Incident Services
If you have witnessed or experienced issues related to discrimination and/or harassment, please know you are not alone in the process. The Campus has various confidential and reporting resources at the link above.
Benjamin Banneker Recruitment Initiative
Assistant Professor Infant Care Initiative
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources
The DEI Office has compiled a list of recommended anti-racism resources, books, films, and more to support you on your journey to becoming anti-racist.
Gender Recognition and Lived Name
Campus Learning Assistance Services (CLAS)
Campus Learning Assistance Services assists students in their mastery of University course material through course-specific tutoring and academic skills development. CLAS services complement University instruction and lead to increased understanding and improved performance. Program coordinators, learning skills counselors, instructors, and graduate and undergraduate tutors and peers assist more than 7000 students each year, offering instructional groups and workshops for a wide range of courses in addition to drop-in tutoring for the following: writing, math, science, statistics, economics, and foreign language.
Cultural Resource Centers
The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) sponsors diverse cultural programming through the African diasporic, American Indian, Chicanx/Latinx, Middle Eastern, and Asian resource centers. EOP provides cultural programs that facilitate interaction/collaboration between students of all cultural/ethnic backgrounds allowing them to gain an understanding of and appreciation for similarities and differences in each other and themselves. EOP Cultural Services helps to create an environment that celebrates and promotes the history, contributions, intellectual heritage, education and growth of students.
http://eop.sa.ucsb.edu/services/cultural-resource-centers
Department of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology Diversity Statement
Disabled Students Program (DSP)
The Disabled Students Program serves as the campus liaison regarding issues and regulations related to students with disabilities. DSP works in an advisory capacity with campus departments to ensure that students with disabilities have equal access to educational opportunities. DSP coordinates academic support services for students with temporary and permanent disabilities, including note takers, readers, sign language interpreters and adaptive computing.
Dream Scholars Resource Team
UC Santa Barbara is committed to fostering a safe and supportive environment for students of diverse backgrounds including our Dream Scholars – undocumented students at UCSB. The University strives to develop an awareness and understanding of the experiences of undocumented students while maintaining the confidentiality of individual students, and to develop campus responses and processes to address their needs. The Dream Scholars Resource Team (DSRT) works directly with students to help our campus develop an awareness and understanding of the experiences of undocumented and AB 540 eligible students and to develop campus responses and processes to support our Dream Scholars’ needs, resources, advocacy, education and support.
http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/dreamscholars/home
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
The Educational Opportunity Program offers academic and other support services to low-income and first generation college students. EOP provides guidance through the admission and enrollment process and supports EOP students through graduation with services such as academic and personal advising, cultural programming, academic support groups, orientation and summer bridge programs, peer advising, and career counseling. Also see Summer Transitional Enrichment Program (STEP) above.
Engineering Diversity Student Organizations and Activities
There are many programs and resources available to undergraduate and graduate engineering students to enhance student success. Listed below are descriptions of numerous programs, student organizations, and activities, as well as first-hand accounts from students who were positively impacted by them.
https://engineering.ucsb.edu/about/diversity/diversity-highlights-and-activities
MultiCultural Center (MCC)
The MultiCultural Center promotes cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of differences through a variety of programs. The Center’s performances, lectures, discussions, exhibits, and films are drawn from national and international cultures and foster a multi-ethnic worldview.
Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS)
The Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) serves the needs of international students and scholars as well as the UCSB community who work with this international population. OISS provides administrative assistance, counseling, advising, and programming to the campus community. The staff meet with students and scholars about immigration, employment, housing, health care, financial concerns, academic problems, travel, and personal issues.
ONDAS Student Center
The ONDAS Student Center – Opening New Doors to Accelerating Success – promotes the success and retention of first-generation college students with an emphasis on the first year transition and underrepresented student experience. The Center provides mentoring and academic support in a learning-centered space for students to connect with faculty, staff, and peers in order to grow personally and excel academically.
