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CCE Reflections
  • Foundational Models for STEM Learning
    The CSU STEM VISTA program funds CSU campus teams that aspire to improve STEM student retention and completion rates, primarily for students of color, Pell-grant recipients, women and students who are first in their family to attend college.
  • Leading around and within
    More than a decade ago, I met Sister Susan while planning a silent meditation retreat at a local mission. Sister Susan always signed her emails with ‘peace around and within.’ The weight of these four little words have never left me.
  • Community Engagement in the CSU
    Community engagement experiences afford students opportunities to immerse themselves in the issues communities face and encourages them to learn from and serve alongside community members.
  • COVID-19 Increases Demand for CalState S4
    Response to the coronavirus has changed the way all of us do business. The CSU Center for Community Engagement is supporting campuses and community partners to navigate the changes with the use of technology, CalState S4.
  • CSU STEM VISTA Strengthens Alumni Relationships
    As the CSU STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) VISTA program supports its 100th volunteer, we are launching a new initiative aimed to help alumni stay connected.
  • Engaged Departments
    Welcome to the CSU Office of Community Service Learning website on Engaged Departments! We have prepared this site as a starting point for campus discussions on why and how to create an Engaged Department (ED).
  • Campus Compact’s Engaged Department Institute Initiative
    The California State University has been pleased to offer, in partnership with national Campus Compact and California Campus Compact, the Engaged Department Institute for CSU academic departments in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
  • Institutionalizing Community Service Learning in the CSU
    In 2000-2001, the California State University (CSU) began what would become a 20-year partnership with the the Corporation for National and Community Service. Through the support of Learn and Serve America, the CSU implemented a three-year grant program,