Mid-Atlantic HERC

The University of California, San Diego is dedicated to learning, teaching, and serving society through education, research, and public service. Our international reputation for excellence is due in large part to the cooperative and entrepreneurial nature of the UC San Diego community. UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to be creative and are rewarded for individual as well as collaborative achievements.

To foster the best possible working and learning environment, UC San Diego strives to maintain a climate of fairness, cooperation, and professionalism. These principles of community are vital to the success of the University and the well being of its constituents. UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students are expected to practice these basic principles as individuals and in groups.

• We value each member of the UC San Diego community for his or her individual and unique talents, and applaud all efforts to enhance the quality of campus life. We recognize that each individual's effort is vital to achieving the goals of the University.
• We affirm each individual's right to dignity and strive to maintain a climate of justice marked by mutual respect for each other.
• We value the cultural diversity of UC San Diego because it enriches our lives and the University. We celebrate this diversity and support respect for all cultures, by both individuals and the University as a whole.
• We are a university that adapts responsibly to cultural differences among the faculty, staff, students, and community.
• We acknowledge that our society carries historical and divisive biases based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and political beliefs. Therefore, we seek to foster understanding and tolerance among individuals and groups, and we promote awareness through education and constructive strategies for resolving conflict.
• We reject acts of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and political beliefs, and, we will confront and appropriately respond to such acts.
• We affirm the right to freedom of expression at UC San Diego. We promote open expression of our individuality and our diversity within the bounds of courtesy, sensitivity, confidentiality, and respect.
• We are committed to the highest standards of civility and decency toward all. We are committed to promoting and supporting a community where all people can work and learn together in an atmosphere free of abusive or demeaning treatment.
• We are committed to the enforcement of policies that promote the fulfillment of these principles.

We represent diverse races, creeds, cultures, and social affiliations coming together for the good of the University and those communities we serve. By working together as members of the UC San Diego community, we can enhance the excellence of our institution.

The University of California, San Diego, recognizes that decisions about seeking, accepting, and maintaining employment often involve considerations concerning two careers. The Partner Opportunities Program (POP) provides assistance and support in the employment search for spouses or partners of General Campus ladder-rank faculty candidates and appointees, and of those in senior management positions who hold academic appointments. The Partner Opportunities Program offers assistance and guidance to those conducting their own job searches by assessing their needs, arranging job contacts and informational interviews, and serving as a central resource for information regarding employment opportunities.

For more information please visit: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/partneropp/

UC San Diego: A Living Laboratory Where Sustainability Comes Alive

Sustainability is part of UC San Diego’s institutional DNA. It is an integral part of our university’s past and it is a top priority in our education, research and campus operations today.

Before UC San Diego was established in 1960, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director and founding father of UC San Diego, Roger Revelle, warned that greenhouse gases from industrialization could endanger the planet. Soon thereafter, Scripps geochemist Charles David Keeling began his precise measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which became known as the “Keeling Curve.” It is now known as “the most important geophysical measurement of the 20th century.”

Over the past five decades, UC San Diego has built on their pioneering climate change research by enhancing energy efficiency, alternative fuels, photovoltaic technology, renewable-energy storage, water conservation, green building practices and smart grid technology. The campus also purchases many of its resources, everything from paper to dining hall food, from sustainable-practice suppliers. These conservation practices now save the campus more than $8 million annually.

At UC San Diego, we’re equally dedicated to producing leaders who will find solutions to our most pressing environmental problems. From economics to mechanical engineering and environmental systems, academic departments have incorporated sustainability concepts into majors, minors, internships, classes and a wide range of research experiences.

UC San Diego practices what it teaches. Today, our students, faculty and staff are building on the legacy of Revelle and Keeling through their commitment to sustainable practices, education and research, and by targeting zero waste by 2020 and climate neutrality by 2025. We are proud that our campus has transformed into a living laboratory where sustainability comes alive.

2013

• UC San Diego Receives “Gold Rating” for Sustainability
• UC San Diego Named Grand Champion at 8th Annual SDG&E Energy Showcase
• UC San Diego Named One of Greenest Colleges in U.S. and Canada by Princeton Review
• UC San Diego’s Keeling Apartments Earn Top Honors for Innovative and Sustainable Landscape Design
• UC San Diego Receives Diamond Award from SANDAG for Alternative Transportation

2012

• Princeton Review Rates UC San Diego Among Nation’s Most Environmentally Responsible Universities
• California Sustainability in Higher Education Best Practice Award for HVAC Design/Retrofit - UC San Diego, Geisel Library HVAC Control Retrofit
• Sierra Club Top 20 Coolest Schools: UC San Diego ranks 17^th Coolest School in the Nation
• Government Green Fleet Award – “The 100 Best Fleets” organization
• Environmental Services Department Waste Reduction and Recycling Awards: Director’s Recycling Award
• 2012 Energy Showcase SDG&E Energy Champion Award in Higher Education
• UC San Diego First in SANDAG’s 2012 iCommute Rideshare Corporate Challenge
• 2012 President’s Award by the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

The university operates four research institutes and affiliated with several regional research centers

• California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• UC San Diego Health System
• Salk Institute
• Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
• Scripps Research Institute
• Preuss School
• Birch Aquarium

As a public university, it is our responsibility to give back to society by educating global citizens, discovering new knowledge, creating new technology, and contributing to our economy. In redefining our role for the next several decades, we remain true to our foundational principles. They are—and will continue to be—excellence, affordability, and access.

    We will align our efforts to be a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university.

Information found at: http://plan.ucsd.edu/report/mission-vision-values/