We, the UCSB AS Professionals, empower, mentor, guide and support UCSB students to deepen and enhance civic engagement and social responsibility by:<\/p>\n

Facilitating learning through student initiated projects and programs.<\/li>\n
Ensuring student inclusion in shared governance of the university.<\/li>\n
Initiating and facilitating collaboration within the UCSB community and beyond.<\/li>\n
Safeguarding the continuity, financial stability and institutional memory of the AS organization for current and future students.<\/li>\n
Respecting student agency to create their own path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
A.S. Professional Staff Values<\/h2>\n
- Teamwork:<\/strong>\u00a0being respectful, seeking common ground as we do\u00a0our work, and being honest, trustworthy, and straightforward.\u00a0Being cooperative without compromising our independence.<\/li>\n
- Professionalism:<\/strong>\u00a0following accepted and ethical standards of our\u00a0areas of expertise; doing our work fairly and with integrity;\u00a0representing our recommendations to our stakeholders\u00a0accurately, and with a sense of proportion; and completing our\u00a0work thoroughly and timely so that it is available and relevant to\u00a0inform stakeholders\u2019 decisions.<\/li>\n
- Flexibility:<\/strong>\u00a0thinking creatively, adopting new ways of addressing\u00a0issues tailored to unique circumstances, and building on\u00a0successful processes to make them better.<\/li>\n
- Accountability:<\/strong>\u00a0taking responsibility for completing high quality\u00a0work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  A.S. Organizational Values<\/h2>\n
  \n
  Activism<\/li>\n
  Collaboration<\/li>\n
  Community<\/li>\n
  Compassion<\/li>\n
  Consensus<\/li>\n
  Creating a public sphere<\/li>\n
  Critical thinking<\/li>\n
  Diversity: respecting each other and\u00a0amplifying the strengths that come\u00a0from true respect for diversity<\/li>\n
  Education & Knowledge<\/li>\n
  Empowerment<\/li>\n
  Engagement<\/li>\n
  Inclusion<\/li>\n
  Initiative<\/li>\n
  Mentoring<\/li>\n
  Objectivity<\/li>\n
  Open mindedness<\/li>\n
  Participation<\/li>\n
  Social change<\/li>\n
  Solidarity<\/li>\n
  Sustainability<\/li>\n
  Tenacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
  A.S. Professional Staff Mission 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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2012-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}