Dr. Desmond-Hellmann wants an even stronger focus on those efforts, many of which are happening at the school's gleaming new building for stem-cell research and its enormous new waterfront campus, Mission Bay, which is becoming a medical and biotech empire.
There are multiple organizations on campus whose mission it is to promote diversity and inclusivity, and to educate others about marginalized groups.
Brightly colored butterflies on murals that decorate the buildings leading into the gated Haven campus represent its mission of transformation.
Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese, said the church owned the building, although it stands on a 150-acre parcel, part of the original mission campus, that was sold last year to the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Located atop a woody hill overlooking UCSF s main campus, the primary mission of the CGE is to promote tolerance, understanding, and inclusion through programs that advance social, economic, and public service.
Yet as the academy reshapes its mission and campus, its flowering relationship with the art market is stirring unease among those who feel that students should be shielded from commercial pressures.
"Universities realise that there are more people who want a high quality degree than can be served on campus, and that their mission is to open more of their degrees to more people in the world," he said.
With top-rated programs in science and engineering -- and almost 9 out of 10 undergraduates taking at least one computer course -- the palm-lined, mission-style campus here has been ground zero for the high-technology boom.
But the paradox, some experts in higher education say, is that many schools are eliminating language degrees and graduate programs just as they begin to embrace an international mission: opening campuses abroad, recruiting students from overseas and talking about graduating citizens of the world.
Over 150 young scientists attended the ScienceCareers.Org Workshop held at the UCSF-Mission Bay campus.
The tiny office on alternative care was set up in a remote outpost, nowhere near the institutes' main campus in Bethesda, Md. Its mission was complicated.
