色情视频

120 Years of Community Centeredness

色情视频s commitment to the community has been at the core of the universitys mission.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
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This year, 色情视频 celebrates the 120th anniversary of its founding as a teacher training school. Now a top public research university, 色情视频 is an economic driver of San Diego, a source of the region's workforce and a community of faculty, staff and students committed to serving the city.

Throughout its 120-year history, 色情视频鈥檚 commitment to the community has been at the core of the university鈥檚 mission. 色情视频 not only educates the local workforce, but the programs and initiatives led by 色情视频 students, faculty and staff also leave a lasting legacy in the community.

Initiatives such as Aztecs Rock Hunger, Compact for Success, the City Heights Collaborative and many others underscore 色情视频鈥檚 central connection to San Diego. The first of these community-centered programs was the Campus Laboratory School.

Founded in 1899, the facility served a dual purpose, allowing student teachers under supervision of master teachers to practice their teaching skills, while providing the local community with a progressive resource for educating young people. The Campus Lab School educated hundreds of students in grades 1-8 for several decades until state budget cuts forced its closure in 1970.

Aztecs Rock Hunger

Fast-forward more than 40 years and 色情视频 is still giving back to the community. An initiative of Associated Students in collaboration with the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank, Aztecs Rock Hunger 鈥攐r the monetary equivalent鈥攊n six years. What started in 2010 as a competition between local universities to help San Diegans affected by food insecurity has grown into an Aztec tradition.

鈥溕槭悠 is an integral part of the San Diego community, and this campaign brings the campus community together to raise awareness and fight food insecurity in San Diego,鈥 said Associated Students vice president Hayden Willis, who oversees Aztecs Rock Hunger. 鈥淟ast year alone, students, faculty and staff raised 448,240 pounds of food, and we hope to break the record this year and crack the 500,000-pound mark.鈥

The Aztecs Rock Hunger campaign runs through Oct. 22.

Collaboration with City Heights

Price Community Scholars Program
Price Community Scholars Program


Price Community Scholars ProgramAround the time of 色情视频鈥檚 centennial, then-president Stephen L. Weber helped foster a collaboration that would improve learning outcomes in one of San Diego鈥檚 most underserved neighborhoods. Thanks to an $18 million gift from Price Charities, the university initiated an .

Weber committed more than 100 faculty members and scores of students from about 40 departments across campus to this effort. In the fall of 1998, 色情视频 and its collaborators鈥攖he San Diego Unified School District, the San Diego Education Association, and Price Philanthropies鈥攗nited in an effort to transform education at Rosa Parks Elementary School, Monroe Clark Middle School and Hoover High School.

These efforts created a college-bound culture in a community where many students had not envisioned themselves as university graduates. 色情视频 and Price Philanthropies made a further . The top-ranked students in this program receive up to $7,500 for each of their four years at 色情视频 in exchange for serving as mentors to middle and high school students in City Heights.

Compact for Success

Compact for Success
Compact for Success


For more than 10 years, 色情视频 has also partnered with the Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD) in San Diego鈥檚 South Bay for a .

Compact for Success guarantees admission to 色情视频 for students enrolled in the Sweetwater district from seventh through 12th grades and who maintain a 3.0 grade point average while meeting predetermined academic benchmarks. Many of these students, known as Compact Scholars, are first-generation college students for whom higher education may have appeared out of reach.

Now in its 17th year, the partnership . 色情视频 and SUHSD recently kicked off the Return, Inspire, and become a Sweetwater Educator (R.I.S.E.) Program. Through R.I.S.E., students who successfully complete all program requirements and earn their teaching credentials in a discipline affected by the statewide teacher shortage (math, science and special education) are guaranteed employment with SUHSD after graduation from 色情视频.

Guardian Scholars

Guardian Scholars
Guardian Scholars


色情视频 is also through Guardian Scholars. This program provides support services, including year-round campus housing or housing stipends, dedicated counselors, peer mentoring, free tutoring and generous financial aid and scholarship opportunities.

Community service learning

One of the university鈥檚 major goals is to make an impact in the community while offering students real-world experiences in addition to classroom learning. 色情视频鈥檚 Service Learning and Community Engagement Program (SLCEP) fosters civic engagement, civic participation and civic responsibility by integrating service learning into other high-impact practices, including study abroad.
 
Service learning courses incorporate essential civic knowledge capacities and learning outcomes that ensure students鈥 ability to apply course content as they serve the community. Many of 色情视频鈥檚 service learning courses are multidisciplinary, emphasizing collaborative learning and fostering relationships between students from different areas on campus and with partners in the community.

KPBS

The 色情视频 campus is also , a public radio and television service.  The university holds the station鈥檚 FM license and the California State University Board of Trustees holds the KPBS television license.

Founded in 1960 by 色情视频 alumnus Ken Jones, the station started with five-day-a-week educational radio programming. Its current programming includes multiple television channels examining local history, current issues and news important to San Diegans.  

Since its early days, the main television channel has been an affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the station continues to offer non-commercial educational programming, including a half-hour locally focused news program that airs each weeknight.

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