University of California-San Diego (Jacobs)

The Jacobs School provides the human capital and the intellectual capital to drive our innovation society. To leverage our world renown to pursue engineering and computer science for the public good. To pursue interdisciplinary research that solv d. To pursue interdisciplinary research that solves challenges no lab, discipline or industry can solve alone. To provide world-class theoretical and hands-on education and leadership training at scale. To be relevant to our industry partners now, and also 10 years from now. To strengthen our climate and culture of inclusion, equity and diversity. In January 2021, the Jacobs School received bronze-level recognition through the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program, which is a nation-wide effort to increase diversity in engineering and computer science in higher education by ensuring that schools have best-practices and data-driven accountability in place. The Jacobs School is building on UC San Diego campus-wide initiatives aimed at advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion. UC San Diego maintains dashboards on statistics for students, faculty and staff, including breakdowns based on gender and ethnicity. These dashboards can be sorted to return statistics for the Jacobs School. They are available on the UC San Diego Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) accountability website. The Jacobs School has made significant progress towards increasing faculty diversity in the past five years, thanks in part to the Jacobs School's Excellence hiring program. The Jacobs School is in a three-year 35+ faculty hiring cycle. By 2024, the Jacobs School will have more than 300 professors, more than half of whom will have joined in just the last 10 years. More than a third of our newly hired professors are women and/or individuals from other groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and computer science. The Jacobs School and UC San Diego continues to build and strengthen programs to recruit and retain diverse faculty including taking on a key leadership role in the NextProf Pathfinder Program. The Jacobs School Student and Faculty Racial Equity Task Force is part of the School's efforts to ensure that everyone at the Jacobs School has what they need to thrive inside and outside the classroom and laboratory. This project involves listening, and taking a careful pulse of the culture of the School in order to understand what is working and what is not. From there, the School develops action plans. Students with a demonstrated commitment to racial equity are invited each year to join the Jacobs School of Engineering Racial Equity Fellows program. These students, representing undergraduate and graduate perspectives from across the Jacobs School, are specifically invited to serve on the Jacobs School's Student and Faculty Racial Equity Task Force. The 2023 cohort is currently in action. (Meet previous Jacobs School Racial Equity Fellows: 2020 and 2021.) The Jacobs School's IDEA Engineering Student Center has supported thousands of students through to graduation for more than twelve years. Programs include summer prep and mentorship programs, peer-led engineering learning communities, and support for student diversity organizations. The IDEA Engineering Student Center supports all students on the challenging path of an engineering and computer science education at UC San Diego, with specific programs that build community, and provide academic and peer support for students traditionally underrepresented in engineering and computer science including Black, Latinx and Native American students, women, first generation college students, LGBTQ+ students, and low-income students. ...view more