About Us
Graduate Students of Color (GSOC) is an organization founded to celebrate and empower historically-marginalized voices at the University of Rochester. We stand by the University's motto of Meliora: to be ever better for racially-underrepresented students in the U of R community. Our goals are to promote graduate students to Learn about the diversity of cultures and experiences among students of Color; to Discover the avenues in which to grow and navigate within the graduate academy; to Heal the divisions between us due to the effects of white supremacy and global racial discrimination; and to Create spaces in which students of Color are respected and embraced within a predominately-white institution.