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4-H Lift
L.I.F.T. (Learning, Interaction, Friends, and Talents) Program
4-H is the youth development organization of the University of Connecticut's Cooperative Extension System. The mission of 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills and forming attitudes which will enable them to become self directing, productive and contributing members of society.

Center for Academic Programs
The Center for Academic Programs (CAP) increases access to higher education for high-potential students who come from underrepresented ethnic or economic backgrounds and/or are first-generation college students. CAP prepares students for successful entry into, retention in, and graduation from a post-secondary institution through its four constituent programs: Educational Talent Search, Gear Up and Upward Bound provide programming to increase middle and high school students' college access and retention.

Cooperative Extension System
The Connecticut Cooperative Extension System is a statewide, informal education system within the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the School of Family Studies. Cooperative Extension educational programs and problem-solving assistance are based on the research of land-grant universities such as the University of Connecticut.

First Year Learning Communities
First-Year Learning Communities are small clusters of up to 26 first-year resident students who live, study, learn together! First-Year Learning Communities are all about helping students make close connections to fellow students, faculty and staff through a common interest or academic program. FYLC is designed to create a supportive environment, based on a mutual interest or academic major, that promotes academic success and exploration. There is also a community service learning community.

Husky Reads
This experience provides UConn students with experience working with children in medical environments, especially helpful to students expecting to apply to professional programs in health sciences or education.

Peer Education Programs
There are over 30 peer education programs in existence at the University of Connecticut. The programs are each their own separate entity, yet united in the common goal of providing the opportunity for students to gain experience by reaching out to help their peers.

UConn Connects
The UConn Connects program pairs each student with a staff or peer facilitator who will guide them through the semester. At the very beginning of the semester, and two times a month thereafter, the student and facilitator meet to go over course work and academic progress.

University of Connecticut American English Language Institute
Since 1991, UCAELI has provided instruction to more than 2,000 students from countries throughout the world. UCAELI supports all students in pursuit of their goals through providing high quality instruction and access to the university's academic, professional, social and cultural resources.

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Service Student Organizations

Ahava Dream
Ahava Dream is Hillel's community service group. Although the group is associated with a religious group we strive to reach out to all aspects of the community. Typical service projects include donating to local soup kitchens and working with children.
Ahava_Dream@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

American Red Cross
The Red Cross hosts three blood drives a year, all of which are the largest blood drives in the state of CT. We offer CPR/ First Aid classes and assist the nursing students to become certified in CPR for the professional rescuers. The club also goes to local elementary schools to teach young children what to do in case of emergencies, how to dial 911, etc. We also hold disaster action classes, where members of the UConn community can become certified to join a disaster action team.
RedCross@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Asian & Women Awareness Organizations
An interest group for a national Asian American sorority. We are out to help spread cultural diversity and women's awareness.

Best Buddies

Cooperative Corporation, UConn Co-Op
Cooperative college bookstore owned by the members who are primarily students
Coop@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Drug Free Students' Association
To create alternatives to alcohol and drug use on campus for both our club members and those in the community who wish to participate and to effect positive changes within the campus environment as a result. Membership is not exclusive to drug free students, but instead to anyone willing to help make a difference.
DrugFree@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Husky Midnight Marathon
12-hour dance-a-thon with games, prizes, silent auction, food, entertainment, and much much more. 100% of the funds raised go to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center
HMM@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Joint Assembly of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma
To provide Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma a forum to work together towards the common goal of serving the University band program.
kkytbs@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Month of Kindness
An organization devoted to uniting the campus under the common theme of kindness, by holding a whole month (November) filled with kindness events put on by our committee, and various student organizations around campus.
kindness@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

NEAG School of Education Student Association (NSESA)
NSESA is an organization comprised of students and faculty of the School of Education whose goal is to service the community and help foster a community spirit within the School of Education.
NSESA@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Partnership, Excellence, and Academics (P.E.A.)
The P.E.A. is made up of UConn undergraduate women in an effort to unify a group of people while providing new opportunities and sisterhood through social situations and service to the community.

V-Day Campaign, UConn
The P.E.A. is made up of UConn undergraduate women in an effort to unify a group of people while providing new opportunities and sisterhood through social situations and service to the community.
Vday@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

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Social Justice Student Organizations

Animal Rights Club, UConn
Working to end factory farming - a system that uses animals for 'food' production - keeping them confined in gestation crates, living penned up in their own excrement, dehorned and debeaked, without anesthesia for survival in unnaturally close quarters and bled to death as part of normal agriculture operations. We address unnecessary cosmetic experimentation, like the Dreize test, used on the eyes of living rabbits. We also promote non-leather and non-fur clothing alternatives.
AnimalRights@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

CT NOW, UConn Chapter
To reclaim the reality that "Sisterhood is Powerful" by uniting women and men on campus despite their age, gender, sexual orientation, race, political party or feminist orientation to work actively on and off campus for the common goal of ending sexism and oppression.
CTNOW@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Food Not Bombs-Willimantic
Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements active in North America today and is gaining momentum all over the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe and Australia. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process. Each group collects produce from grocery stores and donations to make fresh, hot vegetarian meals that are served in city parks to anyone without restriction.
FoodNotBomb@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Haitian Experience
A 10-day immersion experience during winter break in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and the surrounding area. While in Haiti students visit hospitals, orphanages, schools and clinics. The main focus of the trip is understanding Haitian culture and the harsh realities of everyday life in the Third World Country. Students fund-raise and participate in serve projects during the fall semester and give presentations in the spring. Applications are accepted in March for January's trip.
HaitianExp@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

UConn PIRG
A student advocacy group on issues in the public interest: environmental protection, poverty relief, and consumer rights. We advocate through public awareness, education, service, and the creation/promotion of legislation.
PIRG@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU

Students for Reparations Now
A social justice organization that seeks to build community awareness, support, and commitment towards reparations for Africans (continental) and African descendants (in the Diaspora). The reparations program most simply is to repair. African peoples have been injured by enslavement, colonization, apartheid, and ongoing systematic racial discrimination. We demand reparations now for the betterment of humanity, most specifically those of African descent.
Reparations@STUDENTORGS.UCONN.EDU