About

Our department is committed to advocating for and advancing the adoption of policies that create a welcoming and inclusive working environment for all students, faculty, and staff, and to advance UCSB’s Principles of Community. Included in this section are some of the initiatives that we are actively working on that are designed to uphold this commitment. Our mission statement can be found here. 

Land Acknowledgement

As a community that studies and appreciates the Earth we walk on and the landscapes around us, we must be mindful of and acknowledge those who have tended and lived on this land before us and still reside here today. We recognize that UC Santa Barbara currently occupies the unceded lands of the Coastal Chumash people, the traditional inhabitants and custodians of this territory. Among many lessons the Chumash can teach us, the principles of balance, sustainability, respect for, and relationship with, our natural environment are particularly urgent and inspiring today.