Programs
The vision of this program is to enhance the academic and social success for non traditional students at UCI, such as those over the age of 25. Students from this program have benefits such as assigned transfer counselors to support their successful transition into the university, a book loan program, support with CalFresh and more.
What is Pathway for Adult Learner Success (PALS)
The mission of this center is to stand with and serve those impacted by immigration policy through advancing systemic change, deconstructing oppressive policies, and creating a fostering community as they work towards helping students with personal growth, collective healing, and visible change. Their pillars include diversity, resilience, empowerment, advocacy, and mentorship for undocumented students.
What is UCI DREAM Center
A student-initiated effort that promotes equitable access to basic needs through student empowerment, community collaboration, and institutional integration. They offers emergency food and toiletries, connect students to critical on and off-campus resources, and provide educational opportunities for students to take personal responsibility for their wellness and the well-being of their communities.
What is FRESH Basic Needs Hub
This office provides free and confidential support services to members of the UCI community impacted by sexual assault, relationship abuse, family violence and/or stalking. They aim to end these forms of power-based personal violence by engaging the campus community in education, programming, and transformative action.
What is CARE
This organization aims to assist its members, from various ethnic backgrounds and fields of studies at UCI, in the pursuit of professional business skills and careers while raising awareness of the Latino culture.
What is Latino Business Student Association
The mission of this program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of student participants by guiding and motivating students towards graduation and beyond such as a first job or graduate/ professional school. They provide help to first-generation, low income population by offering a personal guide and a roadmap to success in order for them to achieve their personal goals and to maximize their academic and post-graduation success.
What is TRIO Scholars Program
The mission of this center is to advance and facilitate international engagement at UCI to enhance the academic and personal experience of the international community by being committed to serving campus constituents through advising, immigration services, programming, advocacy, and outreach.
What is the International Center
is dedicated to providing students from underrepresented populations in STEM with resources, information, and opportunities that help them to thrive in their degree programs. This is accomplished by creating an inclusive space that fosters communication, encourages authenticity, honors intersectionality, and strengthens a sense of community for its members.
What is California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP)
This office supports the recruitment, retention, and graduation of undergraduate and graduate students from historically excluded populations who are currently underrepresented in engineering and information and computer sciences.
What is OAI Office of Access and Inclusion
This organization aims to assist Bio Sci international students to better prepare for the future in terms of academics and careers, and most importantly, to motivate them to chase their dreams. Although primarily created to help international students majoring in BioSci, they are open to all students to join.
What is BioSci International Student Association (BISA)
The vision of this program is to enable academic success for current and former foster youth in higher education by providing support, creating a network that enhances personal well-being, promoting transitional and educational opportunities, assisting in gaining the necessary skills to become self-supporting and successful individuals who go on to transform their college experience into meaningful careers and lives.
What is Foster Youth Resilience in Education (FYRE)
This center is committed to delivering quality services that help students achieve optimal mental health for academic success, personal growth, and increased capacity to cope with the stresses of being a university student. They also provides training and learning opportunities to prepare future leaders in mental health and other service-oriented positions
What is Counseling Center
This center is a permanent building on campus that was the first of its kind on any UC campus. Established in 1974, it recognizes the need for creating a social-cultural support system for ethnic minority students. The following five student umbrella organizations are apart of the center: Alyansa ng mga Kababayan, American Indian Student Association (AISA), Asian Pacific Student Association (APSA), Black Student Union (BSU), and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (MEChA).
What is Cross Cultural Center (CCC)
This office's aim is dismantling the systemic barriers of racism and discrimination that have too long been the norm in higher learning and our broader communities. The office serves the campus priorities and is committed to a transformative, whole university effort grounded in our values: expect equity, support diversity, practice inclusion and honor free speech.
What is Office of Inclusive Excellence
This organization was designed to enhance and support the life of students in technical majors or with technical interests and has gone on to provide a strong network of support no matter the ethnicity.
What is Filipinos Unifying Scientists-Engineers in an Organized Network (FUSION)
The mission of this program is to provide a support system for students with children and families. To help student parents, guardians, and/or caregivers transition and maximize their college experience and thrive at UCI through various opportunities like tutoring scholarships, textbook loan programs, and more.
What is Student Parent and Families Program
This center provides and connects students with resources to cultivate a community of student leaders to create a mentorship and shift the education paradigm to improve college access, readiness, and retention rates for historically marginalized communities in higher education. Students here use their education as a motion for social impact.
What is Student Outreach and Retention Center (SOAR)
The values of this center aligns with UCI's mission is to empower students to maximize their abilities to thrive in today’s global community by creating a culture of inclusion and access to all UCI programs, services, activities, events, and facilities for students with disabilities. They help provide reasonable accommodations and services by collaborate with faculty and staff.
What is Zotability Disabilities Service Center
This office is responsible for the university's compliance with federal and state laws and university policies and procedures regarding discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. OEOD works to promote and integrate the principles of equal opportunity, affirmative action, nondiscrimination, and inclusive excellence at UCI.
What is Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
The goal of this organization is to inform young women and the general public of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and to encourage women engineers to attain higher levels of education and professional achievement. They help maintain a positive environment for our members with diversity including race/ethnicity, religion, family status, age, physical abilities, sexual and affectional orientation, actual or perceived gender, gender identity and expression, socio-economic status, occupational focus and more.
What is Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
A 2 year program for undergraduate students in their last two years of undergraduate studies from all academic areas. Their mission since being created in 1999 has been to strengthen the pipeline of talented and diverse students entering the workforce and to support them during their undergraduate career. They help provide undergraduates who have significant financial need with the tools to invest in their future through leadership training, career exploration, graduate school planning, and access to internship and scholarship opportunities.
What is Student Achievement Guided by Experience Scholars Program (SAGE)
This center provides a wide range of education and advocacy services supporting intersectional identity development. This center embodies an open and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender, queer, asexual, ally, and questioning students, faculty, staff, and the larger campus community.
What is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center.
This office helps empower students to make informed decisions to support individual health and a healthy campus environment by providing comprehensive programs and coordinated services to build awareness through assessment and goal-setting, create balance by taking a wellness-based approach to health, develop healthy and sustainable habits, take pride in achieving your personal best, and inspire community by leading fellow Anteaters to be healthy.
What is the Center for Student Wellness and Health Promotion
•This office is responsible for supporting the IT needs of UC Irvine faculty, students, and staff. Our mission is to provide information technology leadership, services, and innovative solutions to promote the research, education and community service goals of the University.
Office of Information Technology
This prestigious nonprofit organization of Black engineers has built a community whose mission is to increase the number Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community. The UCI chapter host a variety of social and academic events for their members throughout the school year, hosted by both students and faculty.
What is National Society of Black Engineers at UCI (NSBE)