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Community Engagement
Engaged Students Today ~ Civic Leaders Tomorrow
Quick Resources
Staff
- Joyce Burstein
- Faculty Director
- Danielle Spratt
- Assistant Director
- Nicole Linton
- Service Learning Coordinator
- Donald Lilly
- Administrative Support Coordinator
- Nicol Jensen
- Undergraduate Student Assistant
2013-14 CE Advisory Board
- Joyce H. Burstein, COE, Director
- Doug Kaback, AMC, Assistant Director
- Debi Cours, SBM
- Danielle Spratt, HUM
- Amy Levin, SBS
- Sloane Burke, HHD
- Virginia Vandergon-Oberholzer, CSM
- Nhut Ho, ECS
Service Learning at CSU Northridge
Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Faculty choose a limited number of meaningful partnerships with the goal of providing students with different, but consistent off-campus learning experiences. Through service learning, students-from kindergartners to college students-use what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems. They not only learn the practical applications of their studies, they become actively contributing citizens and community members through the service they perform.
Service Learning Pedagogical Development
- Workshops designed Introduce the Pedagogy & to Strengthen the Pedagogy of Service Learning
- Assistance Revising Course Syllabi to Include a Service Learning Component
- Reading Recommendations for Students Engaged in Service Learning
- Assistance Completing the Service Learning Project Planning Checklist
Risk Management Support for Service Learning Courses
- Process Requests to Partner from Community Agencies for the purposes of service learning
- Conduct Sites Visits to Potenial Community Partners to determine potenial risks to students
- Provide a Database for Students Service Learning Plans and Agreements (kept on file for 3 years for audits)
- Collect and Electronically Store Student Time Sheets and Site Supervisors Evaluations of Students (kept on file for 3 years for audits)
Additional Services
- Pre- and Post-Service Evaluations are available for Faculty wishing to gauge students' tendencies toward civic engagement (useful for conducting research)
- Competitive Grant Process to Support Development of New Service Learning Courses
- Competitive Grant Process to support both Discipline-Based and Interdisciplinary Service Learning Course Projects
Inventory Survey
Faculty and staff can now report their community service, engagement and outrach efforts through one campus wide survey.
Service Learning Course Catalog
Click here for a list of courses frequently taught with a Service Learning component. It is recommended that you check the course notes when registering for any of these classes. The notes will specify if the course includes service hours in the community.
Contact Us
- Community Engagement
- 18111 Nordhoff Street
- Sierra Hall 443
- Northridge, CA 91330-8370
- Dr. Joyce Burstein, Director
- Joyce.Burstein@csun.edu
- Nicole Linton, Service Learning Coordinator
- Nicole.Linton@csun.edu
- (818) 677-7395
- Hours: M-F, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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