IdeaBox

IdeaBox is a place for staff and faculty to put their ideas year-round.

Did you miss your chance to submit a great idea to a prior campaign? Do you want to shed light on a critical issue to improve our University? We want to know about it!  

IdeaBox is a place for UC San Diego faculty, staff and student employees to submit and store ideas on an ongoing basis. Ideas submitted here will be reviewed periodically and could potentially turn into quick win initiatives, move to a future active campaign, or serve as a catalyst for a new campaign.

• Log into IdeaBox with your UC San Diego email credentials or Business Systems credentials

A subcommittee of the SC-SPOC (Standing Committee on Service and People-Oriented Culture) will review HOT! ideas (minimum 5 comments and 25 votes) in IdeaBox intermittently and make recommendations for next steps. Remember that you can share your idea by emailing directly from IdeaWave to colleagues to motivate and promote discussion, which will help your idea achieve HOT! status.

Although the committee is unable to provide individual responses to every idea in IdeaBox, ideas that progress to management review and beyond will be designated in the idea progress bar so you can see which ideas are moved forward.

Since last year, submissions to IdeaBox have increased from 52 ideas to 101 ideas! Three ideas have gained Hot! status.

• Facilitate retention of world-class faculty and researchers by leveraging UC San Diego Health expertise to provide US Civil Surgeon services for the permanent residence process: This idea which suggests that due to tough bureaucracy, those seeking permanent residence are subject to a rather arduous and confusing process of receiving sign off on their medical exam. The suggestion is to refer our potential hires to our own UC San Diego Health physicians who would be on an approved list of US Civil Surgeons. This idea is currently being investigated for feasibility at UC San Diego.
• Extend library and email privileges to our PhDs for 2 years. This idea proposes an extension of library privileges for two years to our recent PhDs to support them as they try to navigate obtaining employment.
• Human Organoid-based Research: Modeling disease in a dish. An idea that envisions the creation and operation of a HUMAN ORGANOID CORE that will serve the UCSD and local SD-based investigators so that they can re-create the complex multi-cellular biology and cell-cell communication that occurs in human tissues. Although the core will focus on human tissues and disease models, rodent organoids will also be possible.