UC Santa Barbara

The UC DIGSSS program provides financial, academic and professional development support for underrepresented doctoral students to assist with their successful transition to graduate training, to foster retention and to ultimately assure degree completion and entrance into the professoriate.

On the UC Santa Barbara campus, the Division of Social Sciences is home to the UC-DIGSSS Program for underrepresented doctoral students in the following departments: Anthropology, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Communications, Economics, Linguistics, Political Science, and Sociology, and to the MA students in the Global and International Studies Program.

The program, a member of a three-campus consortium comprised of UC Santa Barbara, UCLA and UC Berkeley, is funded in large part through the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences (UC DIGSSS), whose Principal Investigator is Associate Dean Beth E. Schneider, Professor of Sociology.

The goals of the UCSB UC DIGSSS program are:

  • To acclimate under-represented students to the research culture of the institution, further define research interests, and build research skills.

  • To encourage the early identification of a faculty mentor and facilitate an outcome based learning/working relationship.

  • To provide financial support for students who may lack other funding opportunities.

  • To build a community of scholars whose research reflects the cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of the Social Sciences at UCSB.

  • To advance the UCSB institutional commitment to diversity by "attracting a talented and diverse community of scholars to our graduate programs" in the Social Sciences.

  • To graduate exceptionally well-trained scholars ready to enter the professoriate at major research universities and liberal arts colleges around the United States.

Two important sources of support for eligible continuing doctoral students are the Summer Research Program Awards and the Conference and Research Travel Grants.

For more information on the UC DIGSSS program or other diversity resources on the UCSB campus, please contact Mary F. York, UC DIGSSS Graduate Diversity Coordinator at myork@ltsc.ucsb.edu or call (805)893-4069.

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