Students & Alumni
Student Experience
Interested in sharing your experience?
Prospective students appreciate an honest appraisal by people who have experienced what it's like to attend UCSC Silicon Valley Professional Education. They want to know the best courses and instructors to advance their career skills.
If you would like to share about how you got a job, what your favorite instructor told you, or how to get ahead in your industry, please click on the button below.
We've linked some of our student blog stories below.
Easy Form for Student Feedback
Once you fill out this form, we'll contact you to let you know we've received it and we may follow up via email to clarify comments.
Sign a Student Testimonial Release Form
You can sign your release form and it will be automatically sent to the registrar and to the Marketing Department. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Instructor | Organizer
Print out this form if you are seeking releases from a class or organized event. Please return to reachus@ucsc.edu. with your photos for our photo archive.
Photos
You can use this form to submit a photo or you can email it directly to us at reachus@ucsc.edu.
A selfie taken with a mobile device is fine, just be sure to send it "actual size" rather than reducing it. Generally an 8"x10" works great.
Questions?
Please contact us directly at: reachus@ucsc.edu.
FAQs for Student Testimonials
It could be a short comment that we can quote or a long blog or a video comment or a photo.
- Time Commitment
That's up to you. You can answer a few questions on Zoom or via email. Or take a little more time to tell your story for a blog or byserving on a panel discussion about a program for an info session. - Use of Your Name
That's up to you. You can use your full name, first name, or initials. - Use of Image.
Please send a photo of yourself if you can. Or come by the building if you want us to take your photo.
Some of the ways we may use your information include:
- Internal discussions about what helps and doesn’t help our students.
- Short anonymous testimonials We don’t use these too often, but sometimes we add these to the website or in marketing materials.
- Student stories These are short, usually 500-word blogs that we write up after talking with you briefly about your experience at UCSC. Students are asked to review these and make sure they are accurate.
- Onsite events: sharing student stories with prospective students
- On the website: You can find student comments on the home page, international page, and some instructor and course pages.
- Online Channels: Social Media Posts and Digital Marketing Ads
- Brochures, flyers, and marketing materials: You can see student comments in our latest International Brochure
- A blog post highlighting your journey.