Kresge College

Kresge College 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 Porter-Kresge neighborhood on campus. Kresge was the sixth college established at the UCSC. Founded in 1971, it was designed with concepts of collaboration and participatory democracy at the core of its identity.

PARKING INFORMATION
Visitors to UCSC may purchase a daily permit at the Main Entrance Kiosk (M-7) or the TAPS Sales Office (L-7). They may also utilize ParkMobile in designated hourly/daily parking spaces. The closest parking lot to this location is Kresge College (147) and North Perimeter (150A).

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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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🦉 Kresge College

Kresge's theme, Power and Representation, explores the many ways we constitute ourselves as individuals in relation to communities, focusing on representations of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and race. Kresge is known for its creativity and independent spirit, and for students passionate about personal reflection, creative and non-fiction writing, journalism and filmmaking. Kresge is the home of Rapt Magazine, the Writer's House Blog, as well as City On A Hill, UCSC's student-run newspaper.

The student-run Natural Food Co-op, Garden Co-Op, Photo Co-op, and Music Co-op are located at Kresge. It is the traditional host of the UCSC campus Pride Festival, and is also home to The Writing Center and has themed housing like the Writers House, Ecovilliage, and LGBTQIA+ themed housing. Kresge is currently under redevelopment, and the new development should be open to students in Fall 2023.

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