Purpose
The Center for Cultural Development (CCD) cultivates shared vision, coherence and coordination of diversity and inclusion efforts across campus. The University of San Diego holds deep commitment to developing and sustaining a diverse campus community in the broadest sense, including differences in gender, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, veteran status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability.
As a coordinating center, the CCD advocates, facilitates and assesses the work of established programs, departments and offices to affirm that the campus lives out its commitment to diversity and inclusion. The CCD serves as a place where issues surrounding inclusion and diversity can be conceptualized, explored, nurtured, cultivated, shared and promoted. Through collaborative relationships, the CCD helps ensure that the university is a stimulating, welcoming and engaging place for all alumni, faculty, staff, students and visitors.
The CCD generates innovative, outcome-oriented, and community-based ideas about how to build and sustain a diverse campus community that results in a lived and felt experience of institutional inclusion. The CCD engages with curricular and co-curricular efforts to explore and find solutions to how difference and unity operate in the larger world through scholarship, service, and advocacy.