Celebrating 10 Years

2004-2005

The CSCE office opens in the Pavilion.

2004-2005

Nine students participate in the first cohort of Student Leaders for the Common Good.

2004-2005

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

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.

2005-2006

Seattle University hosts the National Conference for the Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.

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.

2006-2007

148 students participate in quarterly Labor of Love service projects.

2006-2007

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

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.

2007-2008

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

2008-2009

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

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.

2009-2010CSCE 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.

2009-2010CSCE 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.

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.

2010-2011

The Seattle University Youth Initiative launches in February 2011.

2010-2011

Seattle University receives the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.

2011-2012

CSCE moves into a storefront office in the Douglas Building.

2011-2012

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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