Organizations
- 1. 2008-2009 "Mini" Baja
- Purpose: To complete the requirements,
enter, and compete in the 2008-2009
SAE Baja competition
- Status:
Inactive
- 2. AAPA - Asian American Psychological Association
- Purpose: To build a community of undergraduate
and graduate students who are
interested in Counseling Psychology.
- Status:
Inactive
- 3. Accounting Association
- Purpose: To educate students through
continuous contact with
accounting firms
both large and small, about the
rising opportunities in the
fields of accounting, finance and
consulting.
- Status:
Active
- 4. Active Minds
- Purpose: Active Minds is a dynamic club
focused on educating the UCSB
community about mental health
issues while reducing stigmas and
promoting mental wellness through
campus-friendly events.
- Status:
Inactive
- 5. Actuary Club
- Purpose: provide students a better understanding of the
actuarial career, help students with actuarial
exams, and create opportunities to build
relationships among stuents and industry
professions
- Status:
Active
- 6. Adopt a Grandparent Program
- Purpose: The purpose of the Adopt a
Grandparent Program is to enrich
the lives of senior citizens by
pairing them with college
students, creating a sense of
camaraderie.
- Status:
Inactive
- 7. Africa Awareness Student Organization
- Purpose: To foster cultural and social ties
with all
people of African descent within
UCSB, the
local community and other
communities of
origin. To help incoming African
students
settle in Santa Barbara community
and to
promote cooperatioin with other
African
Student organizations.
- Status:
Inactive
- 8. African Diasporic CRC
- Purpose: The primary objective of the
African diasporic Cultural
Resource Center (AdCRC) is to
support the communities of the
African diaspora at the University
of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB). The AdCRC strives to
assist in the holistic development
of students of the African
diaspora by focusing on six areas:
academic excellence, cultural
awareness, leadership development,
social involvement, spiritual
development, and proactive civic
engagement.
- Status:
Active
- 9. AGE-Alliance for Graduate Excellence
- Purpose: Provide a forum for the academic
and professional development of
underrepresented students
- Status:
Inactive
- 10. AICHE (American Inst of Chemical Engineers)
- Purpose: Promote the professional
development of its members
through its programs and
relations with other student
chapters.
- Status:
Active
- 11. Aikido Club
- Purpose: To train students in the art of
Ki-Aikido. Ki-Aikido encompasses
self-defense, coordination of mind
and body, mental and physical
discipline. Club holds weekly
practices, organizes seminars with
guest instructors and other events.
- Status:
Active
- 12. Akanke
- Purpose: Akanke is an African-American
women's support group, whose
purpose is to educate, inform,
and
unify the black women within the
UCSB community.
- Status:
Active
- 13. Alpha Chi Omega
- Purpose: To promote leadership,
scholarship, and community
service.
- Status:
Active
- 14. Alpha Delta Chi
- Purpose: To strengthen the spiritual lives
and testimonies of members of the
National Fraternity resulting in
service
and outreach to others. To promote
higher
scholastic standards among the
members of
the National Fraternity. To provide
social fellowship among the university
students living the Christian life and
active in Christ's service.
- Status:
Active
- 15. Alpha Epsilon Pi
- Purpose: Building jewish leadership while
promoting community service and
growth in a cooperative
environment.
- Status:
Active
- 16. Alpha Gamma Omega
- Purpose: Alpha Gamma Omega is a national
Christ-Centered
Fraternity. The Zeta Chapter was
founded at UCSB
in 1987. It is commited to
promoting Christian
ideals within the context of a
social fraternity.
- Status:
Inactive
- 17. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated
- Purpose: We are a community service
organization with the purpose to
cultivate and encourage high
scholastic and
ethical standards, to promote
unity and friendship among college
women, and to be supreme in
service to all mankind.
- Status:
Active
- 18. Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
- Purpose: alpha Kappa Delta Phi is the
first and only
Nationwide Asian American
Interest sorority.
With 44 chapters across the
nation, we continue
to be the fastest growing and
most sought after
Asian American interest
sorority. UC Santa
Barbara was granted its
charter on June 2, 2001 by its
National Board
becoming the 31st
chapter of aKDPhi and was
officially
recognized by the university and
the Local
Regional Fraternity and Sorority
Council on
October 9, 2002. Our purpose is
to promote
sisterhood, scholarship,
leadership, and Asian
awareness in the university and
community, while
encouraging the expression of the
individual.
- Status:
Active
- 19. Alpha Kappa Psi - Honors Business Fraternity
- Purpose: 1.To further the individual
welfare of its
members;
2.To foster scientific research
in
the fields of
commerce, accounts, and finance;
3.To educate the public to
appreciate and demand
higher ideals therein; and
4.To promote and advance in
institutions of college
rank, courses leading to degrees
in business
administration.
- Status:
Active
- 20. Alpha Phi
- Purpose: Our fraternity owes it's
existence to women who
questioned "Why can't we have a
society like the men?" We are an
organization of over 100
amazing women
who have come together with our
founders ideals
in mind to promote leadership,
scholarship, and
community service. For information
please see our
chapters website.
- Status:
Inactive
- 21. Alpha Phi Alpha
- Purpose: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
develops leaders, promotes
brotherhood and academic
excellence, while providing
service and advocacy for our
communities.
The objectives of this Fraternity
are: to stimulate the
ambition of its members; to
prepare them for the greatest
usefulness in the causes of
humanity, freedom, and dignity of
the individual; to encourage the
highest and noblest form of
manhood; and to aid down-trodden
humanity in its efforts to
achieve higher social, economic
and intellectual status.
- Status:
Active
- 22. Alpha Tau Omega
- Purpose: To promote Brotherhood,
Scholarship and Community while
Developing Leadership.
- Status:
Active
- 23. Amateur Radio Club at UCSB
- Purpose: To further the art of amateur
radio and to establish and
maintain relations with an active
amateur radio community at UCSB
to provide emergency
communications.
- Status:
Inactive
- 24. Amatory Dance Crew
- Purpose: To utilize several different dance
styles to create a new dance medium.
- Status:
Active
- 25. American Indian Clt Res Ctr
- Purpose: To promote the development of
cultural identity and leadership
thus enhancing academic studies
and empowering students through
their college careers. Also, to
impart a greater understanding of
American Indian Culture through
programs, events, and cultural
field trips (i.e. pow wow's,
culture center & reservation
visits, and sacred site & natural
resource trips.)
- Status:
Active
- 26. American Indian Graduate Student Alliance
- Purpose: To promote the interest of
American Indian Graduate Students
while maintaining scholarly,
social and personal commitments
toward our educational
advancement. Open to interest
graduate students and
undergraduates interested in
pursuing graduate degrees. Group
to develop and foster connections
with a broader academic community,
local and national American
Indian
networks. Outreach to 7-12 grades,
pre-college youth.
- Status:
Active
- 27. American Indian Science and Engineering Society
- Purpose: Provide peer support, leadership
opportunities, and career
guidance. Contribute to the
community and support the AISES
National mission.
- Status:
Active
- 28. American Indian Student Association
- Purpose: To seek an awareness of American
Indian
Culture through knowledge of
history,
language, customs and current
events by way of
student and community interaction.
- Status:
Active
- 29. American Medical Student Association UCSB
- Purpose: To provide students pursuing a
career in the health or medical
fields opportunities and resources
to promote the success in their
future careers.
- Status:
Active
- 30. American Red Cross at UCSB
- Purpose: The purpose of this club shall be
to provide Red Cross services to
the local community and students
on the campus of University of
California at Santa Barbara, with
club members delivering these
services acting in accordance
with the American Red Cross Code
of Conduct and guiding
principles.
- Status:
Active
- 31. American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
- Purpose: To generate interest in
professional
society of students currently
enrolled in mechanical
engineering.
- Status:
Inactive
- 32. American Students for Israel
- Purpose: ASI is UCSB's Israel advocacy
group - an organization for
students who share a belief in
Israel's right to exist in peace
and security.
- Status:
Active
- 33. Amnesty International
- Purpose: Education and advocacy for
human rights around the world.
To free prisoners of
conscience and to end torture,
capital punishment and other
Human Rights violations.
- Status:
Active
- 34. Anime Club at UCSB
- Purpose: To explore Japanese culture through
Japanese animation
- Status:
Active
- 35. Appreciation of Celtic-American Heritage
- Purpose: Providing a warm, social atmosphere
for the betterment of knowledge of
Celtic culture and traditions.
Through our volunteer
opportunities, we will strive to
empower our members with the chance
to give back and serve the
community. We hope through these
endeavors to foster a better sense
of Celtic kinship.
- Status:
Active
- 36. Argentine Tango Organization at UCSB
- Purpose: Disseminate dance and musical
aspects of Argentine tango. Offer
basic AT dance training
- Status:
Active
- 37. Armenian Student Association
- Purpose: To seek awareness of the
Armenian culture
through knowledge of history,
language, customs,
and current events by way of
student and community
interactions.
- Status:
Active
- 38. ASHA-SB
- Purpose: To promote basic education of the
underprivileged children in India
- Status:
Active
- 39. Asian American Christian Fellowship
- Purpose: To provide a comfortable
atmosphere for UCSB
students to come and experience
the love of Jesus
Christ through active worship,
fellowship, and
Bible studies.
- Status:
Active
- 40. Asian Pacific American Graduate Students (APAGS)
- Purpose: APAGS builds community among Asian
Pacific American graduate students
across disciplines, supporting them
academically, pedagogically and
socially.
- Status:
Inactive
- 41. Asian Resource Center (ARC)
- Purpose: The mission of the EOP Asian
Resource Center is to educate,
promote,and encourage the
interaction and dialogue among
the diverse ethnic groups within
the Asian American community at
UCSB. The Center provides a
supportive environment for
students, staff, faculty, and
community members to develop
an appreciation for one's
identity and to affirm an
institutional commitment that
recognizes one’s community.
- Status:
Active
- 42. Association for Computing Machinery
- Purpose: To provide computer science, and
other engineering students, with a
powerful resource which will allow
students to go far beyond their
academic guidelines and learn more
about the Tech industry where it
stands. We hope to provide study
sessions, mentoring program, and a
tutoring program that will help
students succeed as engineers.
- Status:
Active
- 43. Assyrian Student Alliance
- Purpose: Promote Chaldean and Assyrian
interests in the UC campus community
- Status:
Active
- 44. Backyard to the Future: From IV to UCSB
- Purpose: We will be organizing several
campus tours and activities for
local elementary school students
in order to promote the idea of
pursuing college from an early age.
- Status:
Inactive
- 45. Bailadores for the Brain and Body
- Purpose: For UCSB students to teach
different forms of
cultural dance to the students of
Isla Vista
Elementary School as a part of the
IV After
School Program in order to expose
students to
different cultures and to promote
physical
activity as part of a balanced
lifestyle.
Students will learn not only about
the culture,
proper dance technique, poise, timing,
coordination, and gain stamina, but
will also
gain important leadership and
performance
skills, learn teamwork, and
presence as a dancer.
In addition, Bailadores for the
Brain and Body
conducts outreach programs to
motivate students
to live up to their potential and
aspire for a
college education.
The organization's name,
"Bailadores for the Brain and Body"
is appropriate because of its
holistic approach. Physical
activity is beneficial to the body
and to the mental state. In
addition, physical activity
promotes blood circulation (to the brain) and studies
show that those who engage in
physical activity tend to perform
better in school. Also, the club
emphasizes learning through
cultural awareness and the Outreach
aspect works to motivate the
pursuit of a higher education.
- Status:
Inactive
- 46. Behavior Management Student Organization
- Purpose: To train and educate individuals
in the use of behavior management
principles.
- Status:
Inactive
- 47. Black Graduation Committee
- Purpose: To organize a graduation
ceremony which celebrates and
culminates the efforts of black
students on the UCSB campus. This
ceremony takes place in June and
is
the result of the combined efforts
of graduating seniors to make the
celebration special.
- Status:
Active
- 48. Black Pioneer Renaisance Org BPRO
- Purpose: First and foremost BPRO is a
Black
Male Caucus, with the vision of
educating ourselves and the
community. Our goal is to raise
consciousness in 3 specific
areas: Social, Political, and
Cultural. Through brotherhood,
we
will uplift each other and be
positive role models and leaders
in our society.
