About UC San Diego Community Stations

Our Mission

To REACTIVATE the university’s public mission, merging research, teaching and service to improve quality of life in disadvantaged communities across the San Diego–Tijuana border region.
To DEVELOP long-term partnerships between the university and community-based non profits to tackle today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges together.
To EDUCATE a new generation of leaders capable of thinking ethically and collaboratively across disciplines.
To PRODUCE public scholarship in collaboration with communities.
To BUILD and PROGRAM new public spaces that educate, where buildings and spaces themselves operate as pedagogical tools, rendering transparent the social and energy systems they contain.
To ADVANCE experimental forms of education, research, civic participation and economic development.
To INSPIRE faculty across disciplines to do ethical, community-engaged research and practice in diverse, underserved contexts.
To EXPAND experiential learning opportunities, and develop new field-based curricula that place students into actual communities settings.
To MOBILIZE the arts and humanities as tools of civic engagement that increase public knowledge and collective capacity in disadvantaged communities.
To PRODUCE new evidentiary data that can transform public policy.
To SUPPORT communities developing their own neighborhood civic infrastructure and affordable housing.