The Center for Innovative, Teaching, Research and Learning (CITRAL)
Looking to strengthen your teaching practice? The Center for Innovative, Teaching, Research and Learning (CITRAL) brings together research, innovation, and collaboration to support inclusive and equitable teaching and learning across campus. A partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Education and the UCSB Library, CITRAL is a resource for faculty committed to making their classrooms work for every student.
The Pedagogy Lab
The Pedagogy Lab is a justice-oriented higher education nonprofit advancing speculative, open, and accessible pedagogy. The Lab creates public-facing learning resources, supports educators and scholars in developing new teaching tools, and builds collaborative projects that make humanities knowledge more usable and engaging. Its work is grounded in Black, brown, queer, feminist, and decolonial intellectual traditions.
Funded by the Hewlett Foundation and in collaboration with Feminist Futures, the Lab is a resource for educators committed to reimagining what the classroom can be.
Teaching Professor Network (TPN)
The Teaching Professor Network brings together UCSB's Teaching Professors to share best practices, resources, and a commitment to inclusive teaching excellence. In 2025-26, the group has been developing a teaching statement template in coordination with Academic Personnel to help professors demonstrate teaching excellence campus-wide.
All Teaching Professors are automatically invited in their first year. If you were missed or have questions, reach out to Vanessa Woods at vewoods@ucsb.edu or Lalo Gonzalez at laloglz@ucsb.edu.
Teaching Professors across the UC system can also connect through T3PN, a system-wide network with resources and a listserv.
RCSGD Teaching Resources
The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity offers a range of educational resources to help instructors build more inclusive classrooms. Trans@UCSB is a comprehensive guide to supporting trans and gender expansive students at UCSB, while the LGBTQIA+ Educational Resources and QTBIPOC Resources pages offer materials that reflect the full diversity of queer identities and experiences. Downloadable posters are also available to help signal that your classroom is a welcoming space for all students.
Trans@UCSB
Everything anyone needs to know about being trans and gender expansive at UCSB.
See their Quick Resource Guides for information about exploration, products, surgery, and more!
LGBTQIA+ Educational Resources
Learn about LGBTQIA+ identities, experiences - such as Pronouns, Pride Flag index, or Make-up 101 - through these resources.
QTBIPOC Resources
A site for queer, intersectional identities; information about UCSB's diverse communities.
Campus Engagement
Inclusive excellence is visible across campus and the Santa Barbara community, through speaker presentations, multidisciplinary arts, and thought provoking conversations.
UCSB Arts & Lectures is a campus partner whose programming reflects our shared commitment to justice, culture, and community.
Arts & Lectures brings thinkers, writers, and leaders to UCSB to explore the inequalities that shape our policies, institutions, and lives. Past speakers include Ibram X. Kendi, Roxane Gay, and Amanda Nguyen - conversations that extend well beyond the lecture hall.
In partnership with the greater Santa Barbara community, Arts & Lectures presents ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! - bringing the rich cultural heritage of Latin America to more than 15,000 students and community members across Santa Barbara County each year through free concerts, performances, and community events. Created in 2006 out of a commitment to arts access for all, Viva is a celebration that belongs to everyone.
The MultiCultural Center (MCC) is one of the most active gathering spaces on campus. From art exhibitions and film screenings to roundtable conversations about navigating STEM as a student of color, the MCC creates programming that is both intellectually serious and deeply communal. Check their events calendar to explore their events.