Tag: SJSU
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SJSU Campus Community Garden: A Hidden, Local Gem for Both Residents and Students
In mid-May, a little over a dozen of children from Olinder Elementary School’s CORAL after school program took a trip to an urban farm. The destination? Our very own San Jose State Campus Community Garden. The SJSU Campus Community Garden is located on San Salvador St. across the street from the Campus Village housing, and…
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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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Advertising Campaigns Brings Real Agency Experience to Students
It’s time for small businesses to bounce back from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with our local businesses and Marketing Smarts: Advertising Campaigns. Many small businesses took a big hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 41.3% of businesses…
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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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Student-Led Community Engagement in Eastside San Jose Goes Virtual
The Alum Rock Avenue corridor is located approximately two miles east of downtown San Jose. In Fall 2019, graduate students in San Jose State University’s Master of Urban Planning program, partnering with CommUniverCity and the City’s District 5 office, conducted a series of outreach events in the communities adjoining this corridor. This included “Café y…
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Bringing Focus to Watersheds in an Uncertain Time
Watershed in a Box (WIAB) is a project that connects K-8 students in local public schools to the natural environment that surrounds them in their community through in-classroom and after school programs focusing on environmental and watershed education, with an emphasis on the Coyote Watershed. It is a project that stemmed from a partnership with…
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Celebrating Earth Day at CommUniverCity
A happy, safe, physically distant, but socially connected Earth Day from all of us at CommUniverCity! In keeping with the spirit of sustainability, CommUniverCity is assembling garden education kits for 4th through 6th graders for distribution to families in Central San Jose this month. We’ll be growing carrots, cauliflower, kale, and beans. We are also…
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Showing San Jose Students How Geology Rocks!
Geology Rocks! brings fun and creative activities to 3rd through 5th graders at local elementary schools near San Jose State. CommUniverCity and geology professor LeAnne Teruya work together to bring this project to an after school program called Think Together at Horace Mann Elementary School and Lowell Elementary School. People of color are underrepresented within…
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Community Planning: Alum Rock
A Vision for the Alum Rock Community of San Jose The Alum Rock Avenue corridor is an area located two miles east of San Jose’s downtown core. In the spring of 2019, Futuro de Alum Rock formed as a coalition of community organizations to address existing neighborhood concerns and anxieties over the City of San…