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Center for Community Engagement
The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) plays an important role in advancing CSULB’s Beach 2030 Vision and Strategic Priorities through a broad range of programs, initiatives, projects and High Impact Practices (HIPs), epitomized by mutually beneficially and reciprocal relationships and partnerships centered around community engagement and the public good. The CCE achieves this shared vision of excellence by expanding, strengthening and creating “… more opportunities to implement impactful curricula and experiential learning, and open doors for even more ambitious projects for the public good."
The Center for Community Engagement oversees, facilitates, and supports community-centered High Impact Practices (HIPs) such as Community Service Learning, Academic Internships and Community-Based Participatory and Action Research as well as other campus-community projects, events and initiatives focused on student success and aligned with CSULB’s Beach 2030 vision and goals identifies, builds and strengthens the institutional infrastructure needed to support, scale, and sustain programming that advances student success across CSULB and advances the Public Good in the communities we serve. The CCE's newly adopted Strategic Plan is now available for viewing.
Our Four Pillars
We enrich students’ educational experiences, providing high-impact practices through programs in:
Service Learning is a high impact teaching approach utilizing community-based experiential learning to connect theory and practice through critical reflection. It emphasizes learning through community service activities that are fundamental to course outcomes and provides benefit to students as well as community partners by promoting sustainable campus-community relationships that enhance student learning and address community-identified needs.
An Academic Internship is a high impact learning experience that engages students in meaningful internship opportunities that integrate knowledge and theory learned in the classroom with practical application and skills development in a professional setting. Internships give students the opportunity to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields.
Community Based Research is a partnership approach to research that equally engages the university and community organizations. Each participant contributes their expertise, with shared responsibility and ownership, to integrate the knowledge gained with actions to improve the well-being of the community. (Israel, Schulz, Parker, and Becker, 1998).
The CCE utilizes the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning definition for Communication Engagement as "the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.” (American Council on Education).
The CCE Community Partnership Development Process outlines the steps for community organizations to become formal partners with CSULB.
Center for Community Engagement: A Strategic Vision Unveiled
Volunteer Exchange
Join our Student Volunteer Exchange List on Canvas!
If you would like to learn more about up to date volunteer opportunities in the community and from our partners, be sure to sign up today for the Volunteer Exchange.
