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Virtual Faculty Showcase: Community-Engaged Teaching in Practice – Apr 17

hillarya — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:42:25 +0000

Join us on April 17 for an energizing, virtual faculty-to-faculty showcase highlighting innovative community-engaged teaching practices from across the California State University system.

At Purpose in Practice: Community-Engaged Teaching Across the Curriculum, you’ll hear directly from faculty who are integrating community-focused approaches across disciplines—from service-learning to broader models of community-engaged pedagogy.

In just 75 minutes, you’ll explore practical, adaptable strategies related to:

Student wellbeing and belonging
AI and social justice
Community partnerships that advance civic learning and public impact
Applied learning that strengthens career readiness

These examples highlight how community-engaged teaching can deepen student engagement while preparing students to address real-world challenges in their communities and future professions.

Date and Time: April 17, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM PST (Zoom)

View the sessions and register.

Whether you’re new to community-engaged teaching or refining your approach, you’ll leave with ideas you can adapt in your own context.

2025 National Social Mobility Symposium: Driving Social and Economic Mobility: Evolving Rankings, Shaping Policy and Building a Workforce for the Future – Feb 20-21

hillarya — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:11:11 +0000

Join colleagues from institutions nationwide to share insights and explore innovative approaches to supporting student success through partnerships with businesses, K-12 school districts, nonprofits and the broader community. Together, we’ll advance social mobility and develop solutions that empower students.

The national Social Mobility Symposium, hosted by California State University San Marcos, will be held Thursday, Feb. 20 and Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in beautiful San Diego County.

Learn more and register.

Article: Grant to train new teachers for high-need urban schools

hillarya — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:54:31 +0000

The College of Education at Cal State LA has been awarded a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to continue the success of the university’s Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency (LAUTR) program.

The residency program, which trains new teachers to help close the achievement gap of students in high-need urban schools, has prepared 12 cohorts of graduates currently teaching in high-need California schools since 2009.

The five-year grant will propose to develop 276 community-centered teachers to deliver culturally sustaining instruction for students in critical areas of special education, secondary STEM education and bilingual education. This is the third time the college has received this grant through the ED Teacher Quality Partnership Program.

“This grant provides Cal State LA the opportunity to ground the education of the teachers in the communities in which they will teach,” said A.Dee Williams, interim associate dean and professor of curriculum and instruction in the university’s College of Education, who is the lead principal investigator.

Juneteenth Symposium Live Stream – Jun 15-16

hillarya — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:16:19 +0000

Join California State University’s inaugural Juneteenth Symposium, a two-day event celebrating African American history and achievement and promoting and sustaining the anti-racism work underway across the CSU’s 23 campuses.

This vibrant first-ever event will feature world-class speakers, evocative student performances, thought-provoking panel discussions and interactive breakout sessions meant to inspire connection, innovation and continued pursuit of a just and equitable world.

Learn more and register.

CSU Community Engagement’s 3-Part Webinar Series – Webinar Recordings, Slides, Resources, Evaluation

hillarya — Fri, 22 May 2020 16:00:36 +0000

Our 3-part webinar series focused on Creating Virtual and Remote Service-Learning Experiences. Each session was 1-hour and featured a panel of experts representing a wide array of disciplines and expertise in online learning formats and e-service learning. Higher education instructors and students around the world recently made a rapid transition to remote teaching and learning. As we prepare more thoughtfully for Summer and Fall 2020, we now ask “How do we create virtual or remote Service Learning experiences that meet requirements?” Together we outlined how the key components of service-learning pedagogy (e.g., preparation, action, reflection, evaluation) can be adapted to online environments.

The three-part webinar series focused on:

developing an online/remote learning experiential education course (predominantly focused on service learning, but other experiential programs may benefit); Password: 2Z!5.2?8.
embedding remote SL experiences that are responsive to community needs; Password: 7w%x4.5^
designing critical reflection activities in virtual learning settings, Password: 4u&L4BoL

Other resources:

Webinar Series Evaluation (5 mins) – as we work to be responsive to the needs across the CSU and California, we hope you will take 5-minutes to complete this brief survey and let us know what worked well and what we could do better in the future.
Slides and Resources – resources and slides from the series can be found on this google folder.

Podcast Highlights STEM and Service-Learning

hillarya — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:36:32 +0000

In this Higher Ed Rewired podcast episode, titled A Brighter Future – Students Build and Deliver Solar Power, Erik Helgren a physics professor at Cal State East Bay co-teaches the solar suitcase class which introduces students to careers in STEM, engages students to work alongside K-12 in peer-led service-learning projects and address energy needs across the globe. “They [students] want to know how to be able to solve problems. And through the active learning, they get so much more engaged…and as they are learning by doing they are also then learning about how solar technology is a solution to today’s energy problems.”

Professor Helgren says that offering these classes earlier could help solve a known problem in science education: the leaky pipeline, a phenomenon where students start out excited by science and math but eventually drop away.

For this podcast and others in the series go here: https://www2.calstate.edu/higher-ed-rewired or subscribe to Higher Ed Rewired on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.