Home
Welcome
CSUN changes lives both on campus and across the region. Faculty, staff, students and administrators are committed to improving our local community. Hundreds are engaged in service projects big and small across the San Fernando Valley and beyond each semester. Indeed, CSUN shines.
While we may do a great job in the community, we could do a much better job of inventorying our outreach and service activities. This is an attempt to rectify that.
What data is collected?
Basically, the survey will ask you who you are, what you're doing in the community in terms of outreach, community service, or partnerships with various groups, individuals and organizations in the San Fernando Valley. The survey will prompt you for information regarding where, when, how long, with whom, and for whom you've been engaged in activities. Not all questions will be germaine to your activity. You can skip those.
Upon completing the survey, your responses are recorded in a spreadsheet that can be downloaded, sorted and organized.
The resultant database also powers an interactive map that viewers can use to see quickly the extent and location of service activities. By clicking on points on the map, users can activate informational pop-up windows displaying key information about where, what, when and who each activity involved.
How can I contribute my efforts to the database?
It's pretty easy. Just click on the link below to go to the community service inventory survey.
You may edit your response (if you save the link provided at the end of the survey)
How can I use the data once it is collected?
One of the important functions of this data is to help people both on and off campus identify partnerships, relationships and duplicative efforts in the community. This may be very important for people both on and off campus who are engaged in the grant writing process. It is common for grants to ask for an assessment of needs and capacities. This database should provide at the very least some of the information about our institutional capacities and activities as we seek to help the community meet its needs.
For more information...
Please contact Steve Graves in the Department of Geography, or the contact person in your college responsible for collecting data regarding your service / outreach / engagement data..