Staff Mission and Values

We, the UCSB AS Professionals, empower, mentor, guide and support UCSB students to deepen and enhance civic engagement and social responsibility by:

• Facilitating learning through student initiated projects and programs.
• Ensuring student inclusion in shared governance of the university.
• Initiating and facilitating collaboration within the UCSB community and beyond.
• Safeguarding the continuity, financial stability and institutional memory of the AS organization for current and future students.
• Respecting student agency to create their own path.

A.S. Professional Staff Values

• Teamwork: being respectful, seeking common ground as we do our work, and being honest, trustworthy, and straightforward. Being cooperative without compromising our independence.
• Professionalism: following accepted and ethical standards of our areas of expertise; doing our work fairly and with integrity; representing our recommendations to our stakeholders accurately, and with a sense of proportion; and completing our work thoroughly and timely so that it is available and relevant to inform stakeholders’ decisions.
• Flexibility: thinking creatively, adopting new ways of addressing issues tailored to unique circumstances, and building on successful processes to make them better.
• Accountability: taking responsibility for completing high quality work.

A.S. Organizational Values

• Activism
• Collaboration
• Community
• Compassion
• Consensus
• Creating a public sphere
• Critical thinking
• Diversity: respecting each other and amplifying the strengths that come from true respect for diversity
• Education & Knowledge
• Empowerment
• Engagement
• Inclusion
• Initiative
• Mentoring
• Objectivity
• Open mindedness
• Participation
• Social change
• Solidarity
• Sustainability
• Tenacity