PROMISE Scholars
The Promise Scholar Program was established to recognize talented, incoming undergraduates who have demonstrated significant potential for a rigorous academic curriculum, cutting-edge research, and student leadership. The promise includes predictable financial resources over their years at UC Santa Barbara, providing students and their families a two-year or four-year plan. The promise of financial aid resources allows the Promise Scholars to thrive academically and promotes attainment and completion of their educational goals.
https://www.finaid.ucsb.edu/promise-scholars-program
Student Affairs Department Services and Resources
The Division of Student Affairs strives to support every student's success through a wide range of educational programs, resources, and services critical to student enrollment, persistence, and graduation. Students are encouraged to become familiar with all Student Affairs units early in their UCSB experience. In order to best serve you this quarter, Student Affairs departments are providing a variety of in-person and virtual services — we've listed the best way to get in touch with each of our departments below.
https://www.sa.ucsb.edu/departments/directory
Student Organizations
The Office of Student Life oversees all registered campus organizations, sometimes referred to as RCO's or, more commonly, clubs. We currently have over 500 student organizations on campus.
http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/campus-organizations
Transfer Student Center
The Transfer Student Center is a space for UC Santa Barbara’s transfer students to make connections with campus resources and with pathways to academic and career success. The Center is home to two full-time academic advisors from the College of Letters & Science, peer mentors, and departmental partners who are able to help transfer students transition successfully to UC Santa Barbara by providing specialized programming and opportunities that add value to their undergraduate education.
https://www.transfercenter.ucsb.edu/
Women, Gender & Sexual Equity Department
The Women’s Center uses a feminist approach to provide support, advocacy, resources and education to the UCSB community. The Center values and respects all genders, bodies, sexual orientations, and racial and ethnic identities while challenging all forms of oppression. It works towards creating a campus environment that is safe, equitable, and just and envisions a world free of oppression and violence. The Center strives for inclusion and equity through its programs and services and celebrates the richness of our differences while working collectively to create a community of leaders, scholars, and global citizens for the future. The Women’s Center is located in the newly constructed Student Resource Building (SRB). The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (see entry under "Student Resource Centers") and the Re-Entry/Non-Traditional Student Resource Center are both located in the SRB as well. These three physical spaces make up the elements of the UCSB Women’s Center.
California HSI Alliance Pedalogical Training
The NSF AGEP California HSI Alliance brings together four Hispanic Serving Institutions in California: UC Merced; UC Santa Barbara; CSU Fresno; and CSU Channel Islands; with the specific goal of developing, implementing and testing a model for creating a more diverse STEM faculty workforce. The Alliance focuses on pedagogical training and career mentoring to prepare senior doctoral students for teaching-focused careers at a broad range of colleges and universities.
https://www.california-hsi-agep.org/
Departmental Diversity Officers for Graduate Students
Diversity Officers are faculty members in each department who advocate for the inclusion of students and guide their department to recruit from diverse backgrounds. They recognize and intervene when students need assistance in their academic, professional, and social lives.
https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/mentorship-inclusivity/department-diversity-officer-directory
Diversity Resources for Graduate Students
Find the resources, advocacy, and family resources you need, whether on campus or in the local Santa Barbara community.
https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/mentorship-inclusivity/resources-and-campus
Graduate Scholars Program
The Graduate Scholars Program (GSP) provides first-year and second-year doctoral students from diverse backgrounds with an advanced doctoral student mentor, a targeted orientation to campus resources, professional development opportunities, and networking events across campus and with visiting scholars.
https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/GSP
Mentorship & Inclusivity
The campus recognizes that many students, especially those from segments of the population that have not traditionally been represented in the academy, are unfamiliar with graduate education and will benefit from resources that will acquaint them with academic culture and support their success and development into career professionals.
Diversity at UC Santa Barbara includes underrepresented minorities, first-generation college students, students who identify as LGTBQ, women in departments with less than 25 percent women enrolled, undocumented students, graduate students who are parents, veterans or military dependents, students with disabilities, or any other students from non-traditional backgrounds.
https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/our-services/mentorship-inclusivity
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
UCSB is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). NCFDD is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students, dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers. Our membership provides a series of mentoring services, including workshops focused on research and writing strategies, networking opportunities, and other forms of professional support and faculty development.
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/ncfdd
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at UC.
