Our Mission, Values & More
Who Are We?
Mission
The Pride Resource Center and our programs are open to all students and community members interested in connecting with the LGBTQIA+ community. Pride supports the retention and thriving of all students through promoting student success, community building, advocacy and leadership, resources, education, and outreach.
The Pride Resource Center is one of six Cultural Resource Centers at CSU. Our fellow offices include the Asian Pacific Cultural Center, Black/African American Cultural Center, El Centro, Native American Cultural Center, and Survivor Advocacy and Foundational Education Center.
Vision
To create a campus culture in which all CSU students can thrive.
What Do We Do?
Student Success
The Pride Resource Center provides opportunities for all students to invest in their success while at CSU and after graduation, such as New Student Success Programs like our Rams in Q’mmunity Mentoring Program, Curricular Engagement through classes and partnerships with academic programs, and Post-Graduation Success through Orgullo Rising Mentoring Program and partnerships with the Career Center.
Community Building
The Pride Resource Center provides regular opportunities for connection and belonging for all students through our Signature Events, Retreats, Trips, Student Groups, and providing a welcoming community space for studying, connection, and more.
Advocacy & Leadership
The Pride Resource Center provides opportunities for all students to develop as leaders in their community through Student Employment, Pride Leadership Collective, Internships, and Volunteering. The center regularly works with departments across campus to advocate for institutional change that better supports the safety, retention, success, and mental wellbeing of students.
Resources
The Pride Resource Center provides opportunities for all students to connect with affirming resources through serving as a connection hub for our community. Resources include financial support through our emergency fund or scholarships, basic needs support through our Lavender Cabinet and Clothing Swaps, mental health Resources through our embedded counselor, support groups, and drop-in hours, and healthcare through the LGBTQ+ Care Team.
Education
The Pride Resource Center provides opportunities for all to learn about themselves and the LGBTQIA+ community through educational programming, like workshops and speakers.
How Do We Do It?
Values
The Pride Resource Center uses the following values to shape our programs, initiatives, student leaders, and staff in best serving our students and campus community.
Queer Joy | We’re committed to unapologetically embracing and celebrating each other and our full authentic selves.
Queer Community | We’re committed to investing in our community and expanding the ways in which we support one another’s needs for love, resources, accountability, and care.
Queer Agency | We’re committed to empowering our community’s voice and rights to self-determination and self-advocacy.
Queer Futures | We’re committed to visioning and creating futures full of hope, curiosity, and possibility.
Queer Liberation | We’re committed to freedom and justice – to challenging norms and exclusion that create access barriers to all students.
Cultural Resource Center Community Values
The CRCs value safety, joy, and community care for all students. We seek to foster a shared community that is open and welcoming to all and rooted in CSU’s land-grant mission and university policy. We all have the right to remind each other of these Community Values and to advocate for our personal boundaries.
- We respect and support the thriving of people across all identities and our right to show up joyfully, authentically, and unapologetically.
- We welcome and learn about all identities with openness, respect, and curiosity.
- We are adaptable to the different needs and uses of this space, welcoming new people and making room as they join.
- We honor the boundaries set by those around us and treat others as they want to be treated.
- We value and seek consent related to physical touch, volume, space, and privacy.
- We view feedback and conflict as generative and aim to learn from it.
- We work together to create accessibility, keep our spaces clean, and be responsive to sensory needs and allergies.