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Home > Quick Facts > Fact Sheets > Social Ecology SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY In the School of Social Ecology, scholars from a broad mix of disciplines put theory into practice to solve problems. The diverse faculty includes psychologists, sociologists, criminologists and legal scholars, political scientists, and urban planners. The school emphasizes the integration of these multiple disciplines. Among issues of longstanding interest are crime and justice in society, social influences on human development over the life cycle, and issues involving urban and regional planning and public policy choices. Since 1970, the program has grown from a few dozen students to nearly 3,000, with some 13,000 graduates working in fields as disparate as health care, human services, planning and law enforcement. This pioneering program now serves as a national model for interdisciplinary, socially responsive education and research. Its highly ranked academic departments are criminology, law and society; planning, policy and design; and psychology and social behavior. The school offers five undergraduate degrees, five undergraduate minors, three master’s degrees and five doctorates. The social ecology program was established as an innovative unit at UCI during an era of high demand for more socially relevant research. From its inception, the school has been distinguished by its breadth and its interdisciplinarity. Fields of scientific inquiry include human development, gangs and violence, and urban and regional planning. Faculty research is supported by more than $7 million annually in research funds, with combined research and endowment funding surpassing $10 million annually. Innovative research programs based in social ecology include the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections; the Center on Inequality and Social Justice; the Center for Law, Society and Culture; the Center for Organizational Research; the Center for Psychology and Law; the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs; the Community Outreach Partnership Center; the Newkirk Center for Science and Society; and the Urban Water Research Center. Social Ecology buildings I and II house faculty and staff offices; behavioral assessment laboratories for research in human development, social relationships and legal studies; and a state-of-the-art computing lab. A third building houses most of the school’s research centers. Dean C. Ronald Huff C. Ronald Huff was named dean of the School of Social Ecology and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society in 1999 and began his second term as dean in 2004. Previously, he was professor and director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and directed the Criminal Justice Research Center, both at Ohio State University, and he also taught at Purdue University and at the University of Hawaii. His publications include 12 books and more than 60 papers on youth violence and gangs, wrongful conviction, and other topics. He has served as a consultant on gangs, youth violence, and public policy to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the FBI National Academy, and the U.S. Department of Justice, and served on the California Attorney General’s research and policy advisory board. He is a fellow and past-president of the American Society of Criminology, the world’s largest and most prestigious academic and professional organization in criminology. Distinctions
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