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Environmental, social, and governance initiatives.
Investing for the good of all.
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A support network for our treasured communities.
The university community is as diverse and wide-ranging as the people and creatures who inhabit our precious planet.
As such, we feel a deep sense of responsibility to help protect the earth’s people and resources. Through dedicated initiatives and strict finance and lending policies, we are doing our part to lift up underserved communities and halt activities that harm the environment.
A solid foundation of service to our communities.
Security, privacy, and trust
We place the highest priority on keeping member information confidential and secure. We understand the need to safeguard sensitive information about you that you have entrusted to us.
Security, privacy, and trust
Ethics and integrity
Our board of directors, who are member-owners just like you, volunteer their time to put the interests of member-owners first and foremost in our not-for-profit cooperative.
Ethics and integrity
Health and wellbeing
We provide an extensive support network via our employee healthcare services, supporting physical and mental wellbeing for our employees and their families.
Health and wellbeing
Crisis response
When dangerous environmental events affect our community, we support our member-owners and staff with volunteer time, financial support, and donations of aid.
Crisis response
Aligning our goals for the greater good.
We know being socially and environmentally responsible are important to our member-owners and we have Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing frameworks and lending practices in place.
UCU does not lend to or invest in risky loans or other non-consumer friendly ventures. We have NOT and NEVER will invest in or lend to these types of companies:
- Arctic Drilling
- Fracking
- Coal Power Energy
- Big Tobacco
- Rainforest destruction
At UCU, belonging isn’t just a value—it’s the foundation of our culture.
Belonging empowers employees to bring their authentic selves, collaborate openly, and share their best ideas. It drives engagement, innovation, and trust, creating an inclusive environment where every voice matters. By celebrating diversity, fostering inclusion, and ensuring equity, we strengthen our ability to serve members and communities. When people feel valued, they thrive—turning our values into action and making UCU a place to stay, grow, and succeed together.
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Flexible work/life balance with remote and hybrid work options
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A diverse workforce spanning 20 different states
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Annual paid volunteer time for employees to give back to their communities
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Annual employee events and celebrations
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Involvement and support of our university communities.
It is our intent to support human involvement and invest financial resources in selected charitable, community, and civic organizations whose goals and objectives are consistent with the credit union philosophy of improving credit union members’ well-being, advocating and promoting the credit union ideal of cooperative self-help, and bringing about human and social development within our community.
We actively give back to the universities we proudly support. Highlighted below are some of our efforts to support underrepresented groups within our university community:
- UCLA
- Scholarship Support – UCLA Black alumni Association & Staff Assembly
- Donations – UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital Toy Drive
- Event Support – UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital Halloween Trick-or-Treating
- Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
- Scholarship Support – LMU African American Alumni Association
- Student Groups and Organizations support – LMU Latino Alumni Association
- Donations - Food pantry
- Saint Mary's College (SMC)
- Financial Workshops – SMC High Potential Program
- Donations - Food pantry
- Santa Clara University (SCU)
- Donations – SCU Basic Needs Program, Food pantry
- Student Groups and Organizations support – SCU Lead Scholars First-Gen college student financial literacy
- UC Davis (UCD)
- Event Support – 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb, UCD Athletics Women in Leadership, UCD Alumni Careers & Identity Conference
- Financial Workshops - Cross Cultural Center, Latino Faculty & Staff Association, Ceasar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference, Early Academic Outreach program, Office of Asian and Pacific Islander Retention Initiative, Center for African Diaspora Student Success
- Donations - Food pantry
- UC Irvine (UCI)
- Event Support – UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge
- Donations - Food pantry
- UC San Diego (UCSD)
- Financial Workshops - Women's Center, Black resource center, Veterans Center, Raza Centro, Black Staff Association, Chancellor's Associate Scholarship Program (CASP), Basic Needs Center, Women in Business
- Event Support - The Collective Impact Affordable Learning & Financial Support Working Group
- Donations – Annual support for UCSD Basic Needs Center, Triton Food Pantry
- Pepperdine University
- Financial Workshops- Black Student and Alumni Association workshop series
- UT Arlington (UTA)
- Financial Workshops - Be Money Smart Week
Ways we give back.
At University Credit Union, we give back to our community with annual volunteer drives, donations, and events. Take a closer look at how we support the communities we serve.
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Land acknowledgement
We recognize that University Credit Union operates in and serves members across the state of California and beyond, and that California is comprised of lands that are traditional territories for several Indigenous Nations. We offer this acknowledgment to affirm Indigenous sovereignty and to offer our respect and honor for the Indigenous People and the paths they have shown us in living with and caring for these lands. We also pay our respects to the Elders past, present, and emerging, for they hold the memories, traditions, cultures, and hopes of Indigenous peoples.
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University Credit Union offers membership to employees, students and alumni of UCLA, Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, Santa Clara University, Saint Mary's College, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, University of Texas at Arlington, Abilene Christian University, Mount St. Mary's University, Chabot College and Las Positas College, West Coast Conference Universities, Western Athletic Conference Universities, and other universities throughout California. UCU offers a variety of products and services including checking accounts, credit cards, home mortgages, auto loans, personal loans, commercial loans, insurance, investments, as well as digital banking.
University Credit Union offers membership to employees, students and alumni of UCLA, Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, Santa Clara University, Saint Mary's College, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, University of Texas at Arlington, Abilene Christian University, Mount St. Mary's University, Chabot College and Las Positas College, West Coast Conference Universities, Western Athletic Conference Universities, and other universities throughout California. UCU offers a variety of products and services including checking accounts, credit cards, home mortgages, auto loans, personal loans, commercial loans, insurance, investments, as well as digital banking.
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