Tag: San Jose State University
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Guadalupe River Park and Gardens Assessment
Written by the Spring 2022 SJSU URBP295 Students. Lecturers: Rick Kos and Ahoura Zandiatashbar. Spring 2022 SJSU URBP295 students take a group photo underneath the San Jose State University sign on San Salvador St. Located a few blocks west of Downtown San José, the Guadalupe River Park rests along the banks of the Guadalupe River…
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Catalysts of Community Engaged Learning: The 2022 Celebrating Partnerships Event
Every other year, CommUniverCity holds a huge event called “Celebrating Partnerships,” where core partners of the organization come together to take a grand look at active projects that CommUniverCity has been maintaining or is involved in. This past Thursday on May 5th, in which some of you know as Cinco de Mayo, CommUniverCity their biennial…
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Recruiting Potential CommUniverCitans at the Community Connections Fair
In late February, CommUniverCity connected SJSU students, staff, and faculty to windows of community involvement opportunities during the Spring 2022 Community Connections Fair. The Community Connections Fair hosted by Center for Community Learning & Leadership took place on February 23 from 10AM-1:30PM, where CommUniverCity Department Analyst Matthew Snyder and Brenda Flores, Masters in Public Health…
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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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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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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…
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Engineering in Action Students Inspire Future Generations
Author: Danny Ludovina, Project Coordinator for Engineering in Action What can someone do with an education in the fields of STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math? Why does learning how to log proper notes, choosing numerical formulas, or shaping structures matter to an elementary school child? We at CommUniverCity had these questions in mind…