Our Endowments
Stephen Kwan
In 2021, CommUniverCity learned that a pre-endowment fund had been opened by Dr. Stephen Kwan, a Professor Emeritus, creator of the SJSU Management of Information Systems courses, and former CommUniverCity Steering Committee Member. In order to reach full endowment status, CommUniverCity must raise $12,500 to be matched by Dr. Kwan. Dr. Kwan sees CommUniverCity as a steward of service learning. His vision for creating this fund is to provide long term, sustaining support for CommUniverCity. Because our organization has a hyperlocal service area, our network is also small in terms of running crowdfunding campaigns, etc.
Thanks to the generosity of Professor Stephen Kwan and his wife Amy, the CommUniverCity Founders Fund was recently established. Stephen Kwan, now Professor Emeritus, is the former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business. Before his retirement, Stephen Kwan was active in helping craft project development and continues to be a strong supporter of CommUniverCity´s work.
If you would like to help grow this fund where Dr. Kwan will match every dollar up to $25,000, visit this page
Stephen Kwan, Ph.D. in Management
Susan Meyers
Dr. Susan Meyers, Dean of SJSU’s College of Education, wanted to take direct action on place-based community service learning. “At the time, the California State University system was strongly promoting service learning as a pedagogy, a new way of teaching,” stated Dr. Meyers. In response, SJSU and its sister campuses began creating new courses centered around combining local issues with academic coursework. Dr. Meyers understood that the power of service learning reached beyond fostering civic engagement in college students. She saw the potential for community-engaged learning to do much more.
Susan Meyers, Ph.D. in Special Education