Month: July 2025
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Indian Student Association (ISA)
The Indian Student Association at UCSC shares India’s cultural heritage while building community across campus. ISA promotes awareness, diversity, and unity—and welcomes everyone to join and get involved! Instagram: @ucsc_isa Email: ucsc.isa@gmail.com
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Hindu YUVA
Hindu YUVA (Youth for Unity, Virtue, and Action) is a cultural and spiritual organization that provides a safe space for Hindu students on campus and raises awareness about the Hindu faith. We promote the practice of Hindu Dharma through cultural, educational, and service-oriented activities. Instagram: @hinduyuvaucsc Email: svkandpa@ucsc.edu
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Hermanos de UCSC (HU)
Hermanos De UCSC is an organization focused on the retention & matriculation of latine students and overall marginalized communities. Our mission statement serves to uphold our three pillars that include Academic Excellence, Community Service and Social Networking with an emphasis on education. Instagram: @hermanosdeucsc Email: hu.ucsc@gmail.com
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Hermanas Unidas (HaU)
Hermanas Unidas is a nonprofit organization that aims to serve Latina college students and alumni in their pursuit of career advancement. It provides Latinas a place to find support and acceptance, through a mutual path of higher education, and build bonds would surpass the years on campus. Instagram: @haudeucsc Email: ucsc.cochair2@hauchapters.com
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Haluan Hip Hop Dance Troupe
Auditions-based hip-hop co-ed dance team under Bayanihan, celebrating community and diversity as the name “Haluan” means “of mixed nature” in Tagalog. Instagram: @haluanhiphop Email: haluandance.ucsc@gmail.com
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Estudiantes Oaxaqueños de Ahora (EODA)
Our aim is to build an encouraging and supportive community for Oaxacan students and allies that promotes unity, cultural awareness, and academic success. We welcome students of all backgrounds, especially Indigenous Latine students. Instagram: @eodaucsc Email: eodaucsc1@gmail.com
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Chinese Students and Scholars Association
The stated function of CSSAs is helping overseas Chinese in their life, study, work, and other issues, bringing Chinese students together on campus, serving as a bridge between Chinese and other communities, and promoting Chinese culture Instagram: @ucsc_cssa Email: ucsccssa666@gmail.com
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Chicanx and Latine Educandose (ChALE)
Provides a wide rage of resources through events that help students develop skills or obtain information that helps them oversome obstacles that Latine/chicano students encounter as we attempt to achieve higher education. Instagram: @e2.chale Email: e2.chale@gmail.com
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Black Student Union (BSU)
The Black Student Union (BSU) serves as a unifying body for all Black organizations on campus, as well as the Black student body. The BSU also welcomes all individuals who are committed to advancing, supporting, and meaningfully engaging with issues affecting the Black community. Instagram: @ucscbsu Email: bsu.slugs@gmail.com
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Bangladeshi Student Association
BSA is a place where we showcase and celebrate Bangladeshi Culture. Although Bengalis around the world are part of the same ethnic group, as Bangladeshis we have our own history and one of the main motivations behind BSA is to represent Bangladeshis here at UCSC. Instagram: @bsacruz Email: bsasantacruz@gmail.com
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Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APISA)
The Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APISA) emphasizes unity and empowerment through celebrating the diverse cultures and customs of the AA/PI (Asian/Pacific Islander) communities in higher education and beyond. Instagram: @apisa.slugs Email: apisa.slugs@gmail.com `
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Women in Science Society
This is a club for women in science/STEM, we host events that are curated to specific majors, offer career advice, and provide a place where women can meet other peers in STEM! Instagram: @wss.ucsc Email: wss.ucsc@gmail.com