Service Narrative Essay

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Service Narrative

Since joining CSU Stanislaus, I have actively served the Department of Social Work, University, my profession, and the local Central Valley community.

Department Service
At the Department level, I have served on the Admissions Committee, Field Education Committee, Faculty Search Committee, and Research and Evaluation Committee. My participation in these committees allowed me to develop an understanding of how our Department serves students and become familiar with the department’s working culture, history, and procedures. As a member of these committees, I strive to improve processes and outcomes to strengthen our MSW program. For example, as a member of the Research and Evaluation Committee, I played a role in devising …show more content…

I attended a training of critical importance to our campus, A Journey Into Change: An Unconscious Bias Workshop, co-sponsored by the Division of Faculty Affairs and Human Resources and the California Faculty Association (September 2016); served as a faculty panelist at the Social Justice in the Central Valley Conference (November 2016) where I provided insights into the aftermath of the Presidential election, which was featured in the student newspaper, The S!gnal (December 2016); volunteered to serve as a faculty jury member of 31st Annual Student Research Competition (SRC) (Spring 2017) sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and Center for Excellence in Graduate Education; and attended President Ellen Junn’s inauguration ceremony (March 2017). Because of my commitment to former foster youth, I met with the director of the Promise Scholars program (Wanda Bonnell) to learn how I might serve CSU Stanislaus students formerly in foster care. As a result, I was invited to and attended the Central Valley Higher Education Foster Youth Consortium (June 2017) where I connected with former colleges serving former foster youth and met with VP of Student Affairs, Dr. Martyn Gunn, (June 2017) about the possibility of working with Promise Scholars during the 2017-18 academic

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