GOAL 3:
Encourage Contribution and Impact
We will empower students and faculty to make meaningful contributions to society by applying their knowledge, skills, and values to address current and future societal challenges. We want to nurture a sense of both entrepreneurship and social responsibility, equipping people with the tools to create positive, lasting impact locally and globally.
OBJECTIVES and STRATGIES
3.1 Emphasize learning that extends beyond the classroom, boosts career readiness, and enhances resilience and adaptability in an ever-changing world.
3.1.1 Facilitate student involvement in beyond-the-classroom experiences, such as internships, research, fieldwork, public-engaged scholarship, community service, or global learning programs.
3.1.2 Incentivize and support departments to create and expand experiential-learning opportunities that enable students to apply their knowledge in real-world contexts.
3.1.3 Increase student learning opportunities, programs, and resources focused on building resilience, adaptability, and competencies critical for career success, such as communication, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, ethics, and digital literacy.
3.2 Address pressing societal problems and planetary issues.
3.2.1 Support both fundamental and translational research that contributes to and generates new knowledge, transforms lives, and secures a thriving planet.
3.2.2 Foster integrative approaches to understanding and shaping societal and cultural change through collaborative frameworks that connect knowledge, values, and actions.
3.2.3 Nourish connections around interests, approaches, and matters of concern that exceed individual disciplines, encouraging creative solutions that promote sustainability, equity, and resilience.
3.3 Cultivate engagements, partnerships, and communities beyond the college.
3.3.1 Reinforce connections across UCD colleges and professional schools to evolve multidisciplinary collaborations, driving transformative research through robust research infrastructures.
3.3.2 Encourage place-based research with community partners that considers the unique challenges facing California and its peoples, attentive to cultural, social, environmental, and historical contexts.
3.3.3 Create research-to-implementation pipelines, including social and structural entrepreneurship, to drive application and accountability for positive change at local, national, and global levels.