About

What is SAC?

The CSE Student advisery Council (SAC) is a student organization whose mission is to amplify voices across the Allen School to create long-term change. We are a passionate organization focused on improving the Allen School experience. This includes collecting student feedback, producing reports, hosting events, leading initiatives, and facilitating conversations between faculty and undergraduates. Feel free to email questions, comments, or concerns to sac-officers@cs.washington.edu!

Prior projects include:

• Drafting a letter to faculty to ensure equitable testing policies during COVID. As a result, almost no Spring 2020 classes had tests.
• Reporting on inequities in testing for students with Disabilities, leading to the school-wide implementation of our recommendations
• Hosting a panel on Failure and Vulnerability, featuring professors and resources on overcoming failure.

What SAC Does

Below are a few examples of what SAC officers work on:

• Engaging with partners across the Allen School, including student group leaders, undergrads, faculty, staff, advisors, graduate students, and others.
• Hosting events to raise awareness and directly support students
• Collecting data, whether quantitative (e.g. “What percentage of students would like tutoring help?”) or qualitative (e.g. “What experiences did students with disabilities face from being in the Allen School?”).
• Writing reports directed to faculty that contextualize student issues, demonstrate evidence, and explain necessary actions that the Allen School should take.

Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We welcome all candidates to apply. Our priority is to find people who care about improving the Allen School student experience by amplifying undergraduate voices. To amplify all voices, we must be able to hear them. Regardless of your identity, whether racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, socioeconomic background, we are interested in hearing from you.