Diversity & Outreach

Initiatives
The Graduate Division seeks to recruit, enroll, support and matriculate diverse graduate students who reflect the cultural and ethnic complexity and strengths of our state and nation. The Admissions and Recruitment unit oversees recruitment and other efforts to encourage and welcome high quality undergraduate students into our University community. Recruitment staff attend graduate fairs at colleges and universities throughout the country, as well as specialized or discipline-specific undergraduate research or graduate preparation forums. At these events they provide information about UC Santa Barbara graduate programs and assist undergraduates in assessing the many graduate options available. Mailings to students indicating an interest in graduate education and advertisements in urban and campus newspapers supplement these activities. Application fee waivers are available to all domestic applicants with demonstrated financial need and participants of select programs (e.g., McNair Scholars, Project 1000). But these examples by no means exhaust the comprehensive efforts made throughout the Graduate Division to ensure that the University's diversity goal is met.

Initiatives

The Graduate Division seeks to recruit, enroll, support and matriculate diverse graduate students who reflect the cultural and ethnic complexity and strengths of our state and nation. The Admissions and Recruitment unit oversees recruitment and other efforts to encourage and welcome high quality undergraduate students into our University community. Recruitment staff attend graduate fairs at colleges and universities throughout the country, as well as specialized or discipline-specific undergraduate research or graduate preparation forums. At these events they provide information about UC Santa Barbara graduate programs and assist undergraduates in assessing the many graduate options available.

Mailings to students indicating an interest in graduate education and advertisements in urban and campus newspapers supplement these activities. Application fee waivers are available to all domestic applicants with demonstrated financial need and participants of select programs (e.g., McNair Scholars, Project 1000). But these examples by no means exhaust the comprehensive efforts made throughout the Graduate Division to ensure that the University's diversity goal is met.

Partnerships
Our alliances are comprised of educational partnerships and programs developed between UC Santa Barbara, the University of California and the California State University campuses, local community colleges, and other institutions of higher education. At UC Santa Barbara, we collaborate extensively with divisional deans, faculty, and administrative personnel across all disciplines to recruit and support the professional success of non-traditional and underrepresented students. We also participate in and support the activity of a wide variety of campus diversity and academic preparation initiatives and summer research programs, including the National Science Foundation sponsored DIGSSS (Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences) and AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate); MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), and UC LEADS (Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees). In addition, we coordinate with Early Outreach Programs at UC Santa Barbara and local schools to attract the next generation of successful graduate scholars.

Partnerships

Our alliances are comprised of educational partnerships and programs developed between UC Santa Barbara, the University of California and the California State University campuses, local community colleges, and other institutions of higher education. At UC Santa Barbara, we collaborate extensively with divisional deans, faculty, and administrative personnel across all disciplines to recruit and support the professional success of non-traditional and underrepresented students. We also participate in and support the activity of a wide variety of campus diversity and academic preparation initiatives and summer research programs, including the National Science Foundation sponsored DIGSSS (Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences) and AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate); MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), and UC LEADS (Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees). In addition, we coordinate with Early Outreach Programs at UC Santa Barbara and local schools to attract the next generation of successful graduate scholars.

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