Graduate StudentResource Center

Come learn how to support LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and faculty through a QTie Seminar! QTie Seminars are designed to provide professional and personal development for students, faculty, and staff at UCSB regarding LGBTQ identities and experiences. With an awareness that all forms of oppression are inherently interconnected, these seminars will focus on LGBTQ identity, experience, and culture through a social justice and intersectional lens. Read on to learn more!

Vacancies are still available in San Clemente Villages. The apartments are open to all single graduate students, regardless of year. Read on for a short Q&A from the Housing Department and for more information about how to apply!

Interested in being a Resident Assistant (RA) for the 2021-2022 school year at San Clemente Graduate Apartments or Family Student Housing? Sign up for an info session to find out more!

While the library is closed during the COVID-19 emergency, the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is able to offer remote-access to some of its software. Read on for more information!

The Art of Science initiative invites current UCSB undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to tell the story of their research through the aesthetic. The competition is open until February 22, 2021. Click to learn more!

Read on to view the Black Justice Programming Calendar for Winter 2021, which showcases events across departments and organizations on campus that center Black justice and wellbeing.

January 11-15 is Basic Needs Awareness Week at UCSB, hosted by UCSB Thrive and partners. Join them all week for virtual events that highlight resources to help you thrive at UCSB!

UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) presents groundbreaking author Ta-Nehisi Coates as part of its acclaimed Race to Justice virtual series. The event will be held at 5pm Pacific on Tuesday, January 12th and is free for all UCSB students.

Please join the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the next installment of its 2020-2021 series "Difficult Dialogues: Anti-Blackness" on Wednesday, 1/13 at 12pm. The talk will be delivered by Dr. Barbara Ransby and is titled, "A Crucible Moment for Race in America: The Crisis of Racial Capitalism and the Challenge of the Movement for Black Lives." Read on to learn more and to register!

Read on for an important update about availability of Basic Needs resources over winter break, including the Food Security and Basic Needs Advising Center, the Financial Crisis Response Team, and the Grocery Delivery Program.

On behalf of UCSB's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, please see the attached statement regarding Proposition 16.

The Associated Students Legal Resource Center (ASLRC) assists students in responding to legal problems that may be interfering with academic studies or otherwise adversely affecting their well-being. UCSB students can receive free legal advice on any issue or concern in which legal education would be helpful, unless it involves the university or another UCSB student. All consultations are strictly confidential. Read on to learn more!

Are you a student parent? Check out the Fall 2020 CCAMPIS/CALM Parent Talk Series. The series will cover a range of topics, such as how to help your child manage stress related to COVID-19 and strategies for managing difficult behaviors. Read on to learn more!

Join Arts and Lectures (A&L) for two FREE virtual concerts available to UCSB students to watch over the Thanksgiving holiday. Read on to learn more!

Join the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for a presentation by Dr. Anna Ohanyan on Wednesday, December 2 at noon. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and discussion. Only registered participants will be allowed entry.

UCSB's Department of Health & Wellness has just introduced a new program called Home Cooking Peers to teach students about cooking simple, healthy, affordable recipes, budgeting, meal planning, and kitchen safety. Students can book a 15 minute or a 25-minute one-on-one Zoom cooking coaching appointment with a Home Cooking Peer to help them improve their cooking skills and confidence. Read on to learn more!

Arts & Lectures is spearheading Race to Justice: an in-depth look at systemic racism from every angle, including abolition, underlying conditions, reparations, criminal justice and more. Interdisciplinary and cross-departmental, this season-long series engages leading activists, creatives, and thinkers to expand our understanding of racism and how race impacts society, and to inspire an expansive approach to advancing racial equality. All UCSB students can access the Race to Justice events for free. Read on to learn more!

The UCSB Women's Center is pleased to announce a new program series: Fridays with Feminists. Each episode will feature feminists leaders and scholars on our campus and in our local community. The inaugural episode will be on Friday, November 20th at 2:30 pm and will feature UCSB's new Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Belinda Robnett. Read on to learn more!

Join the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a special event: "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Black Lives Matter." The event will take place on Friday, November 20 at 12:00pm. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link.

Beginning today, UC Santa Barbara is joining other UC campuses in a pilot of California COVID Notify, California’s new, voluntary, smartphone exposure notification system (ENS). California COVID Notify is a joint effort of the University of California and the State of California, with the goal of helping mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.