Build Your Community and Networks

Student organizations provide a vehicle for students to gain leadership experience, develop professional skills, build on personal interests and find community. CALS sponsors more than 30 organizations that help students meet their professional and personal interests. There are also over 900 UW-recognized student organizations available to CALS students.

These Learning Communities are residential spaces that bring together faculty, staff and students around a specific focus and build community through seminars and events to help make a large university feel smaller and more intimate. CALS sponsors 3 Residential Learning Communities: WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), GreenHouse, and BioHouse. CALS students have the opportunity to live in these living, learning communities in addition to others offered across campus. There are also affinity communities intended to bring together students with shared backgrounds or interests/affinities without the academic elements of learning communities.