2004-2005
Seattle University hosts Tent City, the first time in the United States that a University had hosted an encampment of homeless people.
2005-2006
The Shinnyo-en Foundation forms a partnership with CSCE to launch the Shinnyo-en Fellows program, a summer-long service and discernment initiative.
2005-2006
Seattle University hosts the National Conference for the Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.
2006-2007
The “First Generation Project” mobilizes 19 Seattle University students to tutor and mentor local high school students who will be first generation college students.
2006-2007
36 students participate in four student-led service immersion trips focusing on immigration, homelessness, and Native American culture.
2007-2008
CSCE launches the Jumpstart program which mobilizes 40 SU students to each provide 300 hours of literacy support at Head Start programs in Seattle.
2008-2009
The 5th Annual Spirit of Community Celebration brings together 250 students, faculty, staff, and community partners to celebrate campus and community partnerships.
2008-2009
30 faculty and staff explore issues of poverty, youth justice, and faith-based humanitarianism through three multi-day immersions in the local community.
2009-2010CSCE leads the planning effort for the Seattle University Youth Initiative by engaging over 1,200 campus and community members in dozens of forums and others events, including a day-long conference that brought together over 300 people to offer specific ideas for the Initiative.
2009-2010CSCE partners with the Office of Human Resources to develop a Community Service Leave Policy that allows employees to voluntarily participate, with pay, in community service activities that occur during regularly scheduled work hours.
2010-2011
The Children’s Literacy Project, which had been housed in the College of Education, merges with CSCE to assist with the launch of the Youth Initiative.
2011-2012
Six faculty participate in the inaugural Community-Based Research Faculty Fellows Program.
2011-2012
The Youth Initiative leads to dramatic staff and programmatic growth including the development of a comprehensive after-school program at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School.
2011-2012
Seattle University receives the President’s Award for Community Service, the highest honor a university can receive for its service and community engagement program.
2012-2013
For the first time, Seattle University appears on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of the top 25 universities for service-learning.
2012-2013
The new year-long Redhawk Academic Mentoring Program launches and provides 44 sixth graders with one-to-one mentoring by 29 Seattle University undergraduates.
2013-2014 Service Learning
• 104 faculty members taught a service-learning course.
• 2,711 students enrolled in a service-learning course.– of whom, 433 students took two or more classes.
• 230 course sections were offered.
Student Growth and Development
The results of a year-long study show that SU students involved in CSCE programs demonstrated a marked improvement in:
• interpersonal and problem solving skills; • political awareness;• social justice;• attitudes; and • diversity attitudes
compared to students uninvolved in CSCE programs.