Student Advocacy Coalition

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Student Advocacy Coalition

The Champaign-Urbana chapter of Student Advocacy Coalition. Focused on advocating for student needs and rights in the legislative arena.

A student organization dedicated to advocating for higher education, student rights, and policy changes that positively impact students at the University of Illinois.

08/19/2022

Interested in joining us this year in SAC? Fill out the form at bit.ly/SACFall2022InterestForm to get information on our first info session and to get on our mailing list!

05/03/2022

new SAC exec just dropped ! we are very excited for the upcoming year 🎉🤤

04/25/2022

We are excited to announce our outstanding exec for the upcoming year! 🥳 Thank you to all those who ran. We also want to thank our outgoing exec members, President Tyeese Braslavsky and VP External Schuyler Roberts, for their dedication and leadership 🥰 We hope to make y’all proud!
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04/19/2022

Last night, we were recognized as the Outstanding RSO at the Social Justice Awards! 🥳 We are so honored to receive this award. Our work as SAC would not have been possible without your dedication as members and fellow student orgs that we’ve been so fortunate to partner with 🥰 We sincerely thank all of you

04/12/2022

Hi, everyone! Bit of a longer post ahead but it's important.

Saturday marked the end of the Illinois General Assembly's legislative session which means the end of our budget conversations and the end of our year-long mental health appropriations project. We are super excited to say that U of I System received a substantial budget increase: an additional $28.1 million for FY22 and an increase of $33.2 million + 5.3% for FY23. This means that campus mental health services funding will also increase since it was a key pillar of this budget ask. Although we are unable to say by how much at this time since U of I System has yet to have its internal budget apportionment conversations, but we are still insanely excited this is happening and are thankful to each and every one of our members, student organizational partners, and the staff at the Office of Government Relations for making this possible. From early conversations with students and the counseling center to story collection to lobby days and everything budget advocacy, YOU made this happen! YOU made your voice heard loud and clear first to the Board of Trustees who approved the budget ask (the stories you shared helped put memtal health on it!!) and then to the General Assembly! And we have nothing but eternal gratitude for that. This mental health initiative originated as a student push and this student passion is what ultimately made it a success.

There is a reason we're called the Student Advocacy Coalition: our work cannot and could not be done without the insanely passionate and dedicated members of the campus community and this year proves that! Thank you for sticking with us and here's to many more wonderful years to come!

Sincerely,
SAC❤

04/11/2022

Hi, everyone! We hope you’re enjoying this nice weather ☀️ We have some exciting news: it’s time to elect our exec board for next year! Check your email for the application form and for a description of each position (there is a new position!). Applications are due by 11:59pm on Sunday, April 17. We’ll vote April 18-24! If you have any questions, reach out to a current member of exec 🤠
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04/07/2022

Last night, we had the pleasure of speaking with Mayor Marlin from Urbana and Mayor Feinen from Champaign! We had a blast hearing about your journey in politics and the cooperation between both governments. Your passion for your constituents and for making these cities better places is so tangible!
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04/03/2022

Hey, there! Join us this Wednesday the 6th at 7pm for our monthly general meeting 😎 Note the room change: we are in Gregory Hall Room 319. The Zoom link was sent via email, so check that out if you are not able to attend our meeting in person 🙌 We are so excited that the mayors from Champaign and Urbana are joining us! Come prepared with some questions for them. There will be food! 🍽 We can’t wait to see y’all there

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03/30/2022

A little for y'all and a reminder that even though we aren't doing in-person events, our lobbying efforts still continue!
We're in the last 2 weeks of legislative session and we're doing our final push for increased mental health, scholarship, faculty, and bridge program appropriations for the University of Illinois! Check out this link to send an email to your legislators to urge them to support this effort and make higher education more accessible for all: https://uillinois.quorum.us/campaign/39388/

03/23/2022

And today we wrapped up our student lobby days with a meeting with State Senator Scott Bennett! Thank you, Senator, for your leadership and championing higher education!

03/18/2022

And to wrap up the week, we met with Representative Stuart! Thank you for such a great conversation about higher education and the student experience!

03/17/2022

And another 2 exciting meetings for the books! Thank you to State Senator Celina Villanueva (not pictured) and Senator Michael E. Hastings for meeting with our students on Tuesday and today! Your passion for equity, for student success, and higher education truly shows and we loved talking about it with you!

Address

909 S 5th St
Urbana, IL
61820-6219

Website

http://studentadvocacycoalition.weebly.com/

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