SIAC (Student Initiated Access Committee)
The Student Initiated Access Committee (SIAC) was created in the spring of 1998 as a means of funding 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 20 years. For underrepresented students, there has been an historic lack of adequate outreach services and relevant educational support in institutions of higher education and in K-12 education. Hence, students have consistently addressed these needs by providing relevant, culturally sensitive and institutionally challenging student and community services.