The UC-HBCU Initiative
The goal of the UC-HBCU Initiative is to increase the number of scholars from Historically Black Colleges and Universities completing UC academic doctoral programs. UC faculty grants are available to support HBCU students conducting summer research with UC faculty at a UC campus; and also support departmental efforts to facilitate greater faculty collaboration between UC and HBCU institutions and to increase applications from HBCU scholars to UC Ph.D. programs.
https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/about-us/initiatives-and-programs/uc-hbcu-initiative
Asian/Pacific Islander Community (APIA)
The Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (APIA) is a collective of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) staff and faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara that aims to create a supportive, proactive, and knowledge-sharing community in order to ensure a welcoming, safe, and inclusive campus for the AAPI identified individuals by promoting the growth of staff and faculty while supporting students through collaborative efforts.
http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/communities/asian-pacific-islander
First Year Experience (FYE) "DEI: Expand Your DEI Vocabulary"
The First Year Experience is a 9-course follow-up to your New Employee Orientation. The FYE will help you navigate your first year as UC Santa Barbara staff and will invite you to explore the vast opportunities and support services available to YOU and your newly hired colleagues.
https://www.hr.ucsb.edu/hr-units/talent-acquisition/first-year-experience
Latinx UCSB Network Association (LUNA)
LUNA’s primary mission is to provide activities and opportunities to assist with the retention, development, and promotion of Latinx communities at UCSB. In addition, LUNA promotes the ties with institutional, local, regional and national organizations with similar missions to learn from and contribute to diversify the university.
https://www.facebook.com/LUNA.UCSB
Professional Women's Association
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) at UC Santa Barbara promotes a sense of community through networking and community service, and focuses on the advancement and accomplishments of UCSB Women. PWA provides opportunities to develop one's professional and personal self as well as network on campus, through activities that include brown bag lunch sessions, networking luncheons, a holiday party for IV children, and an annual professional development conference.
ucsbBlack
ucsbBLACK is supportive and enjoyable space for Black identified faculty and staff at UCSB to build community and create connections with one another. We hope to further develop and sustain an environment that allows Black faculty and staff to feel supported, professionally and personally, by their peers.
Administrative Offices
Advancing Faculty Diversity Initiatives
List of active and past initiatives that advance faculty diversity.
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/advancing-faculty-diversity
The Advancing Faculty Diversity Program
The Advancing Faculty Diversity Program (AFD) is the University of California’s primary research and development engine for transforming the professoriate of the future. Since 2016, AFD has awarded competitive grants to faculty project leads on all ten campuses in two priority areas: recruitment, improving climate & retention. Building on organizational change research, these projects have contributed to the recruitment of diverse scholars, enhanced faculty commitment to diversity and promoted an equitable academic culture for all faculty.
https://www.ucop.edu/faculty-diversity/advancing/index.html
California HSI Alliance Pedalogical Training
The NSF AGEP California HSI Alliance brings together four Hispanic Serving Institutions in California: UC Merced; UC Santa Barbara; CSU Fresno; and CSU Channel Islands; with the specific goal of developing, implementing and testing a model for creating a more diverse STEM faculty workforce. The Alliance focuses on pedagogical training and career mentoring to prepare senior doctoral students for teaching-focused careers at a broad range of colleges and universities.
https://www.california-hsi-agep.org/
Division of Social Sciences Faculty Mentoring Program
Mentorship and community building are crucial to recruiting and retaining faculty. As the faculty grows within the Division of Social Sciences and UC Santa Barbara more broadly, providing a mentoring and community-building system is essential to supporting and retaining faculty. UCSB’s Division of Social Sciences Faculty Mentoring Program has existed for over 10 years, initially led by Dr. Leila Rupp (former Interim Dean and Associate Dean of the Division). Each year, incoming ladder faculty have been assigned a department mentor and a divisional mentor.
https://www.socialsciences.ucsb.edu/mentor
Faculty Equity Advisors
In summer 2019 each academic dean appointed an Associate Dean and Faculty Equity Advisor to lead within their units on matters of equity, inclusion, and diversity. The Associate Dean and Faculty Equity Advisor is a senior ladder faculty member who participates in the faculty recruitment process by raising awareness of best practices. They also organize faculty development programs, address individual issues raised by women and underrepresented minority faculty, and serve as a resource in division for faculty members seeking more information about equity, inclusion, diversity, and broadening participation in higher education.
