcement
authority, crime reporting policies,
disciplinary procedures and other matters of
importance related to security on campus. The
web site contains information about crime
statistics for the three previous calendar years
concerning reported crimes that occurred on
campus; in certain off-campus buildings or
property owned or controlled by UCSB; and on
public property within, or immediately adjacent
to and accessible from the campus.
This information is required by law, provided
by the Office of Student Life and the campus
Police Department, and upholds the campus
belief that a well-informed community is better
served and safer. UC Santa Barbara makes
continual efforts to reduce crime on campus and
supports a reporting philosophy that encourages
victims or witnesses to report all incidents
immediately to either the UCSB Police or