UC San Diego Campus Notice
OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR

February 15, 2024
ALL ACADEMICS, STUDENTS AND STAFF AT UC SAN DIEGO (Including UC San Diego Health)

Share Your Bold Ideas

Last month, I announced that UC San Diego has embarked on an exciting effort to refresh our highly successful strategic plan and challenge ourselves to look ahead to the next decade and beyond. 

Our refreshed plan will seek to:
  • Support our commitments to research and discovery through identifying research projects and priorities that will be enabled by strategic investments,
  • Develop an ambitious set of priorities that expand access to world-class higher education and deliver a high-quality student experience,
  • Activate our campus for students, faculty, staff and community members,
  • Anticipate and respond to regional and global challenges, and
  • Guide future resource allocations and fundraising priorities.
Phase Two of our planning process began in January to gather bold, new and creative ideas from our faculty, staff and students that will empower and enable the UC San Diego community with a refreshed plan that inspires, guides and connects all of us.
IdeaWave Campaign and Research Survey: Make your voice heard
The greatest ideas and innovations emerge from collaboration, diverse perspectives and a vision for what is possible. Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of a two-week Strategic Plan Refresh IdeaWave campaign and Research Themes Qualtrics survey to crowdsource ideas and provide additional mechanisms for everyone in our community to contribute to this important process.
The Strategic Plan Refresh IdeaWave campaign asks for your ideas around three key questions, and what steps we can take to achieve our ambitious mission and vision across seven goals. The Research Themes Qualtrics survey is designed to provide an opportunity for you to share your input and ideas on how we can advance our four research themes and priorities, and grow and expand this critical and world-renowned function at UC San Diego.

The Strategic Plan Refresh IdeaWave campaign and Research Themes Qualtrics survey are open to all faculty, students and staff at UC San Diego.

Both platforms will close at 5 p.m. on March 1, 2024, so we encourage you to log in and contribute your big, bold ideas for the future of UC San Diego soon.
Thank you
It is through your input that we will advance the prestige and distinction of UC San Diego and accelerate our ability to transform public higher education. Thank you to everyone for sharing your creativity and passion through discussions, brainstorms, our IdeaWave campaign, Research Themes survey and other mechanisms.

To learn more, please visit the plan refresh website. If you have any questions about the Strategic Plan Refresh process, please contact the Office of Operational Strategic Initiatives (OSI) at 2024refresh@ucsd.edu.

Now is the time to shape the future of UC San Diego.

I encourage you to be part of it.

Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor
University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093