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/equity-advisors/
Faculty Salary Equity Studies
Equity in faculty compensation is a critical part of UC's commitment to fairness and inclusion and contributes to a productive academic workplace.
https://www.ucop.edu/faculty-diversity/resources/campus-faculty-salary-equity-studies/index.html
Family Friendly Resources
Policies, programs and Resources that assist faculty and other academic appointees in balancing the demands of work and family.
https://ap.ucsb.edu/resources.for.academic.employees/family.friendly.resources
Reviewing Diversity Statements
A good place for search committees to start is by reviewing the comprehensive resource guide for conducting faculty and staff searches developed at UCLA . This guide is informational and does not supersede the explicit procedures outlined in the UCSB approved search plan for a given search.
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellence/reviewing
Committees
Academic Senate Committee on Diversity and Equity
The Committee promotes campus diversity and equity, ensuring the equal treatment of women, ethnic minorities, individuals of diverse sexual orientations, individuals with disabilities, and other members of the campus community. In meeting this charge, the committee may initiate studies on campus diversity and equity, using data collected from all campus sources; formulate and disseminate recommendations on any matter influencing campus diversity and equity; and address matters involving the hiring, employment, educational, and social circumstances of faculty, staff, and students.
https://senate.ucsb.edu/~councils-and-committees/?CDE
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women is an administrative committee that has existed on campus since the mid 1970s. It draws its membership from faculty, staff, and students on campus with standing members including the director of the Women's Center, our Title IX Coordinator and Sexual Harassment Officer, chair(s) from the Senior Women's Council and chair(s) from the Professional Women's Association. The charge of CACSW is to advise and consult with the Chancellor about concerns and issues regarding the status of women at UCSB. The committee engages in the review of drafts of campus and system wide policies pertaining to campus women (e.g., parental leaves, sexual harassment, gender equity in sports). The CACSW along with the Women's Center organizes a panel discussion "Demystifying the Tenure Process" for junior faculty women on a yearly basis. The CACSW conducts meetings and investigations on issues including leadership, governance, representation of women in faculty and key administrative positions, pay equity, career equity review, work/life, staff-student ratio, Title IX, safety, student parent registration, diversity training, and female graduate student representation, employment, and mentorship. Since 1997, CACSW has met annually with the Chancellor and his Vice-Chancellors to discuss a yearly report on the status of women.
https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/committees/CACSW
Chancellor's Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion
UC President Mark Yudof recently formed a systemwide Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion to address challenges in enhancing and sustaining a tolerant, inclusive environment on all UC campuses. The Council's first meeting was held June 30, 2010. UCSB also has a Campus Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion. It is chaired by Chancellor Yang and composed of faculty, students, staff, administrative personnel, community representation, and ex-officio members, which includes academic deans. The purpose of the advisory council is to:
- Provide ongoing evaluation of campus climate conditions, practices, and policies.
- Suggest measures that will support the goals of inclusion and community, especially including measures reflecting promising practices from elsewhere in UC and the nation.
- Coordinate its analyses, recommendations, and other work with related work of any entities created by faculty, staff, students, or neighboring communities.
- Fulfill other campus-specific responsibilities identified by the Chancellor.
- Respond to queries and suggestions from the President's Advisory Council.
Chancellor's Outreach Advisory Committee (COAB)
COAB is the policy and governing body for all campus outreach programs. COAB provides overall guidance on policy, budget and evaluation issues regarding UC Santa Barbara's K-12, community college and graduate academic preparation and educational partnership programs. COAB also advises the chancellor and other staff on these matters, and monitors outreach programs via evaluation efforts. COAB is committed to strengthening campus academic preparation and educational partnership programs. The Board will provide consultation and direction to the campus in the development and oversight of campus initiatives supported by university outreach funds. In collaboration with the Academic Senate, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Student Affairs, COAB and the Office of Outreach Initiatives coordinates the Faculty Outreach Grant (FOG) Program.
https://oep.ucsb.edu/about/coab
Professional Women's Association
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) at UC Santa Barbara promotes a sense of community through networking and community service, and focuses on the advancement and accomplishments of UCSB Women. PWA provides opportunities to develop one's professional and personal self as well as network on campus, through activities that include brown bag lunch sessions, networking luncheons, a holiday party for IV children, and an annual professional development conference.
