Meetings Overview

Each year, the Office of Community Service Learning hosts several systemwide meetings, forums, and workshops. The purpose and participants of these gatherings vary greatly - some focus on building participant skills, some highlight best practices, and others emphasize developing action agendas for future efforts.

Our meetings provide an opportunity to bring together educators who are doing similar work to discuss, learn and reflect on the service-learning movement in the CSU and across the nation. We hope that you can join us for future meetings and find information about past meetings helpful.

Upcoming Meetings

• The Third Annual CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research, March 7-8, 2008, at the Westin LAX Hotel, Los Angeles
  • The theme for this year's conference, From Local to Global Perspectives, reflects how the blurring of boundaries and borders between people is affecting many aspects of higher education including student learning, curriculum, faculty research and institutional missions. During this CSU conference, the "from local to global perspectives" lens will be used to learn about the interdependent connection between local efforts, national priorities, and ultimately, our global environment from the wide-ranging efforts of our faculty, students, and community partners.

Past Meetings

• Eighth Annual Service-Learning Directors' (SLD) Retreat,
  August 8-10, 2007, at Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa
  
  • Service-learning directors gathered for two and a half days to discuss campus and systemwide strategic planning initiatives, exchange campus models and plan for the 07-08 academic year.
• 2007 Affinity Meeting for Service-Learning Directors and Community Partnerships Coordinators,
  February 22-23, 2007, at San José State University
  • Service-learning directors and community partnerships coordinators gathered at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library on the San Jose State University campus. In addition to conversations on how to utilize and maximize technological advances in service-learning, risk management and strategic planning, these service-learning leaders, had an opportunity to explore the sights and sounds of community service learning in San Jose when they met with campus community partners.
• The Second Annual CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research: Diversity in California , February 23-24, 2007, at San José, CA
  • In February 2007, more than 150 faculty engaged in community scholarship representing all 23 campuses, and their research partners attended The Second Annual CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research: Diversity in California. As one of four states designated majority-minority by the U.S. Census Bureau, the conference provided an opportunity for both novice and experienced community scholars to discuss research methods and results related to the diversity theme, and to share lessons learned in addressing critical challenges in working with the many diverse communities of California and beyond.
• Seventh Annual Service-Learning Directors' (SLD) Retreat,
  August 2-3, 2006: Pre-meeting for new service-learning directors
  August 3-4, 2006: SLD Retreat
  At Tiburon Lodge, Tiburon, CA
  
  • The Chancellor's Office, in collaboration with a consulting corps of seasoned service-learning directors, held a special one and half-day training for eight new directors on such topics as asset mapping, cultivating relationships with campus administrators, forging off-campus partnerships and a theoretical discussion on civic engagement.
  • CSU service-learning directors came together for an annual retreat that focused on strategies for sustainability, envisioning future directions at campus and systemwide levels, and exchanging campus models.
  
  
  
• Institute on Civic Learning and the First Year Experience,
  June 19-21, 2006
  • In June 2006, the CSU hosted an Institute on Civic Learning and the First Year Experience. CSU teams from eleven campuses interested in making civic skills, knowledge, and values a contributing part of their first year programs came together for 2 Ω days to develop implementation plans for a new approach to the first year experience. The participating campuses, embracing the premise that civic engagement is a valuable way to achieve first year objectives, grappled with one of the academyís big questions: is civic engagement in the first year a distraction from more important first year work, or is it a valuable way to achieve key first year objectives in the first year?
  
  
  
• The First CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research, March 3-4, 2006 at Kellogg West Conference Center, Cal Poly Pomona
  • The CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research brought together CSU faculty, as well as their community or student research partners, to learn how to integrate service learning and research, to discuss research methods and results, to build multi-campus and interdisciplinary collaborations, and to share lessons learned from challenges faced while working with communities in California and beyond.
  
  
  
• The Artful Partnership: Advancement and Community Service Learning,
  October 6, 2005 at San Jose State University
  • On October 6, 2005 university leaders from development, public relations, and service learning offices were invited to attend a free day-long forum at San Jose State University, on The Artful Partnership -Advancement and Community Service Learning. The forum provided an opportunity to raise awareness of how community service-learning accomplishments can be an effective way for development and public relations staff to reach out to donors, alumni, and the general public.



• 2005 Affinity Meeting for Service-Learning Directors and Community Partnerships Coordinators, March 3-4, 2005 at Los Angeles Airport Radisson Hotel
  • On March 3-4, 2005, over 45 CSU service-learning directors and community partnerships coordinators participated in a two-day systemwide meeting. Discussing strategies for sustainability, envisioning future directions at campus and systemwide levels, and exchanging campus models were the three goals for the meeting.