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.

Divison of Student Affairs Mission Statement
  • Enroll a capable and diverse student body.
  • Foster students' academic and intellectual growth.
  • Encourage student's social, physical, aesthetic, psychological, and ethical development.
  • Prepare students for graduate and professional education, careers, and life-long learning.
  • Provide opportunities for involvement in the broader campus and community life.
  • Promote respect for personal rights, mutual responsibilities, and expression of different ideas, concepts,  and points of view.
  • Develop students' ability to thrive in a diverse, dynamic, and global society.
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