Tag: Community
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Delmas Park Open House: “Design your Delmas”
Author: Nicole Guzman, CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Over 70 people attended the Delmas Park Open House on December 5th at the Children’s Discovery Museum. This event allowed residents and other stakeholders to come together to discuss the existing community assets and outline future changes they would like to see in their community. We also support…
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Space Spartans: Reaching New Heights
Author: Paula Perez, CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Space Spartan team members Kyle McEachern and Elizabeth Castro came to Mr. Wright’s Robotics class at San Jose High School to present their NASA project. Mr. Wright’s class is offered as an elective course and ranges from freshmen to seniors who are all interested in learning more about engineering.…
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How Growing Sustainably is Growing
Author: Nancy Nguyen, Public Ally and CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Silicon Valley is expanding and urbanizing at an exponential rate as the tech industry gears up to be one of the most powerful entities in the country, leading to the boom of high paying tech jobs, housing development, and business and commercial development. However, as prices…
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College Day: Overcoming Barriers to Walk through Doors of Opportunity
Author: Elizabeth Figueroa, Special Programs Manager Some of us are born into families who are trying to make their way up from a home with dirt floors. Some of us are born into families where our immediate post-high school financial contribution is valued more than a shot at college. And some of us are born…
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Dario Lerma, Sustainability Superhero
Author: Katherine Cushing “For overwhelming numbers of Latinos in the U.S., protecting the environment . . . is a matter of protecting families and the health of loved ones, safeguarding communities’ way of life, and taking responsibility for the future. It’s a matter of safe jobs and neighborhoods. It’s about being true to one’s…
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Tricks & Treats at Safe & Green Halloween
Authors: Emilee Bickert and Taylor Hatfield The Fall season is a magical time for youth in the community and one of its highlights is our annual community festival. The arrival of playful and scary costumes and tricks and treats awakened the Halloween spirit in everyone. On October 20th at McKinley Elementary School, we had the…
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John Delacruz, not Textbook
Author: Lauren Chun Professor John Delacruz doesn’t teach like a typical professor, but that’s why his students love him. John Delacruz teaches creative advertising in the Department of Journalism & Mass Communications at San José State University and he is one of CommUniverCity’s biggest supporters and advocates for community-engaged learning in creative disciplines. “These…
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Delmas Park and CommUniverCity Partnership
Author: Nicole Guzman We are excited to announce a new partnership with the Delmas Park Neighborhood Association and CommUniverCity. One of our annual projects involves conducting a neighborhood satisfaction survey, and our focus area for this year is Delmas Park. On September 23, San José State University students from multiple departments, Political Science, Global Studies,…
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CommUniverCity celebrates the 10th anniversary of Luna Park Chalk Art Festival
Author: Nicole Guzman, Project Coordinator The weekend of September 16 was the Luna Park Chalk Art Festival’s 10 year anniversary! Of course, CommUniverCity came out to support and participate in all of the festivities. Our booth was right next to the stage, the perfect spot to interact with the chalk artists and watch the…
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Student Spotlight: Marisela Castro
Author: Marisela Castro, SJSU Student Engaged-Learner, Guest Writer When people hear the word “activist” or “activism,” a myriad of different definitions may come to mind. You may immediately correlate the word with connotations like protesting and being disruptive or you may think of noted scholars in our history including Angela Davis, Malcolm X and Martin…