by Annelise Dohrer "There are a lot of job opportunities out here. This is good experience for anyone" -Wes Young, Senior at SSU. Young was required to go to the Service and Internship Fair by his professor Sheila Katz for Sociology 306, but like the 150 other students who attended the fair, he was very glad that he had come. "The students always come up with their own ideas on how to help us. They are great at incorporating their unique skills into...
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Service and Internship Fair 2013
by Annelise Dohrer "There are a lot of job opportunities out here. This is good experience for anyone" -Wes Young, Senior at SSU. Young was required to go to the Service and Internship Fair by his professor Sheila Katz for Sociology 306, but like the 150 other students who attended the fair, he was very glad that he had come. "The students always come up with their own ideas on how to help us. They are great at incorporating their unique skills into...
Recruit at the 2013 Service and Internship Fair
The Service & Internship Fair is a fantastic opportunity for nonprofit and governmental organizations to promote the service and internship opportunities you offer to students at Sonoma State University Once again, the fair will be hosted by Career Services the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) and Join Us Making Progress (JUMP). Last year was a great success - you can read more about that here. The Fair will take place on Wednesday, August 28 from 11:30am-1pm at Salazar Plaza...
Summer Job Fair? Check
Think campus is quiet in the summer? In fact, while parking is certainly easier, there are lots of incoming students, most of them freshmen, wandering about campus and getting prepared for the fall semester. Last week was Summer Bridge, a special orientation program for Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) freshmen. Part of this preparatory experience includes a job fair, in which various departments set up booths and attempt to recruit students to work in their offices. What better way to start...
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Book Review: "Becoming an Engaged Campus"
by Dr. Robert Girling, School of Business & Economics, Guest BloggerEach year as we begin to prepare our classes, most of us think "How can I engage students more?" or "What can I do to make this subject matter more meaningful and relevant to my students and the community?" And some of us are no doubt thinking, "How can I get through this semester with my own brain intact and engaged?"At the same time the general public and legislators are...
Inspiring Conference for Aspiring Environmentalist
* by Annelise Dohrer * When you are fighting for the environment it can sometimes feel like you are alone. Convincing people to make lifestyle changes to conserve energy, and reduce pollution is an overwhelming battle. To make matters worse, historically, the people with money and power are not interested in subjects like endangered species, carbon emissions or water quality- unless they are making them money. So not only are their a limited amount of people who care, but also...
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Welcome to the New Blog
Thank you for reading this blog! This is the first original post on this blog and there will be no future posts on the Wordpress blog.After three years and almost 10,000 views of more than 60 posts on Wordpress, it is finally time to fully integrate the blog into our website. On October 19, 2013, the Wordpress blog will close.This is a great time to subscribe to the new blog! You can receive blog posts directly to your email by...
Developing and Sustaining a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative: A Skill Building Workshop
"CBPR builds on strengths and resources within the community" "Applied learning," "balance of power," "learning what the community wants," and "enhancing student learning" is what faculty participants said comes to mind when they think about Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). When asked what their goals were for attending the Developing and Sustaining a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative: A Skill Building Workshop, Art Warmoth in Psychology explained, "My goal is to get Hutchins students involved in studying poverty with the Roseland district." "I always want...
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Shadow Day 2013
by Taylor Bonilla"Connections were made that day between us and our students, and I know from here on out if they need someone to talk to, the mentors they met on Shadow Day will be there. I recommend everyone to at least take a service-learning class while at SSU. I'm really glad that I was able to be a part of this project," said SSU student Kailyn Finley. Every spring semester, the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) hosts Shadow Day, an event in which junior students from Roseland University Prep (RUP) visit Sonoma State University (SSU) for the day to shadow a college student. This year, SSU students who enrolled in University 222 served as mentors to RUP students for a day. RUP students...
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Discovery Day 2013
By Jenny Mangandi"Discovery Day was a huge success and I really enjoyed the whole day...The scavenger hunt allowed me to practice the leadership skills learned throughout the University 222 course. I learned a lot about Patrick, Brandon and Pablo, their goals, hopes, and expectations in college. It really shocked me. It was an eye opening experience," says Sonoma State University (SSU) student Michael McGee. Lindsey Sotomayor stated that, "The high school students I was matched up with were fun and very respectful. I...
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Dreams of Peace
Reading this stack of hundreds of papers from 2008-2011 made me think, what does peace really mean?I reviewed several years' worth of free write papers from first-year students at Sonoma State University. Since I am also a first year at Sonoma State, my supervisor asked me to take on this assignment. The students were asked "What is your 'American Dream'? Can you achieve it in a world with no peace?"My American Dream is to become a Radiation Therapist, but I...
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