Join the Cross-Cultural Center!
The Cross-Cultural Center is a place for the entire UCSD student, staff
and faculty community. We invite you to come be a part of our "PLACES" and
our community!
Come to the place for community and social justice!
P.L.A.C.E.S is the philosophical framework of the Cross-Cultural
Center. All CCC sponsored educational,
social and cultural events promote the P.L.A.C.E.S values.
We also require that groups who
reserve rooms with the CCC align themselves with the spirit of the
P.L.A.C.E.S. In this way, we are creating and building a stronger
community based on a foundation of social justice and affirmation.
Promoting
respectful dialogues,
Leadership,
Affirmation
of identities,
Community
building to create safe spaces, and
Empowerment
through a
Social
justice lens
Promoting respectful dialogues
The CCC provides programs and spaces for Center users to have
open discussions where all opinions are valued and heard.
Leadership
The CCC provides programs and services that promote opportunities
for students to develop into local and global citizens.
Affirmation of identities
he CCC values and promotes the understanding of the
intersections and affirmation of identities.
This includes, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, nationality,
sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, sex, culture, age, ability,
class, religion, spirituality, and body image.
We confront all forms of oppression within these multiple identities.
Community Building to Create Safe Spaces
The CCC provides interactive programs and retention spaces to
create new connections, strengthen existing relationships, and encourage
cross collaborations.
Empowerment
The CCC offers educational workshops, trainings and programs on
social, cultural, diversity and social justice issues, which serve to
empower campus and community leaders by providing the necessary tools to be
an advocate for positive social change, proactive about addressing
inequities, able to explore multiple identities, and able to maintain
balance in all aspects of their lives.
Social Justice Lens
The CCC functions within a social justice framework that includes
a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and
all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.
We envision a society in which individuals are both self-determining
(able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of
interacting democratically with others).
Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own
agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others
and the society as a whole.
