Students participate in a creek cleanup event
Develop leadership skills and gain knowledge about issues related to Coyote Creek, a precious resource in our own backyard, while having fun doing good for the environment! See what we have accomplished!
Students collaborate and celebrate their successes.
Come join our community engagement events and explore our courses to see what you can do for your community!
Members protest to help raise the minimum wage.
You care about your personal development, you care about your education, you seek professional employment; and you care about social justice for all persons, engage for a better future!
CEC members help rebuild neighborhoods
The CEC is formed by various partners in many campus entities. Learn more about our members here.
CEC partners help engage kids to create a better future.
CEC members are always seeking new ways to improve the community. However, they cannot do so without sufficient funding; see what you can do to help us achieve our needs so we can continue serving our communities and building a better future!
Spring 2017 Service Learning & Community Engagement Recognition
Date: Thursday May 4th, 2017
The Center for Community Learning & Leadership and the Community Engagement Collaborative invite you to the spring 2017 Service Learning & Community Engagement Recognition on Thursday, May 4th, 2017 from 3:00pm- 4:30 pm on the second floor terrace of Yoshiro Uchida Hall.
CCLL recognizes outstanding students, professors, or community partners of service-learning & community engagement on May 4. Email your recommendation to community.learning@sjsu.edu. More details to follow.
For More information: Invite(pdf) Invite(.doc) Flyer(pdf)
Homeless Villages in Santa Clara County
Homelessness has become a crisis in Santa Clara County as in other major cities. Beyond the sad plight of these thousands of individuals and families, homelessness is an exceeding cost for cities and counties, and multiple encampments along waterways cause considerable pollution (for which reason the a.k.a. “Jungle” was closed). The Housing First model and Permanent Shelter recommendation are not reducing homelessness. Intermediate, interim solutions are need. One such proposal is the creation of transitional homeless villages which have brought respite to the problem in other cities/county (Dignity Village, New Haven, CommUnity, Tent City). SJSU and CSU-MB students have researched this solution for SCC consideration.
If you would like to learn more about this proposal click HERE or click the "Homless Villages Proposal" link on the right hand side of the page.
Community Engagement & Service Learning
Community Engagement & Service Learning (CE/SL) are integral parts of higher education. The University and community are critical stakeholders in addressing economic, environmental and social issues.
The Community Engagement Collaborative aims to promote, support and oversee CE/SL at SJSU. CEC strives to connect faculty, staff, students, community organizations and members in partnerships that share knowledge, skills, values, power, resources, results and recognition in reciprocal appreciation throughout the engagement.
The Collaborative of primary community engagement entities offers a variety of opportunities for involvement in Silicon Valley and beyond. This website is your gateway to CE/SL at SJSU. (Students may also inquire of CE/SL within their academic department.)
SJSU is offering a new, and fun community engagement class 157SL, cross listed as APSC 157SL, COMM 157SL, EDUC 157SL, ENGR 157SL, HA157, and SCI157SL
Ways to Engage / Program Areas
- Community Engagement
represents a spectrum of activity extending from community service-learning to civic engagement to advocacy and social activism to community-based participatory research. - Service-Learning
is pedagogy promoting learning through participation in community service experiences related to course content. - Civic Engagement
is community involvement promoting the quality of civic life through political and non-political processes. - Advocacy
is the pursuit of influencing outcomes including public-policy and resource allocation within economic, environmental, political, and social system. - Community-based participatory research
is research that is conducted as an equal partnership between traditionally trained experts and members of a community.