DEPTEstablished in 1970 by concerned students, staff and faculty, Community Programs strives to develop personal growth by raising our consciousness so that our experiences and our management skills become relevant to community empowerment and in creating a better world for all humanity.
The Department is one of the most diverse places on campus, where students from various communities come together to learn from each other and share each other's experiences. Community Programs is a place for students to find a community away from home, a safe space where students can feel comfortable enough to grow and flourish during their time on campus.
CPO The Community Programs Office affirms that through community service that theoretical classroom instruction must be coupled with action that transforms these theories into practice.
In this manner students can come to understand the root causes of poverty and how to use their collective power to make social change. Students are encouraged to engage their work in the community with respect and an open mind, increasing opportunities for life-changing experiences. Ultimately the outcome of community service is that a student's experiences and the management skills they develop become relevant to community empowerment and to creating a better world for all humanity. Project directors and volunteers work in earnest year round to provide a plethora of social, health and youth services to under-served communities throughout Los Angeles and beyond.
SIAC The Student Initiated Access Center/Committee (SIAC) was created in the spring of 1998 as a means of housing, funding, and promoting cross-community collaboration amongst student-run and student-initiated outreach programs.
The impetus for its creation came in the wake of the dramatic drop of underrepresented students in the UC system, due to the passage of Proposition 209 and SP-1 and SP-2. Although the SIAC was created recently, student-run, student-initiated efforts have been ongoing at UCLA for over 30 years.
SRC The Student Retention Center at UCLA is a collective response to the low retention rates of students from communities with a history of low graduation rates.
The SRC is the first student-initiated, student-run retention project in the nation. Born out of student activism, the six SRC projects are the only student service projects on campus that are directly accountable to students. The SRC is funded by the Campus Retention Committee.
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