The Black Culture Cooperative

The Black Culture Cooperative (BCC) provides a wide range of support services, programs and activities aimed at the development of prospective, undergraduate and graduate students. The BCC is committed to creating an environment that encourages the intellectual, professional and cultural growth of African-American students entering and completing degree programs. 

The Clubs and organizations are:

"BlackOut" Dialogue Society

The purpose of the "BlackOut" Dialogue Society is to promote, in conjunction with the Center for Student Cultural Diversity, the intellectual curiosity in, and knowledge of, current events from all cultures, and to promote friendship and cooperation among all those interested in forms of social thought. These events are held bi-weekly. (Click here to view past events.)

Center for Student Cultural Diversity (CSCD) Film Series

The CSCD Film Series is an extension of the “BlackOut” Dialogues and serves as a venue for students to relax, watch, and discuss excellent films that address important social and cultural issues. An added benefit is that students gain the opportunity to analyze the several layers of meaning found in cinema.  (Click here to view past events.)

Damonte Ranch College Shadowing Day

The Damonte Ranch College Shadowing Day takes place each year on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.  This event is sponsored by the Center for Student Cultural Diversity, the Black Student Organization (BSO), and Damonte Ranch High School (DRHS).  Currently the program seeks to extend these outreach opportunities to other nearby high schools. For any additional information please contact the Center at (775) 784-4936.

Historically Black College/University Student Exchange Program

Offers Black students the opportunity to study a semester abroad at a selected HBCU, for further information please contact the Center at (775) 784-4936.

Black Student Organization

The Black Student Organization(BSO) recognizes, encourages, and supports the advancement of the Black students on and off campus. BSO is also noted as an excellent tool in uniting Black Students in an effort to promote campus awareness of minority issues.

Kappa Alpha Psi

The Xi Phi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated was established on September 29, 1995 and chartered on February 3, 1996. Before those dates the chapter existed at the University of Nevada, Reno only as a colony of the Theta Sigma Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) which was founded June 5, 1976. Xi Phi Chapter has since strived to meet its primary goal of ACHIEVEMENT...in every field of human endeavor.

Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. A sisterhood of more than 200,000 predominately Black college educated women, the Sorority currently has over 900 chapters located in the United States, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Republic of Korea.
The major programs of the sorority are based upon the organization's Five Point Thrust of:

• Economic Development
• Educational Development
• International Awareness and Involvement
• Physical and Mental Health
• Political Awareness
• Involvement

The Sorority was founded in 1913 by 22 students at Howard University. These young women wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence; to provide scholarships; to provide support to the underserved; educate and stimulate participation in the establishment of positive public policy; and to highlight issues and provide solutions for problems in their communities.

Phi Beta Sigma

The FBS Fraternity Inc. is a Historically Black Greek Letter Organization founded on January 9, 1914 by three Men on the campus of Howard University based upon the ideals of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service.  Devoted to the “inclusive we” not the “exclusive we”, they believed that a potential member should be judged by his own merits, not affluence and without regard of race, nationality, skin tone or texture of hair.

Today, Phi Beta Sigma, through its three national programs, Bigger and Better Business, Education, and Social Action, is dedicated to providing services to all humanity with the force, vigor, power and energy of its more than 100,000 dedicated men united in more than 700 chapters across the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.  Sometimes called “The People’s Fraternity”, Phi Beta Sigma’s dedication to service is expressed in the its Motto, “Culture for Service and Service for Humanity”

For membership information, please contact Mayo Thompson at bro_time1914@hotmail.com.