Mission

When a community welcomes all members with support and respect, individuals flourish as teachers, scholars, researchers and creators. The university's work in equity, diversity and inclusion has set the stage for that flourishing.

Indeed, UC believes that including people from the full human spectrum — encompassing race, age, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, ability, experience and more — makes for a community that reflects the richness and diversity of California itself.

The University of California focuses on degree completion and on long-term growth in faculty and research. Goals include:

1. Producing over 200,000 additional degrees, on top of the one million undergraduate and graduate degrees currently projected.
   
   
2. Achieving a 90 percent overall graduation rate and cultivating timely graduation and graduate degree attainment among Pell recipients and first-generation students.
   
   
3. Investing in the next generation of faculty and researchers by adding 1,100 ladder-rank faculty over the next four years.