Mission

Student Engagement seeks to enrich the quality of the UCR undergraduate academic experience through academic support, health professional advising, and high-impact experiential programs. As a unit of Undergraduate Education, Student Engagement's role is to innovate and scale programs focused on leadership, fellowships and national awards, undergraduate research, academic support services, first-generation initiatives, service and engaged learning, capital internships, and other strategic initiatives for the benefit of student experiences.

Goals

• Increase the percentage of UCR students participating in Undergraduate Education supported high-impact programs and co-curricular programs including:
  • Undergraduate research (research experiences, symposium, mini-grants, journal)
  • National and prestigious scholarship applications and selections
  • Capital Internships (UCDC and UC Sacramento)
  • Community engagement and service-learning
  • R'Courses
  • Health Professions Advising Center
• Increase the number of students, faculty, departments, community partners, and colleges engaged in high-impact programs and services
• Increase student success in historically challenging courses (high D, F, W courses)
• Increase utilization of academic support services to help improve campus retention and graduation rates
• Increase student self-confidence and motivation
• Increase the number and percentage of underrepresented students participating in high-impact programs
  • First-Generation
• 100% Student Engagement