Delivering an educational and overall experience that develops students who are capable of solving problems, leading, and innovating in a diverse and interconnected world

• Improved teaching facilities and instructional technology
• Added new courses and research experiences in response to emerging fields
• Created and began implementing faculty growth plan with the goal of adding 80 net new faculty over three years to help reduce the student to ladder-rank faculty ratio to 28:1
• Worked to improve retention and graduation rates through numerous avenues, which include: streamlining curriculum requirements, creating the Four-Year Plan tool (allows students to plan and monitors their graduation path for all 130 majors), increasing offerings of bottleneck courses and expanding first-year experience courses
• Established Teaching & Learning Commons
• Began implementation of Graduate Student Growth and Excellence Initiative to increase graduate student and Ph.D. population, increase number of students and scholars with fellowships, increase average net stipends paid to all students across all divisions, and increase international student population
• Commenced bicycle and pedestrian improvements on campus
• Opened Triton Food Pantry to provide free food to students in need

Cultivating a diverse and inclusive university community that encourages respectful open dialogue, and challenges itself to take bold actions that will ensure learning is accessible and affordable for all

• Designed and implemented TA training on diversity and pedagogy to support improved teaching and cultural awareness
• Developed and held Teaching Diversity Conference
• Created Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series
• Expanded the number of students who receive the Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship and boosted on-campus programming to further support the scholars
• Increased outreach to disadvantaged businesses for contracted services
• Added diverse art to campus including Sojourner Truth statue and the Art Park
• Enhanced collaboration between Admissions and Campus Community Centers (Black Resource Center, Cross-Cultural Center, Raza Resource Centro) to amplify outreach efforts to over 40 high schools, community colleges, and student groups in Southern California, primarily low-income and first-generation students

Nurturing and supporting a collaborative and interdisciplinary research culture that advances the frontiers of knowledge, shapes new fields, and disseminates discoveries that transform lives

• Formed committees to advance research themes – committees set for Understanding and Protecting the Planet and Enriching Human Life and Society; committees being created for Exploring the Basis of Human Knowledge, Learning and Creativity and Understanding Cultures and Addressing Disparities in Society
• Created multiple interdisciplinary centers through the Frontiers of Innovation program to support four research themes, including Sustainable Power and Energy Center, Institute for Integrative Science of the Developing Mind and Brain, and Center for Research on Gender in STEMM
• Launched 200 multidisciplinary student-research projects through Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program
• Connected 600 students with research experiences through Undergraduate Research Portal
• Enhanced multi-institutional research and signed 26 new international memoranda of understanding
• Completed Space Study to examine use of existing space, policies for space management and campus facilities information system, and identify areas for improvement

Supporting and promoting just and sustainable forms of economic development, shared prosperity, and social and cultural enrichment regionally and globally

• Renewed focus on industry, donor and multi-institutional partnerships to enhance teaching and foster research and discoveries
• Collaborated with external partners on Regional Transportation projects, including the I-5/Genesee Avenue Interchange, I-5/Gilman Bridge and Mid-Coast Corridor Light Rail Transit
• Developed a hospital and community physician network throughout San Diego, Imperial and portions of Riverside Counties to improve access to UC San Diego programs and services
• Continued construction of the Jacobs Medical Center, Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, and Outpatient Pavilion, which will enhance patient care and add important collaborative research space
• Completed Gilman Transit Center renovation
• Created and opened Scripps Coastal Meander Trail

Creating an agile, sustainable, and supportive infrastructure by ensuring a dedication to service, people, and financial stewardship

• Streamlined annual budget process and working to establish a single operating fund for non-restricted accounts
• Created IT efficiencies across campus and extended cloud computing to support faculty, staff and students
• Achieved savings through streamlined efficiencies and refinancing
• Launched Standing Committee on Service and People Oriented Administrative Culture and the new IdeaWave to gather ideas for improvements and efficiencies
• Implemented water conservation efforts

Over the next year and beyond, we will continue our efforts to think boldly to identify and implement the unprecedented solutions that are necessary to ensure our continued level of excellence, and that fulfill our Strategic Plan goals. Looking ahead, we plan to:

• Continue to focus on education and student initiatives, such as expanding supplemental instruction programs, trying novel approaches to advising and devising new, tested strategies to improve retention and time-to-degree
• Continue to implement faculty growth plan
• Expand master’s and Ph.D. programs
• Create a Behavioral Concern Advice Line
• Continue to forge donor and industry partnerships in key regions
• Increase staff to promote student recruitment and retention, and strengthen community support
• Increase alumni giving
• Continue to utilize IdeaWave to solicit ideas and implement recommended process improvements throughout the organization
• Address priority cyclical maintenance projects that have been identified
• Complete EDI Dashboard, a real-time, web-based user interface that shows graphical presentations of the current status and historical trends of UC San Diego’s performance indicators