2015-2016 Service Learning Grants

2015-2016 Grant Recipients

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant  
 Professor: Bobbie Eisenstock
 Description:  Students involved in this service learning project will work with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) to help "build a model program for its new national outreach initiative Proud2Bme On Campus. These students will take part in creating interactive resources that will be used at CSUN and at various other college campuses across the country to help promote positive body image and digital media literacy.

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant and Service Learning Course Support and Dissemination Grant  
 Professor: Jimmy Gandhi
 Description: Professor Gandhi's MSE 507 students will complete their service learning project with the organization  New Horizons. Students involved in this project will work together to help improve New Horizon's assembly and  packing process. In doing so,  CSUN students will help New Horizons better serve the special needs population and  gain hands on experience applying knowledge learned in their MSE courses.  

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant 
 Professor: Sabina Magliocco
 Description: As part of this service learning project ANTH 490E students will be working with "one of several animal -  oriented organizations", using the anthropological skills they learn in this course to "access the organizations' needs  and develop programs  that address them". The goal of this service learning project is to "expose students first-hand  to issues in animal-human relationships in contemporary U.S. culture , and to teach them to apply anthropological  inquiry and skills to developing solutions that  address these issues". 

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant
 Professor: Paula DiMarco
 Description:  As part of this service learning project graphic art students enrolled in Art 458 will work with community  organizations to encourage the development of meaning and social responsibility in graphic design. As students work  with these  organizations, including the San  Fernando Valley Rescue Mission, Council for Child Abuse Prevention and  Strength United, they will be developing a "deeper understanding of the design process, concepts and skills" while  positively impacting the messages  conveyed in our community's media.  

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant
 Professor: Jorge Leal and Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens
 
 Description: "This course seeks to engage CSUN students, high school students affiliated with Heart of Los Angles  (HOLA), and community members to collectively develop a community history of Westlake-MacArthur Park." While  working on this service learning project "the CSUN and HOLA students will learn and hone their skills as researchers,  community interlocutors, and writers” by developing "preliminary historical studies" of the Westlake-MacArthur  Park area. 

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant 
 Professor:Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens (pictured) and Jorge Leal 
 Description: "This course seeks to engage CSUN students, high school students affiliated with Heart of Los Angles  (HOLA),  and community  members to collectively develop a    community history of Westlake-MacArthur Park." While  working on this service  learning project "the CSUN  and HOLA students will learn and hone their skills as researchers,  community  interlocutors, and writers"  by developing "preliminary historical  studies" of the Westlake-MacArthur Park  area. 

 Grant: Discipline Based Grant 
 Professor: Taehyun Kim 
 Description:  The goal of this service learning project is to encourage students to " think critically and creatively while  exercising news judgment in the organization and presentation of information in print, visual and electronic journalistic  forms and in a  public relation format."  While participating in this service learning project CSUN students will work  with the K. W. Lee Center for Leadership, "researching, documenting and disseminating untold stories of community  organizers, journalists and ordinary  citizens who played  decisive roles ..[in the] 1992 LA Riots".   

 Grant:Interdisciplinary Grant   
 Professor: Anubhuti Thakur (pictured) and  Shirley Warren
 Description: This service learning project well allow students taking FCS 494/l to get hands-on experience redesigning  the personal presentations and work space environments of non-profit organizations and the populations they serve.  The project will allow  CSUN students to get real life experience working with clients and learning how to better  understand clients needs and requests. Students participating in this project will help make an impact on the  community by improving the "self esteem,  social  interaction, quality of life and overall well-being" of those they  serve.

 Grant: Interdisciplinary Grant  
 Professor: Shirley Warren (pictured) and  Anubhuti Thakur
 Description:  This service learning project well allow students taking FCS 494/l to get hands-on experience  redesigning the personal presentations and work space environments of non-profit organizations and the populations  they serve. The project will allow  CSUN students to get real life experience working with clients and learning how to  better understand clients needs and requests. Students participating in this project will help make an impact on the  community by improving the "self esteem,  social  interaction, quality of life and overall well-being" of those they  serve.

 Grant: Interdisciplinary Grant  
 Professor: Rosa Furumoto and Sharon Klein 
 Description : This service learning project will allow CHS 480 students to develop and implement culturally responsive  literacy units. CSUN students enrolled in this course will have the opportunity to work along side  Parent  Pioneers assisting struggling first grade students and their families. The goal of this project is to allow future  education  professionals to practice creating and teaching lessons while simultaneously fostering language and reading                                            development in the community.  

 Grant: Interdisciplinary Grant  
 Professor: Wei Cao (and Professor Yi Cai)
 Description:  Students enrolled in FCS 472 and FCS 324 will have the opportunity to work with Taft Charter High  School's fashion program. Using the skills they learn in these courses CSUN students will help the fashion club to  prepare for its annual L'Atelier  Fashion Show; providing guidance during the creation of appeal and helping club  members to better understand consumer and personal finance issues. The goal of this project is to help increase the  community’s financial literacy and allow CSUN students to  gain valuable experience with event planning, consumer  education and personal financial literacy

 Grant: Interdisciplinary Grant  
 Professor: Yi Cai 
 Description:  Students enrolled in FCS 472 and FCS 324 will have the opportunity to work with Taft Charter High  School's fashion program. Using the skills they learn in these courses CSUN students will help the fashion club to  prepare for its annual L'Atelier  Fashion Show; providing guidance during the creation of appeal and helping club  members to better understand consumer and personal finance issues. The goal of this project is to help increase the  community’s financial literacy and allow CSUN students to  gain valuable experience with event planning, consumer  education and personal financial literacy
 

 Grant: Service Learning Course Support and Dissemination Grant  
 Professor: Virginia Vandergon
 Description:  BIOL 102 students will have the opportunity to create and implement hands-on science lesson plans.  Over an eight week period CSUN students will work with the Tomorrow's Scientist organization, teaching their lesson  plans to seventh grade students coming from Title I middles school in the San Fernando Valley. This service learning  project will allow pre-credential students to practice creating and delivering lessons while helping promote an interest  in science within our community's schools. 

 Grant: Service Learning Course Support and Dissemination Grant  
 Professor: Virginia Kennedy
 Description: This service learning project will give clear credential candidates enrolled in SPED 628MM the  opportunity to "develop, implement and evaluate a service-learning project" in a K-12 classroom. This project will help  CSUN students "actively learn  the pedagogy of service learning" and " increase the communication and community  involvement skills of their K-12 students in special education".