Senior Women's Council
The Senior Women's Council was founded in 1993 to create a forum for defining and actively addressing issues that promote gender equity and diversity at UC Santa Barbara. All tenured women faculty and lecturers with SOE are automatically members. The steering committee, comprised of 15-20 members, specifies several well-defined programmatic goals that the Council will accomplish each academic year. The direction of SWC's program is based on input from all tenured women.
Diversity Related Grants and Fellowships
Curated List of Funding Opportunities
Curated list of funding opportunities related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and minority serving institutions
https://www.research.ucsb.edu/find-funding
Professional Development
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
UCSB is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). NCFDD is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students, dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers. Our membership provides a series of mentoring services, including workshops focused on research and writing strategies, networking opportunities, and other forms of professional support and faculty development.
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/ncfdd
Research Centers
Center for Black Studies Research
The Center for Black Studies Research has a general research platform that is uniquely positioned to provide a critical synthesis of issues of race, social equality, and justice; these narratives and approaches are present in all its projects and are a central part of our effort to merge theoretical findings with social change. Research areas include the Haiti Projects, the Race and Technology Initiative; and the Urban Studies Projects. Outreach efforts include Project Excel and community outreach efforts, both on campus and within the community.
Center for Middle East Studies
Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) promotes the study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam at the University of California, Santa Barbara. CMES has long been a bastion of interdisciplinary scholarship, collectivity, and exchange. The last decade has witnessed a flourishing of CMES faculty and graduate students at UCSB across disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences) and methodology (archival, ethnographic, quantitative, qualitative).
Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS)
The Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) hosts Retreats and Institutes to promote team science competencies and leadership capacity of faculty, researchers, post-doctoral scholars, and research administrators across the campuses of the University of California and Cal State University systems.
https://oru.research.ucsb.edu/teamscience
Chicano Studies Institute
The purpose of the Institute, as articulated in El Plan de Santa Bárbara, is to undertake, promote and disseminate research regarding the Chicano/Latino experience in California and the United States. The Institute's research activities serve the intellectual interests of Chicana/o Studies students, researchers and faculty from all departments and units on the UCSB campus. Together with the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, the Institute supports research that promotes the growing national and international stature of the field and assists in the recruitment and retention of Chicano/Latino faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara. The Institute also promotes cultural education for the campus and community by sponsoring events and programs that draw from Chicana/o, Mexican and Latin American music, dance, theatre, film and art traditions.
Statements of Inclusive Excellence
Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence
BREN - Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Environmental Science and Management
Strategic Plan - https://bren.ucsb.edu/diversity/strategic-plan
ENGR - College of Engineering
Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Computer Science
Strategic Plan - https://cs.ucsb.edu/diversity-equity-inclusion/strategic-action-plan
Dynamical Neuroscience
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Materials
Strategic Plan - https://materials.ucsb.edu/about/diversity
Mechanical Engineering
Media Arts and Technology
Technology Management Program
HUFA - Humanities and Fine Arts
Art
Classics
Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
English
Film and Media Studies
French and Italian
Germanic & Slavic Studies
History
History of Art and Architecture
Latin American and Iberian Studies
Linguistics
Music
Music Department DEI site - https://music.ucsb.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Philosophy
Minorities and Philosophy - https://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/student-life/minorities
Religious Studies
Spanish and Portuguese
Theater and Dance
Writing
GSED - Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology
Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
SOSC - Social Sciences
Anthropology
Black Studies
Chicana and Chicano Studies
Communication
Economics
Feminist Studies
Global Studies
Racial Justice and Diversity Initiatives - https://www.global.ucsb.edu/research
Political Science
Political Science Diversity & Inclusion Site - https://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/diversity
Sociology
CRST - College of Creative Studies
Creative Studies
MLPS - Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry Inclusion Site - https://chem.ucsb.edu/about/inclusion
Strategic Plan - https://chem.ucsb.edu/about/inclusion/plan
Earth Science
Earth Science JEDI Site - https://www.geol.ucsb.edu/jedi
