Community Engagement & Belonging

African American Awareness Association (4A) The 4A club aims to create a safe space for African Americans at University Liggett School, reduce racial aggression and microaggression through education, and to give back to the community. 4A achieves these goals through school presentations and need-based and charitable fundraising.

Lower School Changemakers The purpose of the club is to help build an equitable lower school community, make connections, share our stories, and celebrate diversity.

Middle School Changemakers The purpose of the club is to help build an equitable middle school community, make connections, share our stories, and celebrate diversity.

Spectrum actively supports the needs of the LGBTQIA+ and ally community at University Liggett School and beyond. In addition to serving as an LGBTQIA+  conversation and advocacy group, Spectrum extends its mission into the community with activities including participation in the Focus Hope Walk and Grosse Pointe Pride march, visits to Affirmations in Ferndale, and work with the Ruth Frank Home for Girls. 

Women's Awareness Club (WAC) provides a like-minded space for students to express feelings on gender-based issues in the community. WAC uses club time to educate its members and others on topics like intersectional feminism, period stigma in schools, and sexism in the workplace. Members decorate the school for Women’s History Month, and fundraises and volunteers for several women-oriented causes and organizations.

Students Advocating for Equity A student led social justice club devoted to ensuring that all students are seen and heard. The club is devoted to students fighting for and promoting for social justice efforts.

Student Community Engagement and Belonging Council Student Council devoted to promoting, spreading, and advocating acceptance and respect of everyone in the University Liggett School by planning and participating in events that exemplify the council motto of “accept and respect.”