San José Unified School District

1. San José Unified School District

2. Community Community Engaged Learning BUILDING COMMUNITY University City

3. Community BuildingBY THE NUMBERS 70,983 neighborhood residents 14,549 SJSU students 2,061 corporate volunteers 133 SJSU faculty & staff members 48 SJSU departments & institutes 46 non-profit community partners 22 grassroots groups 32 local businesses 13 schools 246,320 hours of service $5.5M value

4. WHAT MAKES COMMUNIVERCITY? Place-based focus Long-term commitment Multi-sector partnerships Community-driven priorities

5. Social Capital, the Foundation of Community Whereas physical capital refers to physical objects and human capital refers to the properties of individuals, social capital refers to connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them (Putnam, 2000).

6. Making Public Participation Work Most form of regulated public participation in the U.S. are ineffective (Innes and Booher, 2004); more collaborative methods may be an alternative solution

7. Putnam’s argument: • Higher levels of social capital increase civic engagement • Public institutions ‘work better when there exists an independent and long-standing tradition of civic engagement’ (Beem, 1999)

9. ENGAGE Community Health Writing Partners Joven Noble Growing Sustainably

10. LEARN Education Engineering in Action Writing Partners College Day

11. BUILD Neighborhood Revitalization Delmas Park Community Assessment Get out the Vote Safe & Green Halloween

12. cucsj.org