- Status:
Active
- 49. Black Quare
- Purpose: to create a safe space for black
lgbtqi and create an awareness
around issues of intersectionality
and identity
- Status:
Inactive
- 50. Black Reign
- Purpose: Black Reign is a co-ed
organization who's
purpose is
to express cultural talent
through
hip-hop focused dance.
- Status:
Active
- 51. Black Student Union
- Purpose: To serve as an umbrella
organization for all Black
student organizations on campus.
- Status:
Active
- 52. Born Again Ministries
- Purpose: To be of aid for all people who
seek to know Jesus Christ, while
unveiling the many mysteries and
timeless truths within the Holy Bible.
- Status:
Active
- 53. Bren School Sustainability Committee Club (BSSC Club)
- Purpose: The Bren School Sustainability
Committee (BSSC) is a student-run
committee that aims to enhance the
environmental performance of Bren
Hall and its students. Most school
years, the BSSC participates in a
few campus-wide events in addition
to Bren-hall specific smaller
projects.
- Status:
Inactive
- 54. Bridges International
- Purpose: To provide cultural bridges
between international and
american students, to assist
international students with their
physical, emotional, and
spiritual needs.
- Status:
Active
- 55. Brothas from Otha Mothas (BFOM)
- Purpose: As UCSB's all male acapella
ensemble, our goal is to create
acapella music while having fun &
to share it with
the UCSB campus and surrounding
areas!
- Status:
Active
- 56. Business Coalition at UCSB (BEA)
- Purpose: Each BEA meeting showcases a
different business leader from
one of the many facets of the
industry. The goal of the
organization is to bring a
diverse group of recruiters to
speak about their companies and
personal experience and to build
members both a practical network
and a wealth of business
knowledge. Each
week a different business sector
is represented, ranging from
investments to
entrepreneurship to even
accounting. Food
and refreshments are always
served.
- Status:
Inactive
- 57. CALPIRG
- Purpose: To serve as a statewide student-
directed organization that works
on
environmental and public interest
issues and promotes student
activism and awareness.
Meets Monday at 8:00PM in the
study lounge on the 3rd floor of
the UCen.
- Status:
Active
- 58. Cam Con
- Purpose: To expand the knowledge of
cinematography to fellow students
interested in the field. Cam con
gives the opportunity to work with
professional cinematographers from
the industry
- Status:
Inactive
- 59. Campus Democrats at UCSB
- Purpose: Campus Dems is a great gateway to
the political arena! Our goal is
to promote the ideals and
concerns
of the candidates and issues of
the
Democratic Party, register and
motivate our fellow students to
vote, and have fun in the process.
So, whether you're interested in a
Congressional office internship
or just want free pizza, Campus
Dems is for you!
- Status:
Active
- 60. Campus Left
- Purpose: To organize and critically educate and engage
the student body.
- Status:
Inactive
- 61. Capoeira Sul da Bahia Santa Barbara
- Purpose: To enjoy the game, music and
traditions of Capoeira as well as
to share this with all who are
interested bringing multiculture
awareness and appreciation for
diversity.
- Status:
Active
- 62. Career Peers
- Purpose: To provide UCSB students with
the skill, information, and
experiences to integrate their
personal, social, and career
development with their
academic and intellectual
development in order to achieve
life goals, and to assist the
campus community to develop and
maintain an environment
conductive to personal
career growth as well as
educational development.
- Status:
Active
- 63. Carnales In Aztlan
- Purpose: Male support group that seeks to
create a space for males to share
their stories and address issues
concerning themselves and their
female counterparts
- Status:
Active
- 64. Catalyst
- Purpose: To promote interest in student
creative writing, as well as a
general interest in literature, by
publishing an annual literary
journal in which UCSB
undergraduates can display their
writing talents in print. Through
Catalyst, students, faculty,
staff,
parents and community members will
be exposed to the best of the
enjoyable and thought-provoking
stories, poems and other writings
that UCSB's diverse undergrad
student body can create.
- Status:
Inactive
- 65. Chabad at UCSB
- Purpose: Educate and promote Judaism on
campus as well as provide
activities in a Jewish atmosphere
from religious to social in
keeping with Torah values
- Status:
Inactive
- 66. Chemists Without Borders
- Purpose: Our primary goals include, but
are not limited to, providing
affordable medicines and vaccines
to those who need them most,
supplying clean water in
developing countries,
facilitating sustainable energy
technologies, supporting
chemistry education, and
providing emergency disaster
relief.
- Status:
Active
- 67. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
- Purpose: To serve our fellow students by
providing a
Christian community and
promote Jesus Christ and
the understanding of Biblical
principles.
- Status:
Active
- 68. Chi Delta Theta
- Purpose: As a sorority, we have five main
points that we strive for. These
points are: sisterhood, community
service, academic excellence,
cultural awareness, and social
activity.
- Status:
Active
- 69. Chicano Latino Cultural ServicesCLCS
- Purpose: To promote the development of
student identity, leadership and
empowerment and to impart a
greater understanding of the
Chican@/Latin@ culture to the
campus community.
- Status:
Active
- 70. Chicano Latino Graduation Committee
- Purpose: To function as a representative
body of the
current year Chican@/Latin@
graduating class
with an aim to obtain sufficient
funds in order to hold a
Chican@/Latin@ culturally-based
ceremony.
- Status:
Active
- 71. Chinese Lion Dance Team
- Purpose: To promote and provide an
understanding in Chinese Lion
Dance. To promote diversity in
the form of dance at both the
campus and Santa Barbara
community level.
- Status:
Inactive
- 72. Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA)
- Purpose: Promote social, intellectual and
cultural activities for our
members. Improve the friendship and
mutual understanding between the
Chinese students/scholars and
other ethnical groups.
- Status:
Active
- 73. Chinese Student Association
- Purpose: To provide networking opportunities
for students and promote cultural
awareness in the greater UCSB
community.
- Status:
Active
- 74. Circle K International
- Purpose: UCSB Circle K is an International
community service organization
involved in developing our
society
through volunteer service. It's a
great way to meet people with a
similar interest in helping
others!
"Service with a smile =)"
- Status:
Active
- 75. Classics Club (Eta Sigma Phi)
- Purpose: The Classics Club is a great
way
to meet students,
faculty, and graduate students,
and to become more
involved with the field of
Classics. Club events include
field trips, movies, faculty chats
in which professors
describe their current research,
and the annual,
end-of-the-year Roman
Banquet.
- Status:
Active
- 76. Club Water Polo @ UCSB
- Purpose: To compete for and win a national
championship
- Status:
Active
- 77. College Republicans
- Purpose: The UCSB College Republicans
mission is to recruit, inform,
train, and empower every existing
and potential College Republican at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. College campuses today are
ideological battlegrounds for the
future of America due to the
liberal dominion over college
faculty, curriculum, and
administration. This is especially
dangerous for the future of America
and the Republican Party because
partisanship is chosen between the
ages of 18 and 24. We work for the
future of the Republican Party and
its principles of limited
government, opportunity, and
freedom. Every day, we realize our
obligation to preserve the
Republican Party by balancing
debate on California’s liberal
college campuses and fulfilling our
mission. We are here to influence
the future now.
- Status:
Inactive
- 78. Colleges Against Cancer
- Purpose: Raise Cancer awareness in the
UCSB
community through advocacy,
education, and Relay For Life.
- Status:
Active
- 79. Collegiate Lindy Hop Association
- Purpose: CLHA's purpose is to (a) educate
the campus community on the
significance of Lindy Hop and other
vernacular jazz and dances and (b)
support and sustain vernacular jazz
dance in the local community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 80. Communication Association at UCSB
- Purpose: The purpose of the Communication
Association at UCSB is to help
communication and majors in
academic
and career planning, and to build
a network among communication
majors (present students and
communication alumni). In line
with this mission, the
Association
will sponsor weekly meetings that
include career-related
announcements, networking
opportunities, and guest speakers
on occasion. Events include, but
are not limited to, a mock
interview workshop, professor's
panel, the alumni & professionals
social, and an intensive
professional development
workshop.
This organization is open to all
majors.
- Status:
Active
- 81. Community Arts
- Purpose: To bring art projects into the Isla
Vista and Goleta children's
population!!!
- Status:
Pending
- 82. Community, Opportunity, and Artistry (COA)
- Purpose: To make connections between all
departments and to give students
the opportunity to become more
well rounded artists in dance,
theater, and any other forms of
art.
- Status:
Active
- 83. Cosa Meara Company of Irish Dance
- Purpose: We serve as an opportunity for
college bound dancers to continue
their involvement in Irish Dance in
both modern and traditional venues.
- Status:
Active
- 84. Cotillion Dance Club at UCSB
- Purpose: To preserve ballroom, Latin and
swing dancing
traditions in an environment
conducive to
enjoyment & education.
- Status:
Active
- 85. Dead Composers Society
- Purpose: To establish an extracurricular,
classical music, student
community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 86. Debate Society at UCSB
- Purpose: For the exchange of
intellectually-inclined dialogue
and debate. For the broadening of
minds across the board. And for the
pursuit of
excellence in oration.
- Status:
Inactive
- 87. Delta Delta Delta
- Purpose: To promote leadership,
scholarship
and community
service.
- Status:
Active
- 88. Delta Gamma
- Purpose: To serve as a non-profit
organization to promote
leadership, scholarship and
community service
- Status:
Active
- 89. Destino
- Purpose: Destino is a movement for Latinos who want to
grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ and
who want to fellowship with each other.
- Status:
Active
- 90. Dramatic Women
- Purpose: To explore and promote the
active
participation
of women in all areas of theatre.
- Status:
Inactive
- 91. Ecological Coalition (E-Coalition)
- Purpose:
The UCSB Ecological Coalition
(a.k.a. the “E-Coalition”), is a
network for campus-based
environmental, ecological, and
sustainability-oriented groups.
There is a huge array of
environmentally-minded UCSB
organizations (as you probably
already know). And although each
one is very different in its size
and scope, in one way or another,
all of the clubs seek to make our
campus, our community, and in turn
our planet, a healthier and happier
place to live.
The E-Coalition serves to
coordinate the efforts of member
groups, makes communication easier
between them, provides updates on
various campaigns, and supplies
extra volunteers for projects or
events.
- Status:
Active
- 92. EEMB Graduate Symposium
- Purpose: To organize the annual graduate
student research symposium for the
Department of Ecology, Evolution
and Marine Biology.
- Status:
Inactive
- 93. El Congreso
- Purpose: Promote community empowerment,
create political awareness
through
activism, and provide an
atmosphere of cultural pride for
the Chican@/Latin@ Community. El
Congreso is composed of 15
sub-committees ( La Escuelita,
Los
Curanderos, Los Ingenieros,
M.U.J.E.R., Carnales in Aztlan,
LBA, Psychology/Sociology,
M.E.N.T.E., Pre-Law, Protesta y
Apoyo Zapatista, Radio Chicana,
Cultural Arts, La Voz,
Estudiantes
Para Avanzar la Communidad) that
target specific areas of el
movimiento.
- Status:
Active
- 94. Electronic Music Club
- Purpose: To increase awareness of and to
facilitate discussion about
electronic music, and to sponsor
electronic music events
- Status:
Inactive
- 95. Energy Club
- Purpose: To educate and inform the UCSB
community about global energy
issues using fact-based analysis;
to promote dialog on global energy
issues.
- Status:
Inactive
- 96. Engineering Student Council
- Purpose: 1. The Engineering Student
Council
students meet regularly with the
College of Engineering
administration (e.g., the Deans,
the Faculty Executive Committee,
and other key staffers) to provide
a student perspective and to make
recommendations on issues that
arise throughout the year.
2. To provide means of
camaraderie
between engineering students.
3. Advise the Dean on
Commencement
Speaker selection.
4. Assist with College of
Engineering recruiting events.
- Status:
Inactive
- 97. Engineers Without Borders - UCSB
- Purpose: To partner with disadvantaged
communities in developing
countries to help improve their
quality of life. EWB provides
engineering assistance to these
communities in order to implement
environmentally and economically
sustainable engineering projects
while involving and training
internationally responsible
engineering students.
- Status:
Active
- 98. English Club
- Purpose: We are a member-driven organization
that creates a community for
literary-minded individuals through
creative and social activities.
