Mission and Vision
Mission
Our HSI team is committed to long-term change efforts that ensure Latiné students wholeheartedly participate in the UCSC community, succeed in their educational journey, and eventually graduate to make an impact in the world. At the core of this commitment is a willingness to reexamine our traditional educational systems and explore new ways to provide resources and support to students who have not received them historically.
Our team’s goal is to help improve decisions about curriculum, programs, resources, and evaluation that support Latiné students, which benefits all students by finding the best ways to serve and empower our community of learners.
This strategic work addresses the following questions:
- What forces accelerate or impede the holistic success of Latiné, low-income, and first-generation undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students at UCSC?
- What educational interventions, student-centered practices, and investments can increase UCSC’s capacity as a public R-1 institution to support the success and academic and career pathways of Latiné, low-income, and first-generation undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students?
- What structures, changes, and institutional investments can increase the capacity of UCSC, as a public R-1 HSI, to serve as a UC and national leader in redefining servingness, achieving equity, and promoting social mobility?
Vision
UCSC will graduate Latiné, low-income, and first-generation students to support racial equity goals and open academic and career pathways to achieve holistic student success, including a 90% undergraduate graduation rate for native freshmen and transfer students with a 3.0 or higher grade point average, achieving parity for graduate student outcomes and increasing opportunities for high-level professional careers. As an HSI developing educational interventions, student-centered practices, and investments for student success, UCSC will conduct an ongoing inquiry on practices and policies that advance this vision and contribute the resulting knowledge to scholarly work on educational equity.
