Awards and Recognition - Service Learning

2025 CELEBRATION OF SERVICE

The Center for Community Engagement cordially invites you to attend the 2025 Celebration of Service on Thursday, May 1, 2025. Join us for all or some of the day's programming beginning at 11:00 AM-12:00 PM with a poster session in the Grand Salon highlighting all the stellar service-learning and community based research projects by students, faculty and community partners. An awards luncheon will be held from 12:00-1:30 outside in the North Quad.

Celebrate with us as we highlight several service-learning projects and research and award a student, community partner, staff/administrator, and faculty member.

We look forward to celebrating with you at this year's Celebration. Please RSVP now.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION PROGRAM

The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) offers awards each year honoring a CSUCI student, staff/administrator, faculty member and a community partner for their exemplary community engagement. Nominations are assessed for the quality and quantity of their contributions to community engagement and if applicable, should include examples of their impact on students/campus community or department, any innovative practices, collaboration and leadership with other members of the extended CSUCI community (campus and beyond) and actions that have led to greater contributions to community engagement.

The CCE is now accepting nominations for the following awards:

Student Reflective Essay Award
This annual award recognizes a student reflective essay that exhibits particular depth of insight concerning the challenges and satisfactions of community service, the impact on student growth and learning, and with the greatest potential to inspire others to serve.

Dr. Richard R. Rush Community Partner Award
This award recognizes a community organization that is significantly involved with CSU Channel Islands. This recognition honors organizations and individuals who contribute to student learning and support student engagement with the community in a curricular or co-curricular setting.

Janet Korsmo Engagement Award
This award honors a CSUCI staff/administrator who is significantly involved in civic engagement activities at CSU Channel Islands and/or in the broader community. This recognition honors staff/administrators who contribute to the public good and embody the core value of civic engagement personally and/or professionally.

Community-Based Research Project Award
This award recognizes a CSUCI faculty member and community partner who are involved in community-based research with the purpose of solving a pressing community problem or effecting social change.

Engaged Faculty Award
This award recognizes a CSUCI faculty member who has contributed significantly to incorporating service-learning/community based research into their teaching, scholarly and creative productivity, and/or professional and community service while at CSU Channel Islands. This recognition honors the faculty member's commitment to the public good and advancement of service-learning/community engagement within their discipline.

Award nominations will be accepted until Friday, April 17, 2026 at 5:00PM

Spotlights on Service

Each year the CCE honors individuals and projects in the areas of service-learning and community engagement. The CCE's Spotlights on Service (formerly Activities, Awards & Recognitions in Community Engagement) publication celebrates these awardees, while also sharing CCE initiatives and activities. In the following pages, we seek to place a spotlight on some of the most notable examples of community engagement from our stellar faculty, students, and community partners. We believe projects like these can play a key role in bringing our community closer to a just, inclusive democracy and society. It is our hope they inspire you.

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