Celebrating 10 Years
The CSCE office opens in the Pavilion.
Nine students participate in the first cohort of Student Leaders for the Common Good.
Seattle University hosts Tent City, the first time in the United States that a University had hosted an encampment of homeless people.
The Shinnyo-en Foundation forms a partnership with CSCE to launch the Shinnyo-en Fellows program, a summer-long service and discernment initiative.
Seattle University hosts the National Conference for the Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.
The “First Generation Project” mobilizes 19 Seattle University students to tutor and mentor local high school students who will be first generation college students.
students participate in quarterly Labor of Love service projects.
students participate in four student-led service immersion trips focusing on immigration, homelessness, and Native American culture.
CSCE launches the Jumpstart program which mobilizes 40 SU students to each provide 300 hours of literacy support at Head Start programs in Seattle.
Serve Seattle Project engages 325 first-year students in a day of service.
The 5th Annual Spirit of Community Celebration brings together 250 students, faculty, staff, and community partners to celebrate campus and community partnerships.
faculty and staff explore issues of poverty, youth justice, and faith-based humanitarianism through three multi-day immersions in the local community.
CSCE leads the planning effort for the Seattle University Youth Initiative by engaging over 1,200 campus and community members in dozens of forums and others events, including a day-long conference that brought together over 300 people to offer specific ideas for the Initiative.
CSCE partners with the Office of Human Resources to develop a Community Service Leave Policy that allows employees to voluntarily participate, with pay, in community service activities that occur during regularly scheduled work hours.
The Children’s Literacy Project, which had been housed in the College of Education, merges with CSCE to assist with the launch of the Youth Initiative.
The Seattle University Youth Initiative launches in February 2011.
Seattle University receives the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
CSCE moves into a storefront office in the Douglas Building.
Six faculty participate in the inaugural Community-Based Research Faculty Fellows Program.
The Youth Initiative leads to dramatic staff and programmatic growth including the development of a comprehensive after- school program at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School.
Seattle University receives the President’s Award for Community Service, the highest honor a university can receive for its service and community engagement program.
For the first time, Seattle University appears on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of the top 25 universities for service-learning.
The new year-long Redhawk Academic Mentoring Program launches and provides 44 sixth graders with one-to-one mentoring by 29 Seattle University undergraduates.
Service Learning 104 faculty members taught a service-learning course. 2,711 students enrolled in a service-learning course. – of whom, 433 students took two or more classes. 230 course sections were offered.
Student Growth and Development The results of a year-long study show that SU students involved in CSCE programs demonstrated a marked improvement in: interpersonal and problem solving skills; political awareness; social justice; attitudes; and diversity attitudes compared to students uninvolved in CSCE programs.
Celebrating 10 Years