- Status:
Inactive
- 99. Envision:The Pre-Optometry Association at UCSB
- Purpose: Our purpose is to meet the needs
of students interested in
optometry/visual science and to
aid optometric bound students
undergoing the application
process.
- Status:
Active
- 100. EOP Mentors
- Purpose: The EOP Peers help new
freshmen, transfer, re-entry, and
continuing students adapt to the
University setting both
academically and socially.
- Status:
Active
- 101. EOP Transfer/Continuing Peer Program
- Purpose: to assist transfer and continuing
students to transition into the
university
- Status:
Active
- 102. Epic
- Purpose: To provide Asian Americans
opportunities to present the claims
of Jesus Christ to interested
individuals and to facilitate
personal spiritual growth and
discipleship
- Status:
Active
- 103. Episcopal Campus Ministry
- Purpose: To minister and provide
spiritually enriching activities
and fellowship opportunities to
students, faculty, and staff of
the University and their friends.
- Status:
Active
- 104. Equestrian Club & Team Club at UCSB
- Purpose: To provide opportunities for
students to participate in riding
competitions, meet others with
similar interests in equines, and
develop a sense of responsibility.
- Status:
Inactive
- 105. Everybody Loves Everybody
- Purpose: To show that students care about
the world around them: their
community, environment, and school.
Everybody loves everybody in this
club and does what they can to help
out. We will organize multiple fund
raising events for causes, and
perform community service
activities in IV, Goleta, and Santa
Barbara
- Status:
Active
- 106. Exchanging Thoughts about Human Integrity among College Students (E.T.H.I.C.S.)
- Purpose: To provide an open forum for all students that
will encourage intellectual, thought-provoking
conversations regarding current social issues
(particularly in relation to morality, social
civility, etc.).
- Status:
Pending
- 107. Excursion Club
- Purpose: To enjoy outdoor activities such
as:
hiking, backpacking, camping,
surfing, rock climbing, skydiving,
mountaineering, kayaking, snowboarding,
skiing, and much more.
- Status:
Active
- 108. Family Student Housing Tenants' Assoc
- Purpose: To represent the needs of FSH
residents to University
&
non-university organizations and
individuals and to
assist
FSH residents for whom the UC
system or process has
not been effective.
- Status:
Active
- 109. Feminist Studies Graduate Student Organization
- Purpose: Promoting interdisciplinary
dialogue among women's studies
doctoral emphasis students and
other interested graduate students.
- Status:
Inactive
- 110. Film & Videomaker's Co-op
- Purpose:
The UCSB Film & Video-Maker's Co-Op
is dedicated to the congregation of
movie makers/enthusiasts alike, in
attempt to better hone skills in
film production.
While production will be the focus
tutorials and exercises on aspects
concerning pre-production,
post-production, distribution, and
exhibition will all be exercised
regularly.
- Status:
Inactive
- 111. Finance Connection @ UCSB
- Purpose: To place UCSB students in
successful careers on Wall Street
- Status:
Active
- 112. Fluid Dance Company
- Purpose: Fluid Dance Company spreads the
love and new life found in Jesus
Christ and powerfully impacts the
UCSB and Santa Barbara community
through the creative art of
dance, unique forms ranging from
liturgical to urban inspired
dances. Its also unites the
Christian community at UCSB at
our annual concerts and events
from all walks of life and
backgrounds.
- Status:
Active
- 113. Focus Media Journal
- Purpose: Offer undergraduate students an
opportunity to publish an
academic
magazine and to allow students to
discuss and argue on issues
regarding media, culture, and
theory.
- Status:
Inactive
- 114. Folded Shadow Press
- Purpose: to create and publish an Isla
Vista arts and culture magazine,
both in print and online format
- Status:
Inactive
- 115. Foodstuff
- Purpose: To cultivate a community of
students interested in all that
pertains to food and sustainability
and to provide opportunities to
connect and engage with local and
global food systems.
- Status:
Inactive
- 116. Gamelan Society
- Purpose: Gamelan Society's purpose is to
present Javanese and Balinese
gamelan music to the public and
contribute to cultural diversity
and awareness in the community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 117. Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity, Inc
- Purpose: "Gamma Zeta Alpha was established
for the purposes
of uniting and directing all
persons interested in
the promotion of the Latino culture
and ethnic
origins via community interaction, the
educational system & brotherhood."
- Status:
Inactive
- 118. Gaucho Cinema
- Purpose: Gaucho Cinema brings the best in
independent,
cult and classic films to IV. We
also serve up live
bands, student films, outdoor
screenings, and
creative snacks. We seek fabulous
collaborations with
other arts groups!
- Status:
Inactive
- 119. Gaucho Pep Band
- Purpose: Play Music.
Support UCSB athletics.
HAVE FUN!!!
- Status:
Inactive
- 120. Gaucho Toastmasters
- Purpose: To help you overcome the
number-
one fear in the
nation...public speaking.
Whether
you wish to overcome fears or
develop your skills,
Toastmasters
will help you improve
your communication ability, and
self
confidence. Leadership and
social
opportunities are available also.
- Status:
Active
- 121. Gaucho Tour Association-UCSB Visitor Center
- Purpose: To serve as UC Santa Barbara
campus representatives via
prospective student campus tours,
admissions and student life
presentations, and student led
panels. Our goal is to provide
necessary resources to prospective
freshmen and transfer students,
parents, and all other visitors
interested in gaining more
information on UC Santa Barbara.
- Status:
Active
- 122. German Club at UCSB
- Purpose: Improvement of German language
skills and intercultural communication
- Status:
Active
- 123. Global Medical Brigades-UCSB
- Purpose: To improve the quality of life in
global impoverished communities
while simultaneously offering
students experience in the health
care realm.
- Status:
Active
- 124. Go Organization
- Purpose: To promote development and
appreciation of the game Go.
- Status:
Inactive
- 125. Golden Key International Honor Society
- Purpose: The Mission of Golden Key
International Honour Society is
to promote and reward scholastic
excellence. We provide lifetime
membership benefits through
academic scholarships, discounts
and benefits through our many
business partners, and career
planning. We promote social and
academic events, and encourage
community service.
- Status:
Active
- 126. Gracious Loving Original Righteous Youth (GLORY)
- Purpose: To praise and minister through
dance. To manifest the goodness
of this unique and fun form of
praise so that others may be
touched and compelled to join.
- Status:
Inactive
- 127. Graduate Student Colectiva
- Purpose: GSC seeks to build an
interdisciplinary community among
Chican@/Latin@ graduate students,
create
mentor/mentee relationships, &
assist in recruitment/retention
efforts.
- Status:
Inactive
- 128. Graduate Students Association - Anthropology
- Purpose: The AGSA's purpose is to
represent
the interests of graduate
students
in the Department of Anthropology
at UCSB and promote academic and
professional excellence.
- Status:
Inactive
- 129. Graduate Students Association - Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
- Purpose: Articulate Bren student concerns
to
Graduate Student Assembly and
become involved in campus-wide
decision making processes.
- Status:
Inactive
- 130. Graduate Students Association - EEMB
- Purpose: GSA involvement
- Status:
Inactive
- 131. Graduate Students Association - History
- Purpose: To be the voice of history graduate
students in departmental and
university-wide affiars. To
promote social interaction among
graduate students.
- Status:
Active
- 132. Graduate Students Association - Political Science
- Purpose: The PSGSA represents the
interests
of the graduate students in the
Department of Political Science,
UCSB and in the larger community.
The PSGSA also manages the
resources of its graduate
students
and strives to promote academic
excellence and camaraderie among
the members.
- Status:
Active
- 133. Graduate Students Underground
- Purpose: Organize and host graduate student
social events.
- Status:
Inactive
- 134. Green Campus Program
- Purpose: The Green Campus Program focuses on
promoting energy efficiency
awareness, realizing measurable
energy savings and creating lasting
professional partnerships among Green
Campus
Program interns, students, faculty and staff
across campus.
- Status:
Active
- 135. Green Innovations
- Purpose: Green Innovations provides a forum for
which people from all disciplines can create
solutions for environmental problems. It will
encourage networking and idea sharing
between individuals with diverse
backgrounds. Green Innovations creates a
medium for the collaboration of skills to
launch new technologies, products, and
services that address environmental issues.
- Status:
Inactive
- 136. Green Screen
- Purpose: To produce and exhibit environmentally
focused films in order to cultivate an
environmentally conscious student
population.
- Status:
Active
- 137. Greenhouse and Garden Project GHGP
- Purpose: To provide an educational and
recreational
experience using low-impact,
organic gardening
practices.
- Status:
Inactive
- 138. GTU Geography Club
- Purpose: To further professional interest
in
geography by
affording a common organization
for
those interested in
this field.
- Status:
Active
- 139. Guardian Scholars Program
- Purpose: To promote and assist students
with a background in the foster
care system pursuring a higher
education at UCSB.
- Status:
Active
- 140. Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter
- Purpose: The purpose of the Campus
Chapter for Habitat for Humanity
is to attack the problem of
poverty housing by supporting
local building projects to provide
affordable homes for low
income families and by educating
the community.
- Status:
Active
- 141. Health Professions Associations
- Purpose: To provide volunteer
opportunities, procedural
information, comradeship, and
other resources for
students interested in pursuing a
career in
the health professions.
- Status:
Active
- 142. Healthy Eating & Living HEAL Interns
- Purpose: A Peer Health Education
internship group focused on
raising awareness about
food, nutrition, postitive body
image, health, fitness, and
eating
disorders.
- Status:
Active
- 143. Hermanas Unidas de UCSB
- Purpose: Hermanas Unidas Inc. (HaU) of
UCSB aims to provide a
familial network for
Latinas/Chicanas through
participation in academic,
community service, and
collegial networking events which
impact our women as well as our
surrounding community. We
emphasize the importance
of hermandad and support for
each other in our individual
quest for success and in our
transition to and from
college.
- Status:
Active
- 144. Hermanos Unidos
- Purpose: Hermanos Unidos is a
Chicano/Latino male
organization at UCSB. Hermanos
Unidos strives to
create a powerful and sensitive
brootherhood through
its members' common roots and
experiences. HU UCSB
is oriented towards
Chicano/Latino
cultures
but all UC Santa Barbara students
are welcomed. We strive to
promote academic excellence
through study hours and HU
Scholarship; Social Interactions
through socials with other UCSB
organizations; and Community
Service through numerous events.
Join us every Wednesday at 6PM in
the Harbor Room of the
Univerisity Center - UCEN.
"Fuerza an la Hermandad"
- Status:
Active
- 145. Hong Kong Student Association
- Purpose: We want to unite all people who are
from all around or interested in
Chinese via Hong Kong's cultures,
so that we can hang out and have
fun together!
- Status:
Active
- 146. Horizons
- Purpose: To act as a liaison between its
members and computer corporations
for future employment.
- Status:
Active
- 147. Horse Boarders Association
- Purpose: The HBA is organized to manage
the
operation and
maintenance of a horse stabling
program. HBA
provides a safe facility which
includes food,
shelter, and riding areas.
- Status:
Active
- 148. HSU Hmong Student Union
- Purpose: To promote awareness of the Hmong
culture to the campus and the
community as well as to promote
higher education within the Hmong
community and providing each
other with social and academic support.
- Status:
Inactive
- 149. Human Resources Student Association
- Purpose: To educate and prepare UCSB
students for a career in human
resources through joint activities
with the Santa Barbara Human
Resources Association.
- Status:
Active
- 150. Human Rights Group at UCSB
- Purpose: To work for justice worldwide,
finding and creating awareness of
human rights violations, and
bringing international efforts to
our campus at UCSB.
- Status:
Active
- 151. I. V. LIVE
- Purpose: Producing I.V. LIVE, a weekly
performance for student,
faculty and community groups.
- Status:
Active
- 152. I.V.D.V.
- Purpose: provide outlet for digital video
artists and story tellers to
showcase their work
- Status:
Inactive
- 153. Iaorana te Otea
- Purpose: To provide cultural awareness
about Polynesian cultures to the
community through music and
dance.
- Status:
Active
- 154. IDEAS-Improving Dreams Equality Access & Success
- Purpose: A community organized to
encourage,promote and further the
education of immigrant students;
by providing sufficient social
networks, academic, and financial
resources.IDEAS plans to carry
out,foster and advocate for an
accessible university education.
