CSUSB Director of the Office of Community Engagement (OCE), Diane Podolske, described how her department has been impacting the campus and community for the good these past 20 years. Podolske has spent the last 18 years in the OCE, which exists to connect the campus community to the public at large. They hold opportunities for student volunteerism, service learning, and facilitate faculty research and professional service from non-profit partners to schools and government agencies. Q: How has the OCE grown in the last 20 years? A: We started with three people in an office with a budget and a charge to make a difference. Our goal was to create service-learning projects … [Read more...] about Diane Podolske: “Celebrating 20 Years of Community Engagement”
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CSUSB Snack Attack Champions
Emily Anne Espinosa | Staff Writer | CSUSB won $2,500 as a first place prize from The National Peanut Board’s Snack Attack Competition, which will go toward The Den food pantry.The Office of Community Engagement (OCE) at CSUSB competed with 24 other universities with campus food pantries in The National Peanut Board’s Snack Attack competition, where positive messages about peanuts as a healthy snack were to be promoted through social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram. CSUSB beat out larger universities such as Pennsylvania State University, Diane Podolske, director of OCE, sent an email to campus expressing how she wasn’t expecting to win stating, “our campus food … [Read more...] about CSUSB Snack Attack Champions