College Nine
College Nine is one of ten residential colleges that make up one of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz: the residential college system. It is part of the College Nine/John R. Lewis College neighborhood on campus, and was founded in 2000.
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🏠 Housing & The Residential Colleges
One of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz is our residential college system. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.
These ten communities, each with their own academic themes, architecture, activities, location, and support resources, provide a neighborhood for your lived campus experience. By design, our residential colleges are not connected to any specific major. This provides a wonderful opportunity to interact, live, and learn alongside fellow banana slugs from different backgrounds, countries, and experiences.
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🌍 College Nine
College Nine's theme, International and Global Perspectives, recognizes the importance of cultural competency and focuses on issues such as economic globalization, environmental degradation, human rights, and international and ethnic conflicts. The college attracts students from all over the world to learn from one another and expand their worldviews, so they are better prepared to enter the global workforce.
College Nine offers a Service Learning Program, connecting students to volunteer opportunities in the community to receive course credit. College Nine is home to the "I-floor" and International Living Center, offering students the opportunity to live with the UCSC International Community. One of the relatively unique features of College Nine is that its academic administration is affiliated with the Division of Social Sciences. Through this affiliation students build strong alliances with faculty and research institutes concerned with the functioning of human society, and the enhancement of the human condition. Students from all majors are welcome. The Terry Freitas Cafe located at College Nine provides a welcoming space for students to connect, play pool, express themselves, explore social justice on a global level, and study. College Nine also shares a community garden with the neighboring John R. Lewis College.
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