The UC DIGSSS Alliance is a partnership between UC Santa Barbara, UC Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley which receives funding from the National Science Foundation and strives to increase the recruitment, enrollment, retention, and degree completion of U.S. underrepresented, Ph.D.-degree seeking, graduate social science students.

The UC DIGSSS program makes available recruitment funds to the following departments: Anthropology, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Communication, Economics, Feminist Studies, Linguistics, Political Science and Sociology. Additionally, students who have completed their first year of graduate study and who have maintained good academic standing may competitively submit proposals to the UC DIGSSS Summer Research and the Professional Development Grant and Research Support Grant programs.

The UC DIGSSS program is a dedicated community of faculty, administrators, staff and graduate students which supports the academic, social and personal persistence of our graduate students while they pursue a doctoral degree at UC Santa Barbara.