Social Sciences Strategic Plan
School of Social Sciences
Strategic Plan, May 2007
Mission and Structure
The most challenging issues facing humanity have central social and individual dimensions – environmental change, population flows, national and religious conflict, the social, cognitive and neural aspects of aging, and others. Many important national and international challenges have social, as well as technological, consequences and solutions. The future of the social sciences in higher education depends upon the advancement of basic research, the effective applications of research to solve societal problems, and the education of our students to provide the contextual knowledge and specific skills that will make them effective thinkers and leaders, informed decision makers and responsible citizens.
Social Sciences seeks to improve the world through basic research and education
in human behavior and human systems.
The School of Social Sciences has achieved distinction in many traditional social science disciplines. UC Irvine is historically among the strongest programs nationally and internationally in quantitative and formal approaches to the social sciences, and has recently achieved visibility in qualitative and interpretive approaches to the study of individual and social behavior.
Our strategic plan selectively increases core excellence and research capacity in areas needed to understand social and economic issues such as immigration, political incorporation, international security, and environment. A second area of selective growth will focus on the computational, cognitive and genetic aspects of mind, brain and behavior. Expanding these interdisciplinary areas will feed back to strengthen the basic research in our core departments, will enhance our ability to attract the top graduate students, and will modernize our core undergraduate major courses. At the same time, we plan to expand programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in “Skills for the Social Sciences”.
UC Irvine is a growth campus. Strategic growth in the social sciences will establish UCI as an influential center for 21st century social science. The School of Social Sciences has goals that align with the UC Irvine campus strategic plan: (1) Build research capacity to enhance the value of the university to the knowledge economy of California. (2) To expand the graduate programs to achieve the graduate to undergraduate ratios of a top research university; (3) To provide a broad educational experience and enhance training of undergraduates for leadership and in analysis and communication skills; (4) expand our programs on global and international issues.
The School of Social Sciences (www.socsci.uci.edu) has seven departments: Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies, Cognitive Sciences, Economics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Political Science, and Sociology. The areas of research excellence appear in Table 1. There are three interdisciplinary instructional programs: International Studies (www.socsci.uci.edu/istudies), Social Sciences, and a graduate program in Demography and Social Analysis (www.demography.uci.edu).
Social Sciences is also home to 10 interdisciplinary research centers and is co-sponsor of 2 centers (see www.socsci.uci.edu/centers.php). The centers provide interdisciplinary research programs in areas such as democracy, globalization, immigration, population, peace and conflict, and ethics. Other centers focus on mind, brain and behavior, or the mathematical or ethnographic approaches to social science. The centers organize research teams to address important and timely issues.
Research Agenda
The School of Social Sciences has a number of very strong departments with recognized expertise in a wide range of areas. Perhaps the most salient aspect of Social Sciences is its intellectual diversity. The areas of expertise in research are listed for each Department in the section on Faculty and Research Excellence, Table 1. One of the interesting aspects of research in the Social Science departments is that modern approaches to important research topics increasingly reflect multi-disciplinary research capacity and research teams. Expertise in these teams in turn will strengthen the core departments and also provide support for some of the largest undergraduate majors on the campus.
Our future plans include selectively enhanced research capacity and infrastructure that will develop new basic knowledge, translational applications, and influence policy. There are two primary areas of research focus, corresponding to areas of selective current excellence, larger graduate programs with higher growth potential, and translational applications and policy implications.
One research agenda will focus on the social aspects of Social Science Research – by this we mean research capacity associated with SSR research centers at some of the larger national universities. This will include expanded faculty research and infrastructure in the interrelated topics of population, immigration, democratization and political incorporation, social differences, environment and energy, and social policy. The subtopics in this area will include:
Population, migration, and diversity: UCI has a highly recognized faculty researching issues of population characteristics, immigration, the immigrant experience, race and ethnicity, health, diversity and social equality. Future expansions of these programs in areas of demography, regional and ethnic health demography, political power and incorporation, and gender issues will be the core of a population initiative in Social Sciences, with opportunities for collaboration with Social Ecology and the College of Medicine. Given our trajectory, Irvine is and can be an even more significant West Coast center for research, education, and policy in these areas.
