Culturally-Affirming Lounges
Come and visit two of our new community lounges, both located in Student Union. These lounges provide all students with community-building space to engage over shared interests, celebrate global histories and culture, and highlight the unique lived experiences of our Trojan Family.
We warmly welcome all students to come, learn, and hang out at SCC’s centers and lounges! SCC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination.
Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Lounge
Location: Student Union 100
The Middle Eastern & North African Student Lounge facilitates a space that helps to educate, support and build community for all students by highlighting MENA culture, identity, and heritage. The MENA Lounge allows for students to create connections, a sense of belonging, acceptance, and well-being for all students.
We warmly welcome all students to come, learn, and hang out at the Middle Eastern & North African Lounge! The MENA Lounge operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination.
Native American & Pasifika Lounge (NAPL)
Location: Student Union 403
The Native American and Pasifika Lounge provides a space for all students who are interested to explore Native American and Pasifika identities that have ancestral land, federally recognized or not. NAPL provides a space where conversations about the Native and Pasifika experience are welcome, culture is celebrated, and knowledge about the Native and Pasifika identity is shared.
We warmly welcome all students to come, learn, and hang out at the Native American & Pasifika Lounge! NAPL operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination.
Honoring Native Lands
SCC acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the Tongva People. For thousands of years, the Tongva people lived on this land we occupy today, and were considered the most powerful indigenous peoples to inhabit the Los Angeles basin. Along with the Tongva, we also recognize the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Cahuilla, Juaneno, and Luiseno People, for the land that USC also occupies around Southern California. We pay respects to their elders past and present. Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us here today. And please join us in uncovering such truths at any and all events.