The Campus Community Centers collaborate on a variety of programs and issues.
By understanding and appreciating our diverse histories and experiences,
we have found the common connections that bring us together to create strong
communities through activities such as ...
The Building Communities for Social Justice Practice: An Advanced Institute July 6-10, 2009. Open to all UC San Diego staff. For more information, please see the brochure. For an application, click here.
The Campus Community Centers Community Builder Program
Attend 3 programs at each Center, plus one bonus program at the center of your choice, turn in your card, and you are a Community Builder – eligible for prizes at our Celebration on June 3rd!
The Campus Community Centers Community Builder program is designed to reinforce the concept in the mission and philosophy statement of the Campus Community Centers that ending one oppression requires ending all oppressions. We value the interconnections of each of the Centers and encourage our community members to engage in all three.
Download your card
here, or pick one up at any of the Campus Community
Centers.
Card holder must attend three programs at each Center (3 at the Women’s center, 3 at the LGBT Resource Center and 3 at the Cross-Cultural center) plus one other program at the Center of card holder’s choice. Recurring programs may be attended only once per quarter (i.e. Gender Buffet, LGBT RC Movie Night). Completed cards may be turned in to the front desk of any of the Campus Community Centers. All UC San Diego community members are eligible to participate (graduate and undergraduate students, staff and faculty). Card holders must be present for entire program to receive punch. Lost cards cannot be replaced.
Card must be completed by 12 noon on May 29th, 2009. Prizes will be awarded at the Community Builder final event on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 12pm at a location TBD. Card holder need not be present to win.
Question:
Why are you doing the Community Builder program?
Answer: The Campus Community Centers community
builder program is designed to reinforce the concept in the mission and
philosophy statement of the Campus Community Center that ending one
oppression requires ending all oppressions.
We value the interconnections of each of the center and encourage our
community members to engage in all three.
Question:
I attended the MEChA meeting this week.
Does that count?
Answer: No.
While we value participation in student organizations, events must be
sponsored by one of the campus community centers.
If the organization is co-sponsoring the event with one of the Campus
Community Centers, then it may be eligible.
Contact staff for more information.
Question: I am an intern at the ______ Center.
Can I participate?
Answer: Yes, but programs for which you have direct
responsibility, or for which you are paid to be there (i.e. working hours)
are not eligible for you.
Question: Who marks my card?
Answer: Marks are available immediately following an
eligible program from the person-in-charge, or at the front desk of the
Center in which the event occurs.
Question: I am interested in being an intern at
_____ Center. Should I be
involved in the Community Builder program?
Answer: Yes. This is a great way to learn about the
work of the Campus Community Centers.
Joint Training
Community at UCSD is often perceived as distinct in areas of service and
connection. Through an ongoing commitment to joint training at all levels
of the university, community and diversity are experienced through a broad
lens, with attention not just to traditional conceptualizations of diversity,
but to the myriad of communities present.
Presentations by the Campus Community Center Directors
PowerPoint Presentation for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Academic documents created by the Directors of the Campus Community Centers
I may not get there with you
The Gender Gap Paradox
Latino Achievement at the University of California San Diego
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Issues in Higher Education
"It is an enduring feature of human life to search for community; to
attempt to establish patterns of living based on mutual need and
affection, development and protection. But this communitarian impulse
is never 'accomplished': rather, it is an ongoing and creative
enterprise in which actors or agents continually re-create social
structure, and it is this which allow us to identify 'communities'..."