Riverside City College Rainbow Engagement Center (REC)

RCC LGBTQIA2+ Association for Student Success and Equity.

LGBTQIA2+ campus life is ever-increasing! Student involvement at RCC began with the Gender & Sexualities Awareness (now Sexuality & Gender Acceptance (SAGA)) club, chartered in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, the LGBTQ+ Ally program started to train employees to be allies and create safe zones for LGBTQ+ students throughout RCCD.

Today, the LGBTQ+ Association for Student Success and Equity (LASSE) works to provide support to, education about, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ students, faculty, classified professionals, and administrators on campus. In 2021, the first ever Lavender Graduation at RCC was hosted to celebrate graduates within the LASSE Mentor Program, also piloted during the 2020-2021 academic year. RCC continues to work to create more equitable campus environments for LGBTQ+ students. We hope you will get involved!