Student Organizations

The Multicultural Center is affiliated with the organizations listed below as part of the Diversity Council. We support their efforts and meet bi-weekly to discuss program ideas, form collaborations on projects and receive updates on center opportunities, programs, services, and policies. Click on each section below for more information. Diversity Council co-advisors are Jerry Schearer, Senior Associate Dean & Chief Diversity Officer; Melinda Quinones, Director of Multicultural Services; and Dr. Jennifer Schlegel, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology.

• ALLIES

  Allies seeks to advocate, educate, increase awareness, and provide a safe social and support network to Kutztown University's lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and queer community. We provide a safe, social, support network to advocate for LGBTQ+ persons and straight allies who are students, staff, alumni, or faculty of Kutztown University. We strive to educate members, students, staff, and faculty of Kutztown University and the community about discrimination and oppression of LGBTQ+ individuals, increase awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ+ persons and issues to create and ensure cooperation and unity among the Kutztown University community.

  Email: lgbtqresourcecenter@kutztown.edu

  Advisor: Christine Price, Director of LGBTQ Resource Center and Women's Center

  ALLIES on Engage.

• Best Buddies

  Here at Kutztown, we strive to create friendships between our college students and members within the community. You are matched with a buddy and are responsible for hanging out with them, talking with them and making them feel included. A great opportunity for ALL MAJORS and a great way to meet new friends! These friendships will last a lifetime! 💜

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3n95uu9qA

  Email: kutztownbb@gmail.com

  Advisor: Kristen Bazley, Associate Professor of Elementary, Middle Level, Library & Technologies Education

  Best Buddies on Engage.

• Black Student Union (BSU)

  We serve as a common bond for all students of color while maintaining inclusiveness of all students through identification with the organization. We encourage and promote black excellence through events and educated discussions. 

  Advisors: Maria De La Cruz, Assistant Director of Residence Life for Programming & Leadership; Bilal Salaam, Athletics Diversity & Inclusion Officer and Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

  Black Student Union on Engage.

• Black Flame Dance Team

  Black Flame Dance Team is a very diverse and creative hip-hop and modern based dance team. We perform at events like homecoming, basketball games, and various on and off campus events. All students are welcome and no dance experience is required to join!

  Our mission is to instill a wonderful love of dance, while inspiring self-confidence, discipline and respect of the performing arts. Our student choreographers will provide each dancer with the ability to develop and improve themselves as a dancer. 

  We as student athletes understand that we are students first and foremost. That is why we prioritize study halls and provide support for all members in and outside of the studio. We will urge each student to strive daily for their personal best, as well as to support one another in fostering a sense of teamwork throughout the year.

  And lastly, we just want to have FUN! 

  So, bring positive energy and your love for dance and we will have a wonderful time.

  Email: blackflame@kutztown.edu

  Advisor: Maria De La Cruz, Assistant Director of Residence Life for Programming & Leadership

  Black Flame Dance Team on Engage.

• Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA)

  Meetings every Tuesday at The Women's Center in The Boxwood House!

  FMLA is an activist group which focuses on issues such as self-empowerment, gender equality, freedom of choice, domestic violence and sexual abuse. FMLA was originally started as the Women's Awareness Group in the 1970s and is now a student organization funded by the SGA and directed by student officers through the Kutztown Women's Center. Every year the group sponsors Take Back the Night Rally and March, and other events focused on activism and social justice. We hold campus-wide programming, fund-raising efforts to non-profit community organizations, and attend conference leadership development opportunities. New members are always welcome!

  Feminism: The belief that people of all genders should be treated equally socially, politically and economically

  Email: price@kutztown.edu

  Advisor: Christine Price, Director of Women's Center and LGBTQ Resource Center

  FMLA on Engage.

• International Student Organization (ISO)

  We are here to promote multiculturalism. We wish to do this by giving international students a community, by giving domestic students multicultural experiences, and connecting international and domestic students together.

