March 2021
This year, UC San Diego is encouraging students to stay safer by staying put — and spend Spring Break 2021 with UC San Diego. Divisions and departments from across the university have come together to offer a full schedule of enriching opportunities for students to learn new skills, make connections, and have fun.

Students can check out the full event calendar, and check back often as new opportunities are being added daily. UC San Diego is excited to safely share Spring Break with your Tritons!
UC San Diego's Return to Learn is the platform that shares information on how the university is responding to COVID-19. Read questions and answers about COVID-19, campus safety, dashboard, wellness, vaccinations, and more. Sign up for Triton Alerts to receive timely campus notifications.
As students finish the quarter and head into Spring Break, UC San Diego held a Parent & Family Webinar filled with loads of updates. View video playlist.

Videos available in English, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Mar. 13 - 20: Finals Week
Mar. 19: Tuition and registration fee deadline.
Mar. 21 - Mar. 28: Spring Break
Mar. 26: Cesar Chavez Holiday. Campus is closed.
Mar. 29: Spring quarter instruction begins
Parent & Family Guide is online, translatable in any language, and includes a checklist (i.e., waive UC SHIP health insurance), campus contact, and a full academic calendar with dates to remember. Learn more.

Triton Transition Calendar is interactive. You can search what you are looking for and you can adjust your computer settings to your preferred language. Learn more.
Thank you to all who have joined us for our Fall and Winter quarter Triton Family Web Series sessions. If you missed any, you can catch up on all seven of our past Triton Family Web Series sessions by watching on our YouTube Playlist.


We have four more sessions scheduled for the Spring quarter. Join us for all or any of the Triton Family Web Series sessions geared to support you and your student.

A Tale of "Two Worlds:" Navigating the Home Community and the University Community | April 6 at 6 - 7 p.m. (PDT)
Once a Triton, Always a Triton| April 21 at 6 - 7 p.m. (PDT)
What's Next? Supporting Your Student's Journey After UC San Diego | May 4 at 6 - 7 p.m. (PDT)
Graduation is a Family Affair| May 12 at 6 - 7 p.m. (PDT)
UC San Diego Recreation
For any student on campus the Return to Rec membership is available which will give them access to outdoor, in-person fitness & Rec classes along with Outback Adventure trips! Free for students.

Rec also offers free virtual classes seven days a week on the Playground! 
Emergency Food Relief
Triton Food Pantry
The Triton Food Pantry strives to help all students facing food insecurity where students can access a variety of food. All students can visit the Pantry once a week to receive a bag with a variety of healthy food options. Learn more.
The Hub Basic Needs Center
The Hub Basic Needs Center supports students in meeting their basic needs. We focus on food, housing, and financial wellness. It is their goal to end the stigma surrounding basic needs. Thus, they offer a variety of services to support students in meeting their basic needs in order for them to do well in other areas of their life, such as academics. 
Tritons Flourish

Tritons Flourish is a resource for students offering strategies to cope with stress, live worry-free, cope with grief and lost, and so much more. Students can take advantage of drop-in workshops to begin to learn about wellness. Learn more.
COVID-19 Student Conduct Amnesty Program
Under the COVID-19 Student Conduct Amnesty Program, the student conduct process will not be initiated if students communicate in good faith during the contact tracing process when it is clear the student was not aware they were contagious with COVID-19 when gathering.
UC San Diego Global Seminars
UC San Diego Global Seminars invites students to apply for one of our summer 2021 virtual faculty-led study abroad programs. At a time when most in-person study abroad options have been canceled due to the COVID-19 epidemic, virtual Global Seminars offer the opportunity to receive eight quarter units of UC San Diego credit in a five-week summer session, along with high quality online interaction with a UCSD faculty member and global experts and sites for a much lower price than a traditional program.
Four Steps to Support Your Graduating Senior from UC San Diego Alumni
With Spring Quarter on the horizon, our graduating seniors have classes, careers, and Commencement on their minds. With so many things to juggle, it always helps to have a little help from their friends and family. Here are some steps you can take to support your graduating senior. 

1. Remind them to file their Degree and Diploma Application, and encourage them to talk to their college advisor if they have any questions. 
2. Periodically check Commencement 2021 Website for news. 
3. Bookmark our New Grad Website to view our offering of programs designed specifically for graduating seniors. 
4. Make a donation during our U.Care campaign (May 13-14) on behalf of your graduating senior, and get featured on our New Grad website Parent Honor Roll. 

Want to hear about our New Grad Programs? Have your student contact Tylar Pendgraft, Assistant Director of Student Engagement and Philanthropy at tpendgraftclabby@ucsd.edu.
Triton Parent & Family Ambassadors participate in events and programs like talking with prospective families during regional receptions, participating on panels at Triton Days or at your student’s college, serving as translators for parents who are English as second language learners, and more. Learn more.
Families, students, alumni, and friends receive reduced hotel rates at some of the finest properties in San Diego. Stay at one of Bartell Hotels’ seven distinguished properties, which supports student scholarships at UC San Diego and enhance university events. Book now.