Featuring keynote speaker Leon Panetta At UCSC, we launch. Ideas, dreams, passions, big thoughts, lives, careers. The campus itself was launched from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who risked walking off the path to transform not just the educational landscape, but also the students participating in this rare environment. Transformation is inherent in the student experience at UCSC — we know it is the key ingredient to launching bright futures. It strengthens resolve, tests assumptions, creates original thinkers and future leaders — that's why it's a central theme in The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz. http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/launch