Chancellor's Vision for UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz strives to serve California as a top-ranked research university and the leading institution for the education of students -- fostering a culture of excellence, inquiry, creativity, diversity, and public service in developing solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

FOCUSING THE VISION

In fostering the mission of the University of California and in fulfilling the campus vision, UC Santa Cruz will enhance its achievements in creating knowledge and promoting understanding. UC Santa Cruz will realize this vision by strategically building its core disciplines while forging new directions of exploration where those disciplines intersect:

* Cross Cultural Initiatives
* Evolving Environments, Science, and Policy
* Human Health Initiatives
* Public Documentation and Communication
* Technological Development and Societal Impacts
* Transnationalism and Globalization

UC Santa Cruz will continue to build on a personalized, living-learning environment and the faculty's commitment to education. It will provide undergraduate and graduate students with unprecedented opportunities to create knowledge, be critical thinkers, contribute to society, and fully achieve their own potential.