Student Organizations
Students at UW-L are active and engaged through involvement in various student organizations. Student organizations offer opportunities for leadership, friendship, growth, cultural competency development and more. Help advance UW-L’s Inclusive Excellence efforts by joining and/or supporting one of the below student organizations. Membership is open to all!
Awareness
through Performance
(ATP)
Promotes greater consciousness around social justice,
diversity, and climate issues on the UW-L campus and beyond.
Using the stage as their forum, ATP students creatively challenge systems of
privilege and oppression and strive to plant seeds of social
responsibility, inspire critical thought, and spark a
campus-wide conversation.
Black Student Unity (BSU)
Establishes and
promotes the fellowship, education, empowerment, and positive
awareness of issues concerning the survival, success, and
development of Black students on the University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse campus.
Broadening Horizons
A Residence Life group
devoted to social justice and diversity. Broadening Horizons
students combat hate, yearn for widespread acceptance and respect, and
like making new friends.
Diversity Organization Coalition (DOC)
A coalition of student organizations created to advocate
issues related to academic transitions, culture, social class,
geography, spirituality, race, gender, ethnicity, ability,
sexual identity, and gender identity/expression, while forging
critical alliances and bridges to create a supportive
environment through academic and personal connections on the
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus and community.
Hmong Organization
Promoting Education (HOPE)
A Hmong student organization to promote higher education,
cultural preservation, cultural awareness, and self-sufficiency.
Membership is open to any individual on campus or in the
community who is interested in promoting the ideas of HOPE.
Intercultural Organization Promoting Awareness (IOPA)
Provides students of multi-ethnic identity or other interested
students an outlet to share their experiences with each other,
bring awareness and better understanding about the positive and
negative aspects of being a multi-ethnic individual, and
benefits multi-ethnic students with academic, social, and
cultural opportunities.
International Student
Organization (ISO)
Dedicated to
helping international students at the University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse with their academic, social, and cultural development.
ISO provides opportunities for students to expand
their insight on different cultures of the world by
participating in educating and strengthening UW-L campus
students and La Crosse community members.
Latin American Student Organization (LASO)
Fosters and promotes the
Latin American culture throughout the campus and La Crosse
community. LASO serves as a medium of cultural exchange between
other ethnic groups on campus, and bring together Latin American
students who are interested in learning about their heritage.
Native American Student
Association (NASA)
Serves as a safe place for
students to discuss topics and plan events around Native
American student issues. NASA plans many events throughout the
year, including, fundraising, arts and crafts and other
community involvement events. Joining NASA is an exciting new
opportunity to meet new friends and learn about some of the
Native American cultures.
The Progressives
Brings together progressive thinking individuals
to encourage ecological wisdom, social justice, non-violence,
global awareness, post patriarchal values, respect for diversity
and personal as well as social responsibility. The group focuses
on actions of peace to promote and raise awareness of these
issues.
Rainbow Unity (RU)
Provides lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex,
queer, questioning, asexual individuals, and their allies
(LGBTIQQAA) QPOC (Queer People of Color), and students with a
safe environment, emotional and social support, and
opportunities to develop leadership and communication skills. RU
collaborates with the Pride Center, Eagle Equity Committee,
Campus Climate Office and the Diversity Organizations Coalition
to provide the campus and community with educational
opportunities regarding LGBTIQQAA issues.
Returning Adult Student Organization (RASO)
Promotes, on campus and within the community,
the interests of returning adult students. Students who are
resuming their education and are at least 23 years of age are
eligible for membership. RASO provides mutual encouragement and
support for academic success and social opportunities.
Students Advocating
Potential Ability (SAPA)
A
group of students, with and without disabilities, who are
committed to raising awareness of disability issues. Through
fun, hands-on activities, members have an opportunity to learn
and to teach others. Essentially, the mission is to demonstrate
the potential ability and capabilities of persons who happen to
have a disability.
Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)
Educates and
promotes awareness of human rights issues in Tibet; Educates
students, faculty and community members about Tibetan culture in
the efforts to preserve it; and Brings together those who are
interested in learning more about the Tibetan heritage and
culture.
Student
Veterans Association (SVA)
Assists veterans with their
transition from the military life to college life. This
comes in any form ranging from help finding where to eat on
campus, how to relate with your fellow students, filling out
paperwork for your benefits, to anything you can think of.
Women's Studies
Student Association (WSSA)
Provides students, as well as the La Crosse community,
advocacy for women's issues. WSSA involves the community by also
being a member of NOW (National Organization of Women). WSSA
initiates activities for UW-L students and the La Crosse
community in the area of Women's Studies.