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The core mission of the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) can be expressed in three words:
education, research
and service.
In an essay on the Research University
published October 9, 2001, former UCLA Chancellor
Albert Carnesale noted the inter-related nature
of these three fundamental activities:
”Like other research universities,
UCLA's mission is threefold: education,
research, and service.
Because these components are
synergistic, our contribution to society
is one in which the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts. On our campus, education,
research, and service are not mutually exclusive
categories. The same people are engaged
in all three activities, and all three endeavors
thrive.”
The 1974-78 University of California Academic
Plan expands upon the meaning of UCLA’s
three-part mission:
The distinctive mission of the University
of California is to serve society as a center
of higher learning…providing long-term
societal benefits through transmitting advanced
knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and
functioning as an active, working repository
of organized knowledge. That obligation...includes
undergraduate education, graduate and professional
education, research and other kinds of public
service...
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