UC San Diego Library

Mission

UC San Diego will transform California and a diverse global society by educating, generating and disseminating knowledge and creative works, and engaging in public service.

Values

We will achieve our mission as a student-centered and research-oriented public university by being distinctive and by using our comparative advantage. The values that define UC San Diego create an environment and a culture where:

• We will hold ourselves accountable to our mission, values, and goals; they will be the essence of our internal interactions, and form the foundation for our engagements locally, nationally, and globally. Our successes will be measured not only by UC San Diego’s performance but also, and more important, by its impact.
• Collaborative and interdisciplinary activities lead to unsurpassed discoveries, technologies, cures, scholarship, and creative works that advance and enrich society.
• Excellence in teaching, research, patient care, and a people- and service-oriented culture that supports learning, scholarly work, and public service are the norm.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion enable faculty, students, and staff to excel and provide an opportunity for all to succeed.
• Our entrepreneurial spirit leads to agility, risk-taking, and innovative approaches to solving problems and seizing opportunities. Public service, sustainability, integrity, and ethics are core principles guiding our activities.