National, international and global studies: UCI has achieved research excellence in the study of democratization, voting behavior, comparative politics, social movements, governance institutions, political economy, and in international security. These programs will have collaborators in Informatics, Social Ecology, and the Humanities, and Physical Sciences. We intend to build on current strengths and extend into areas of environmental and energy economics.
Culture and society: UCI now has remarkable research expertise in important cultural and social movements, including modernity, transitions in society, and the social and technological transformations in a global society. There are collaborations possible with social ecology, the humanities and the arts. This is an area that opens new research dimensions as we enter into the age of digital interaction and digital community.
This research concentration will disproportionately involve faculty growth in sociology and economics, with participation of political sciences, anthropology, and Chicano/Latino studies. These research areas also depend upon core expertise in spatial and relational modeling, demographic analysis, economics models, and political analysis – expertise that can be applied over time to a wide range of social issues. This agenda is consistent with plans for participation in the new MPP and MPH degrees.
Over the next two and five year periods, this will require hiring faculty in sociology in population, immigration, gender and ethnicity, and demography. It will require hiring in Economics in areas of health, immigration, and energy and environmental economics. In Political Science, the focus over the next period should be on institutions and political policy. In Anthropology, it will be focused on health anthropology, and science, technology, and media. In each case, new faculty hires will simultaneously build to the departmental strengths.
The second major research agenda will focus on the computational and neural bases of Mind, Brain, and Behavior. The School has highly recognized existing expertise in cognitive and experimental psychology and mathematical and computational approaches to social sciences, and formal systems and philosophy. We have emerging expertise in human brain imaging. There are two sub-areas to this agenda:
Cognitive and brain sciences: We aim to develop a strength in cognitive and brain sciences, with emphasis on the new technologies of brain imaging, including EEG, fMRI, and MEG, and relationships with new genetic assessment and processes. This initiative corresponds with important funding initiatives at NIH and NSF and other national agencies, and addresses issues at the advance edge of the science. This agenda requires collaboration with Biological Sciences and the Health Sciences. It also has extensive hardware and computational underpinnings that may involve collaboration with ICS, Engineering, and the Physical Sciences.
Games, decisions and computational behavioral science: The School of Social Sciences has a unique set of strengths in mathematical behavioral sciences that underlie a wide range of research. UCI ranks 1st in the philosophical gourmet rankings in games and decisions (http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/pgr_preview_top.html), an area that also has strengths in political science, psychology (cognitive science), sociology and economics. Computational approaches will be important to the cognitive and brain sciences, but we also have strong current ties that should be expanded with ICS in data mining and analysis of data on and use of the web.
This area of research growth will involve deployment of new faculty in Cognitive Sciences, possibly in Economics or Political Science in choice and decision, and selective growth in Logic and Philosophy of Science. In each case, new faculty hires will simultaneously build to the departmental strengths as well.
Social Sciences will invest in a new initiative in “Tools for the Social Sciences” to support research, to enlarge research infrastructure and to provide strong training for graduate and undergraduate students. This initiative responds to the increasing role in the social sciences of information and data technologies, statistical and mathematical modeling, spatial and geographic information systems, graphic visualization, and new non-invasive technologies of human brain imaging, as well as the importance of qualitative technologies of ethnography and discourse and textual analysis.
Multidisciplinary Activities
Social Sciences has strong interdisciplinary research ties across the campus. These include collaborations with: Social Ecology in legal, political, sociological and organizational studies; with ICS in statistics and informatics; with Engineering in Energy and Transportation Studies; with Biological Sciences and College of Health Sciences in mind, brain and behavior, in hearing sciences, and in public health. Social Science faculty participate in many campus-wide centers including the CalIT2, Center for Law, Culture and Society, the Humanities Research Institute, the Center for Hearing, the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, the Newkirk Center, etc. We collaborate with other schools on instructional programs, including the proposed Public Policy program with Social Ecology, History in the Humanities for International Studies, and we hope to participate in the Public Health graduate program.
The School of Social Sciences is committed to the support of excellence in research and education by our faculty, and to the translation of knowledge to society. Social Science faculty include those among the most distinguished on the campus. These include, the first winner of the National Medal of Science in the Social Sciences in the University of California (Duncan Luce), the only academic recipient of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun (Robert Garfias), 5 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 9 members of the American Academy of Sciences, 6 UC Irvine Distinguished Professors, 4 UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professors.
