Join Sorority and Fraternity Life at UC San Diego

Sorority & Fraternity Life at UC San Diego champions a holistic co-curricular experience by providing collaborative and developmental opportunities that promote a healthy and inclusive community, sense of belonging, and commitment to shared values.

Through a series of focus groups and reflective activities, student leaders, chapter members and SFL staff identified the following organizational values that serve as the foundation of the student experience in Sorority & Fraternity Life at UC San Diego. 

• Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

• • Commitment to active practices that celebrate and promote inclusion of members from diverse backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and identities. 

• Academic Excellence

• • Scholastic achievement through high academic standards, research, internships, and professional development opportunities. 

• Leadership and Character Development

• • Dedication to individual development, personal integrity, and accountability in alignment with organizational values and purpose. Personal growth through engagement in leadership opportunities, general membership experiences, and critical dialogue. 

• Community Responsibility

• • Promotion of student wellbeing and safety through shared responsibility, risk management, and accountability. Active community of changemakers engaged in service, education on social justice, and philanthropy benefiting local and global communities.

• Lifelong Friendships

• • Development of meaningful relationships through the ideals of sisterhood, brotherhood, and siblinghood that foster healthy lifelong relationships. 

• Denim Day
  • Denim Day is the last Wednesday of every April to promote awareness, support survivors of power-based personal violence, and protest sexual assault and sexual violence. Our community comes together with other campus collaborators on this day to provide resources to members, knowing that this is a prevalent issue on college campuses.
    
    
• Health and Wellness Fair
  • In the Fall, we host a Health & Wellness Fair in collaboration with other departments to provide resources to students to encourage safe practices and awareness of campus resources, including healthy sleeping habits to stress management and alcohol awareness.

• Risk Management Panel
  • In the Winter, we bring together campus partners with expertise in risk management, such as the University Police Department, Student Legal Services, Student Accountability, Growth, and Education, and the Office of the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination, to serve on a panel where they provide members with important information and answer their questions to practice safety within their chapters.

• SFL Summerfest
  • This annual event brings together our community to welcome all incoming and returning students with free games, food, and entertainment. This is a great opportunity for students to learn more about our organizations in a fun and fair-like atmosphere. 

• Sorority & Fraternity Leaders Conference
  • This fall leadership conference is led by the three council presidents and aims at providing leadership development to the general community members. Campus partners are invited for breakout sessions and along with a keynote speaker. In the past three years the keynote speakers have covered sexual assault, consent, and diversity. 

• SFL Retreat
  • Annual winter quarter retreat for council leaders, presidents, and officers that focuses on community building, leadership development, and diversity education. This program is traditionally spearheaded by the graduate assistant and takes a different format every year.
    
    
• SFL Awards
  • Serves as a community wide program planned by leaders of the councils to recognize the sororities and fraternities for their accomplishments as values-based organizations. Sororities and fraternities as groups and individual members are recognized for their outstanding work in Academic Excellence, Leadership Development, Community Service, Philanthropic Efforts, and Commitment to Community. 

• SFL Week
  • This week is an event series through a collaboration between the four councils that focuses on bringing all chapters together in community to support a shared cause, promote unity, and cross-council relations.

• Leadership Opportunities
  • There are many benefits to membership in SFL organizations, including access to various leadership development opportunities, including the following:
    • Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values (AFLV) https://aflv.org/ 
    • Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute (UIFI) https://aflv.org/uifi 
    • Council Executive Boards
    • Chapter Executive Boards

• Job Opportunities
  • There are several job opportunities specifically for affiliated sorority or fraternity members including the following. Applications for these jobs are posted periodically on Handshake.
    • SFL Office Student Jobs 
    • EDI Peers
    • CARE at SARC Liaisons

• Scholarship Opportunities
  • Although membership dues are a requirement for most chapters, there are scholarships available to offset these costs. Inquire directly with these sources to learn more.
    • Council Scholarships
    • National Organization Scholarships
    • Local Alumni & Alumnae Boards

• Philanthropic Efforts
  • Philanthropy, or the raising of funds for a charitable cause, is a core value of many of our chapters. This past year, chapters and their members raised over $190,000 dollars for various local and international organizations. Many members join SFL chapters because they have seen or been recipients of the impact of these monies raised and wish to give back to these same organizations.

• Academic Success Support
  • At an already academically rigorous institution, SFL students are high achieving and are set up with a stronger baseline of success in their chapters with study groups, study plans, and friends to take classes with which further supports their academic achievement. It has also been proven in many studies that students involved in sororities or fraternities have higher GPAs than those who are not; in Spring 2025 the All SFL GPA Spring 2025 was 3.337 compared to the All Undergraduate GPA at a 3.271.”