Strategic Plan - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRp3ocgyxBIN28cuSWAJGZzf0MBNInmlOwl-AlfvCm4jS6Yct_EsRc3aevZBV50Wo6RnxcBy6ugwa5Z/pub
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellness (DEIW) site - https://www.eembdeiw.com/home
EEMB DEIW Climate Survey - https://www.eembdeiw.com/projects/climate-survey
Geography
Geography Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (GEDIWG) - https://www.geog.ucsb.edu/about/equity-diversity-inclusion
Interdepartmental Grad Program in Marine Science
IGPMS DEIW Site - https://www.igpms.ucsb.edu/resources
Mathematics
MCDB Diversity Site - https://diversity.mcdb.ucsb.edu/
Strategic Plan - https://diversity.mcdb.ucsb.edu/action-plan
Physics
Physics EDIW Site - https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/about/diversity
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Psyc Diversity Site - https://diversity.psych.ucsb.edu/
Strategic Plan - https://diversity.psych.ucsb.edu/action-plan
Statistics and Applied Probability
Statistics and Applied Probability DEI Site - https://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/about/dei
Strategic Plan - https://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/About/pstat_dei_action_plan_short.pdf
Gender Recognition and Lived Name
Administrative Offices
Campus Climate Survey
Some campuses have conducted their own campus climate surveys. Following UC Berkeley’s campus climate survey, it launched a number of new initiatives to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment to support the hiring and retention of a more diverse faculty. UC Santa Barbara addresses departmental cultural climate issues by meeting with department leadership to discuss, reflect, or mediate issues that fall outside the bounds of policy violations.
Communities - Your Identity At Work
Workforce inclusivity is transforming the world of work in deeply positive ways. By offering multiple perspectives and solutions for industries and providing meaningful connections among constituents, a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is the way forward for every career.
As a UCSB student, you are encouraged to explore, honor, and celebrate your identity through the communities with which you identify. Learn how you can gain support and specialized information for the communities of which you serve as a member, ally, or advocate.
https://career.ucsb.edu/communities
Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention
The Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention (EODP) Office is the campus office responsible for the University's compliance with federal and state laws and University policies and procedures regarding affirmative action, non-discrimination, and retaliation for staff and faculty. EODP works to promote and integrate the principles of equal opportunity, affirmative action, non-discrimination, and excellence through diversity on campus.
Committees
Academic Senate Committee on Diversity and Equity
The Committee promotes campus diversity and equity, ensuring the equal treatment of women, ethnic minorities, individuals of diverse sexual orientations, individuals with disabilities, and other members of the campus community. In meeting this charge, the committee may initiate studies on campus diversity and equity, using data collected from all campus sources; formulate and disseminate recommendations on any matter influencing campus diversity and equity; and address matters involving the hiring, employment, educational, and social circumstances of faculty, staff, and students.
https://senate.ucsb.edu/~councils-and-committees/?CDE
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women is an administrative committee that has existed on campus since the mid 1970s. It draws its membership from faculty, staff, and students on campus with standing members including the director of the Women's Center, our Title IX Coordinator and Sexual Harassment Officer, chair(s) from the Senior Women's Council and chair(s) from the Professional Women's Association. The charge of CACSW is to advise and consult with the Chancellor about concerns and issues regarding the status of women at UCSB. The committee engages in the review of drafts of campus and system wide policies pertaining to campus women (e.g., parental leaves, sexual harassment, gender equity in sports). The CACSW along with the Women's Center organizes a panel discussion "Demystifying the Tenure Process" for junior faculty women on a yearly basis. The CACSW conducts meetings and investigations on issues including leadership, governance, representation of women in faculty and key administrative positions, pay equity, career equity review, work/life, staff-student ratio, Title IX, safety, student parent registration, diversity training, and female graduate student representation, employment, and mentorship. Since 1997, CACSW has met annually with the Chancellor and his Vice-Chancellors to discuss a yearly report on the status of women.
https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/committees/CACSW
Chancellor's Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion
UC President Mark Yudof recently formed a systemwide Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion to address challenges in enhancing and sustaining a tolerant, inclusive environment on all UC campuses. The Council's first meeting was held June 30, 2010. UCSB also has a Campus Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion. It is chaired by Chancellor Yang and composed of faculty, students, staff, administrative personnel, community representation, and ex-officio members, which includes academic deans. The purpose of the advisory council is to:
- Provide ongoing evaluation of campus climate conditions, practices, and policies.
