Cross-Cultural Center Celebrates 20 Years
Campus NewsIn the mid-1990s, a shrinking number of students from underrepresented groups and an increasingly hostile state and national climate to people of color strained race relations at the University of California, San Diego. Through protest, signature gathering and teach-ins, students from the Student Affirmative Action Coalition (SAAC) along with concerned faculty and staff called for the establishment of a center that would support the concerns of underrepresented and underserved students while at the same time build campus engagement for diversity and social justice issues.
