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The SCU School of Law Amnesty International Chapter aims to inform the law school community on human rights concerns by engaging in casework and campaigns covering several countries. The group provides both full-time and part-time students with a forum to discuss and learn more about current human rights issues, with the aim of stopping both domestic and international human rights violations.
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To promote awareness about worldwide human rights and justice issues, and to empower students to make a difference through letter-writing campaigns, bringing speakers to campus and holding free documentary screenings.
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The members of Bronco Leaders of Environmental Justice Investigating Truth (B LEJIT) are active advocates for environmental justice within the Santa Clara, Bay Area, and global communities. We ensure that where we work, learn, live, and play are environmentally safe and that access is available to all.
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Bottom Line and Beyond (BLAB) is committed to encouraging the application of innovative business solutions to environmental and social problems, promoting activism in business ethics, and raising the standards of sustainable and socially responsible business practices. (currently inactive)
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Engineers Without Borders is an organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life.
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The goal of the Environmental Law Society is to provide law students interested in environmental law with the opportunity to network and gain information about career paths in the field. While we work toward improving the environment, the Society seeks to promote awareness of environmental issues that law students are interested in tackling.
This year the Environmental Law Society hopes to become a major presence on campus and in the community. We have planned thought-provoking and action-oriented meetings, during which we encourage students to share their ideas. We hope to engage faculty and students by holding forums in which we discuss current environmental law issues and ways in which we can act upon these issues.
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The purpose of the SCU Global Medical Brigades is to pool medical resources and professionals together and organize a brigade to Honduras with the purpose of helping patients in need and delivering medical supplies.
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Global Water Brigades is a movement of passionate students and professional volunteers from around the world dedicated to improving access to clean water and sanitation.
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The Grass Roots Environmental Efforts Now! (GREEN) club seeks to educate the Santa Clara Community in ways to lead more sustainable lifestyles, as well as to promote the sustainability of our community and mimize our impact on the environment. Additionally, club members seek to increase their own knowledge and understanding of sustainability and its practice.
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Net Impact at Santa Clara's Leavey Graduate School of Business provides a platform and resources to people interested in the causes of social benefit entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility in order to make positive changes in our curriculum and our community.
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OneWorld Social Justice magazine
OneWorld is Santa Clara's only student-run social justice magazine. OneWorld takes submissions from any Santa Clara students who are interested in showcasing their writing, photography, or artwork that deals with social justice issues. OneWorld encourages students to become part of the team and help with editing, copy editing, and designing layout for the magazine which is distributed annually in the spring. Though Santa Clara's OneWorld does not have its own website yet, questions and interest regarding the magazine can be directed toward Matt Smith in Campus Ministry.
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The Recycling Club designs projects and events to encourage SCU students to recycle. Their projects include conducting audits of campus waste, volunteering as Recycling Directors at campus events, celebrating America Recycles Day in November, and promoting SCU's participation in RecycleMania during Winter Quarter. The Recycling Club meets on Thursdays in the Commons at Kennedy Mall.
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For the purpose of supporting the University's goals of educating men and women to be leaders of competence, conscience and compassion, Santa Clara Community Action Program will offer opportunities of service, community based learning, advocacy, activism, and leadership to the university community. As a chartered student organization, Santa Clara Community Action Program promotes the holistic education of the volunteer by serving the surrounding community and by reflecting upon social justice issues, with the intent of challenging the participants to commit to creating a more humane and just world.
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This student-run group, based out of the Campus Ministry department, convenes weekly to discuss and learn about current issues, reflect on them in light of members' experience and beliefs, and respond to them in a way that respects the dignity of all creation. One of the primary tasks of the group is to create a safe environment in which participants can learn and develop tools for the promotion of justice beyond SCU.
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Rotaract is a worldwide service organization that works to benefit local and global community. Rotaract also promotes leadership and professional development through seminars, conventions, and mutli-district events.
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Social Innovators looks to encourage students to work together in solving issues facing the reality of third world nations. Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.
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The Solar Decathlon is a biennial competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy uniting twenty teams of college students to design, construct, and operate the most energy efficient, functional, and attractive solar-powered home. In an event that draws over 125,000 spectators, teams bring their entries to the National Mall in Washington, DC, to compete in ten contests ranging from energy balance to marketability.
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Students in the CyPhi Residential Learning Community conduct year-long research projects related to sustainability and residence life.
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2008-2009 marks the beginning of the SCU Student Sustainability Convergence - a collection of leaders from all student organizations doing sustainability work. SCU SSC will meet a few times each quarter. The Convergence serves as a common ground and communication platform. Representatives will will share opportunities, events, ideas, and foster collaboration. The SSC will unite students' efforts to develop more collaborative events and richer discussions of sustainability. Leaders of sustainability-related organizations are welcome to join and share SSC information with their organization.
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The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) seeks to raise the profile of the field of animal law and educate students and the community on the cruelty that animals face everyday, from the evils of factory farming to criminal animal abuse that goes unprosecuted. Our main purpose is to create a system where animals are free from suffering. This entails humane slaughter, humane treatment and conditions while alive, and being free from physical abuse. We are affiliated with the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and as such we have made a promise to uphold their mission: To Protect the lives and advance the interest of animals through the legal system.
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