We will enhance resources to ensure personal connection and meet the needs of a growing and diverse community of learners. The experience and achievement of all learners at all levels — undergraduate or graduate students, trainees in our health system or lifelong learners — are paramount. Core elements span accessibility and affordability, academic and career advising, time-to-degree and support for students new to UC San Diego, including transfer and first-generation students.

We will implement approaches that inspire students, trainees and instructors while sustaining our focus on retention and graduation rates. As the demands of learners continue to evolve, we must build capacity for ongoing renewal to ensure we remain a leader in education. Program development, technology-enabled delivery, learning space upgrades and increased summer instruction are likely areas of focus, as are instructor training and incubation for experimentation in pedagogy.

We will strengthen linkages across educational experiences to prepare learners at all levels for academic and real-world challenges. Facilitating of interdisciplinary learning and teaching across our general campus schools and colleges, UC San Diego Health and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is an ongoing priority. Other priorities include expansion in experiential, applied and global learning; access to research for undergraduates; and on-campus student employment and apprenticeships.

We will promote growth and embed practices to support the fundamental research and training goals of graduate and professional students. These programs are core to our mission and vision, and we must tailor our approaches to attract and retain learners seeking enrichment beyond undergraduate education. Stable funding, facilitating alumni networking and integrated support that foster a strong learning community and personal wellbeing are all important.

We will build and integrate our programs and services to improve patient care and community health. Strategic expansion of both UC San Diego Health and centralized health and well-being services for students, faculty and staff, represent a shared commitment to excellence and better health for all. Related we advance digital health tools, mobile health and destination sub-specialty clinical programs as we strive to serve a broad range of needs across campus, the region and beyond.

We will create, coordinate and sustain collaborations through which we seek to learn, build knowledge and help address pressing issues with the communities around us. It is our privilege as a public university to partner with our binational society through a spirit of reciprocity in pursuit of purposeful change. We will enhance and establish mechanisms to ensure effective engagement, and we will work actively to support local priorities, especially during times of crisis.

Reaffirming the blend of disciplines that has characterized UC San Diego since its founding, we will more fully embed the arts into all facets of university life to stimulate creativity, empathy and commitment to the common good. Through cross-school curricular initiatives, co-curriculars that explore cultural traditions and activities that honor the contributions of our students, colleagues and partners to the rich fabric of the university and region, our aim is to permeate UC San Diego with the arts.

We will strengthen structures and practices that help ensure excellence, inclusion and impact through research, scholarship and creative activity. These foundations create the conditions for success in pursuing our research themes. Areas of focus include computing capacity and services, grant writing support in strategic growth areas, shared research spaces and equipment, translational health research and clinical trials and innovation through industry, government and community partnerships.

We will leverage our unique knowledge, history and resources to accelerate sustainable solutions, transform the university and serve as a model for others. Beyond advancing climate science and the urgency of the global crisis through research and teaching, we must embed sustainability in all we do through practices that, for example, decarbonize our operations, reduce research emissions and waste, integrate urban ecology throughout the campus and promote green transportation.

We will deepen cross-border engagement and amplify our education and research activities around the world, coordinating across all undertakings to enrich our culture and build a global brand. In adopting a more integrated approach, we will enhance and establish programs and partnerships that support our people and progress, both across campus and abroad. And as we illuminate our achievements, so too we reinforce our capacity to attract the best and brightest to UC San Diego.

We will deploy common tools and structures to enable flexibility and efficient coordination with local solutions, also making it easier to work across the university and add value by extending the reach of ideas and activities. Underpinned by our commitment to excellent financial stewardship, we will connect priorities, incentives and accountabilities through our funding model, and we will leverage technology and AI applications to enable modernization and resiliency.