|
|
| ||
|
A pioneer in learning through community, SF State offers over 400 courses that combine academic study with community involvement through the Institute for Civic and Community Engagment (ICCE). For example,
students help elderly immigrants learn to read, write and pass citizenship
exams, through participation in service learning programs called Students
Helping in the Naturalization of Elders and Students Assisting with Immigrant
Literacy, SHINE and SAIL.
SF State is one of about five universities nationwide, and the only CSU
campus,
to include community service learning credit on student transcripts.
In 2005-06, about 37 percent of all SF State students took part in service
learning classes, contributing 332,348 hours to the surrounding community.
That contribution would add up to about $2.24 million if paid at the
California minimum wage of $6.75 an hour.
In 2006, SF State was among
the recipients of the first President's Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll Award, presented by the Corporation for National and
Community
Service, in recognition of the University's community service efforts.
In 2006, SF State was one of 76 U.S. colleges and universities selected
by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for a new
Community Engagement Classification. SF State is one of 62 institutions
in the Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships category
of the new classification. The designation recognizes the University's
substantial commitments to "teaching, learning and scholarship
which engage faculty, students and community in mutually beneficial and
respectful collaboration."
In 2007, the University transformed an on-campus student apartment into
a model for sustainable, eco-friendly living. Other sustainability accomplishments
at SF State include energy conservation measures supported in part by
$1,057,177 in grants and incentives from PG&E, composting of food
waste from the student dining center, and a pilot recycling program with
a 75-percent diversion rate. MacArthur Fellowship ("genius award") recipient Ralf Hotchkiss has dedicated
his career to the social integration of people with disabilities. The
founder of Whirlwind Wheelchair International based at SF State, he has
brought improved mobility to more than 15,000 people in Africa, Asia and
Latin America by creating a global network of wheelchair inventors, designers,
users and manufacturers to address the need for wheelchairs in the developing
world.
The Tall Ship Education Academy (TSEA), a program of the Recreation
and Leisure Studies department, was named the 2006 Sea Education Program
of
the Year by the American Sail Training Association (ASTA). TSEA offers
experiential education programs, including a 15 week program for high
school girls, in which they operate and navigate a traditionally rigged
vessel
on the open sea.
Business Professor Gary Selnow founded a nonprofit organization WiRED
(World Internet Resources for Education and Development) to bring computer
hardware, software and training to areas worldwide ravaged by disease
or conflict. In the war-torn Balkans, he has focused the technologies
on teaching children about cooperation and enhancing their access
to educational
materials. In Nicaragua, Internet cafes provide free information access
to healthcare workers and the poor -- and a source of revenue for
helping
land mine victims. And in Africa, nine new community health information
centers provide life-saving information on HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
illnesses.
SF State is tackling the No. 1 cause of California children's hospitalizations
and missed school days with leadership of a statewide program to fight
asthma. Community
Health Works, the educational partnership between SF State and City College
of San Francisco, has been tapped by The California Endowment to coordinate
a $12 million, statewide program to fight asthma at its sources: where
children live, learn and play. CHW will coordinate a dozen community-based
partnerships across the state that identify and reduce asthma triggers.
Helping former substance abusers get their lives off to a new start,
SF State brings higher education to the nationally recognized residential
treatment center, Delancey
Street, giving clients the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree
in urban studies while completing their rehabilitation. Classes are
taught
by SF State faculty, with guest lectures from civic and government leaders.
One
of the few nonprofit research organizations in San Francisco to focus
on key economic and community development issues, the Institute
for Civic and Community Engagement at SF State addresses workforce
preparation, urban environmental restoration, inner-city education
and health. The
Institute uses the research
and analytic resources of the University to build collaborative projects
with businesses, labor, city agencies and community organizations.
The Marian Wright
Edelman Institute for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families,
named in honor of the founder and president of the Children's Defense
Fund, focuses
on the needs of children and adolescents. The Institute drives collaborations
between SF State and the community, fosters child-centered research
and offers an interdisciplinary program on child and adolescent development
that prepares students for work with children and families or in
research
and
public policy. The Institute became
the first university affiliate of the national Jumpstart organization
in 1997. Today more than 50 college students are working with Jumpstart
to build the literacy and learning skills of 3- to 5-year-olds in
San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point, Mission, Marina, Richmond
and South
of Market neighborhoods.
SF State's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies is headquarters
for the 3,700-acre San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve,
working to restore tidal marshes and protect estuarine habitat through
research, monitoring and educational programs. Dedicated in 2003, the
SF Bay NERR is the third such reserve in California and one of 26 nationwide.
Internationally trained health professionals gain a foothold in California's
job market with help from the Welcome
Back program, operated in partnership with City College of San Francisco.
The nonprofit functions as a counseling, education and job placement service
for immigrant health professionals, helping them navigate the state's
licensing system and obtain the necessary credentials to work in the United
States. Made possible through a $2 million grant from The California Endowment,
Welcome Back also aims to increase the numbers and ethnic diversity of
health professionals practicing in medically underserved areas.
The SF State Institute
on Sexuality, Inequality and Health conducted the first-ever
study of physical and mental health outcomes of lesbian, gay and
bisexual youth
who disclose their sexual orientation to family members during adolescence.
One of the first research studies to focus on the youths'
families
and their responses after the youths "come out," the three-year study
uncovered ways that families can best support
gay, lesbian and bisexual youths and help foster their resiliency.
SF ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in San Francisco),
an SF State-based project aimed at increasing the number of students of
color
who enter college as geoscience majors, helps San Francisco high school
students learn about environmental hazards in their own neighborhood
while
at the same time piques their interest in the geosciences, among the
least diverse of all disciplines. Thirteen Burton High sophomores in
the program shared their research at the 2003 annual meeting of the American
Geophysical Union (AGU), the first time the AGU invited high school students
to present scientific posters to its more than 9,800 attending scientists
from around the world.
The Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute in the College of Extended Learning
offers courses, lectures, symposia and travel programs geared specifically
toward enriching the lives of the Bay Area's older learners and tapping
the students' experience and knowledge to help solve local and statewide
problems.
California Poets in the Schools, the largest writers-in-schools program
in the nation, began at SF State in 1964 as the Pegasus
Project which arranged poetry readings in Bay Area classrooms. Now a statewide
organization reaching 29 counties, California Poets in the Schools estimates
it has introduced more than a half million K-12 students to the creative writing
process.
Each year since 1952 SF State's Morrison Artists' Series presents a series
of free recitals by prominent chamber music ensembles, which San Francisco
Chronicle
music
critic Joshua Kosman describes as an "indispensable" and "invaluable"
contribution to the local music scene.
The SFSU President's Medal honors men and women who have made long-lasting,
widespread contributions to SF State and the city of San Francisco. Recipients
include legendary jazz bassist Vernon Alley, service learning scholar
Thomas Ehrlich, arts patron Jane Hohfeld Galante, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, philanthropist
Richard Goldman and August Coppola, dean emeritus of the SF State College
of Creative Arts.
|
|
|
| ||
 |
Home
Search
Need Help?
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 338-1111 | |
SF State's influence extends far beyond campus borders. In total, the University
has more than 100 centers, institutes and special programs that address
such varied issues as the health of San Franciscans, K-12 student skills,
small business success and science skills for inner-city youth.