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Last semester, the CCE had the great pleasure of serving as a community partner to a pair of excellent Santa Rosa Junior College service-learners. Service-learning is a pedagogy, or teaching method, that utilizes
Special thanks to service-learning FIG Leadership students in UNIV238-01 for the posts in this special series on resources for those struggling with cancer
What began like many other workshops that the CCE hosts for faculty and community partners, turned out to be a wonderful journey to discover our inner sense of humility.
Because I plan a career at a non-profit organization, the skills I have developed in online communities have contributed immensely to what I call my real world "tool-belt." This April, I had the amazing opportunity to speak at Campus Compact's 2012 
"Do some volunteer work, just because you're not getting a paycheck does not mean it is not valuable to your future employer. Life experiences bring just as much to the table as degrees and credentials," states speaker Anya Perron-Burdick.
Special thanks to service-learning FIG Leadership students in UNIV238 01 for the posts in this special series on resources for those struggling with ca
"The most effective part of the workshop was that there was no reading through the lecture notes.
"School counseling is more than simply meeting with students. It is vital that school counselors be advocates for the profession."
-Shana Friedman, SSU Alumni School Counselor for Youth Build Santa Rosa
When I first arrived at the steps of SSU, I was so ready to jump right into all the different volunteer opportunities I could find because I knew I wanted to impact my campus like I had done at my high school. I soon found myself stretched so thin I was exhausted.
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) by definition, is a "collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings.