Community-Based Research

Faculty will work with the community to identify a research need and jointly develop a pilot study. Ideally, the method, design and data collection should lead to a proposal for external grant submission. Additionally, graduate and undergraduate students should be considered for participation as co-researchers in the project.
each grant: $1,250 funded by CSUF's Office of University Research, Initiatives and Partnerships

Dr. Jack Jinghui Liu, Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Dr. Chris Street, Secondary Education
Dr. Jindong Wu, Geography Department

Service-Learning Partnership (Project)

Faculty will strengthen a partnership between the campus and the community through a collaboratively-conceived, course-related service-learning project that targets an unmet community need. Must result in an implemented project within the one-year grant period.
each grant: $ 2,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through Center for Internships & Community Engagement and the Gianneschi Center's Ballentine Endowment

Dr. Erualdo Gonzalez , Chicano Studies, partnering with El Centro Cultural de Mexico
Dr. Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Asian American Studies Program, partnering with OCAPICA

Add Service-Learning to a Course

Faculty will modify the curriculum of an established course or create a new course to include a required service-learning component. Service-learning allows students an alternative mode for exploring the course topic by providing 15 to 40 hours of service that meets an identified community need, combined with reflective exercises to connect the service and need to the learning objectives for the course.
each grant: $1,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through the Center for Internships & Community Engagement

Dr. Saul Tobias, Liberal Studies Department
Dr. Ying-Chiao Tsao, Human Communication Studies Department

2011 Awardees

Community-Based Research

Faculty will work with the community to identify a research need and jointly develop a pilot study. Ideally, the method, design and data collection should lead to a proposal for external grant submission. Additionally, graduate and undergraduate students should be considered for participation as co-researchers in the project.
each grant: $1,250 funded by CSUF's Office of University Research, Initiatives and Partnerships

Dr. Ioakim Boutakidis, Child and Adolescent Studies
Dr. Jennifer Burnaford & Dr. Jayson Smith, Biological Science
Dr. Russell Espinoza, Psychology
Dr. Edythe Krampe, Sociology
Dr. Jindong Wu, Geography
Dr. Jennifer Yee, Asian-American Studies

Service-Learning Partnership (Project)

Faculty will strengthen a partnership between the campus and the community through a collaboratively-conceived, course-related service-learning project that targets an unmet community need. Must result in an implemented project within the one-year grant period.
each grant: $ 2,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through Center for Internships & Community Engagement and the Gianneschi Center's Ballentine Endowment

Ms. Breta Hedges, Marketing, whose partner, Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, received the 2011 Community Engagement Award for Stellar Student Support
Dr. Jennifer Ponder & Dr. Teresa Crawford, Elementary and Bilingual Education
Dr. Jennifer Yee, Asian-American Studies, recipient of the 2011 Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Service-Learning Instructor

Add Service-Learning to a Course

Faculty will modify the curriculum of an established course or create a new course to include an optional or required service-learning component. Service-learning allows students an alternative mode for exploring the course topic by providing 15 to 40 hours of service that meets an identified community need, combined with reflective exercises to connect the service and need to the learning objectives for the course.
each grant: $1,000 funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative through the Center for Internships & Community Engagement

Dr. Christine Gardiner, Political Science
Dr. Arnold Holland, Art
Dr. Rebecca Otten & Dr. Mary Wickman, Nursing