  Email: intga@kutztown.edu 

  Advisors: Christina Kinney, Director of International Education & Gobal Engagement

  ISO on Engage.

• Jewish Kutztown Student Union

  Jewish Kutztown Student Union's mission is to enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. JKSU welcomes an inclusive environment for Jewish college students, where they are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually and socially. JKSU helps students find a balance in being distinctively Jewish and universally human by encouraging them to pursue tzedek (social justice), tikkun olam (repairing the world) and Jewish learning, and to support Israel and global Jewish peoplehood. JKSU is committed to excellence, innovation, accountability and results.

  Email: hillel@kutztown.edu

  Advisor: Daniel Spiegel, Professor of Computer Science & Information Technology

  JKSU on Engage.

• Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

  Kappa Alpha Psi, a college Fraternity, now comprised of functioning Undergraduate and Alumni Chapters on major campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the late Revered Founders Elder Watson Diggs, "The Dreamer"; John Milton Lee ; Byron K. Armstrong; Guy Levis Grant; Ezra D. Alexander; Henry T. Asher; Marcus P. Blakemore; Paul W. Caine; Edward G. Irvin and George W. Edmonds. It was the vision of these astute men that enabled them in the school year 1910 - 11, more specifically the night of January 5, 1911, on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, to sow the seed of a fraternal tree whose fruit is available to, and now enjoyed by, college men everywhere, regardless of their color, religion or national origin. It is a fact of which KAPPA ALPHA PSI is justly proud that the Constitution has never contained any clause which either excluded or suggested the exclusion of a man from membership merely because of his color, creed, or national origin. The Constitution of KAPPA ALPHA PSI is predicated upon, and dedicated to, the principles of achievement through a truly democratic Fraternity.

  Advisor: Derek Mace, Assistant Professor of Psychology

  Kappa Alpha Psi on Engage.

• Kutztown Christian Fellowship

  We are a community of Christian students on Kutztown University's campus. Through evangelism, Bible study, and one-on-one mentorship, we seek to "make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19) starting right here at KU. We invite you to join us and experience deep fellowship with Christians, grow in your knowledge of the Bible, and become an equipped laborer for God's Kingdom so that you can impact the world after college!

  Advisor: Joseph Jedwab, Associate Professor of Philosophy

  Kutztown Christian Fellowship on Engage.

• Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc.

  Lambda Theta Phi's mission is to cultivate a brotherhood, to value an education, to promote unity, to assert roles of leadership, to develop character, to practice chivalry, and to serve mankind. Lambda Theta Phi seeks visionary leaders who support its values of scholarship, respect for all cultures, community service, and the advancement and fair treatment of Latino's in the United States. Lambda strives to recruit resilient individuals with a commitment to excellence. 

  Advisor: Michael Arias, Assistant Director of Financial Aid Services

  Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity on Engage.

• Muslim Student Association

  Welcome to the Muslim Students' Association at Kutztown University. Our goal is to create a haven for Muslims on campus by providing places for worship and a strong community. We also host events to raise awareness, promote tolerance and spread the message of Islam.

  Muslim Student Association on Engage.

• Student Government Board (SGB)

  The chief governing body of the SGA, which is comprised of every student who has paid the student activity fee. SGB's main functions are to represent student opinion and oversee the administration of the student activity fee.

  Email: sgb@kutztown.edu

  Advisor: Dr. Stephen Rupprecht, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students

  Student Government Board on Engage.

• Student Alliance for Latino Success and Achievement (SALSA)

  The Student Alliance for Learning, Success and Achievement or S.A.L.S.A. is an student run organization advocating Leadership, Success and Achievement on campus. This organization will help foster a sense of activism that helps to create new leaders on campus while also challenging students to define and pave their own ways to academic and personal achievement. 

  Advisor: Maria De La Cruz, Assistant Director Residence Life for Progress & Leadership

  SALSA on Engage.