ARC Rodrigo Arce

America Reads and Counts

CSUF student Rodrigo Arce and other America Reads and Counts tutors earn Federal Work Study wages as they pass on their love of learning to young kids at ARC sites throughout north Orange County.

Titan Tutor Tiffany Cheng

Titan Tutors

When they are not tutoring school kids at Project Access locations after school, Titan Tutors like Tiffany Cheng take on community service projects. Here, the team gleans fresh produce for food banks.

photo: U-ACRE

Community Engagement

Community Engagement programs like U-ACRE conduct programs in schools, shelters, the Arboretum, and other community organizations tht reap benefits for CSUF graduate students such as Cynthia Zamora and young gardeners at Ladera Vista Junior High.

ASES Brianna Hedstrom

After School Education and Safety

Buena Park youngsters are conquering their academic challenges thanks to daily participation with Titan ASES team members like Brianna Hedstrom, who work with them on homework, study habits, and social skills.

photo: READ 360

International Service-Learning

Sheila Samperio was one of 13 CSUF students to interview Puerto Riqueños about access to higher education in Julian Jefferies' READ 360 service-learning course.

Jumpstart

Jumpstart

Preschoolers work with CSUF Jumpstart members to increase their vocabulary, social skills, and love for reading. Jumpstart works toward the day when every child begins kindergarten prepared for success.

Kinesiology students in Rio 2015

International Service-Learning

Kinesiology students bonded with their pupils at a Rio de Janeiro school after working all semester to develop lessons and activities for their International Service-Learning experiences in a two-week sport clinic in summer 2015.

photo: LEAP

Lunchtime Learning

Nearby elementary school kids get a fun workout with the active games and sports organized and led by Health Science students through the Lunchtime Exercise and Activity Program.

SHINE

PROJECT SHINE

While earning course credit credit and gaining practical experience in the classroom to prepare for careers as Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, SHINE participants like CSUF graduate student Renata Vasquez help adult students learn English and prepare for citizenship.

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Center for Internships & Community Engagement

 

Welcome to CICE

The Center for Internships & Community Engagement (CICE) creates cooperative linkages between higher education, community organizations and professional offices and strives to create high quality, community-based experiences that benefit students, partner sites, and communities. We are committed to fulfilling the mission of the University to create "...experiences in and out of the classroom, [so that] students develop the habit of intellectual inquiry, prepare for challenging professions, strengthen relationships to their communities and contribute productively to society."

Community engagement through academic internships and service-learning is a high impact practice that prepares students for participation in a global society, broadens their educational experiences, facilitates lifelong habits of intellectual inquiry, and prepares them for successful careers.

CICE develops reciprocal partnerships with community organizations, public agencies, and industry that offer opportunities for students to learn through service and/or work experiences relevant to their studies. We facilitate and support the work of faculty in engaged teaching, learning and scholarship. We support the University through coordination of community engagement resources and procedures.

We invite you to browse this site's pages for students, faculty, and partners, and to read more about our successes.

CICE Vision

California State University, Fullerton prepares our diverse student body for academic and professional success. The Center for Internships & Community Engagement provides the infrastructure to ensure that up to one-third of all students each year participate in high impact practices that link degree, career and community through quality academic internships, service-learning courses, and community engagement programs.

CICE Mission

The Center for Internships & Community Engagement supports student learning that both inspires and transforms our students and the community, through academic internships, service-learning courses and community engagement programs offered locally, nationally, and internationally.

CICE Objectives
  • Build CSUF-wide capacity to advance community engagement.
  • Raise awareness and visibility for the importance of community engagement and its connection to CSUF strategic plan and goals.
  • Mobilize partnerships to fuel and expand community engagement.
  • Strengthen the capacity of the Center for community engagement.

Service-learning efforts at Cal State Fullerton are supported in part by the CSU Chancellor's Office Call to Service Initiative.

logo: Student Success Initiative Student Success Initiative funds support CICE's efforts to increase the number of opportunities for students to participate in service-learning and academic internships.