2025 Graduate Celebrations
For more information about 2025 Graduate Celebrations and other related details, please visit the Graduate Celebrations webpage. Celebrations include APIDA Grad, Black Grad, Chicanx Grad, Indigenous Grad, Rainbow Grad and Undocu Grad.
Graduate Celebrations are voluntary and are open to all graduating students who would like to participate regardless of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.
Explore Stan State's Cultural & Affinity Groups
Below is a non-exhaustive a guide that we have compiled of available campus and community resources for to the varied affinity groups at Stanislaus State. Student Leadership, Engagement and Belonging empowers transformative learning by using a student-centered approach that promotes and validates intersectional identities and experiences. We will be updating this list regularly. If you are aware of further resources not mentioned here, please contact us.
All University programs and activities are open and available to all regardless of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.
Asian Connection Club
We provide a positive outlet for Asian Pacific Islander students at Stanislaus State to have the college experience and find a community
to connect with.
Learn about Asian Connection Club
Asian Pacific Islander
Faculty & Staff Association
The Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association aims to promote a campus climate that is sensitive, representative, and fair to all ethnic groups, including
for example, Asian, Asian-American, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Asian Indian and other Asian groups through a variety of efforts.
Learn about the Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association
Black Student Union
Black Student Union at Stan State promotes activities of common interest, as well as cultural and educational benefits for the African American student body.
Black Faculty & Staff Association
BFSA was re-established at Stan State to provide for solidarity and fellowship in the community of academics, administrators and staff of African descent. We aim to promote awareness and advocacy of equal access for Black faculty and staff; and advise, support, counsel, and assist Black students.
Chicanx Latinx Faculty and Staff
Association (CLFSA)
CLFSA was organized in the Spring of 2018 as a way to bring a strong voice to issues affecting the Chicanx Latinx community at Stanislaus State.
Cesar E. Chavez, Dolores Huerta,
and Larry Itliong Committee
The commemorative committee organizes and promotes the annual Cesar E. Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong Celebration at Stanislaus State. For more information, please email the Warrior Cross Cultural Center.
The mission of Disability Resource Service is to facilitate inclusion by reducing/eliminating barriers, whether they are attitudinal, structural, programmatic or otherwise. In doing so, students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to become successful through their own efforts and not held back by artificial barriers. We strive to create partnerships with students, faculty, staff, and other university and community offices by creating awareness and training on disability-related issues as well as providing information and referral services.
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Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
The Educational Opportunity Program is an admission-based program that increases access, academic excellence, and retention for California's historically underserved low income, first-generation college students.
TRIO Student Support Services
Commits to intentional programming, which motivates and supports students in successful completion of higher education through academic development and understanding of college requirements. We empower first-generation and low-income students as well as students with disabilities to embrace who they are and take ownership of their college experience.
Learn about TRIO Student Support Services
First-Gen Fridays Program
The First-Gen Friday's workshop series, under the Academic Success Center, is a collaborative effort to promote the visibility of Stanislaus State staff, faculty, and alumni leaders who were themselves first-generation college students. First-gen Fridays will be the first Friday of every month during the academic year. The workshop series will include a variety of topics and activities such as: speakers, social interactions and networking.
LGBTQ+ Mentorship Program
The mission of the LGBTQ+ MentorshipProgram at Stanislaus State is to assist students in developing positive sexualities and gender identities and expressions by connecting LGBTQ+ students with LGBTQ+ faculty and staff mentors.
MSI fosters student growth and academic success by nurturing spaces where men of color and self identified men feel safe to be purposefully vulnerable, live in their authentic truths, and be empowered to be agents of social change.
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Colectivo Estudiantil Son Xinachtli
We are a Social Justice Son Jarocho collective based in Stanislaus State, Central Valley. We play, sing, & dance to spread decolonial knowledge.
Indigenous Student Activism
Indigenous Students in Activism is a student-led club that started from the
community we built in Ethnic Studies 2300: Introduction to Native American and
Indigenous Studies course during the fall of 2018. We built a community around
learning about Indigenous resistance in our community and within ourselves.
Assistance is Available
We strive to fully support all of our students, including undocumented students, families and those most directly affected by current situation with COVID-19, undocumented immigration status, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Undocumented Student Services Program
The purpose of the program is to nurture, advocate, empower, and support undocumented students from all backgrounds to successfully pursue a higher education and foster a supportive campus dedicated to educational and personal success.
Learn about Undocumented Student Services
Updated: February 28, 2025