- Status:
Active
- 155. IEEE @ UCSB
- Purpose: To enhance the educational and
professional growth of students
in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
at UCSB.
- Status:
Inactive
- 156. Improvability
- Purpose: To provide the Isla Vista
community and the UCSB student
population with weekly,
alternative social program. Also
to train quality improvisational
actors through weekly practices,
performances and other events.
- Status:
Active
- 157. India Association
- Purpose: IASB is a non-profit organization
dedicated to fostering
friendship,
goodwill, and cooperation among
people of Indian origin and
people
of other cultures.
- Status:
Active
- 158. Indus
- Purpose: The purpose of our organization
is to educate the public about
the culture of South Asia and its
diaspora, incorporating the
cultural similarities that
transcend national borders. The
organization will additionally
serve as a resource of social
activity for those who identify
with or are interested in the
culture.
- Status:
Active
- 159. Inter Fraternity Conference
- Purpose: ***The Interfraternity Council
(IFC) is the
governing board for ten of the
national
fraternities that exist at the
University of
California, Santa Barbara. IFC
consists of
nine elected executive officers and
IFC
Presidents from each chapter. The
goals of
IFC are to:
Encourage academic success
Foster communication and cooperation
between fraternities
Provide educational opportunities
to cultivate
leadership development, personal
growth,
and responsible decision making skills
To work closely with the Collegiate
Panhellenic Council, United
Fraternity and
Sorority Council, and National
Panhellenic
Council to further improve the
Greek system
as a whole
Encourage and respect the personal
choices
and property of others
Protect the health and safety of
all members
of the community
- Status:
Active
- 160. Interested Gentlemen of Omega Psi Phi
- Purpose: A deep tradition of hospitality,
enthusiasm and community service
continues, embracing the principles
of Manhood, Scholarship,
Perseverance, and Uplift.
- Status:
Active
- 161. International Students Association
- Purpose: Promote cultural understanding
and
interaction between international
students and American students
interested in world culture.
- Status:
Active
- 162. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship-IVCF
- Purpose: The vision of IVSB(Intervarsity)
is
to build collegiate fellowships,
develop disciples who embody
biblical values and engage the
campus with the gospel of
Jesus
Christ. Motivated by God's heart
and trusting in his Power, we
are
a community committed to
evangelism and justice on our
campus and throughout the
world.
- Status:
Active
- 163. Invisible Children at UCSB
- Purpose: The purpose of this organization is to inform
and involve as many people in the struggle
for human rights. We focus especially on the
situation in Northern Uganda and the Congo
involving stopping the use of child soldiers,
curing those who have been forced to
become child soldiers, and helping the
individuals whose lives have been harmed
from the War.
- Status:
Active
- 164. Iranian Graduate Student Association
- Purpose: To promote an understanding of
Iranian culture
- Status:
Active
- 165. Isla Vista Kiteboard Club
- Purpose: To support and promote the greater
Santa Barbara kite surfing community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 166. Isla Vista Slackline Club
- Purpose: To Slackline.
- Status:
Inactive
- 167. Israeli-Palestinian Film Club
- Purpose: The IPFC exists to educate students
about the cultural history and
realities of Israel and Palestine
through film.
- Status:
Inactive
- 168. Italian Club at UCSB
- Purpose: The mission of the Italian club
is
to foster, promote, and preserve
the italian culture at its
hightest.
- Status:
Inactive
- 169. IV Garb
- Purpose: To creat an artist network among
UCSB students. Bringing Musicians
and artists together to create
outlets and venues for expression
while having fun and learning.
- Status:
Inactive
- 170. Jewish Awareness Movement - J.A.M.
- Purpose: To promote Jewish awareness, we
are a non discriminatory group
- Status:
Active
- 171. Joining All Cultures Together
- Purpose: Our purpose is to bring together
different clubs and organizations
of cultures that would not
usually come together for social
purposes and events.
- Status:
Inactive
- 172. JSA - Japanese Student Association
- Purpose: To provide Japanese students
(e.g.
transfer, international, E.A,P.,
etc.) and students with an
interest in Japan with a place to
meet people
with similar backgrounds and
experiences. To become
a "bridge"
between people who share values
and ideas with each other.
- Status:
Active
- 173. Judo Club at UCSB
- Purpose: The organization's purpose is:
provide a safe and fun environment
for learning the respected
international Martial Art of Judo.
Judo literally translates to "The
Gentle Way," and is a martial art
that can be practiced without high
risk of injury.
- Status:
Active
- 174. Juggling Club @UCSB
- Purpose: To promote the fun of juggling
from beginners to experts.
- Status:
Active
- 175. Kapatirang Pilipino
- Purpose: To provide creative venues of
social interactions for its
members
through Pilipino/Filipino-American
ethnic and cultural awareness,
political empowerment and academic
excellence throughout the
University of California, Santa
Barbara campus and its surrounding
communities.
- Status:
Active
- 176. Kappa Alpha Psi
- Purpose:
Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) is a
collegiate Greek-letter
fraternity with a predominantly
African American membership.
Since the fraternity's founding
on January 5, 1911 at Indiana
University Bloomington, the
fraternity has never limited
membership based on color, creed
or national origin. The
fraternity has over 150,000
members with 700 undergraduate
and alumni chapters in every
state of the United States, and
international chapters.
Kappa Alpha Psi is a major
contributor in the fields of
political, social, cultural and
scholastic achievement. The
fraternity sponsors programs
providing community service,
social welfare and academic
scholarship through the Kappa
Alpha Psi Foundation and is a
supporter of the United Negro
College Fund and Habitat for
Humanity. Kappa Alpha Psi is a
member of the National Pan-
Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the
North-American Interfraternity
Conference (NIC).
Although Kappa's have been
present at the University of
California, Santa Barbara since
the late 1960's, on October 27,
2005 the Pi Alpha chapter was
chartered. Here at UCSB we strive
to fulfill our goal
of “Achievement in every field of
human endeavor”.
- Status:
Inactive
- 177. Kappa Alpha Psi
- Purpose:
Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) is a
collegiate Greek-letter
fraternity with a predominantly
African American membership.
Since the fraternity's founding
on January 5, 1911 at Indiana
University Bloomington, the
fraternity has never limited
membership based on color, creed
or national origin. The
fraternity has over 150,000
members with 700 undergraduate
and alumni chapters in every
state of the United States, and
international chapters.
Kappa Alpha Psi is a major
contributor in the fields of
political, social, cultural and
scholastic achievement. The
fraternity sponsors programs
providing community service,
social welfare and academic
scholarship through the Kappa
Alpha Psi Foundation and is a
supporter of the United Negro
College Fund and Habitat for
Humanity. Kappa Alpha Psi is a
member of the National Pan-
Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the
North-American Interfraternity
Conference (NIC).
Although Kappa's have been
present at the University of
California, Santa Barbara since
the late 1960's, on October 27,
2005 the Pi Alpha chapter was
chartered. Here at UCSB we strive
to fulfill our goal
of “Achievement in every field of
human endeavor”.
- Status:
Active
- 178. Kappa Alpha Theta
- Purpose: To promote leadership,
scholarship,
and community
service
- Status:
Active
- 179. Kappa Kappa Gamma
- Purpose: Kappa Kappa Gamma is an
organization of women, which
seeks for every member throughout
her life bonds of friendship,
mutual support, opportunities for
self-growth, respect for
intellectual development, and an
understanding of and an
allegiance to positive ethical
principles.
- Status:
Active
- 180. Kappa Sigma Fraternity
- Purpose: To educate people in the ways of
the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
- Status:
Inactive
- 181. Khmer Student Association
- Purpose: To promote, maintain, and foster
the Cambodian heritage, people,
and culture to individuals who
bear a common interest.
- Status:
Active
- 182. KINETIC
- Purpose: Kinetic is a consortium for visual
and audio
art practice providing the
atmosphere for
experienced artists to
collaborate, exhibit
new material, and display
techniques to
create interaction between artists
and the
community.
- Status:
Active
- 183. Kink University: A Fetish Fellowship
- Purpose: KUFF is a pan-sexual alternative
lifestyle group providing a
supportive social environment for
education, safety, and exploration
of BDSM and fetish activities for
UCSB students and the community as
a whole. The purposes of KUFF are:
* To provide a safe and open
environment to discuss alternative
lifestyles and practices
* To organize and provide seminars
and demonstrations to educate the
community and promote safety and
awareness of related topics
* To establish connections between
people of different levels of
experience and knowledge to promote
stronger bonds in the community
* To organize social events to
promote bonding with other members.
- Status:
Active
- 184. Korea Campus Crusade for Christ
- Purpose: Our purpose is to spread the word
of Jesus Christ on this campus,
win hearts over to the kingdom of
God, and train them to be
disciples
who will join in the fulfilling
of
the Great Commission.
- Status:
Active
- 185. Korean Amer Student Association (KASA)
- Purpose: To create an environment in which
Korean culture,
heritage, and traditions are both
taught, learned,
and encouraged through various
activities. We also hope to
promote friendship and unity
amongst the korean american
community.
- Status:
Active
- 186. Korean American Campus Missions
- Purpose: To obey the Great Commission by
discipling and mobilizing
collegians.
- Status:
Inactive
- 187. Korean American Coalition at UCSB
- Purpose: To promote and educate the
community on Korean culture , to
represent and unite the Korean
students and to embrace anyone
interested in learning about
Korean culture
- Status:
Inactive
- 188. Korean Cultural Awareness Group
- Purpose: Provide an opportunity to
experience Korean traditional
culture to UCSB student and Santa
Barbara community
- Status:
Inactive
- 189. L.A. LEY Latina/o Association for Legal Education YA!
- Purpose: To promote brotherhood/sisterhood
among Latino students interested
in law school by creating strong
relationships, mentor-ships, and
providing a bank of information
to
facilitate the transition between
college and law school
- Status:
Active
- 190. L.A.M.B.D.A.S.-Latin American Men Bringing Diversity and Scholarship
- Purpose: The Purpose of L.A.M.B.D.A.S
is to promote and practice
Unity, Chivarly and Respect.
L.A.M.B.D.A.S. strives to
maintain a high standard of
learning while upholding dignity
and self-identity.
- Status:
Active
- 191. La Escuelita
- Purpose: La Escuelita is a nonprofit
organization at UCSB. Our goal is
to become active role-models for
the youth of Santa Barbara by
providing educative and safe
recreational activities.
- Status:
Active
- 192. La Voz del Congreso
- Purpose: La Voz is an alternative newspaper
written from a progressive point
of view to address issues
affecting chicano/as latino/as
both on and off campus.
- Status:
Active
- 193. Lambda Chi Alpha
- Purpose: Fraternity
- Status:
Pending
- 194. Lambda Pi Eta (Communication Honor Society)
- Purpose: To recognize students for
achievement in the Communication
major; to
promote professional development
and graduate study, and to create
networks among those in the field.
- Status:
Active
- 195. Lambda Sigma Gamma Sorority
- Purpose: The purposes of this association
are
to instill the desire for self
improvement, scholastic
excellence
and the cultivation of civic
responsibility. Also to promote
unity and higher education
amongst women.
- Status:
Active
- 196. Lambda Theta Nu Sorority
- Purpose: The Purpose of Lambda Theta Nu
Sorority, Inc. Nu Chapter shall
be to open doors of opportunity
to the Latinas of our community.
Our priorities will be placed
upon
academic excellence and community
service, but sisterhood is also
important. Part of our
philanthropy is a Latina Youth
Leadership Conference that we hold
annually. Lambda Theta Nu
Sorority, Inc. is a Latina
based sorority, but our doors are
open to women of any nationality.
- Status:
Active
- 197. Language, Interaction&Social Organization Graduate StudentsLISO
- Purpose: To promote interdisciplinary
discussion on matters
relating to language,
interaction,
and culture.
- Status:
Active
- 198. Latino Business Association
- Purpose: The mission of the Latino
Business
Association is
to construct a communication
bridge between our
members and corporate America. We
actively seek
internships and employment
positions in the
careers corresponding to Business
Law, Marketing,
Advertisement, and any other
opportunities that
may interest our members. As a
student-run,
non-profit organization, we
thrive
on a variety of
activities to complete and
fulfill
our goals. In
doing so, we have built a firm
foundation through
various career expositions,
leadership
conferences, community
involvement, excellent
guest speakers, and fund raisers.
