Internationalization in the Spirit of Collective Impact at the University of California San Diego Through the ACE Internationalization Lab

​June 2022 

The University of California (UC) San Diego has a mission of "transforming California and a diverse global society by educating, generating and disseminating knowledge and creative works, and engaging in public service." As a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public institution, its students and researchers are doing work at the forefront of the most important scientific and societal issues of the time. Their work is guided by the idea of collective impact—a collaborative approach to tackling complex challenges by bringing people together in a structured way to achieve major change. UC San Diego serves nearly 40,000 students and is an inherently global university, with the seventh-largest international student and scholar populations in the United States.