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Thematic Pathway for Reaffirmation Institutional Report University of California, San Francisco Submitted to WASC Senior College and University Commission August 2020 Component 1 Introduction to the Institutional Report 1. History of UCSF UCSF dates its founding to 1864, when South Carolina surgeon Hugh Toland founded a private medical school in San Francisco. In 1873, Toland Medical College and the California College of Pharmacy affiliated with the University of California, which had opened its campus in Berkeley in 1868. In 1881, the UC Regents added a dental college. These three UC colleges were brought together onto a single campus in Parnassus Heights in San Francisco in 1898, and the fourth professional school – the UC Training School for Nurses – was added in 1907. In 1949, the UC Regents designated the four health professions schools as the UC Medical Center in San Francisco, and several basic science departments joined the clinical departments in 1958. In 1961, the Graduate Division was established, and in 1964, the institution – operating under the name University of California, San Francisco Medical Center – was given full administrative independence, becoming the ninth campus in the UC system and the only one devoted exclusively to the health sciences. In recognition of the diversity of disciplines represented by researchers and scholars, the UC Regents renamed the institution University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1970. UCSF earned its first WASC accreditation in 1976. 2. Overview of capacity, infrastructure, operations, locations, degree programs UCSF is a distinctly urban institution with facilities throughout the city of San Francisco and some beyond city limits. There are two main campuses where the majority of educational and research activities take place: Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay. 1 Parnassus Heights is the oldest and largest campus site belonging to UCSF. Established in 1898, it comprises approximately 107 acres of land at the base of Mount Sutro, in the Inner Sunset neighborhood. Buildings at the Parnassus Heights campus site constitute about 3.25 million square feet of building space, excluding parking garages. They include research and educational facilities (classrooms, laboratories); administrative operations for the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy; a network of comprehensive patient care services for adults that treat both inpatients and outpatients and provide training sites for health professions students at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights and the UCSF Dental Center; Kalmanovitz Library, which also houses the Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills; Millberry Union, which houses the Student Success Center, the Multicultural Resource Center, Student Health and Counseling Services, the offices of the Registrar and Student Financial Aid, the University’s bookstore, a lively food court, and a conference and fitness center; on-campus housing; and a child care center. The Mission Bay campus site is located on 60 acres in the Mission Bay neighborhood, south of Oracle Park, adjacent to the Chase Center, and north of the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods. First opened with one building in 2003, existing buildings on the Mission Bay campus site now constitute about 3.23 million square feet of building space, excluding parking garages. They include ten research and education buildings (laboratories, classrooms); UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, opened in 2015, a network of comprehensive patient care services for adults and children that treat both inpatients and outpatients and provide training sites for health professions students at Bakar Cancer Hospital, Benioff Children’s Hospital, Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital, and several outpatient facilities for precision cancer, psychiatry, 2 and orthopedics; administrative operations for the Graduate Division and the Chancellor’s Office; the Rutter Center, which houses a conference and fitness center, and Student Health and Counseling Services; on-campus housing; numerous eateries; and a child care center. UCSF maintains clinical, research, and education operations at numerous additional sites, the largest of which are: • The Mount Zion campus site, a hub of specialized medical clinics and surgery services, which occupies 7.6 acres on six contiguous city blocks in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco. • Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG), which is located in the Mission district. It is an acute care medical center owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco that serves as a safety net for uninsured and underinsured patients, as well as being the city’s only trauma center. UCSF and ZSFG have been partners in public health since 1873. Through an affiliation agreement with the City, UCSF leases or otherwise occupies space in exchange for providing services. UCSF faculty and physicians provide all of the medical care at ZSFG, which also serves as a major training site for health professions students, and they conduct research aimed at improving health outcomes in hospitals with underserved populations and saving the lives of trauma patients everywhere. At ZSFG, there are more than 20 UCSF research centers, affiliated institutes and major laboratories, and more than 250 UCSF researchers whose research budget exceeds $200 million every year. • San Francisco VA Medical Center, which is located in the northwestern corner of San Francisco, has been affiliated with the UCSF School of Medicine for nearly 60 years. All 3 physicians are jointly recruited by SFVAMC and UCSF School of Medicine. SFVAMC has a long history of conducting cutting edge research, establishing innovative medical programs, providing compassionate care to veterans, and training UCSF health professions students. SFVAMC has the largest funded research program in the Veterans Health Administration with $79 million in research expenditures. • UCSF Fresno, which is located in the Central Valley about 160 miles southeast of San Francisco, where medical and pharmacy students and medical residents receive training in a wide variety of settings, ranging from rural hospitals and clinics, health agencies and programs, and faculty physicians’ offices to remote wilderness settings to one of California’s busiest emergency rooms and the region’s only Level 1 trauma center and burn unit. This regional campus was created in 1975. • UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, which has been affiliated with UCSF since 2014. Located across the bay from San Francisco, it has over 30 pediatric specialties and is one of only five Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Centers in California. Its research arm, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, is one of the top pediatric research centers in terms of National Institutes of Health grant funding. The student body at UCSF (2019-20) consists of 3,198 students, with 435 in the School of Dentistry (DDS), 643 in the School of Medicine (MD), 450 in the School of Nursing (MEPN, MS, DNP), 473 in the School of Pharmacy (PharmD), 151 in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program (DPT), and 1,046 in the Graduate Division (17 PhD programs, 7 master’s programs, and 2 certificate programs). Overall, the student body is 64.0% female, 23.2% underrepresented minority (African American/Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, or Multiracial when one or more are from the preceding categories), 6.0% international, 25.2% first generation 4 to college, and 43.4% first generation to graduate school. UCSF’s degree programs are highly selective. In 2019, the dental school accepted 9.7% of applicants, the medical school accepted 3.8%, the nursing master’s entry program accepted 23.2%, the pharmacy program accepted 25.1%, and the basic science PhD programs accepted 10.9%. In addition, UCSF serves as the training facility for more than 1,100 postdoctoral research scholars and more than 1,600 residents in three fields: medicine (1,609), dentistry (28), and pharmacy (22). UCSF employs 3200 faculty and 24,000 staff; it is the second-largest employer in San Francisco, after the City and County of San Francisco. UCSF receives 61% of its $7.1 billion revenue from its clinical services ($4.33 billion) and 21% from grants and contracts ($1.46 billion), primarily from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). UCSF has been the nation’s top public recipient of funding from NIH for the past seven years. California state funds comprise 2% of the revenue, and student tuition and fees (net of scholarship allowances) comprise 1%. 3. Institutional values As UCSF continues to grow in size and scope, and expands the many efforts and extraordinary projects undertaken, it is increasingly critical that all faculty, staff, students and trainees understand and act upon common core values. As a unifying set of beliefs, values help set expectations, drive decision-making, and build a culture that inspires actions. A collaborative culture that is unified in its shared values is important for UCSF today and positions UCSF well for the future. During his State of the University Address on Oct. 4, 2016, Chancellor Sam Hawgood 5 announced that UCSF would embrace a common set of values to set a clear direction for all members of the campus community. Three weeks later, members of the Chancellor’s leadership team endorsed the set of overarching values at its retreat, believing in and reinforcing the concept of “One UCSF” that unites the university in its shared purpose and promise. Originally adopted by UCSF