Our faculty play leadership roles in important Organized Research Units – directing, and in some cases founding the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and the Center for the Study of Democracy, as well as other Centers that are expected to achieve ORU status, including the Center for Immigration, Population, and Public Policy and the Center for Ethnography.
Members of our faculty have been the recipients of many book awards, prestigious Guggenheim, Smith-Richardson, Japan Foundation, Macarthur Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation and other fellowships. The faculty include many journal editors and editorial board participants, and winners of disciplinary career awards. Recent assessments of citation impact favorably rank anthropology and the political science. Several faculty members at UCI are among the most highly cited political scientists, and among the most highly cited women political scientists.
Sociology and Cognitive Science, and to an increasing degree Economics, have active extramural grant activities. Anthropology funding is largely focused on graduate fieldwork support in individual student grants. Social Sciences receives about $3.5M per year in extramural support. This is up almost 20% in the last four or five years, although the funding sources at major agencies have significantly altered their programs. The proposed areas of growth are associated with expanded extramural research opportunities in the social and behavioral science sector (economics, sociology, anthropology) and in computational and neuro-cognitive studies of mind and behavior (cognitive science).
Departmental Excellence
The departments in Social Sciences rank well in their respective areas. Anthropology has recently ranked 8th (Center for Public Anthropology, reputation plus impact) and 4th in various citation measures. Cognitive Sciences ranks 22nd in Psychology (U.S. News) and 13th in cognitive psychology (U.S. News). Economics ranks 48th (U.S. News), with specialty or individual rankings in the top 20 (econphd.net/rankings). Logic and Philosophy of Science ranks 1st in philosophy of science, and 1st to 3rd in a range of specialties (Philosophical Gourmet). Political Sciences ranks 35th (U.S. News), and 7th in publication impact (Political Science Review). Sociology ranks 27th (the highest inaugural ranking in history in U.S. News), and 25th in population (U.S. news). The areas of excellence within the departments are listed below, along with some proposed growth areas.
Faculty Diversity
Social Sciences faculty members historically have included about 33% women. Minorities, especially Chicano/Latino minorities are included in the faculty. The availability pools for faculty hiring indicate these relevant availabilities: Anthropology (56% women), Chicano/Latino Studies (unknown, but associated with minority hires), Cognitive Sciences (47% general psychology; <10% in mathematical subfields), Economics (18% to 27% by subfield), Logic and Philosophy of Science (26% general philosophy; < 10% in philosophy of science subfields), Political Science (29% - 32% by subfield), and Sociology (56%). Thus, some fields have availability consistent with the 30% women profile, or even lower, while others have strong opportunities to hire women. Through efforts associated with the advance program, the hiring in the last several years has achieved gender distributions approaching 40%. Some subfields, such as mathematical and computational approaches to social sciences or logic and philosophy of science will require us to continue strong efforts to incorporate women and minority faculty. The presence of Chicano/Latino Studies and strong programs in race and ethnicity and in immigration (sociology, political science, anthropology) will assist in attracting minority faculty.
Faculty Growth:
Our plans propose a growth in faculty of approximately 25% over the period from Fall 2006 to Fall 2015. In order to address the very high teaching workload in Social Sciences, this reflects stronger projected growth of about 5% per year for the first several years, followed by growth at a somewhat slower pace. Our multidisciplinary agendas make it difficult to project the precise distribution of new faculty over departments, although many of our departments are under normative size for comparable UCs and other public institutions of the size of UC Irvine. The growth is likely to be concentrated in Sociology, Economics, Cognitive Sciences, to a lesser extent in Political Sciences and Anthropology, with selective growth in Logic and Philosophy of Sciences and Chicano/Latino Studies. It will be especially important to increase the faculty size in departments with larger growth in the graduate programs, many of which have unusually high graduate student to faculty ratios compared to other campuses of the UC.
Educational Programs
Existing and Planned Programs
Social Sciences has rapidly growing graduate programs and among the largest and most vital undergraduate programs on the campus. A list of the current degrees offered through Social Sciences, along with current numbers of students appears at the end of this section as Table 2. The growth projections are in Table 3. A list of proposed degrees appears as Table 4.
