Student Outreach and Retention Center

Affiliate Resources

Affiliate Drive

Affiliate Drive (Click here)

Only approved Affiliates will be granted access. The shared drive has the following information:
  • SOAR Funding Guide
  • Previous SOAR training (including Risk management, Event Planning 101, Redefining programs with impact, etc.)
  • Guides on best practices when working with minors
  • Zoom games & energizers cheat sheet
  • Budget templates
  • UCI-approved vendor lists
*If your organization has been approved but has trouble accessing the drive, please email soaring@uci.edu.

Purchasing Request Form

Submit your request for purchases using this form. Only Affiliate organizations that have completed their funding awards may submit this form. If you have any more questions, please reach out to the Affiliate Co-Chairs.

Risk Assessment Intake Form

Risk Assessment Intake Form (Click here)

Submit your Risk Assessment In-take form if your organization would like to request a Waiver of Liability or Media Release Waiver for your program.

Organizations must submit a new waiver every year. Meetings with SOAR Staff & Risk Services will be scheduled on Wednesdays between 3-5 pm. After you submit your intake form, please check your email for the next steps in getting your waiver.

SOAR Equipment Loan

SOAR's Equipment Loan (Click here)

SOAR’s Equipment Loan Program aims to ease some financial burdens affiliated student organizations may face by making specific equipment readily available. This program offers affiliated student organizations the option to borrow equipment for the 2023-2024 academic year.

The equipment that SOAR offers to affiliated student organizations consists of the following:

  • Canopy
  • Wagon
  • Table
  • Bubble Maker
  • Balloon Air Pump
  • Walkie-Talkie
  • Canopy Weights

All signers and specified general members of affiliated student organizations must read and sign this equipment loan contract via Docusign before submitting the request to check out SOAR equipment. Only RCO board members and general members who have signed the agreement can initiate the equipment check-out process. Once the contract is signed, you can submit your reservation request for the equipment below.

Spring Quarter Affiliate Meetings/Gatherings

  • Week 2: Advocacy & Adversity on April 8, 2024 from 3:30-5 pm
  • Week 4: Restorative Justice Practices part 2 on April 22, 2024 from 3:30-5 pm
  • Week 6: Transition Training on May 6, 2024 from 3:30-5 pm
  • Week 8: Affiliate Presentations & Celebration on May 20, 2024 from 3:30-6 pm
April 8, 2024

Advocacy & Adversity

Affiliates join us for this training where we will discuss advocacy & adversity within our educational system. Will will look at access rates as well as retention rates and how our OSIP/RSIP grantees connect to these issues. The meeting will be the SOAR MPR. 

April 22, 2024

Restorative Justice Practices part 2

This will be the second part to our initial training in Winter quarter with community organizer, Tanya Suzuki. Join us as we explore topics of power and community building through a restorative justice lens and how to continue to incorporate these values within your student organizations. We look forward to seeing you there! The meeting will be the SOAR MPR. 

Bulletin Board

Have an event you want to promote? Submit your event flyer today to be featured on the Affiliates' Bulletin Board!