University of California, Los Angeles
PAE-8: Support Programs for Underrepresented Groups

The Academic Advancement Program (AAP) - AAP is a a multiracial program that represents access, equity, opportunity, and excellence. AAP's goals are to ensure academic success, retention, and graduation of its more than 6,500 students, to increase the number of these students entering graduate and professional schools and to develop the academic, political, scientific, economic, and community leadership necessary to transform our society in the 21st century. AAP programs and services are linked together by an underlying belief that all AAP students have earned their academic right to be at UCLA and have demonstrated the academic potential to excel at, and graduate from, UCLA. AAP encourages and promotes academic achievement and excellence by providing students with tutoring, academic programs, academic, personal, and career counseling, graduate mentoring, scholarships, research opportunities, stipends, opportunities to participate in innovative science programs, and a computer lab. Founding date: AAP was founded in 1973. AAP was formed as a mold of two programs, the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) in 1964, and High Potential Program (HPP) in 1968. The Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) - CEED is committed to the development, recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented engineering and computing students. The CEED Mission is to work with a community of partners to ensure equity and parity in the K-20 pathways that lead to engineering and computing degrees. CEED’s undergraduate retention approach offers numerous programs and services focused on the personal, academic, and career development of economically disadvantaged and underrepresented engineering and computing students at UCLA. CEED provides academic and professional workshops, access to financial support and internships, research programs, clustering of students into the same sections of classes to support academic collaboration and high performance, academic enrichment programs, academic advisement, and support of three student organizations: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and Society of Latino Engineers and Scientists (SOLES). CEED’s undergraduate program currently supports about 200 economically disadvantaged, undergraduate engineering and computing majors of all backgrounds—89% underrepresented (African-American, Latino, American Indian) and 11% other. Twenty-two percent (22%) of CEED students are female. Founding date: CEED was founded in 1983. http://www.diversity.ucla.edu/undergrad/index.htm

UCLA has an office specifically dedicated to supporting underrepresented groups within faculty entitled the"Office for Faculty Diversity & Development", which supports a culture of inclusion through faculty and chair development programs, programs to enhance the graduate pipeline, increasing access to work/life resources and more robust procedures, training and follow-up related to faculty searches. http://www.diversity.ucla.edu/faculty/index.htm

UCLA supports underrepresented groups within the staff through the Staff Affirmative Action Office (SAAO), which conducts briefings and training on affirmative action and equal employment opportunity programs and responsibilities, workforce demographics, and legislative and policy updates. Briefings and training programs are available on topics such as; Affirmative Action/EEO Compliance, Disability Discrimination, Discrimination Complaint Investigation and Resolution Process, and Managing Diversity. http://www.diversity.ucla.edu/staff/index.htm