Planned Graduate Program Growth
The School of Social Sciences plans to enhance and expand selective graduate programs. A strong presence of graduate and postdoctoral students characterizes world-class research universities. It is critical to the recruitment and retention of stellar faculty, builds our research capacity, augments delivery of undergraduate education, and trains the leaders of the knowledge economies of the region and the nation.
Growth in the graduate programs will be accomplished by a combination of expanded Ph.D. programs and new and expanded Masters programs. Table 3 lists some specific projections. Social Sciences has grown from 232 graduate students to 338 graduate students (oir.uci.edu) from Fall 2000 to Fall 2006, an almost 50% increase corresponding to an annualized increase of 6.5%. The availability of fellowships and work (teaching assistant and/or research assistant) support packages has been critical to this growth.
Planned graduate student growth includes an estimated 4% annualized growth in the Ph.D. programs between today and 2015, or about 22%. Stronger growth is anticipated in Cognitive Sciences, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. Cognitive Sciences graduate growth will be supported by the availability of a planned new Ph.D. title in Cognitive Neuroscience. At the same time, Social Sciences intends to participate through expansion of the existing M.A. program in Demography and Social Analysis, by shared credit for the proposed new program in public policy (M.P.P., in which approximately ½ of the courses are from Social Sciences), and by creation of an additional M.A. program in global and international studies. Other possible masters include medical social sciences and political consultancy. In aggregate, we expect up to a total of 125 or so masters students, an enormous percentage increase due to the small initial number.
Several scenarios for expanded graduate enrollment have somewhat different mixes of Ph.D. and M.A. enrollments. One possible distribution is shown in Table 3. More aggressive expansion of the Ph.D. enrollments will depend upon two factors: increased faculty in the departments with larger graduate growth to support instruction and mentoring (graduate student to faculty ratios are currently high by disciplinary standards) and availability of financial support for the Ph.D. programs.
Planned Undergraduate Program Growth
The School of Social Sciences currently graduates the largest number of students on the campus. More than one third (38% in 2006) of all UC Irvine undergraduates matriculate in our 7 disciplinary and 2 interdisciplinary undergraduate majors (see Table 2 for a list of majors and current sizes). Five of these are among the 10 most popular majors on the campus. Social Sciences offer 22%-24% of the course enrollments on the general campus. Each undergraduate major has an honors program, undergraduate research programs, and many have undergraduate clubs, and special activity groups. The overall undergraduate programs were estimated in the plan to grow by a factor of 3% per year until 2010, and 1% per year thereafter; this corresponds with campus plans to build the undergraduate programs primarily before 2010, and focus on graduate growth throughout the period to 2015-16.
Two new majors in Business Economics and Quantitative Economics were added in Fall 2006. These majors address student interest and provide high quality economics and business skills. Business Economics and a new Business major are anticipated to bring new enrollments to the campus.
Several additional new undergraduate majors are planned: Cognitive Neuroscience (jointly with Biological Sciences) will focus on the cognitive and brain systems underlying complex human behavior; it is a new merger of cognitive science and neurosciences that better reflects the interdisciplinary nature of modern cognitive psychology.
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) is modeled on high prestige programs at Oxford and would be the first in the UC; it is expected first to provide an alternative to the Social Science majors. Several other majors are being considered. In aggregate, we anticipate approximately proportional growth with the anticipated growth on the main campus of 20% to 24%.