Together, the
members of the Latino Business
Association strive
to learn the imperative
responsibilities that are
inherent within the working
world,
by emphasizing
academic and communal networks.
- Status:
Inactive
- 199. Latter Day Saint Student Association
- Purpose: 1) To help all Latter-day Saint
college students stay closely
affiliated with the Church, succeed
in their studies, and achieve a
balanced life while on campus.
2) Correlate Church-related
activities on college campuses
under the direction of the
Institute of Religion Council and
with the approval of the Institute
of Religion Advisory Committee.
3) Motivate Latter-day Saint
students to become a powerful
influence for good on the college
campuses.
4) Provide Latter-day Saint
students with meaningful activities
which are consistent with Church
standards.
- Status:
Inactive
- 200. Laughology aka Comics Anonymous
- Purpose: To provide a safe environment for
students who appreciate stand up
comedy and to pursue their interests.
Give opportunities to students
perform stand up comedy in front of
other students.
- Status:
Inactive
- 201. Law and Society Journal at UCSB
- Purpose: An online and print academic
journal, published
annually to exhibit outstanding
undergraduate research and
commentary in the
interdisciplinary
field of law and society
scholarship.
- Status:
Active
- 202. Lebanese Club at UCSB
- Purpose: To promote the interests of
Lebanese students at UCSB.
To acquaint the UCSB community and
that of Santa Barbara area with
Lebanon, its people, culture, and
problems.
- Status:
Active
- 203. Life of the Party
- Purpose: Encourage students to continue to
have fun in the Isla Vista and
Santa Barbara social scenes, but
enjoy it regret-free by keeping the
negative aspects of partying in
mind. We will provide information
to students, via our website and
Facebook page, on how to throw a
party, how to remain safe while
partying, local laws and
ordinances, basic alcohol and drug
information, relevant contact
information, and much more.
- Status:
Active
- 204. Linguistics Club
- Purpose: Provides opportunities for
linguistics majors & minors as
well as other students with an
interest in linguistics to learn
more about the field & to
socialize.
- Status:
Inactive
- 205. Longboard Club
- Purpose: To unite all UCSB Longboarders in a
open and friendly community.
- Status:
Active
- 206. Los Curanderos
- Purpose: To provide support and
information
for UCSB
students interested in the health
professions.
The information provided is based
on opportunities
offered to minorities, and those
interested in
providing health care to
underserved communities.
- Status:
Active
- 207. Los Gauchos
- Purpose: to spread cultural awareness in our
school and
community and improve the
understanding of
the diversity and social
construction of
brotherhood
- Status:
Active
- 208. Los Ingenieros
- Purpose: Dedicated to serve its members
and
the community
in the advancement of their math,
science, and
engineering disciplines. To
provide
our members
with professional exposure,
leadership
opportunities, scholarships, and
a
desire for the
pursuit of the highest level of
education.
- Status:
Active
- 209. LTA
- Purpose: To provide charitable and
educational programs, as well as
social and cultural events. To
encourage and sponsor leadership,
high academic standards and be a
voice for the community!
- Status:
Active
- 210. Lusophone and Hispanic Literature Conference
- Purpose: Organize conferences and
cultural
activities related to
Portuguese and Spanish speaking
countries, history,
literature and culture.
- Status:
Inactive
- 211. Martial Arts Academy
- Purpose: TO FACILITATE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
PRACTICE MARTIAL ARTS. TO DEVELOP
THE MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT AND TO
ENCOURAGE EXCELLENCE THROUGH
COMPETITION.
- Status:
Active
- 212. Men Against Rape
- Purpose: Men Against Rape works with men
at
UCSB, and in the Isla Vista/Santa
Barbara community to end sexual
violence.
- Status:
Active
- 213. MFA Garden Club
- Purpose: The MFA Garden Club provides an
opportunity for graduate students
from the Art Department to work
together cooperatively at the UCSB
Community Garden & Greenhouse near
Harder Stadium studios. Projects
will include planting, tending and
harvesting food, herbs and art
materials, installing artworks in
the outdoor garden setting or
indoors in the greenhouse, as well
as developing and implementing
curatorial projects, performances
and artist talks.
- Status:
Inactive
- 214. Middle Eastern Resource Center(MERC)
- Purpose: The purpose of this organization
is to serve as the central
location to foster cultural and
spiritual development of students
of Middle Eastern descent.
- Status:
Active
- 215. Mock Trial Team
- Purpose: Mock Trial allows undergraduate
students to take on the roles of
attorneys and witnesses in a
fictitious case and compete
against other universities.
- Status:
Active
- 216. Model Arab League @ UCSB
- Purpose: To raise money for the annual National and
West Coast Championships. To refine students
reasoning, speaking, and debating skills.
- Status:
Inactive
- 217. Model United Nations
- Purpose:
UCSB’s Model UN is an organization
that simulates United Nations
debates. Our aim is to develop
students’ international awareness
and communications skills. The
Model UN allows students to take on
the roles of foreign nations and
participate in a structured debate
to find solutions to global issues.
What do we do?
- Quarterly Model U.N. Debates
(following the UN rules of procedure)
- Participating in United Nations
Association- SB Chapter events
- Fundraising for Model UN and UN
organizations (e.g. World Food Program)
- Participating in local and
international Model UN conferences
(e.g. World MUN 08 in Mexico)
- Meet and network with students
who share interest in global issues
and the international community
- Collaborate with UNICEF, UNESCO,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and
other local NGOs
- Helping local high schools start
a Model UN program and hosting San
Marcus High School on campus
- Status:
Active
- 218. Mortar Board
- Purpose: To recognize college seniors for
excellence in scholarship,
leadership, and service.
- Status:
Active
- 219. MUJ E R (Mujeres Unidas por Justicia, Ed. y Rev)
- Purpose: As a subcommittee of El Congreso,
M.U.J.E.R.(Mujeres Unidas por
Justicia, Educación, y Revolucion)
is a womyn's support group and
progressive student organization
that provides support and advocacy
for Chicana/Latina womyn, while
promoting cultural and gender
awareness on campus and in the
surrounding community. M.U.J.E.R.
offers the opportunity to interact
and build valuable friendships and
coalitions that is based on
support, love, understanding, and
self-determination. We strive to
become active leaders and empower
other Chicana(s)/Latina(s) in order
to confront the issues that affect
our daily lives. As M.U.J.E.R., we
are here to provide the tools
necessary in order to become
successful Chicanas/Latinas in the
University and as well as in our
futures.
- Status:
Active
- 220. Mujeres de Juarez de UCSB
- Purpose: Mujeres de Juarez de UCSB is an
activist organization dedicated to
spreading awareness and working
towards ending the femicides in Juarez.
- Status:
Active
- 221. Multicultural Drama Company (MCDC)
- Purpose: MCDC's purpose is to combat
the
segregation that
often occurs in the
entertainment
industry by providing
the opportunity for actors and
writers from all
communities (even White
people!)
to work together,
rather than in their separate
groups.
- Status:
Active
- 222. Music for Healing
- Purpose: To extend the artistic value of music to hospital
patients in an effort to soothe and assist in their
rehabilitation processes.
- Status:
Inactive
- 223. Musicians Making a Difference
- Purpose: To gather local students and
musicians and unite them for
charitable or social causes. As an
organization we will put on
several
charity shows to gather funds.
These funds will be used for
various causes, one will be to
start a youth mentoring through
music program at local elementary
and middle schools
entitled "Making
Melodies"
- Status:
Active
- 224. Muslim Student Association
- Purpose: To provide Muslim students with a
space to enrich their Faith, to
provide accurate information
about
our Faith, and to contribute
diversity to the UCSB campus.
- Status:
Active
- 225. Naked Voices
- Purpose: Naked Voices is UCSB's only co-ed
pop/rock a capella group. We
strive to
increase awareness and
appreciation
for the arts at UCSB and in the
Isla
Vista community.
- Status:
Active
- 226. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Purpose: Inspire, motivate, and create
interest in civic activities
while serving as the training
ground for a new generation of
leaders.
- Status:
Active
- 227. National Society for Black Engineers
- Purpose: To increase the number of
culturally responsible Black
engineers who excell
academically, succeed
professionally and positively
impact the community.
- Status:
Active
- 228. National Society of Collegiate Scholars
- Purpose: The NSCS recognizes and celebrates
high achievement among University
first and second year students in
all academic disciplines with a
3.4 GPA or better.
- Status:
Inactive
- 229. National Society of Leadership&Success
- Purpose: To help individuals create the
lives they desire by helping them
discover what they truly want to
do, and giving them the support,
motivation, and tools to achieve
their goals.
- Status:
Active
- 230. Native American Indian Languages Study Group
- Purpose: To further the study of the native
languages of the Americas.
- Status:
Inactive
- 231. New Music and Dance Collective
- Purpose: To bridge the gap between
choreographers and composers so
that they may come together to
create new pieces for music and
dance.
- Status:
Active
- 232. Nikkei Student Union (NSU)
- Purpose: Our purpose is to promote awareness
about
Japanese/American culture within
the UCSB
community through social,
educational, and
community-based events.
- Status:
Active
- 233. NORML.Natl Org Reform of Marijuana Laws
- Purpose: We will educate ourselves
and those around us
about the plant cannabis sativa.
As members of
the National Organization for the
Reform of
Marijuana Laws, we will bring
legal, historical,
industrial, medicinal and
spiritual information to
our members and any other persons
interested in
the knowledge that we have to
share. We will do
so enthusiastically and
positively. In sharing
our knowledge and ideas, we hope
to act and change
existing laws that do not
recognize the positive
properties of hemp (for health
and
industry) and
marijuana (for spiritual,
personal, and medicinal
healing). We Love Cannabis
Sativa!
- Status:
Active
- 234. Not Mere Men
- Purpose: The purpose of Men's Fellowship
is to equip and encourage men to
carry out their responsibilities
to God, church, family, and
community in accordance with
God's will, as revealed through
his Word and Spirit. We are
devoted to being men of standard,
role models to all, and righteous
examples of what men of God
should be. We are motivated by a
desire to serve God with our
whole lives, to his glory and for
the benefit of proclaiming His
name in all that we do.
- Status:
Active
- 235. Nu Alpha Kappa
- Purpose: Nu Alpha Kappa Fraternity, Inc. is
a Latino-based fraternity which
encompasses & values all
cultures,
regardless of ethnicity, race or
creed. As students and brothers of
N.A.K., we strive for three
ideals.
Knowledge is our primary
goal; N.A.K. is committed to
assist in the
academic success of all our
brothers. Culture is our second
goal, achieved by dedicated &
dependable campus and
community service. Our third and
final goal is the unrelenting
commitment to Carnalismo. The
bond of brotherhood shared
amongst all brothers from every
chapter of Nu Alpha Kappa
reinforces the commitment to excel
as Men of
Mind, Men of Culture, and Men of Pride.
- Status:
Active
- 236. Ocean's Helping Hand
- Purpose: The purpose of CURE SCI is to
improve the
quality of life for those affected
by spinal cord
injury (SCI) in addition to being
a significant
monetary contributor to spinal
cord research.
- Status:
Active
- 237. Office of Judicial Affairs Peer Program
- Purpose: To help students become aware of
the resources available to them at
the Office of Judicial Affairs,
and inform students on their
rights at UCSB through educational
and social programming.
- Status:
Active
- 238. One Laptop Per Child, Santa Barbara
- Purpose: Advancing the education of
children via OLPC by
raising awareness, building
networks, developing
educational tools, and directly
impacting child
learning.
- Status:
Active
- 239. Operation Smile
- Purpose: The purpose of Operation Smile is to help raise
money to pay for corrective surgery for children
with facial deformities such as cleft lip or cleft
palate.
- Status:
Active
- 240. Optimist Club At UCSB
- Purpose: Dedicated to enriching the lives
of youth in the community and
empowering them to be the best
they can be through volunteer and
fundraising programs.
- Status:
Active
- 241. Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) at UCSB
- Purpose: Fellowship for Orthodox
students, faculty, staff, and
others interested in the
historical, cultural, and
spiritual
phenomenon of Eastern
Orthodox Christianity.
