Goals

Today, the tremendous success of the basic needs movement at UC is the result of a collaborative effort by all stakeholders — students, staff, faculty, university leaders, Regents and state policymakers — who galvanized their efforts toward a common goal: providing a college experience where all students have what they need to thrive personally and academically.

Five-Year UC Basic Needs Goals

As part of the effort to reduce basic needs insecurity at the university, the Special Committee on Basic Needs published its report indicating its major research findings and insights. This report also included "challenge goals," or target milestones, to further expand the proportion of students whose basic needs are being met, providing them the necessary resources to finish their degrees and achieve further success both in the workforce and in their communities.

By June 2025:

1. Reduce the proportion of undergraduate students reported to have experienced food insecurity in the past 12 months by 50 percent.
2. Reduce the proportion of graduate students reported to have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months by 50 percent.
3. Reduce the proportion of undergraduate students who have experienced housing insecurity by 50 percent.
4. Reduce the proportion of graduate students who have experienced homelessness to by 50 percent.

These goals also align with the first two goals of the UC vision of Advancing the California Dream by 2030, outlined in the UC Accountability Report.

UC 2030: Advancing the California Dream

1. Produce over 200,000 additional degrees, on top of the one million undergraduate and graduate degrees currently projected.
2. Achieve 90 percent overall graduation rate and eliminate gaps for timely graduation and graduate degree attainment for Pell, first-generation and underrepresented groups.
3. Invest in the next generation of faculty and research by adding 1,100 ladder-rank faculty over the next four years.