Staff
The staff in the School of Social Sciences is committed to bring professionalism and commitment to support the educational, research, and public service activities of its faculty members and students. In terms of size, the total number of staff positions is relatively small. Primarily, this is the result of a more centralized organization of administrative responsibilities over the years. Out of a desire to create career paths for staff and also to respond to feedback provided during the School’s external review in 2003, we continue to work towards a more decentralized administrative structure. For growth, the School will expand the staff proportionally with the growth in faculty and students, redress current lagging staff ratios, and add a number of research staff in selected areas that will support areas of excellence. This will include proportionally increased levels of support to departments and programs. We anticipate increased needs in student support counseling and services commensurate with student and faculty growth. We also anticipate the need for some added research staff supported by the campus as the base of research enterprises in population and demography, cognitive neuroimaging, and disciplinary-specific support for increased needs in information technology (high-end programmer, network security). These latter positions are seen as a base for added research staff supported through a combination of extramural funding and internal resources to include recharging for services. In all, we anticipate a need of 19 new staff positions by 2015. In the coming 2-3 years, we hope to focus on the following critical areas:
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Student Affairs Officers (one for our undergraduate and two for graduate programs) |
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Departmental Assistants |
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Programmer Analyst for network security |
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Research Infrastructure (statistical and data support) |
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Grants Analyst |
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Dean’s Office Analyst |
Over the next seven years, we expect staff growth to be focused in the following areas:
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Departmental Assistants (instructional and academic personnel support) |
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Computing Support Staff for new/emerging technology support |
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Financial Analyst |
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Payroll/Personnel staff |
Even more important to our success will be our ability to properly train and retain our staff. Our senior staff has been very active and will continue to participate at the campus level to develop and implement programs to improve the work-life of our staff. In the most recent staff satisfaction survey conducted through Human Resources, the School faired extremely well in most categories of job satisfaction. Areas for improvement, as indicated by the survey, include a reduction of workloads and opportunities for career advancement. Implementation of our recruiting plan for staff will make advances towards relieving these concerns.
Support Services and Facilities
Plans for the new Social and Behavioral Sciences building have advanced to the pre-construction stage with opening planned in Fall 2009. This new building is a joint venture with the School of Social Ecology with shared assigned space primarily to meet instructional lab and faculty office space needs, along with limited research space that includes fMRI, MEG, and hearing research facilities to not only meet the needs of faculty in cognitive sciences, but also to create collaborative ties with faculty in the biological and health sciences and in psychology. These ties are vital as we work to strengthen the cognitive neurosciences at UCI and will help us to remain competitive with leading local institutions (namely USC, UC San Diego, and UC Davis) in supporting the most advanced research. Additionally, critical space will be provided in the new building to facilitate research and graduate training in Economics, Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology. This parallels our plan for growth in graduate programs in the coming 3-5 years and also our goals of recruiting faculty in areas that require lab setups.
As we work to achieve the goals outlined in our plan, another primary challenge will be to adequately transform current outdated research space in the Social Sciences Lab (built in 1971) to more modern and usable space. Ambitiously, we anticipate hiring faculty in the next 3-5 years that will have significant lab space needs. Primarily, these faculty members will require space to house research in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging, population and immigration, demography and social analysis, cognitive hearing, vision, and memory. To meet this need, we will actively pursue renovation funding through the minor capitalization program.
Finally, although Social Sciences and Social Ecology jointly field some 33% of the campus student credit hours, our “quad” is desperately short on classroom space and will have its first significant Network and Computing Services facility only in the new building. Indeed, fields in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly integrated with sophisticated information technology research platforms that will require continued expansion to support state of the art graduate and undergraduate training. Of note, the campus has stated that undergraduate growth will level-off within 4-5 years, and then decline slightly in the following years. We anticipate that undergraduate enrollments in the social sciences will continue to grow as a percentage of the campus due to our experiences with inter-campus and community college transfers. In that, it will be important that plans to meet the physical requirements of undergraduate instruction include future facilities in the social sciences quadrant.
Faculty members in Social Sciences have generally found the Library resources, many of which are now supplied via the Digital Library compacts of the UC, to be excellent. At this point we anticipate proportional increases in library access needs. It will also be important to continue expanding digital methodologies in our delivery of courses, such as web streaming and iTunes University (a pod casting of lectures and discussion sections).
Resources
Many of the resources needed in Social Sciences parallel those of the remainder of the campus, and can be accommodated with proportional growth. As with other units, the availability of faculty housing, graduate student housing and fellowship support, and undergraduate housing, and general student services and financial aid support will continue to be critical to program success. In order to catch up with intense building programs in the sciences, the Social and Behavioral Science quad needs to accelerate the capital plans to accommodate growth. The campus has planned for undergraduate growth to level-off within 4-5 years, and then decline slightly in the following years. We anticipate that undergraduate enrollments in the social sciences will continue to grow as a percentage of the campus due to our experiences with inter-campus and community college transfers. Absent a major societal change in interests in undergraduate majors, virtually any enrollment plan will lead to high participation in social sciences. In that, it will be important that plans to meet the physical requirements of undergraduate instruction include future facilities in the social sciences quadrant.
