Date: 02/23/2004

More than 185,000 CSU students provided nearly 30 million hours of service to their communities during the last academic year through community service and service learning programs at the 23 CSU campuses, announced the CSU recently. Nearly 200 new CSU courses with service learning components were prepared for the 2003/04 academic year. The community service initiative, formalized by the Board of Trustees in March 2000, includes civic engagement, academic service learning, community service and national service. See www.calstate.edu/CSULeader/040213.htm.

At SJSU, Provost Marshall Goodman and the Center for Service-Learning have announced the third annual awards for excellence in service-learning for a faculty member, student, community partner, department or collaborative project. Awardees will be recognized on April 21, at SJSU’s Conference on the Scholarship of College Teaching and Learning. Nominations are due by Friday, March 12, and forms may be downloaded at http://csl.cob.sjsu.edu/celebrate.html.