What role do you play in shaping this future?
Write one pages of fiction about UCSB in 50 years. Concentrate on diversity and share what you imagine. Use at least three of these prompts.
What do the students look like?
What do the faculty and staff look like?
How do people get along?
What sort of research are departments engaged in?
What problems are professors working on?
What identities are being affirmed and celebrated on campus both visible and unseen?
How do people react when there is violence or injustice in their communities?
Finish up with a response to this prompt. You can either address it as something that you did here in 2015 or something that the author (50-years into future) is doing to support diversity.
What role do you play in shaping this future?
If you’d like, you can write as if you are a new transfer student of 50 years in the future sending a letter home to your family. Keep it shorter than 2 pages.