Our expected growth in undergraduates will be funded proportional to growth in majors, and hence in proportion to institutional support of the University of California. Our needed faculty growth is somewhat more aggressive, as demanded by our current high workload and unique and valuable research opportunities. Our estimates indicate a desired growth in faculty members of 25% (from 164.50 budgeted faculty FTE in Fall 2006 to 206 budgeted faculty FTE by 2015). In the coming 2 years, we propose the hiring of 12-16 colleagues that combine the areas of diversity, workload, and focused excellence (as outlined in the “Faculty” section on the plan). Expansion of the Ph.D. programs will require aggressive programs of extramural grant support and expanded participation of the donor community in creating graduate fellowship support to provide competitive support. While still less expensive than many of the physical and biological sciences, research infrastructure in Social Sciences is becoming more sophisticated. One example requiring equipment infrastructure is the area of cognitive and brain imaging and other measurements, and increasing use of major computing resources. Other social science disciplines involve a mixture of medium scale computing resources with staff expertise supporting research and graduate and undergraduate training, such as management support for large data bases and specialized disciplinary software tools. The strategic plan includes the addition of 19 new staff positions by 2015 (outlined in the “Staffing” section of the plan). Of these, five have been targeted in key research related areas to provide technical support (computer imaging and modeling, high-end computer programming, imaging and MRI facilities operations).
Currently, several areas of research in social sciences create significant extramural funding opportunities: cognitive science, brain imaging, sociology, and some economic specialties including transportation, development, and health economics. Increasing granting activity in these areas, along with new and emerging areas, will contribute to major research programs, but also generate the need for added infrastructure support in grants management, grants writing, and technology management. Some of these infrastructure needs could be goals for external fundraising. Part of our plan will be to continue recruiting faculty in key areas to foster and generate extramural funding opportunities for support of graduate students and to expand the educational profiles for our undergraduates.
Campus Life
Social Sciences has a strong commitment to creating many ‘small world’ opportunities within the large university to create optimal learning communities, support personal development, and provide opportunities to give back to others. Each of our majors has a program of honors and research activities. Active student groups such as the Social Science Ambassador’s Council, the Model United Nations Program, the Global-Connect Outreach group, the Law Forum Program and Journal, and Departmental Honors programs and honorary groups, as well as Theme Houses in Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies organize many activities for students including Social Hours, Career programs, quiz bowls, film discussion nights, and many others. These activities mix academic content with social activities and enrich the student experience. Our Academic Resource Center coordinates internship and service learning activities. Our Summer Academic Enrichment Program has an excellent record of supporting student diversity and progression of diverse students to graduate programs. We plan to support and enhance these endeavors.
Public Role
The School of Social Sciences contributes in at least five major ways to the public role of UCI.
(1) Social Sciences trains new individuals to contribute to society and the new knowledge economy of the future. (2) Our research Centers offer a rich set of public presentations by recognized public political and social figures as well as public intellectuals and public presentations by scholarly experts. (3) Our outreach programs make key contributions to the local community. The HABLA and Jump-Start program offers bilingual pre-K language skills interventions, and Global Connect partners with under-represented middle and high schools in Newport-Mesa in a curriculum and tutoring outreach program that brings the global world to the classroom and has partnered with Irvine Unified School District in the development of Social Science curriculum. (4) Social Science scholarship contributes to public policy developments in issues of great relevance to California and the nation, such as immigration, housing, transportation, the social delivery and economics of health care, election and electoral politics, the roles of planned and social networks in emergency response, and privacy and digital social communities. (5) Individual Social Sciences faculty members and students spend many hours each year contributing their expertise to improvement of local, state, national, and international communities and institutions. The new growth opportunities afforded by the strategic growth of the campus will allow us to maintain and expand our role in integrating positively with P-12 education. It will provide research capacity to address many of the pressing social and individual issues of the day. New programs are designed to add specific skills to the workforce. Finally, we hope to be a focus of rich new ideas about technology and society that contribute to creative adaptation to the future.
