SCAP is a campus-based organization that forms students to become socially aware and effective leaders in the community through the five areas of concerns- (1) Values Education, (2) Social Justice, (3) Environmental Sustainability, (4) Science and Technology, (5) IT and Social Media. SCAP serves more than 80 years of molding consistent student leaders for the church and society. It applies the inquiry method of see-judge-act in seeing reality and deeply reflecting its actions. The organization was founded by Columban priest, Fr. Edward McCarthy, SSC in UP Manila. It started as a scholastic philosophy club with an aim to counter the anti-Christian attacks of the growing atheism in the campus on April 12, 1936.