- Status:
Inactive
- 242. Passion Curves (Bellydancers at UCSB)
- Purpose: Passion Curves is a common interest
group that originated and is
located on the campus of UCSB. This
organization strives to unite
students with a shared interest of
learning the history, common
culture, and technique of the art
of belly dancing. The group has the
shared vision of enriching the
awareness of the art of belly
dancing in the campus and Santa
Barbara communities through events
and performances.
- Status:
Inactive
- 243. Persian Student Group
- Purpose: The purpose of Persian Student
Group is to
unite those who appreciate Persian
culture. Through PSG, we hope to
promote and celebrate Persian
culture and
history.
- Status:
Active
- 244. Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Chapter
- Purpose: We are a Coed Pre-Law Fraternity
who wants to build a lasting bond
between our members, while
introducing them to the field of
Law, the rigors of the
application process, and Law
School. We also will promote the
professional advancement of alll
our members, in order to make
them more competitive applicants
for Law School. We uphold Phi
Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
International's motto of "Service
to the student, the school, the
profession, and the community."
- Status:
Active
- 245. Phi Alpha Theta (History Hon)
- Purpose: To promote the study of history
through the encouragement of
research, good teaching,
publication and exchange of
learning and ideas among
historians.
- Status:
Active
- 246. Phi Sigma Kappa
- Purpose: To provide a place for UCSB
students to find what it means to
be in a true fraternity
- Status:
Active
- 247. Pi Alpha Phi
- Purpose: To promote Asian awareness,
Academic excellence, brotherhood,
philanthropy, and leadership.
- Status:
Active
- 248. Pi Beta Phi
- Purpose: To promote leadership,
scholarship, and community
service.
- Status:
Active
- 249. Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN)
- Purpose: PCN is an annual theater production
that showcases students' talents in
Pilipino cultural dance,
modern dance, song, and drama.
Our goal is to celebrate
Pilipino/Filipino American culture
and history, as well as to promote
cultural diversity and awareness of
issues faced by Filipino Americans
today.
- Status:
Active
- 250. Pilipino Graduation
- Purpose: To celebrate the accomplishments
of
graduates
of Pilipino decent and interested
participants in
an intimate and interactive
ceremony.
- Status:
Active
- 251. Pink Link Breast Cancer Awareness Club
- Purpose: Creating a link among
institutions,students and
community by spreading knowledge
about the current scientific
advancements in Breast Cancer
research.
- Status:
Active
- 252. Plan C
- Purpose: To provide practical solutions,
information, resources, and a
forum for discussion regarding
unplanned pregnancies and sexual
activity.
- Status:
Inactive
- 253. Positive Psychology Association
- Purpose: Our mission is to disperse, promote and inform
the Santa Barbara community about Positive
Psychology
- Status:
Inactive
- 254. Pre-Dental Association
- Purpose: To give guidance and orientation
to
pre-dental students or students
who
are interested in learning about
the dental profession.
- Status:
Active
- 255. Pre-Pharmacy Student Association
- Purpose: PPSA's purpose is to expose the
UCSB community to the
professional
field of pharmacy and assist
those
interested in pursuing pharmacy
schools.
- Status:
Active
- 256. Pre-Veterinary Medical Association
- Purpose: To promote interest in and
display
the breadth of the veterinary
medical field.
- Status:
Active
- 257. PrisonTalk
- Purpose: PrisonTalk aims to create a forum
for the California and national
prison systems to be discussed.
The
foundations are to promote peace
and education throughout our
communities and correctional
facilities.
- Status:
Active
- 258. Progressive Christians @ UCSB
- Purpose: PCS is committed to exploring the
intersection of progressive
politics and Christianity through
forums, conversation and action. PCS is sponsored
by Episcopal, Presbyterian and UCC campus
ministries @ UCSB.
- Status:
Active
- 259. Project Eye-to-Eye
- Purpose: to bring labeled, adults with
learning disabilities into the
lives of labeled, students with
learning disabilities
- Status:
Active
- 260. Psi Chi
- Purpose: Psi Chi is the National Honor
Society in Psychology, founded in
1929 for the purposes of
encouraging, stimulating, and
maintaining excellence in
scholarship, and advancing the
science of psychology.
- Status:
Active
- 261. Public Health Brigades at UCSB
- Purpose: Empowerment of both UCSB students
and local communities to work
together to develop and attain
sustainable health solutions in
Honduran villages.
- Status:
Active
- 262. Public History Graduate Student Association
- Purpose: professional development
- Status:
Active
- 263. Queer Student Union QSU
- Purpose: Queer Student Union is a
political and social
student group comprised of many
energetic, albeit
different people from diverse
backgrounds and
perspectives. We have a shared
vision of making
UCSB a safer and more supportive
atmosphere for
all people in the queer
community.
- Status:
Active
- 264. Raagmala
- Purpose: To promote the culture and music
of India and the Indian
subcontinent in the community
- Status:
Inactive
- 265. Raices de Mi Tierra
- Purpose: To promote and cultivate at UCSB
and in the community, the study
and performance of native Mexican
and Chicano dance forms from
various regions.
- Status:
Active
- 266. Real Life
- Purpose: To give every student on campus
who
is interested
the chance to learn about Jesus,
grow in their
relationship with Him, and help
others in the same
way.
- Status:
Active
- 267. Reel Loud Exhibitions
- Purpose: Made for students, by students,
REEL LOUD combines silent films
with live performances, showcasing
outstanding UCSB student talent.
- Status:
Inactive
- 268. Re-Entry, Non-Traditional Student Organization (RENTSO)
- Purpose: The purpose of our organization
is to unite and support non-entry
and nontraditional students in
the pursuit of higher education.
- Status:
Inactive
- 269. Regents and Chancellors Scholarship Association(RCSA)
- Purpose: We strive to promote scholarship,
provide service to our community,
and generally enrich our academic
and intellectual experience.
- Status:
Active
- 270. Reproductive Justice Coalition
- Purpose: Reproductive Justice Coalition is a branch of
Choice USA, the national organization
focused on youth leadership and activism
surrounding reproductive justice and all the
issues that this topic encompasses; including
but not limited to: access to emergency
contraception and affordable birth control,
comprehensive sex ed, abortion rights,
LGBTQQI rights, the right to have children,
shedding light on deceptive crisis pregnancy
centers, and much more.
- Status:
Active
- 271. Research Divers Association
- Purpose: To promote the research divers
program on the UCSB campus
through membership dues,
benefits programs and other
fund raising methods.
- Status:
Active
- 272. Residence Hall Association - RHA
- Purpose: RHA's purpose is to build
community and advocate for
students living in University
owned residence halls.
- Status:
Active
- 273. Revive Christian Fellowship
- Purpose: To glorify God at UCSB through a community of
Christian students.
- Status:
Active
- 274. Rho Psi Eta Pre-Health Sorority
- Purpose: Rho Psi Eta is an academic
sisterhood of like minded women
empowering each other through a
shared vision of strong academic
standards and integrity.
- Status:
Active
- 275. Rhythms of Brazil Cultural Club
- Purpose: Providing a fun, energetic and
supportive environment through
Brazilian cultural events
- Status:
Active
- 276. RUF Christian Fellowship
- Purpose: We are simply a group of
Christians who look to
respond to the grace of God found
in the death
and resurrection of Jesus. We
invite anyone who
is convinced or curious.
- Status:
Active
- 277. Russian Club
- Purpose: Russian Club promotes the
appreciation of Slavic Cultures
and
does so by bringing together a
student community with like
interests through year round
events.
- Status:
Active
- 278. Santa Barbara Hillel
- Purpose: Hillel is the vibrant center for
all Santa Barbara college students
of Jewish heritage. We provide a
home away from home atmosphere
to celebrate our Jewish heritage,
meet new friends, pursue our
leadership interests, volunteer in
our community, work, study, and
simply have fun. Hillel offers the
opportunity to create a family of
friends for life.
- Status:
Active
- 279. Santa Barbara People's Union (SBPU)
- Purpose: To create, support, and promote
education, training, research, and
public awareness of the value and
importance of social activities; to
enhance the contribution of science
and the arts to the understanding
and appreciation of socializing; to
support and create programs that
capitalize on social activities to
improve human relations, peace, and
harmony in the world.
- Status:
Inactive
- 280. Santa Barbara Pro-Life Ambassadors
- Purpose: To educate our campus on all
bio-ethical issues and help women
and men in crisis pregnancies find
support for themselves and their
unborn children.
- Status:
Inactive
- 281. SB Media Group (formerly AmerAdFed)
- Purpose: SB Media Group is UC Santa Barbara’s
student-run advertising agency and an
educational chapter of the American
Advertising Federation.
We are a nonprofit organization that provides
local businesses and campus organizations a
cost-effective way to reach the UCSB
community. Not only do we have special
access to advertise on the otherwise highly
restricted UCSB campus, but we also have
comprehensive, first-hand knowledge of our
target audience.
Our mission is to educate our members and
provide them with creative, analytical, and
practical work experience to prepare them
for their future careers. Our activities include
guest lectures from local marketing
professionals as well as the development of
strategic marketing campaigns.
- Status:
Active
- 282. Scabbard and Blade
- Purpose: 1) Raise the standard of military
education at UCSB. 2) Maintain a
close relationship with the
University and the surrounding
community. 3) Encourage and foster
the essential qualities of
Leadership, Citizenship and
Service. 4) Promote friendship and
good fellowship among it's members.
5) Disseminate knowledge of the
military's role and responsibility
to the community.
- Status:
Active
- 283. Scientific Understanding and Reason Enrichment (SURE)
- Purpose: 1) To promote freethinking,
science, reason, and secular
values.
2) To provide a safe and civil
community for all non-believers
and freethinkers such as
atheists, agnostics,
rationalists, skeptics, etc.
3) To advocate tolerance and
acceptance of all non-believers
and freethinkers.
4) To promote the use of
skeptical inquiry and critical
thought.
5) To defend science and reason
from superstition and
irrationality.
6) To be a positive influence in
our campus and community
7) To educate, engage, and
encourage our community and
initiate change.
8) To promote secular values and
advocate the separation of church
ans state.
9) To provide a safe a fun
environment for the secular
community and all those who are
open minded
- Status:
Active
- 284. Screenwriters' Co-op
- Purpose: To provide education and
networking possibliites to
aspiring UCSB TV and
Screenwriters.
- Status:
Active
- 285. Sessions
- Purpose: EXPRESS individuality through universal
language of art.
INTERACT with community through student
motivated activities, in a space, free, open
environment.
Open to ALL STUDENTS. regardless of artistic
talent.
- Status:
Active
- 286. Sex & Relationship Interns
- Purpose: To reduce the occurence of
sexually transmitted
infections and unwanted
pregnancies by increasing
communication skills within
relationships and knowledge
surrounding sexual
health on campus and
in the community.
- Status:
Active
- 287. Sex Info
- Purpose: Our goal is to ensure the
continuing sexual education of
the community and to reach people
around the globe with information
about sexuality in a way that is
accurate, informative, and
personal.
- Status:
Inactive
- 288. Shrunken Head Productions
- Purpose: To produce, direct, and put into
play dramatic shows in
preparation for careers in the
Performing Arts.
- Status:
Active
- 289. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Purpose: A group set out to bring male students together
in a fraternal bond and to organize and execute
community, philanthropic, and school events.
- Status:
Inactive
- 290. Sigma Alpha Lambda National Honor Society
- Purpose: The purpose of Sigma Alpha Lambda
shall be to promote, recognize,
and reward academic achievement
and provide members with
opportunities for community
service, personal development, and
lifelong professional fulfillment.
- Status:
Active
- 291. Sigma Alpha Zeta Sorority Inc
- Purpose: The purpose of Sigma Alpha Zeta
shall be to act as a
multicultural
group of women who promote
the upward mobility of women and
enhance the community by means of
educational and voluntary
services.
- Status:
Active
- 292. Sigma Beta Epsilon
- Purpose: Delta Sigma Pi is a professional
fraternity organized to foster the
study of business in universities;
to encourage scholarship, social
activity and the association of
students for their mutual
advancement by research and
practice; to promote closer
affiliation between the commercial
world and students of commerce, and
to further a higher standard of
commercial ethics and culture and
the civic and commercial welfare of
the community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 293. Sigma Chi Omega Fraternity
- Purpose: To promote brotherhood,
understanding, unity, cultural
awareness,multicultural
interaction,academic excellence,
and postgraduate support.
