Our objectives as a student organization are to -
1. Sponsor activities encouraging K-12 students from diverse backgrounds to become interested in the biological sciences, and make older students aware of internship and volunteer opportunities, college programs and majors and various career paths in ecology and evolutionary biology.
2. Improve retention of minority students in college and university in biology majors through mentorship.
3. Increase recruitment efforts of diverse students to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program at UCSC.
4. Assess and quantify levels of diversity throughout other graduate programs in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and identify areas for improvement and growth at UCSC.
5. Increase faculty diversity within the department of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Cruz.