About Us
Associated Students, Incorporated (ASI) is specifically designed for you, the students. We are your representative government here on campus. We exist to provide an official voice through which your opinions and issues may be expressed regarding local, state, and federal issues. ASI represents the collective voice of over 10,000 students here at CSU Bakersfield. In addition to our students, we help represent over 400,000 students across the CSU system. The ASI Board will work endlessly so that your voice is heard on campus and in the halls of the Capitol in Sacramento and Washington DC. Not to mention, we host events, leadership seminars and work with all of the clubs and organizations on campus.
Statement on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice:
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is a collegiate community that serves a diverse population of students, faculty, staff, and administration. These facets of diversity encompass but are not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, creed, religion, age, social class, socio-economic status, physical and cognitive differences, political views, and veteran status. CSUB is intent on engaging with all its community members in meaningful ways that support the values and strengths that everyone brings to this campus. In building a community inclusive of everyone, more than recognition, tolerance, acceptance, and celebration are required; CSUB also strives to teach, incorporate, mediate, and promote issues of diversity that go beyond the surface.
The ways in which the University actively embodies diversity include:
- Offering courses that are centered on or incorporate material for our diverse student, faculty, and staff populations, as well as educating us about one another.
- Recruiting and hiring administrators, faculty, staff, and students to create a diverse campus community through employment practices and faculty/staff development opportunities.
- Acknowledging the historical significance of land occupied by CSUB before every meeting of ASI.
- Encouraging, organizing, funding, and promoting workshops, trainings, clubs, lectures, forums, orientations, and other events that allow our community of students, administrators, staff, and faculty to come together to learn about and support one another and discuss experiences, understandings, and values en masse.
- Assembling services, activities, and committees that continually gauge the ways in which diversity is honored and promoted on campus and in neighboring communities.
- Offering targeted methods of outreach toward the recruitment, retention, and graduation of a diverse student body.
- Understanding that creating an inclusive community is an ongoing project, thus always
requiring reassessment.
Through these various strategies, CSUB and ASI seek to do more than merely acknowledge its invaluable members and local constituents. We wish also consistently to demonstrate equity in status, rights, and opportunities through the establishment of purposeful conversations that inspire our students to reach out to each other and beyond. This thread of respect should also resonate through the attitudes of campus administrators, students, staff, and faculty. We believe this type of environment will continue to attract and to retain a socially-just image of what we represent and who we are.
Contact Us!
Our Office
Located inside the Student Union, we are always open to students!
Office: Student Union 149
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Phone Number: 661-654-2418
Share Your Thoughts
Have a question, concern, or suggestion? ASI is here to represent and support the
students of CSUB. We’re always happy to connect, listen, and assist however we can.
If you have feedback/concerns for ASI, please fill out this form or stop by our office!