- Status:
Active
- 294. Sigma Kappa Chi
- Purpose: To promote leadership,academic
excellence, community service,
cultural awareness, and
everlasting sisterhood.
- Status:
Active
- 295. Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc, Colony
- Purpose: The purpose of Sigma Lambda Gamma
at the University of California,
Santa Barbara is to empower and
unite women from all walks of life.
To establish a network that will
enhance our knowledge and expand
our boundaries. To demonstrate that
we are capable of the strengths we
possess mentally and physically. To
create and atmosphere where women
of all backgrounds can express
themselves. By upholding Academics,
Community Service, Cultural
Awareness, Social Interaction, and
moral ethics we hope to create a
place of tolerance and respect for
all.
- Status:
Active
- 296. Sigma Phi Epsilon
- Purpose: To develop balanced leaders for
the world's communities.
- Status:
Active
- 297. Sigma Pi fraternity
- Purpose: The mission of Sigma Pi Fraternity
is to advance truth and justice, to
promote scholarship, to encourage
chivalry, to diffuse culture, and
to develop character.
- Status:
Active
- 298. Sisters Geared to Reign
- Purpose: To better the quality of the
community through public service,
leadership development, and
education, while enforcing
sisterhood, community, and
diversity.
- Status:
Active
- 299. Skateboarding Club
- Purpose: To unite skaters and skateboarding
advocates while promoting
skateboarding and its culture.
- Status:
Active
- 300. Society for Advancement of Chicano & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Purpose: The misson of SACNAS is to
encourage Chicano/Latino and Native
Americans students to pursue a
graduate education and obtain the
advanced degrees necessary for
science research, leadership, and
teaching careers at all levels.
- Status:
Active
- 301. Society for Creative Anachronism
- Purpose: To promote the research into and
the recreation of the cultures,
arts, and general milieu of
Medieval and Renaissance times.
- Status:
Active
- 302. Society of Anthropologists (UCSA)
- Purpose: To enrich the experience of
anthropology
students, to provide specialized
research
opportunities and to raise
awareness of relevant
social issues.
- Status:
Active
- 303. Society of Physics Students Chapter @ UCSB
- Purpose: To advance and share knowledge of
physics and to encourage an
interest in physics throughout
the academic and local
communities.
- Status:
Active
- 304. Society of Undergraduate Biologists (SUB)
- Purpose: The purpose of the Society of
Undergraduate Biologists is to
provide a forum for communication
between the EEMB/MCDB departments
and between students and faculty
members. In addition, the club will
promote peer mentorship and
undergraduate research.
- Status:
Active
- 305. Society of Women Engineers
- Purpose: To provide a support system,
increase the
understanding of engineering on a
practical and
theoretical basis, and enhance
professionalism
among members.
- Status:
Inactive
- 306. SocioCult
- Purpose: To provide a forum for the
exchange of ideas pertaining to
the field of sociocultural
linguistics.
- Status:
Active
- 307. Sociology Association
- Purpose: Provide students a way to explore
their community through
education,
networking, community service and
fundraising through the field of
Sociology.
- Status:
Active
- 308. Souled Out Campus Ministry
- Purpose: To inform student body of Bible
knowledge.
- Status:
Active
- 309. Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Purpose: To publish a scholarly journal that
is graduate student run.
- Status:
Inactive
- 310. Spanish and Portuguese Club
- Purpose: The purpose of this organization
is
to firstly honor Dr. Timothy
McGovern. As part of a student-run
organization, we the members of
the
SPL Club will strive to promote
the
Spanish and Portuguese languages
and appreciation of those cultures
as well as the Latin American and
Iberian cultures. Furthermore, our
purpose is to serve the population
of UCSB and Isla Vista through
community service and by also
providing tutoring services for
those learning the Spanish and
Portuguese languages. We seek to
create a collective campus culture
and appreciation for these
languages and everything that
encompasses them.
- Status:
Inactive
- 311. Speech & Hearing Sciences Association
- Purpose: To encourage education involving
the speech and hearing sciences;
including graduate school support
as well as communal awareness and
outreach.
- Status:
Active
- 312. Sports, Health & Fitness Association
- Purpose: To unite UCSB students with
professionals in the sports,
health and fitness industries.
- Status:
Active
- 313. Sportsmen for Environmental Sustainability
- Purpose: Bringing Sportsmen from UCSB
together to teach about
environmental sustainability
through the management of fish and
game and to preserve an American
tradition for future generations.
- Status:
Inactive
- 314. St. Mark's Catholic Student Organization
- Purpose: We commit ourselves to welcome
each person through
evangelization and
reconciliation;
celebrate life,
diversity, and Catholic
tradition;
build a
community of support, share our
talents and gifts,
and empower people for the future.
- Status:
Active
- 315. Staff Development
- Purpose: To enhance leadership skills
and improve social activities for
staff members at UCSB.
- Status:
Inactive
- 316. STAND: Students Taking Action Now for Darfur
- Purpose:
Our purpose is to increase
consciousness about
the presently occuring genocide in
Darfur, and to
take non-partisan political action
to bring aid and a
solution to the crisis.
- Status:
Active
- 317. Street Health Outreach
- Purpose: Street Health Outreach is dedicated
to helping the homeless of Isla
Vista and Santa
Barbara, rendering basic services
and assisting
medical aid to those on our streets
and in our
shelters.
- Status:
Active
- 318. Stress Managment Peers
- Purpose: The Stress Management Program is
designed to help students learn
successful coping strategies for
stress while fostering proactive
approaches to happiness.
Knowledgeable Stress Peers provide
a variety of stress reduction
techniques and resources in a safe
and comfortable setting.
- Status:
Active
- 319. Student Advocates for Healthy Living in Underserved Demographics (SAHLUD)
- Purpose: It is our wish to provide students
with the opportunity to pursue
their passions in service. We hope
to enrich the lives of
under served people by providing
healthcare and preventative
education abroad and in the local
community
- Status:
Inactive
- 320. Student Athlete Advisory Board
- Purpose: The purpose is to provide a forum for student
athletes to discuss issues that affect their
educational and athletic experience at UCSB and
provide a communications link with the Athletic
Administration.
- Status:
Active
- 321. Student Entrepreneurs Association
- Purpose: The SEA empowers students from
all majors with the Knowledge,
Skills, Connections, and Resources
for success in New Ventures,
Business, and Management.
- Status:
Inactive
- 322. Student Labor Action Project (S.L.A.P.)
- Purpose: SLAP is a network of student
activist that strives for social
and economic equality both on our
campus and in our societies at
large. We, the students, recognize
our power, our privilege, and our
crucial role in the movement for
workers rights.
- Status:
Inactive
- 323. Student Veterans at UCSB
- Purpose: Our purpose is to
1. Ensure that all veterans at UCSB
are receiving
all benefits entitled to them
2. Advocate for veterans’ benefits
at the local,
state, and national levels.
3. Provide an atmosphere with an
extensive social
and support networks.
4. Assist our fellow Veterans,
Veteran's
dependents, active duty personnel,
and Veteran
supporters to realize their full
potential in
academia, the workplace and in
their social circle.
5. Provide support for students and
non-students
who are currently serving in the
military.
- Status:
Active
- 324. Students for a Free Tibet
- Purpose: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)
works in solidarity with the
Tibetan people in their struggle
for freedom and independence.
We are a chapter-based network
of young people and activists
around the world. Through
education, grassroots
organizing, and non-violent
direct action, we campaign for
Tibetans’ fundamental right to
political freedom. Our role is to
empower and train youth as
leaders in the worldwide
movement for social justice.
- Status:
Active
- 325. Students for Educational Equality (S.E.E.)
- Purpose: to raise awareness and facilitate
action on the UCSB campus
concerning the achievement gap
present in schools across the country
- Status:
Active
- 326. Students for Ellison Sustainability
- Purpose: To reduce the environmental impact
and educate the occupants of
Ellison Hall on an individual,
departmental, and building-wide level.
- Status:
Inactive
- 327. Students for Environmental Rights & Justice (SERJ)
- Purpose: The goal of our Environmental
Justice Group is to address
inequitable distribution of
environmental burdens (pollution,
proximity to industrial facilities,
etc) through community service,
clean-ups and the like. We seek to
educate minorities on their
environmental rights and increase
their appreciation of nature
through field trips organized by
our group, raise awareness on the
importance of living in and
maintaining a clean environment.
- Status:
Inactive
- 328. Students for Gavin Newsom
- Purpose: The purpose of of Student for Gavin Newsom is
to elect Gavin Newsom as Governor of California
- Status:
Inactive
- 329. Students for Justice in Palestine
- Purpose: Students for Justice support the
Palestinian right to self-
determination.
- Status:
Inactive
- 330. Students for the Advancement of Transportation Research (SATR)
- Purpose: to maintain a student presence in
the field of transportation
research at UCSB
- Status:
Inactive
- 331. Students Stopping Rape
- Purpose: We are undergraduate and graduate
students who
help educate the UCSB &
surrounding community on
how to prevent, create awareness,
and facilitate
discussion about sexual assault.
- Status:
Active
- 332. StudentsTeachingAlcohol&other Drug ResponsibilitiesSTAR
- Purpose: The mission of the Students
Teaching Alcohol and other drug
Responsibility (STAR) Peer
Educators is to empower UCSB
students to make informed health
choices about alcohol and other
drugs. STAR uses group
facilitation, informational
tablings and awareness activities
(NCAAW, Great American Smokeout,
Safe Graduation, etc.) as their
tools for empowerment.
- Status:
Active
- 333. Surf Club At UCSB
- Purpose: The organization’s purpose is: to
create a social environment,
which opens students to the
passion of surfing and
opportunity to make new friends.
- Status:
Inactive
- 334. Surfrider Foundation
- Purpose: The Surfrider Foundation is a non-
profit environmental organization
dedicated to the protection and
enjoyment of the world's oceans,
waves and beaches for all people,
through conservation, activism,
research and education.
- Status:
Active
- 335. Swing and Ballroom Dance Club
- Purpose: To encourage social dancing,
social dance etiquette
and fun that accompanies it, on
campus and in the
community and providing basic
dance instruction to its
members.
- Status:
Active
- 336. Taiwanese American Student Association
- Purpose: To promote Taiwanese American
cultural awareness in the UCSB
community. To provide unity among
Taiwanese American students
through social and cultural
events.
- Status:
Active
- 337. Taiwanese Student Association
- Purpose: To enhance the cultural
understanding of Taiwanese
people and cohesion of Taiwanese
students on campus.
- Status:
Active
- 338. Tap That
- Purpose: To provide a safe, creative, fun,
and collaborative environment to
learn and practice the art of tap
dancing.
- Status:
Active
- 339. Tau Beta Pi (Eng Hon Society)
- Purpose: 1.) To recognize and foster
excellence and
integrity in engineering, in the
individual, in
the University, and in the
community as a whole.
- Status:
Active
- 340. Teach For America
- Purpose: To enlist the nation's most
promising future
leaders in the movement to
eliminate
educational inequity.
- Status:
Inactive
- 341. Tennis Club at UCSB
- Purpose: We aim to provide an organizaed way to
meet other tennis players on
campus. Moreover, we provide a
competitive team for
matches against other schools, and
for participation in the USTA
Tennis on Campus Program program in
Southern California.
- Status:
Active
- 342. The Film Studio
- Purpose: To provide an organized structural
approach to student filmmaking by
involving the students from a
variety of different disciplines
across campus.
- Status:
Active
- 343. The Greater Contribution
- Purpose: To compassionately serve the poorest people
and communities worldwide through a network
of women, raising awareness and funds to
support efforts to eliminate extreme poverty by
2025.
- Status:
Pending
- 344. The Olive Tree Initiative at UCSB
- Purpose: We are told, “You are the future of
our country. You are the future of
our world.” We believe in that and
for that reason are ready to take
action and do what we can to better
understand one of the most
significant conflicts in the world
today.
- Status:
Pending
- 345. Theta Nu Kappa Interest Fraternity
- Purpose: WE ARE A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN WHO
STRIVE
TO PROMOTE POSITIVE CHANGES FOR
ALL
PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF RACE, SEX,
OR STATUS
BY TAKING DIRECT ACTION ON
PERTINENT
ISSUES.
