Student Life

The Bike Collective grew out of a desire from Westminster students to minimize campus traffic and reduce their carbon emissions. Expert mechanics can teach you how to maintain your bike or help you rent a bike for free.

The Center for Financial Wellness works to improve the community’s financial well-being through a variety of programs that students can get involved with.

The Center for Veteran & Military Services provides support to veteran students and their dependents as well as Reserve Officer Training Corps students. Westminster also has the Westminster Military Association, an organization dedicated to providing support and camaraderie to all students, faculty, and staff who have served or will serve in the United States military.

The Fitness, Wellness, and Recreation Department offers a variety of American Red Cross CPR and First Aid courses to best meet your needs, whether it be for employment requirements, personal knowledge, or to fulfill certain degree requirements/prerequisites.

The Dumke Center for Civic Engagement enhances your education through volunteering, service programs, community-engaged learning, and other activities. The center hosts civic and political engagement events throughout the academic year and also provides funding resources to students to create projects and initiatives.

The Environmental Center promotes environmental awareness and leadership on campus and offers educational events and services that promote sustainable living. The center also provides support for students who need assistance designing, implementing, and funding environmental projects.

The Gore Giovale Center for Innovative Leadership connects students with community and organizational leaders to offer hands-on learning opportunities and foster meaningful conversations about leadership. The center is dedicated to ensuring students can move forward confidently in their lives and careers, lead from any place, and make a positive difference in the world.

The Great Salt Lake Institute welcomes your participation in its study of the Great Salt Lake. Whether you're a scientist, a poet, a performance artist, they are interested in helping you make connections to enhance the study, understanding, and appreciation of the lake and its surroundings.

The Office for Global Engagement offers programs and services that prepare you to live in a world that is integrated, complex, and interdependent. If you’re interested in studying abroad, international internships, or Westminster’s May Term Study Experiences, the Office for Global Engagement is your destination.

Westminster’s Organic Garden is a space for students to collectively grow, eat, and learn more about fresh and healthy food. The garden includes raised vegetable beds, a teaching/gathering space, a permaculture spiral, and compost tumblers. You can help plant and maintain the garden, and produce is available to the campus community.

The Outdoor Program takes full advantage of Westminster's unique environment for learning. From world-class skiing, mountain biking, and rock climbing in the local Wasatch Mountains to the red rock deserts, wild rivers, and vast wilderness areas that lie beyond, there is never a shortage of meaningful outdoor experiences.

Student Engagement and Belonging serves the community through programs and initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion on campus, providing opportunities to develop your social identities and spaces for discussion about issues of power, privilege, oppression, and social engagement. They also hosts a variety of campus events.

Participating in an undergraduate research experience at Westminster can help you understand a subject better, but it also can help you explore connections between disciplines or gain experience that will help when it comes time to apply to graduate school or for prestigious fellowships.

In addition to managing campus clubs, ASW sponsors a wide range of social, cultural, and educational events each year which include dances, lectures, concerts, community service, and more. In addition to attending these events, you can get involved with ASW by applying for open positions in its branches.

Westminster has more than 40 campus clubs and organizations. From outdoor organizations like the Ski and Snowboard Club to organizations like the Neuroscience Club where you can bond with people who share your academic major or professional interests, there are many opportunities to explore. And, if you don’t find what you’re looking for, ASW can help you with proposing, advertising, and funding a new club or organization.

Living on campus gives you a community of people to study, hang out, and explore with and allows you to take advantage of everything on campus as well as in the surrounding Sugar House neighborhood and nearby downtown Salt Lake City.

Westminster University Athletics is a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) and NCAA Division II. Westminster currently has 17 NCAA II sports teams and 7 non-NCAA sports teams. The men's soccer club and the spirit team (cheer and dance) are non-affiliated programs within the athletics program.

The Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center is home to the Fitness, Wellness, and Recreation department and hosts a variety of educational and exercise programs and services that can positively impact your health and well-being. From the climbing wall to group exercise, certifications, personal training, and more, the center has a lot to offer.

Westminster’s intramural program provides fun and friendly competition in a variety of individual and team sports and activities. You can join a team or apply for a paid intramural officiating position to build job skills and increase familiarity with a sport.

The Forum is Westminster’s student news source, providing news coverage on and beyond campus, including written, podcast, and video news pieces.

ellipsis… Literature and Art Journal is a nationally and internationally recognized journal published by the students of Westminster, featuring poetry and creative writing by Westminster students and guest contributors.

The Myriad is an online journal that showcases the scholarly and creative works published by undergraduate Westminster University students from all academic programs.

The Campus Bookstore is your destination for course materials and Westminster merchandise. In addition to buying items for yourself, your friends and family can even order merchandise online to show their Griffin pride alongside you. And, renting or buying new textbooks online each semester has been made super easy with the online ordering available to you.

Dining services on campus are provided by Sodexo. You can catch a meal with friends in Shaw or stop by Griff’s Roost for your morning cup of coffee. Daily menus for Shaw and dining hours can be found on the Sodexo website.

The Career Center can offer you help with networking, personal branding, interview preparation, and much more! By taking advantage of the Career Center, you’ll be well prepared for whatever career or other professional ventures you seek out once you graduate.

The Counseling Center assists students in clarifying and accomplishing personal and academic goals and offers individual counseling, group counseling, support groups, referral services, and programming.

Westminster's integrated approach to wellness empowers you to live a healthy life, develop confidence, and create your community on campus. Through prevention and intervention programs, you will learn a holistic approach to well-being that will help you discover health, happiness, purpose, and form connections on campus.

Campus Mail Services can receive, deliver, and hold mail and packages for students in on-campus housing. For your convenience, you can also drop off stamped letters and postage paid packages on campus to be sent out.

The Purple Basket addresses the impact of hunger, nutrition, housing insecurity, and disparities in access to basic needs. Students can access free sustainable and ethically sourced foods as well as hygiene and basic household items.

Student Disability Services provides equal access in higher education to academically qualified students with physical, learning, and psychiatric disabilities and works with departments to help ensure that programs and facilities are accessible to all members of the community.

Westminster hires hundreds of students each year. You can put your skills and passions to work in a variety of different offices and departments on campus, including many positions which offer internship level job opportunities to gain real-world experience while you complete your studies.

Student Health Services offers quick, convenient, and affordable access to medical care provided by a family nurse practitioner who can diagnose and treat common health problems. Student Health Services offers services for well and sick visits, prescriptions, and family planning as well as certain immunizations, procedures, and testing.

Free tutoring is available for business, math, physics, computer science, and chemistry undergraduate courses through various tutoring centers. Assistance with writing is also available to all students through the Writing Center.