Academic Master Plan (AMP): The Academic Master Plan (AMP) is a document that tracks the degree granting academic programs at CSUCI. The complete current AMPdocument can be downloaded by stakeholders. Per CSU requirements, the AMP includes several components, often presented as separate files:
- academic programs currently being offered by the campus;
- programs approved by the Board of Trustees (BOT) for curriculum development and predicted implementation year;
- list of accredited programs; and
- academic year of program review report due.
CI Interchange: A collection of more than 20 distinct groups and efforts designed explicitly to advance DEIA at CSUCI. Purposes for the CI Interchange are: (1) to create a coherent map of DEIA groups and efforts across CSUCI, identifying not only what these groups/efforts are, but what their "DEIA lanes" are and where those lanes intersect; and (2) to enable member groups/efforts to collaborate across their DEIA lanes more effectively, reducing duplication of efforts and identifying opportunities to amplify and leverage each other’s work.
Black Student Recruitment, Yield & Retention Plan: This comprehensive plan will provide data to describe where we are and what exists in our efforts to recruit, admit, and retain Black students along with how these data points are used to inform how we will move forward (e.g., what resources are needed for recruitment and retention; where and how to invest resources). It will also identify targets for improvement (e.g., improve yield by x%).
DEIA: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
- Equity Gap: Disparities in educational outcomes and student success metrics across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, physical or mental abilities, and other demographic traits and intersectionalities.
Equity Lens Framework (ELF): a self-assessment instrument created by the President’s Advisory Council on Inclusive Excellence designed to help individual units and the campus as a whole to see where and how we are emerging, developing, and transforming through our efforts to walk the DEIA talk.
Esports Program: Intercollegiate esports, the organized competitive play of video games, has rapidly grown in popularity over the last decade. Many CSU campuses have initiated esports programs with the support of the CSU Chancellor’s Office. The potential benefits of an active esports program include driving enrollment, making advanced computing resources available to all students for planned local gaming events, and providing support for students in computer game development courses (like those in the Minor in Computer Game Design and Development). Trinity Hall room 1501 has been earmarked for the location of the esports lab in collaboration with multiple campus cross-divisional entities in DSA, BFA, and DUA.
IEAT and IEAP: IEAT refers to our Inclusive Excellence Action Themes, of which there are six, which the original Inclusive Excellence Action Teams helped to develop. The IEAP is our Inclusive Excellence Action Plan, of which there is one, which includes newly-funded initiatives as well as initiatives that are pursued via reallocation of resources within respective divisions. See the IEAP websitefor details on the six IEATs and our IEAP.
Institutional Programming Collaborative: Co-led by Associated Students Inc. (ASI) and Orientation & Engagement Programs to serve as a cross-divisional working group to centralize campus programs and events that simultaneously foster collaborative partnerships and sharing of fiscal resources for students. Centralized institutional events and programs are coordinated centrally to prevent overlap and help share opportunities with students.
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) Plan: Closely aligned with the University’s work in developing a Strategic Enrollment Plan, the first two of three phases for CSUCI’s IMC Plan (see pp. 4-5) were accomplished from 2021-23. In 2021-22, ADV conducted market research on CSUCI brand perception, with broad engagement from students, staff, faculty, and administrators as well as with external partners and stakeholders. In 2022-23, the University contracted with Beacon Technologies to conduct a web audit, and again with ADV to develop a new Brand Foundation. Phase III is underway in 2023-24 and will continue through 2024-25, involving visual rebranding and a website redesign. Requests for Proposals for these two projects were published in Fall 2023.
Persistence Rate: The percentage of students who return to college in the next fall semester or have earned a degree. It is the sum of the retention and graduation rate.
Place-based assets: President Yao introduced several place-based assets in his Convocation Address of August 17, 2023, in introducing his vision for One Health toward 2030+ – with these unique place-based assets making experiential education at CSUCI truly distinctive in all of higher education. These include CSUCI’s:
- identity as the ancestral land of the Barbareño Ventureño Band of Chumash Indians and home to sat’wiwa, a Chumash mountain shrine on the CSUCI campus
- location in the heart of the nation’s 11th largest county in crop value
- interdisciplinary engagement in coastal health and ocean affairs
- proximity to one of the biggest independent biotech firms in the world
- status as one of only 11 universities in the country with a research station on National Park Service land, with opportunities for extensive, interdisciplinary engagement by faculty and staff with the Santa Rosa Island Research Station and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
- serving as the future home for the Santa Barbara Zoo Conservation Center, the first zoo-owned and managed facility accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums on a university campus
- our proximity to the heart of the nation’s entertainment industry – one of the main global hubs for the industry
- eastern border framed by the Santa Monica Mountains
- sometimes struggling but always continuing and evolving commitments to interdisciplinarity, multicultural and international perspectives, community engagement and service learning – with each of these pillars given meanings, opportunities, and partnerships unique to our region, in the diverse and closely-woven communities of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties
Retention Rate: The percentage of students who continue to study in the next fall semester are counted in this rate. Retention rates are calculated based on a fall-to-fall enrollment.