- Status:
Active
- 346. Tinta
- Purpose: Tinta (ISSN 0739-7003) is a
research journal published by the
graduate students of the
Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. The
journal is dedicated to the
publication of research
representing significant
contributions pertaining to the
literature, language, and culture
of the Hispanic and Lusophone
worlds.
- Status:
Inactive
- 347. Transfer Student Association
- Purpose: To foster interests in community
college students of transferring
to a four year school and to
facillitate an easier transition
for transfer students into the
U.C. system through academic
workshops and social activities.
- Status:
Active
- 348. Tribal Belly Dance Fusion
- Purpose: To promote peace, love, and belly dance and to
combine traditional and modern styles of dance.
- Status:
Active
- 349. TutorAid
- Purpose: TutorAid is dedicated to providing
undergraduates with quality
tutoring and
raising funds to support
underprivileged
communities in India by donating all
proceeds to purchase medical
supplies and
aid for this less fortunate section
of the
world.
- Status:
Active
- 350. Twenty Pearl Production
- Purpose: A community service organization
that receives
money from various philanthropic
groups and then
donates it to organizations or
programs for or by
the community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 351. UCSB Cheerleading
- Purpose: The UCSB Cheer Team
enthusiastically promotes school
spirit at athletic and campus-
wide events. We strive for
excellence within our squad and
take pride in UCSB.
- Status:
Inactive
- 352. UCSB Cycling
- Purpose: To build a men and women's racing
team as well as
provide recreational cycling. In
addition, we
strive to provide instruction and
support
to all riders.
- Status:
Active
- 353. UCSB Dance Team
- Purpose: To perform at UCSB mens and
womens basketball games and to
compete at least once a year, to
provide a setting for advanced
dancers to continue their varsity
level training in specific
technique, performace, &
competition skills, to provide
opportunities for others to
participate in clinics several
times a year. Auditions are
held in the spring.
- Status:
Active
- 354. UCSB Men's Club Soccer
- Purpose: The goal of club soccer at UCSB
is
to offer students the opportunity
to participate in a well
structured and challenging soccer
program.
- Status:
Active
- 355. UCSB Men's Club Volleyball
- Purpose: To have a competitive men's
volleyball club sport team that
will participate in tournaments
throughout the year.
- Status:
Inactive
- 356. UCSB Roller Hockey Team
- Purpose: To organize teams and practices
for the purpose of intercollegiate
roller hockey.
- Status:
Active
- 357. UCSB Rowing Team
- Purpose: UCSB Rowing is a Sport Club,
distinguished by professional
leadership and coaching, which
offers students the opportunity to
explore and expand their
capabilities by participating in a
competitive sports as
representatives of their
university. Participation in
competitive collegiate sports
builds character by developing
values of team work, commitment,
self-sacrifice, discipline, and
achievement and reinforces the
university’s core values of
scholarship, leadership, and
citizenship while providing
students with a healthy balance to
their academic pursuits.
- Status:
Active
- 358. UCSB Triathlon Team
- Purpose: To provide a venue for those
wishing to get into the sport of
triathlon or continue training
and racing in it!
- Status:
Active
- 359. UCSB Women's Ultimate Frisbee
- Purpose: To encourage teamwork, dedication,
and Spirit of the Game in a fun and
competitive atmosphere. To promote
a healthy lifestyle and make
lasting friendships.
- Status:
Active
- 360. UCSB Women's Volleyball Club
- Purpose: To allow female athletes with
previous volleyball
experience to collectively enhance
their skills as
individuals and as a team in organized
league competition, tournaments and
Nationals.
- Status:
Active
- 361. Ujima Peer Mentorship Program
- Purpose: Our goal is to create leaders,
through retention by mentoring new
1st year and transfer students. To
build knowledge, wisdom, and
confidence to ensure their stay
here at UCSB and to provide them
with the tools they need to
matriculate. The Ujima Peer
Mentorship Program focuses on
students of the African Diaspora
at UC Santa Barbara. This
wonderful program serves a
positive and uplifting connection
between the new and veteran
students at UCSB, creating a bond
that strengths us as a community.
Ujima’s purpose is to assist with
the academic, social, cultural,
and spiritual transition of our
new students. Our goal is to not
only retain all of our incoming
students, but to have them learn,
develop, and successfully graduate
from the University of California,
Santa Barbara!
- Status:
Inactive
- 362. Undignified-Division of Jubilee Christian Church
- Purpose: To provide a place on campus where
students who are passionate about
Jesus can come together to worship
through music.
- Status:
Active
- 363. UNICEF at UCSB
- Purpose: The purpose of UNICEF at UCSB is to educate
UCSB and the Santa Barbara community about
global issues affecting the livelihoods of
children and to empower them to take action on
these issues.
- Status:
Inactive
- 364. Union Salvadorena de Estudiantes Universitarios (USEU)
- Purpose: The purpose of the Organization is
to empower the Salvadoran student
community by developing an
awareness of cultural, political,
and economic issues that directly
affect the Salvadoran community,
Preserve the historical and
cultural identity of El Salvador,
Mobilize the Salvadoran student
population to take action through
higher education.
- Status:
Active
- 365. Unite for Sight
- Purpose: Unite for Sight is dedicated to
providing underprivileged community
members of Santa Barbara easy
access to free eye care through
vision equity screenings given by
UCSB students.
- Status:
Inactive
- 366. United Coalition Fellowship of Christian Ministries (U.C.F.C.M)
- Purpose: U.C.F.C.M. is a charismatic non-
denominational Fellowship of
Christian Ministries. Its purpose
is to serve as the connecting
umbrella ministry to, reconcile,
unify, and create a coalition of
Christian ministries on
University campuses. In a divided
community of Christians, God's
kingdom will not stand as strong
as it should be (Math 12:25). Its
time to unite, and learn all of
the different techniques our
ministries have cultivated from
the Word of God and use them to
teach all nations (Math. 28:19) ,
to spread the gospel to the
uttermost part of the earth (Acts
1:8), and to reconcile (2 Cor.
5:18-19). We are all one body,
let’s celebrate our differences
and use them as tools for our
common purpose as Christians
which is to: Bear Christian fruit
(John 15:8) Take the light we are
given around the world so that
others may see Christ and receive
Him for themselves. (Math. 5-14-
16) We are one body with many
parts; the body cannot function
properly unless all parts
function in unity. (1Cor. 12:12-
24)
- Status:
Active
- 367. United Fraternity Sorority Council
- Purpose: The purpose of the United
Fraternity/Sorority Council is to
unite, promote, and inform the
greek community of UCSB.
- Status:
Inactive
- 368. Universal Peace Organization
- Purpose: To promote, provide and support
civil participation, service
learning, and education exchange
while fostering and enhancing the
human potential for peace.
- Status:
Active
- 369. Urban Hip Hop Team
- Purpose: To provide entertaining and
uplifting performances at various
venues and events throughout campus
and the local community.
- Status:
Active
- 370. Veritas Forum at UCSB
- Purpose: To engage the university
community in the most important
questions of life, particularly as
they relate to the truth claims of
Jesus.
- Status:
Inactive
- 371. Video Game Club
- Purpose: Promote video games as a new media
and form a community of gamers
- Status:
Inactive
- 372. Vietnamese Student Association
- Purpose: To retain cultural identity,
promote unity among
UCSB Vietnamese community, and
establish a place
where students can organize
ethnic
and traditional
activities.
- Status:
Active
- 373. VocalMotion
- Purpose: VocalMotion is UCSB's only All
Female A Cappella pop/rock/r&b
group. We provide a creative
outlet for women to showcase
musical talent and increase
appreciation for the arts in the
UCSB community.
- Status:
Inactive
- 374. VOX - Voices for Planned Parenthood
- Purpose: Reproductive health advocacy and
health education and awareness
- Status:
Active
- 375. Vox California
- Purpose: To examine how language
semiotically shapes the
sociocultural meaning of
California and Californians
locally, nationally, and globally.
- Status:
Active
- 376. Wellness Club
- Purpose: The main focus of the Wellness
Club is to promote, organize,
engage in, and contribute to the
services of the UCSB Wellness
Program.
- Status:
Active
- 377. Wom of ColorRevolutionaryDialogues WORD(Vagina Dialogues)
- Purpose: Women Of color Revolutionary
Dialogues (WORD) represents young
passionate womyn of color coming
together, in a defined space, to
collaborate and create self-
expressive work about the issues
that concern us today. We as womyn
of color and allies are trying to
offer an alternative to the Vagina
Monologues, which we feel is a
problematic production in its
Erucentric ideas. WORD
differs by being more INclusive
and respectful of everyone's own
unique experience. We offer a safe
space for a collective of womyn to
share their experiences through an
art that allows us to see the
similarities which unites us in
solidarity, but also the
uniqueness of each community that
we must acknowledge and
understand. This space allows
womyn to move from the confined
silence of private journals and
diaries, and rise to speak with
their body and voice, through
various mediums of performance. It
is for womyn, especially womyn of
color, who have felt
misrepresented, under-represented,
or silenced, and want to claim
their own bodies and voice back.
- Status:
Inactive
- 378. Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
- Purpose: Foster gender diversity in computer
science. To provide a forum for
women enrolled in CS to come
togther to address social, academic
issues that they may face in
graduate studies and a CS career.
- Status:
Inactive
- 379. Women in Physics (WIP)
- Purpose: To foster community among women and
the physics department as a whole,
and to recruit and retain female
graduate students at UCSB.
- Status:
Active
- 380. Women in Science and Engineering(WISE)
- Purpose: To provide a support network for
women and girls in science and
engineering at UCSB and in the
Santa
Barbara area.
- Status:
Active
- 381. Women in Software and Hardware
- Purpose: The purpose of this organization is
to support the success of
underrepresented undergraduate
women in computer science and
computer engineering. And also to
raise awareness of the issues women
face in these fields.
- Status:
Active
- 382. Women of Color in Academia (WCA)
- Purpose: WCA promotes collaboration amongst
graduate students, faculty, and
staff. We seek to build
professional development and
encourage the retention of Women of
Color in Academia.
- Status:
Inactive
- 383. Women's Ensemble Theater Troupe
- Purpose: To raise awareness about issues of
violence against women by
initiating discussion. To promote
a
healthy and safe environment for
women on a local and worldwide
scale.
- Status:
Active
- 384. Word Magazine Club
- Purpose: To create a community-based magazine that
showcases Isla Vista's cultural events, arts,
news, fashion, and entertainment.
- Status:
Active
- 385. Words, Letters, Poetry Slammers
- Purpose: Words, Letters, Poetry Slammers is
dedicated to providing a forum to
write, share, and enjoy poetry. We
welcome all interested parties to
come, participate, experiment with
and appreciate poetry.
- Status:
Inactive
- 386. Wrestling Club @ UCSB
- Purpose: To promote the sport of wrestling
on the UCSB campus.
- Status:
Active
- 387. ZA´nogreek test
- Purpose: ONLY TESTING!
- Status:
Active
- 388. zbrendagreek
- Purpose: 1234567890
- Status:
Inactive
- 389. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
- Purpose: The Delta Rho Chapter was
charted May 22, 1999 at the
University of California, Santa
Barbara by 11 illustrious women
who chose to establish high
scholastic achievement, student
involvement, and community
development. The ladies of the
Delta Rho Chapter participate in
Red Cross Bone Marrow Drives,
Breast Cancer Awareness, Toy
Drives for underprivileged youth,
Thanksgiving Dinner giveaways,
Adopt-a-Family for Christmas,
March of Dimes and various other
community service oriented
programs. In addition the
chapter hosts various events such
as Free Style Fridays, Basketball
Tournaments, Auctions, and
cultural events to raise
awareness and funds for the local
Battered Women's shelter, on-
campus educational programs in
need of funding, and other
charitable organizations
following the tenets of
scholarship, service, sisterly
love, and finer womanhood. Delta
Rho works diligently to uplift,
inspire, and educate youth,
seniors, men and women of the
Santa Barbara and surrounding
communities.
- Status:
Active
- 390. Zeta Phi Rho
- Purpose: To promote academics, community
service, and a sense of strength
and unity within each of our
members.
- Status:
Inactive
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