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| Volume III, No. 5 |
Your Monthly Source of Community Service-Learning News |
February 8, 2006 |
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News Stories
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Nancy
Jean Smith, CSU Stanislaus, Teacher Education
(right), assists one of her students in EDMS
4130 Teaching Science and Health Methods at
Nightingale Elementary School in Stockton. Dr.
Smith and her students show elementary school
youth how to use science to build and maintain
a community garden at the school.
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Recognition Opportunities |
You still have time to nominate
faculty and students for the esteemed Campus
Compact awards. The deadline varies between
February 17 and March 3. |
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Quotable Quotes |
“How is it that young
people assert their concern for our national well-being
yet fail to act on those beliefs? …The answers
are many. The solutions few. But one essential
element is clear -- public education has failed
to prepare our young people for civic life.”
An excerpt of an opinion
editorial written by CSU Stanislaus President
Hamid Shirvani that ran in the Modesto Bee.
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More Campus Highlights |
Through a rigorous
competition, San Jose State University
(SJSU) was awarded a $100,000 Difficult
Dialogues grant funded by the Ford Foundation.
SJSU will involve a core group of student and
faculty leaders to facilitate and create multiple
opportunities for students to engage in open discussion
of religious and cultural diversity in both an
academic and co-curricular context. SJSU anticipates
that the student-training component will have
a service-learning element and also plans to pilot
test curriculum in the First Year Experience program.
Sonoma State was also awarded
a $10,000 stipend to assist with the First Year
Experience Pilot, featuring a multi-disciplinary
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| Service Learning
and Teacher Education
Forge an Alliance
One strategic viewpoint embraced by the Office of Community
Service Learning is to link the efforts of our service-learning
programs to the broader efforts of the CSU. One notable
success is the recent partnership between service learning
and teacher education.
The CSU annually produces nearly 60% of the new teachers
in California. And this year, one of the chief priorities
in teacher education is doubling the number of credentialed
teachers in math
and science by 2010. The CSU recently awarded campus
grants, and several campuses articulated the significant
role service learning can play in recruiting college
students into the teaching profession as well as enhancing
science and math literacy for K-12 students.
- At CSU Channel Islands, as part
of their service-learning projects, credential students
will analyze current materials used in math and science
teacher recruitment and integrate strategies for sharing
program information to high school students both in
formal (career day, parent night) and informal (lunch,
prep period) settings.
- At CSU Chico, K-12 students utilize
the Hands On Laboratory program to learn science concepts
on campus while being mentored by service-learning
students. Similar to this concept, CSU San
Bernardino service-learning students from
math and biology will be visiting local middle and
high schools to offer tutoring and laboratory experiences.
- At Humboldt State and CSU
Stanislaus, parallel efforts will occur with
a focus on designing new service-learning courses
taught by math and science faculty.
Campus
News Several campuses have recently received
external grants involving service learning and civic
engagement activities for students.
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CSU Northridge
has received a $11,000 grant from MetLife Foundation
for a Health Literacy Initiative coordinated by
SHINE
(Students Helping In the Naturalization of Elders),
a national consortium program of universities and
community-based organizations. The Initiative aides
elderly immigrants and refugees, who are learning
English, improve their access to healthcare.
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