Our Mission

LGBTRC Mission Statement

The LGBT Resource Center provides support, education, and advocacy regarding sexual orientation and gender identity for the UC Riverside campus community.

Division of Student Affairs Mission Statement

Mission statement:
Cultivate a meaningful student experience.

Vision statement:
To practice excellence in supporting, educating, and serving all students.

Guiding principle:
Build on strengths and promote change, growth, and new ideas that will empower us to provide a superior experience for our students.

Core Values:
1. Engage in partnerships and collaborations
2. Promote and uphold diversity
3. Practice mutual respect
4. Foster innovation and openness to change
5. Listen, assist, and respond with courtesy
6. Practice an ethic of service and care
7. Conduct our work with integrity, openness, and accountability
8. Have fun!

University Mission Statement

University of California, Riverside is a research university committed to the creation and transmission of knowledge at the highest level, and to the translation of that knowledge for the public good. Our comprehensive programs and services, excellent faculty and staff, and vibrant and attractive physical environment are designed to: provide a high quality learning environment for undergraduate and graduate students; advance human knowledge and accomplishment through research and scholarship; enhance the public good through community service and initiatives; seek preeminence among U.S. research universities, recognizing UCR's quality in every area.

University Goals
  • To enhance UCR's reputational rankings: UCR will have the profile of an AAU member university
  • To invest in areas of strength: UCR will be recognized for its distinction among all research universities in selected areas, which exhibit quality and momentum
  • To expand opportunities for learning and personal growth for all students, undergraduate and graduate: UCR will become a campus of "first choice" for applicants, and students will have a successful experience at UCR
  • To reshape the curriculum: UCR will build on the diversity of its students and the distinction of its faculty, and connect the curriculum to the vision of UCR as an AAU institution
  • To diversify our faculty, staff and graduate population: UCR will be a preeminent research university that has diversity as one of its measures of distinctiveness
  • To build professional schools: UCR will offer expanded professional education in areas that respond to the needs of the state and region and that help to stimulate a knowledge-based economy