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Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC)
USAC is the governing body of the Undergraduate Students Association (USA) whose membership is comprised of every UCLA undergraduate student. USA's programs offer an invaluable service to the campus and surrounding communities and provide an opportunity for thousands of students to participate in and benefit from these endeavors.
Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life
The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life serves to enhance the growth and development of UCLA students through their membership in, or engagement with, the fraternity and sorority community. The Office aims to provide an integrative learning environment that fosters a sense of belonging for the individual student rooted in a shared commitment to their fraternal oath and our True Bruin Values: Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Service, and Excellence.
Black Bruin Resource Center (BBRC)
The mission of the UCLA BBRC is to uplift, support, and inspire the UCLA Black and African Diaspora Community. With the goal of cultivating community, family, and power, the UCLA BBRC serves as a space the community can call home. The center serves as an essential branch of support available to Black UCLA students, staff, and faculty at a departmental and institutional level.
Student Wellness Commission
The Student Wellness Commission is a branch of the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) and addresses holistic UCLA student health. It is the largest student health organization on campus with 12 committees and 500+ members. The committees organize and facilitate events, advocacy, outreach, and research targeting topics in the realms of mental health, sexual health, and physical health for UCLA undergraduate students.
Undocumented Student Program
The Undocumented Student Program (USP) within the Bruin Resource Center supports UCLA undergraduate and graduate students who are undocumented and/or part of mixed-status families. Through individual support, education, and campus advocacy, USP is dedicated to providing academic, wellness, and emotional support to students and create an inclusive environment and supportive community.
UCLA First to Go
First To Go promotes campus involvement and visibility with a focus on the retention and success of all first-generation college students at UCLA. First To Go serves as a resource hub to assist current UCLA undergraduate and graduate/professional students as they navigate the campus and provide support in building community. Being first-generation college is an accomplishment that should be celebrated!
Transfer Student Center
The Transfer Student Center is UCLA's central hub for all things transfer! If you are a prospective transfer there are many resources that may be helpful, you can see them here. If you are a current or newly admitted student be sure to check out many of the resources available to you, the transfer timelines to help you map out your time at UCLA, campus-wide transfer specific events, ways to get involved, and more!
Student Organizations Leadership & Engagement (SOLE)
The Student Organizations Leadership & Engagement (SOLE) Office advises over 1,200 student organizations on campus. Services include registration of new and continuing organizations, programming assistance, organization & leadership development, fundraising approval and guidelines, funding proposal consultation, and advisement on rules and regulations. SOLE also approves time, place, and manner for the campus activities of registered student organizations.
International Student Ambassadors
The International Student Ambassador program is overseen by the UCLA Dashew Center for International Students & Scholars. International Student Ambassadors are UCLA students that use their own cultural backgrounds, experiences, and knowledge to support the UCLA community. Selected Ambassadors undergo an application, interview, and training process. The Ambassadors serve on one of five specialized committees where they work on quarter or year-long projects. Through their work, the Ambassadors work to amplify the visibility, voices, and contributions of the entire UCLA international community.
EngageWell
The EngageWell pod aims to promote healthy social relationships at UCLA working in partnership with other constituencies. Our social relationships on campus have many forms including pairs, small and large social groups, work and living units, and the campus community as a whole. In addition, the EngageWell pod aims to foster new social connections, enhance the quality of existing relationships, and promote positive social behaviors on campus.
EngageWell is part of the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiatives (HCI)
Dashew Global Siblings
The Global Siblings program pairs one student with another student of a different cultural background for the duration of the academic year. Often, we will match an international student with a domestic (from the U.S.) student, but we may also pair international students of different cultural backgrounds together.
Bruin Guardian Scholars
The Bruin Guardian Scholars (BGS) offers programming for current and former foster youth, students who have or are currently experiencing homelessness, experienced guardianship/kinship care, probation, or that are unaccompanied minors. The BGS program provides social and academic support, hosts community building events, provides financial scholarships, has a textbook lending library, as well as internship opportunities.
All Brains
UCLA All Brains is a student-led program that plans and arranges events for neurodiverse students at UCLA, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and more. They offer weekly socials, a peer mentoring program, workshops, and trainings for groups on how to facilitate a neurodiverse-friendly environment in their workspaces to create a community that caters to the social and emotional well-being of neurodiverse students.
580 Café
The 580 Café is a place for students to engage in activism, and creativity through collective learning, dialogue, and relaxation. The group has daily and weekly activities led by students daily and weekly social gatherings, such as lunch on the patio, healing music and wellness presentations, mentorship program, and they also offer a shared food cupboard.
Bruin Resource Center
The Bruin Resource Center (BRC) is the home for a number of campus centers and programs that provide support to different student communities including students who have been part of the foster care and probation systems, students who are undocumented or a part of mixed-status families, parenting students and students who are taking care of other dependents such as siblings, students in recovery, students who were formerly incarcerated or impacted by the carceral system, and students who have experienced homelessness. They offer academic, social, and financial support programs.
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
The UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center (LGBTQ CRC) provides a comprehensive range of education and advocacy services supporting intersectional identity development as well as fostering unity, wellness, and an open, safe, and inclusive environment for UCLA’s LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ CRC supports community members of all sexual and gender identities and serves the entire UCLA community.