- Suggest measures that will support the goals of inclusion and community, especially including measures reflecting promising practices from elsewhere in UC and the nation.
- Coordinate its analyses, recommendations, and other work with related work of any entities created by faculty, staff, students, or neighboring communities.
- Fulfill other campus-specific responsibilities identified by the Chancellor.
- Respond to queries and suggestions from the President's Advisory Council.
Chancellor's Outreach Advisory Committee (COAB)
COAB is the policy and governing body for all campus outreach programs. COAB provides overall guidance on policy, budget and evaluation issues regarding UC Santa Barbara's K-12, community college and graduate academic preparation and educational partnership programs. COAB also advises the chancellor and other staff on these matters, and monitors outreach programs via evaluation efforts. COAB is committed to strengthening campus academic preparation and educational partnership programs. The Board will provide consultation and direction to the campus in the development and oversight of campus initiatives supported by university outreach funds. In collaboration with the Academic Senate, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Student Affairs, COAB and the Office of Outreach Initiatives coordinates the Faculty Outreach Grant (FOG) Program.
https://oep.ucsb.edu/initiatives/coab
Professional Women's Association
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) at UC Santa Barbara promotes a sense of community through networking and community service, and focuses on the advancement and accomplishments of UCSB Women. PWA provides opportunities to develop one's professional and personal self as well as network on campus, through activities that include brown bag lunch sessions, networking luncheons, a holiday party for IV children, and an annual professional development conference.
Senior Women's Council
The Senior Women's Council was founded in 1993 to create a forum for defining and actively addressing issues that promote gender equity and diversity at UC Santa Barbara. All tenured women faculty and lecturers with SOE are automatically members. The steering committee, comprised of 15-20 members, specifies several well-defined programmatic goals that the Council will accomplish each academic year. The direction of SWC's program is based on input from all tenured women.
Confidential Resources
Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment / Title IX Compliance
The Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment / Title IX Compliance (OEOSH/TC) is composed of two departments that are responsible for the University's compliance with federal and state laws and University policies and procedures regarding issues of discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment and sexual violence involving students, staff and faculty. These departments include the Office of Equal Opportunity and Discrimination Prevention (EO/DP) and the Office of Title IX and Sexual Harassment Policy Compliance (TIX/SHPC).
The EO/DP works to promote and integrate the principles of equal opportunity, affirmative action, nondiscrimination and excellence through diversity on campus.
The TIX/SHPC works to prevent and respond to discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex- or gender-stereotyping and sexual orientation. Through the work of this office, we aim to foster an equitable campus environment in all the University’s work opportunities and educational programs.
Office of the Ombuds
The Office of the Ombuds at UC Santa Barbara provides confidential consultation services to faculty, staff, students, parents, or anyone else with a campus-related concern. The ombuds addresses workplace issues, interpersonal conflict, academic concerns, policy questions, and many other problems, whether as a first step, last resort, or at any point along the way. The Office of the Ombuds is dedicated to ensuring fairness throughout the University and regularly makes recommendations for systemic change.
The Advancing Faculty Diversity Program
The Advancing Faculty Diversity Program (AFD) is the University of California’s primary research and development engine for transforming the professoriate of the future. Since 2016, AFD has awarded competitive grants to faculty project leads on all ten campuses in two priority areas: recruitment, improving climate & retention. Building on organizational change research, these projects have contributed to the recruitment of diverse scholars, enhanced faculty commitment to diversity and promoted an equitable academic culture for all faculty.
https://www.ucop.edu/faculty-diversity/advancing/index.html
University Committee on Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Equity (UCAADE)
The University Committee on Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Equity (UCAADE), an Academic Senate committee, has been active in collecting best practices in recruiting a diverse faculty and shares such practices across the UC campuses. UCAADE considers general policies concerning affirmative action for academic personnel and academic programs. The committee reviews the annual reports of the Divisional Committees of Affirmative Action and the information on affirmative action provided by campus and University administration. These reports consist of data and analyses for women and ethnic minorities concerning working conditions, salaries, advancement, and separation.
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/committees/ucaade/index.html
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