# Community

**Source**: https://www.brown.edu/life-brown/community
**Parent**: https://www.brown.edu/undergraduate-programs

Brown students, faculty and staff challenge and support each other within a respectful and diverse campus community.

## Breadcrumb

- [Home](https://www.brown.edu/)
- [Life at Brown](https://www.brown.edu/life-brown)

# Community

Brown students, faculty and staff challenge and support each other within a respectful and diverse campus community.

At Brown, you'll find a community of the brightest and most exceptional students and scholars from across the globe.

We are a community guided by shared values, an unyielding dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion, and a fundamental commitment to supporting one another.

We are a campus where students, faculty and staff discuss, learn about and debate difficult issues, building understanding of important challenges facing society. We are a learning community strengthened by the expression of a full range of views informed by a far-reaching set of life experiences.

### Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Brown, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is fundamentally critical to the University’s mission of education and advancement of knowledge.

- [Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan](https://diap.brown.edu/)
- [Office of Diversity and Inclusion](https://odi.brown.edu/)
- [Slavery and Justice Report](https://slaveryandjustice.brown.edu/report)

[How do you feel a sense of belonging at Brown?
 Haley Wong](https://youtu.be/4P5ofcR-9Rs?rel=0&modestbranding=1)

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[Best thing about being on Brown campus?
 Stephanie Chan](https://youtu.be/k0yPixBaNaQ?rel=0&modestbranding=1)

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[What is the community like at Brown?
 Lauren Brown](https://youtu.be/H_xowO0y2kk?rel=0&modestbranding=1)

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[Why did you choose Brown?
 Yifeng Cai](https://youtu.be/KqTfywi_Wd4?rel=0)

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["Brown is…."
 William Irving](https://youtu.be/1eSVnNXC0Uc)

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Across the Brown campus, a nexus of organizations and spaces encourage all students, faculty and staff to find a sense of belonging, build relationships across differences and develop leadership and life skills to thrive intellectually and personally at Brown and beyond.

### [Brown Center for Students of Color](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/students-of-color/)

The Brown Center for Students of Color encourages students to build meaningful relationships across differences, develop racial and ethnic consciousness, and enact change at Brown and beyond.

[Visit Page](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/students-of-color/)

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### [Brown-RISD Hillel](http://www.brownrisdhillel.org/)

Hillel, the center for Jewish life on campus, is an integral part of campus social, cultural, educational, political and religious life.

[Visit Page](http://www.brownrisdhillel.org/)

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### [Global Brown Center for International Students](https://gbc.brown.edu/)

The Global Brown Center for International Students (GBC) develops programming to support and engage our undergraduate and graduate international community.

[Visit Page](https://gbc.brown.edu/)

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### [LGBTQ Center](https://lgbtq.brown.edu/)

The LGBTQ Center works to create and maintain an open, safe, and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students, faculty, and staff, their families and friends, and the campus community at large.

[Visit Page](https://lgbtq.brown.edu/)

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### [Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life](https://chaplains.brown.edu/)

The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life's mission is ensuring that a diversity of beliefs have voice and vitality throughout the University community.

[Visit Page](https://chaplains.brown.edu/)

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### [Office of Military-Affiliated Students](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/veterans-and-commissioning-programs/)

Brown has been designated as a Silver Medal Military Friendly School. The University offers ROTC opportunities in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.

[Visit Page](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/veterans-and-commissioning-programs/)

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### [Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender](https://sarahdoyle.brown.edu/)

The Sarah Doyle Center offers programs and services for all members of the Brown community, and is a site for research into and exploration of gender issues that extend into and beyond the classroom.

[Visit Page](https://sarahdoyle.brown.edu/)

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### [Undocumented, First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/first-generation-students/)

A communal, learning, and advocacy center for members of the Brown community who identify with the undocumented, first-generation college and/or low-income student experience (U-FLi).

[Visit Page](https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/first-generation-students/)

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- [Office of the Vice President for Campus Life](https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/vp-campus-life/about-us/office-vp-campus-life)
- [Student Support Services](https://student-support.brown.edu/)
- [Graduate Student Resources](https://graduateschool.brown.edu/about/graduate-student-resources)
- [Medical School Student Life](https://www.brown.edu/academics/medical/student-affairs)
- [Student Conduct and Community Standards](https://studentconduct.brown.edu)
- [University Events](https://www.brown.edu/life-brown/university-events)
- [Residential Life](http://brown.edu/reslife)

## Brown Speak

Ask students at Brown about the University community, and you're likely to hear some of the following:

DIAP:
:   Brown's pioneering diversity and inclusion action plan launched in 2016.

TWTP:
:   The Third World Transition Program welcomes new students with community-building programs that center the student of color experience.

WPC:
:   Women’s Peer Counselors talk to first-year students about sexism, gender issues and sexuality.