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SJSU’s two official primary school colors.
What are Blue and Gold?
The primary building at SJSU where the Community Action Center calls home
What is the Diaz Compean Student Union?
San Jose is globally recognized as the unofficial "Capital" of this high-tech region.
What is Silicon Valley?
The subconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions without our conscious awareness.
What is Implicit Bias (or Unconscious Bias)?
A geographic area where residents lack access to affordable, fresh, and nutritious food, often systemic in marginalized neighborhoods.
What is a Food Desert (or Food Apartheid)?
This icon graces the stage at games and is a campus celebrity
Who is Sammy Spartan?
The term for educational experiences where students learn by actively engaging in community service that addresses real local needs.
What is Service-Learning?
San Jose held this major political title in California history from 1849 to 1851 before Sacramento took the role.
What is the first state capital of California?
Unearned social, economic, or political advantages granted to individuals simply because they belong to a dominant social group.
What is Privilege?
The foundational principle that all people, regardless of race, income, or national origin, have a right to equal protection from environmental hazards and equal access to healthy environments.
What is Environmental Justice?
This famous campus monument honors these two track athletes for their historic civil rights demonstration at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Who are Tommie Smith and John Carlos?
The CAC actively honors this labor union founded in 1962 to fight for farmworkers' rights in California
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
Located on Alum Rock Avenue in Mayfair, this 6-acre cultural venue and theater space is operated by the School of Arts and Culture to preserve Chicano and Latino heritage.
What is the Mexican Heritage Plaza?
The formal practice of recognizing and respecting the Indigenous peoples who originally stewarded the land where an institution or gathering sits.
What is a Land Acknowledgment?
The traditional land stewardship practice used by Indigenous communities for centuries to prevent massive wildfires and regenerate ecosystems.
What is Cultural Burning (or Traditional Ecological Knowledge)?
Built in 1910, this iconic campus building is the oldest surviving structure on SJSU’s main campus.
What is Tower Hall?
Recently, the Campus Community Garden received these two certifications for their work in building habitats for native species.
What are a Monarch Waystation and Certified Wildlife Habitat?
This famous East Side intersection is widely recognized as the historic gathering spot for San Jose's Chicano community and lowrider culture.
What is Story and King (Story Rd & King Rd)?
The term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw describing how different aspects of a person’s identity overlap to create unique systems of privilege or discrimination
What is Intersectionality?
The phenomenon where urban areas experience significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural zones due to pavement and lack of canopy tree cover.
What is the Urban Heat Island Effect?
Founded in 1857, SJSU holds this distinction among public higher education institutions on the West Coast.
What is the oldest public university?
This is the name of the inaugural Department Manager of the Community Action Center.
Maribel Martinez
In 2022, the San Jose City Council unanimously voted to repeal a 30-year policy banning this Mexican-American cultural tradition
What is Lowrider Cruising?
This concept is often described as a compromise, limiting social change when institutions fail to move beyond numbers.
What is Diversity?
Held in Washington, D.C., in 1991, this historic multi-ethnic gathering drafted the seminal document outlining the "17 Principles" that formally defined the modern Environmental Justice movement.
What is the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit?