Register for a Connection

Connections in this category are your introduction to campus groups for shared interests and backgrounds. Learn more about each below and follow the instructions under each Connection to register.

Future Black Professionals

Practicing your entrepreneurial skills improves your chances of career success, whether you choose to be an employee or entrepreneur. Over 60% of the Fortune 500 (the US's largest companies) indicated that the ability to think creatively is more important than intelligence. Over 70% of existing organizations cite innovation and "intrapreneurship" as a key factor in their future growth and success. Get these skills on lock, meet administrators and professors invested in your success, and prepare to enter an idea in the Ideas Competition and win $1,000! Entrepreneurship is for everyone. We are all capable. Join us on this journey! We'll walk you through step-by-step.

*This identity-based Connection is a focused experience for first-year undergraduate students of the African diaspora at UC Davis. This group will be hosted in partnership with the "Future Latinx Professionals" group. Throughout the quarter, each group will meet separately on alternating weeks. 

Week 1 (1/8): First session - we'll host a joint kick-off meeting between the "Future Black Professionals" and "Future Latinx Professionals" groups
Week 2 (1/15): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 3 (1/22): Future Black Professionals
Week 4 (1/29): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 5 (2/5): Future Black Professionals
Week 6 (2/12): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 7 (2/19): Future Black Professionals
Week 8 (2/26): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 9 (3/5): Future Black Professionals
Week 10 (3/12): last session - we'll host a final combined meeting between the "Future Black Professionals" and "Future Latinx Professionals" groups

  • Day/Time/Location: Wednesdays (2:10-3:00PM); 1503 Bainer Hall (Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center)
  • Format: in-person, on-campus, alternating weeks
  • Registration: This Connection is non-credit and open to all new students (first-year freshman, transfer, and international students). Register for "Future Black Professionals" in AggieLife. 


Future Latinx Professionals

Practicing your entrepreneurial skills improves your chances of career success, whether you choose to be an employee or entrepreneur. Over 60% of the Fortune 500 (the US's largest companies) indicated that the ability to think creatively is more important than intelligence. Over 70% of existing organizations cite innovation and "intrapreneurship" as a key factor in their future growth and success. Get these skills on lock, meet administrators and professors invested in your success, and prepare to enter an idea in the Ideas Competition and win $1,000! Entrepreneurship is for everyone. We are all capable. Join us on this journey! We'll walk you through step-by-step.

*This identity-based Connection is a focused experience for first-year undergraduate Latinx students at UC Davis. This group will be hosted in partnership with the "Future Black Professionals" group. Throughout the quarter, each group will meet separately on alternating weeks. 

Week 1 (1/8): First session - we'll host a joint kick-off meeting between the "Future Black Professionals" and "Future Latinx Professionals" groups
Week 2 (1/15): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 3 (1/22): Future Black Professionals
Week 4 (1/29): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 5 (2/5): Future Black Professionals
Week 6 (2/12): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 7 (2/19): Future Black Professionals
Week 8 (2/26): Future Latinx Professionals
Week 9 (3/5): Future Black Professionals
Week 10 (3/12): last session - we'll host a final combined meeting between the "Future Black Professionals" and "Future Latinx Professionals" groups 

  • Day/Time/Location: Wednesdays (2:10-3:00PM); 1503 Bainer Hall (Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center)
  • Format: in-person, on-campus, alternating weeks
  • RegistrationThis Connection is non-credit and open to all new students (first-year freshman, transfer, and international students). Register for "Future Latinx Professionals" in AggieLife. 


Gals and Pals in Engineering

[FRS 3 – 011: Navigating Challenges as a Woman in Engineering]

Become the engineer you imagined yourself to be! Build your social capital in engineering by finding your circle of friends, mentors, and allies in this first-year aggie connection. We will help you create a sense of belonging as a woman engineer while learning about and finding potential solutions to challenges facing women engineers along the way. Join our weekly study nights and work on your science and engineering courses together! We hope this Aggie Connection experience will help you become a better and more confident woman engineer.

  • Day/Time/Location: Thursdays (10:00-10:50AM); Olson 144
  • Format: in-person, on-campus
  • RegistrationThis Connection is for-credit and open to all new students (first-year freshman, transfer, and international students). Register in ScheduleBuilder during your passtime (CRN: 23883).


No Kidstractions! Student Parent Wellness and Connection Space

This Connection is for a select group of student parents - by invitation only - to participate in a vibrant, supportive community. The Connection focuses on building relationships between student parents, sharing resources, and introducing participants to key campus and community organizations. Meetings incorporate networking opportunities, sharing struggles and successes with balancing school and family responsibilities, goal setting and self-care planning, presentations from campus and community partners, and professional development activities. Participants will gain a group of friends who understand #studentparent life and space to concentrate on awareness, skill, and knowledge building for educational and personal success.

  • Day & Time: Fridays (11:00-11:50AM); Transfer Reentry Center Lounge
  • Format: This Connection will be hosted in-person, on-campus
  • Registration (student parents by invitation): This Connection is not for credit and open to all new students (first-year freshman, transfer, and international students) who identify as student parents. Student parents who want to request an initiation, email Marissa Weiss (mlweiss@ucdavis.edu).