CSL Designation Policy
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In AY 2002-2003, the SFSU Academic Senate passed the Community Service Learning (CSL) Designation Policy. This policy has two features that will greatly assist SFSU efforts at providing community service learning opportunities for students. First, CSL designated courses will now be identified in the Bulletin and Course Schedule so that students seeking a community service learning experience will be able to easily locate courses. Second, the policy provides a procedure for recording the number of hours served each semester on Official Transcripts. The benefits of having the hours recorded is tremendous since it will help SFSU students with future employers or admission to graduate programs.

Below are helpful documents that faculty members can use to understand the designation policy and the procedure of receiving the CSL designation:

• CSL Course Designation Policy (pdf) - this form explains the CSL Designation Policy in detail.
• CSL Course Designation Policy Profile Form (pdf) - this is the form faculty members must submit for their course to be reviewed for the CSL designation.
• CSL Course Designation Policy Profile - Example (pdf) - this document is an example of a completed CSL Course Designation Policy Profile.
  

To understand the process of the CSL Designation Policy and Students's Official Transcripts in visual form please see the chart below :

For Departments and Faculty interested in having their courses get the CSL designation, please download forms and examples below and return forms to: OCSL - SFSU, 1600 Holloway Ave, Pacific Plaza Ste. 750, San Francisco, CA 94132, ocsl@sfsu.edu, or fax (415) 338-0587. For questions please contact Perla Barirentos at (415) 338-3282 or barrient@sfsu.edu.