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The CCE has 25 years of blog posts about community events on and off campus. We invite you to use this resource by entering a keyword in the search box below. If you are searching for a phrase, we recommend you enclose it in quotation marks (example: "It Matters").

Center for Community Engagement
Roseland Neighborhood Annexation Celebration

On November 1st, 2017, the community of Roseland was officially annexed into the City of Santa Rosa. Due to the fires, the celebration was postponed to January 20th, 2018.

Students asking questions at the fair
Service & Internship Fair XII

The Center for Community Engagement along with more than a dozen community partners held the Post Fire Service & Internship Fair. A similar event occurred at the beginning of the semester but a host of issues facing the area exacerbated as a result of the fires.

Envisioning a Sustainable Future through Interdisciplinary Conversations and Conferences

While my class's first service-learning experience had a profound impact on most of my students, not all of my students "bought in" to the course goals completely until the service-learning project that followed.

Center for Community Engagement
Book Buddies IV

Book Buddies turned out as one of the most enjoyable events I attended while interning with the CCE. I particularly liked witnessing the interactions between elementary school children and SSU students.

Vic Liptak
Welcome Back, Vic!
I'm so excited to welcome Vic Liptak back to the CCE!
Isabel Lopez and Merith Weisman
How Civic Engagement Impacts Health

During senior seminar, I learned about incorporating personal fulfillment, success, and service into an all-encompassing life project. As an intern blogger for the CCE, I have been able to learn how service applies.

Mentor Me: Changing Lives!

Mentor Me is a nonprofit organization that recognizes students who are struggling with academic success and challenges in their social life. Those challenges may include mental and behavioral health issues and challenges from family members such as unemployment, incarceration, and drug use.

Participants interacting with each other.
Tips & Trends in Service-Learning VIII

Faculty and staff from SSU and other universities attended the service-learning workshop to learn the latest on resources, research and techniques on this pedagogy and how to incorporate it into curricula.

The Life of an iPhone

This is second in a three part series. See Part 1: The Life of Lettuce.

Marcela Ibarra, Elizabeth Jones, Kamryn Rayson and Veronica Duarte strike their best pose at selfie station.
CCE's 10 Year Anniversary Party

Boo! On the scariest day of the year the CCE reached a great milestone and threw a huge celebration for it's 10 year anniversary. The CCE took over a large part of the bottom floor of the library where attendents enjoyed delicious treats and fun activities.