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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS: Community Service Learning, Civic Engagement, and Jefferson Awards
Deadline: March 22
The Community Service Learning (CSL) Program, a unit within the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement recognizes and honors one faculty member, one staff member, one student per college, and one community partner each year for contributions to community or to community service learning (CSL). Award recipients will be notified on Monday, April 1, 2013. The cash awards, available as Honoraria, will be presented at the Institute's annual Awards for Excellence event; all awardees must attend.
Please click on the appropriate bulleted award category listed below for Nomination Guidelines and Requirements. The writable Recommendation Form can be downloaded here.
CSL Recommendation Form
 Community Service Learning Award Guidelines Below |
• Faculty Award for Outstanding Community Service Learning
• Community Service Learning Student Award
• Community Partner Recognition Award Community Service Learning
Assistant Prof. Asuncion Suren was last year’s Faculty CSL Award recipient.
Community Engaged Scholarhsip Award for SF State Staff and Student
Faculty, staff, and/or students may nominate staff or students for this award. An award of $250 will be presented to one SF State staff member and to one SF State student. Candidates should have contributed to community; developed partnerships between the University and outside organizations; or enhanced the reputation of the University as one that is actively engaged with the region and the communities it serves.
| Community Engagement Award Guidelines Below |
• Staff Community Engagement Award
• Student Community Engagement Award
Jefferson Award for Public Service Civic Engagement
Established in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard as a 'Nobel Prize' for public service, this initiative recognizes individuals who make a difference on a daily basis in their local communities. The defining term is “Unsung Heroes.” These are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or award.
| Jefferson Award Guidelines |
The 2012 Jefferson Award: went to Professor Martin Linder, an associate professor in Design and Industry.
Community Engaged Scholarship Faculty Grant Program: 2013 Awardees
Each fall, the Community Service Learning Program, a unit of the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, solicits proposals from faculty for community scholarship. $4,000 grants are given to select SF State faculty to incorporate components of service learning into their courses. Funds for this program come from the California’s Call to Service Initiative to foster faculty Community Engaged Scholarship and to support the expansion of community service learning (CSL) courses. Since 2000, the CSL program has provided $370,906 to 115 faculty members. Congratulations to AY 2012-2013 awardees:
Sandy Chang, PhD, a lecturer in the School of Engineering for Engineering 220, "Energy: Resources, Alternatives, and Conservation," a General Education course that exposes students to different types of energy resources and their scientific applications. Chang will partner with Rising Sun Energy Center, a nonprofit organization focused on green jobs and renewable energy, to educate East Bay communities about on sustainability issues.
Associate Professor Anoushua Chaudhuri for ECON 640, "Health Economics Analysis and Research." This upper-division course addresses topics such as the demands for and delivery of healthcare, inequalities in health, and healthcare finance. Students will be paired with local nonprofit, community-based organizations and conduct demographic and financial data analysis that can be used to improve services or to develop proposals.
Associate Professor Jason Ferreira is developing RRS 694, "Race and Resistance Studies" to standardize community service learning across the newest unit within the College of Ethnic Studies to addresses issues of race and social justice in, between, and across communities of color.
Associate Professor Mariana Ferreira will develop a new Anthropology course, ANTH 651 to teach "Ethnographical Researh Methods," a traditional hallmark of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will learn about and practice skills in community-based participatory research to identify assets and analyze needs in the Outer Mission, Excelsior, Crocker Amazon and Outer Mission neighborhoods of San Francisco. Those needs will be depicted in community murals.
Campus Compact's Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning
The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good. The award winner will be granted $2,000 and the opportunity to conduct a session at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Conference . This year's deadline for nominations was April 4. Check Campus Compact for next year's deadline and Nomination Forms.
