1. Celebrating 10 Years

3. 2004-2005 The CSCE office opens in the Pavilion.

4. 2004-2005 Nine students participate in the first cohort of Student Leaders for the Common Good.

5. 2004-2005 Seattle University hosts Tent City, the first time in the United States that a University had hosted an encampment of homeless people.

8. 2005-2006 The Shinnyo-en Foundation forms a partnership with CSCE to launch the Shinnyo-en Fellows program, a summer-long service and discernment initiative.

9. 2005-2006 Seattle University hosts the National Conference for the Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.

12. 2006-2007 The “First Generation Project” mobilizes 19 Seattle University students to tutor and mentor local high school students who will be first generation college students.

13. 2006-2007 148 students participate in quarterly Labor of Love service projects.

14. 2006-2007 36 students participate in four student-led service immersion trips focusing on immigration, homelessness, and Native American culture.

17. 2007-2008 CSCE launches the Jumpstart program which mobilizes 40 SU students to each provide 300 hours of literacy support at Head Start programs in Seattle.

18. 2007-2008 Serve Seattle Project engages 325 first-year students in a day of service.

21. 2008-2009 The 5th Annual Spirit of Community Celebration brings together 250 students, faculty, staff, and community partners to celebrate campus and community partnerships.

22. 2008-2009 30 faculty and staff explore issues of poverty, youth justice, and faith-based humanitarianism through three multi-day immersions in the local community.

25. 2009-2010 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.

26. 2009-2010 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.

29. 2010-2011 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.

30. 2010-2011 The Seattle University Youth Initiative launches in February 2011.

31. 2010-2011 Seattle University receives the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.

34. 2011-2012 CSCE moves into a storefront office in the Douglas Building.

35. 2011-2012 Six faculty participate in the inaugural Community-Based Research Faculty Fellows Program.

36. 2011-2012 The Youth Initiative leads to dramatic staff and programmatic growth including the development of a comprehensive after- school program at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School.

37. 2011-2012 Seattle University receives the President’s Award for Community Service, the highest honor a university can receive for its service and community engagement program.

40. 2012-2013 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.

41. 2012-2013 The new year-long Redhawk Academic Mentoring Program launches and provides 44 sixth graders with one-to-one mentoring by 29 Seattle University undergraduates.

42. 2013-2014 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.

43. 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.

45. Celebrating 10 Years