Community Center Resources
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Stanford Community Centers provide a gateway to intellectual, cultural and leadership opportunities for all Stanford students. Each center has its own mission. Yet, students seeking academic enrichment, connection to a broader community and / or individual services and support will find excellent resources in the Community Centers.
Asian American Activities Center
The Asian American Activities Center (A3C) offers individual advising, a weekly lecture series and small group sessions. It sponsors the AIM program, which matches sophomores with faculty and alumni mentors. The A3C houses an extensive Asian American Resource Library containing literature, hard-to-find periodicals, newspaper clippings and reference texts. The A3C also supports more than 40 Asian American Volunteer Student Organizations on campus.
Black Community Services Center
The Black Community Services Center (BCSC) offers students a variety of opportunities for intellectual exploration including faculty lectures in the Roundtable Series. BCSC provides leadership development, individual advising, service learning opportunities, and mentoring programs, and supports more than 35 Black Student Volunteer Organizations on campus. It also hosts Black Thought, a program for students working on senior honors theses.
El Centro Chicano
El Centro Chicano provides leadership opportunities and development for students throughout the Stanford community. Each year, the center hosts the yearly Ernesto Galarza Lecture and Community Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of Stanford Latino students, staff and faculty. El Centro sponsors a wide variety of Chicano / Latino organizations. These include the Chicano and Latino Graduation Committee and the Stanford Society of Chicano Latino Engineers and Scientists, among many others.
LGBT Community Resources Center
As the nexus of the LGBT campus community, the LGBT-CRC offers a range of student programs. The LGBT-CASA (Community Academic Support and Advising for Queer Freshman) holds new student orientation and weekly lunches for queer, questioning and allied frosh throughout the year.
LGBT SOSAS (Safe and Open Spaces at Stanford) offers student-run outreach and diversity awareness workshops. Additional opportunities include a lecture series, leadership development retreats, seminars and colloquia. The center maintains a resource library and supports a variety of student organizations on campus.
Native American Cultural Center
The Native American Cutural Center/American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Program provides a comprehensive retention program that serves both Native undergraduate and graduate students. Academic and cultural emphasis is encouraged through writing and research forums, a speakers series, workshops and cultural presentations.
Leadership opportunities and mentorship relationships are encouraged, beginning with a summer immersion program. This is through alumni networking and the new First Nations Institute, which is cosponsored with Stanford faculty, the Woods Institute and Kamehameha Schools.
Stanford Women’s Community Center
The Stanford Women’s Community Center (SWCC) facilitates scholarship, leadership and activism. This is through a wide variety of programming and services that includes student leadership training, the yearly Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference and career development services. Working closely with the Feminist Studies Program, SWCC sponsors the annual Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Francisco Lopes essay competitions in social sciences and humanities. The Center also collaborates with the Society of Women Engineers to provide free on-site tutoring.
Diversity Works
Diversity Works is a consortium uniting the many Stanford organizations, academic centers, associations and student groups that explore and teach about diversity. This includes matters regarding race, ethnicity, gender, international and global issues.