CURRENT COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO
APRIL 1999 TO JUNE 2002

This is brief summary of some of the partnerships that Community-University Partnerships (CUP) at California State University at San Bernardino has directly worked to develop, nurtured or played leadership roles since April 1999 and through June of 2002.

• Economic Gardening Market and Competitor Analysis: The Inland Empire Economic Gardening Collaborative

  This project introduces to the Inland Empire an innovative business analysis technique for promoting economic growth which was originally developed by the City of Littleton, Colorado. This is an award-wining "Economic Gardening" strategy focused on a new approach to regional economic development. The project will focus on cultivating existing or potentially existing community businesses and assets to improve economic vitality which is in contrast to most prevailing state an local government practices which focus on trying to recruit new, outside business.

Partners:
Marlene Best, Asst. City Manager, The City of Lake Elsinore (Riverside County)
Rick Collins, Non-Curricula Training Programs, Mt San Jacinto Com. College,
Dr. Lee Hanson, CSUSB Management Department
Jerry Henderson, California Trade and Commerce Agency
Rob Moran, Economic Development Manager, County of Riverside
Sue Morales, BizNet Coordinator, City of San Bernardino BizNet/Business Support Network

• The Hillside Players - Theater is Elementary

  This pilot program with the San Bernardino City School District creates an age-appropriate theatrical performing troupe with forth-sixth grade students at Hillside University Demonstration School. During a ten week period, for four days a week, elementary students will learn the basic tenets of artistic perception and creative expression in theater arts. The students work with CSUSB students and faculty to plan and conduct performances which will be open to the public and student at Hillside School.

  Partners:
  Dr. Thomas Provenzano, Theater Department
  San Bernardino City School District
  Alvina Pawlik, Principal, Hillside University Demonstration Schools
  Prof. Ellen Kronowitz, College of Education
  Staff and Faculty, Theater Arts Department

• P.I.T.A.B.: Project Information Technical Assistance to Businesses

Recent experience in the Cities of Lake Elsinore and San Bernardino suggested that the "Economic Gardening" approach of utilizing information databases and technology to assist growth of local businesses is most effective if it could be provided on a multi-jurisdictional or regional basis. Briefly summarized, PITAB provides an informational technical assistance approach which entails a data analyst/technician using on-line and CD-ROM data bases to search or "mine" for information that helps client businesses expand by, for example identifying potential new customers or suppliers. In practice, the data analyst visits the business, or is briefed by business development field staff who have done so and are knowledgeable enough to understand and articulate the client firm's information need/s. PITAB current is working with the cities of Colton, California City, and Barstow in partnership with the CA Wastewater Management Board to help expand business which can support the needs of the Wastewater Management Board.

Partners: Dr. Lee Hanson
Dr. Jerry Henderson
CA Wastewater Board
City of Barstow
City of Colton
City of California City
Management Department

• Whirling With the Cosmos

  This effort increases the quality and quantify of culture, arts and science literacy in the region. This year the partnership hosts "Rumi 2000" a major symposium with papers, presentation and performances related to Rumi (1207-1273), an Islamic mystic (Sufi), who founded the Whirling Dervishes and wrote 65,000 verses. Participants are bused to Cal-Earth, a research and building site in Hesperia, CA, where Nader Khalili will be the keynote speaker. CSUSB students in dance, music, etc. will provide entertainment and facilitate the workshops as leaders, assistants, co-presenters and evaluators.

  Partners:
  Dr. Lonny Fields, CSUSB History Department
  Nader Khalini, California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
  Dean David Lawrence, San Bernardino Valley College, Humanities Division
  Avaz Dance Company
  Riverside Community College
  Arts Council of San Bernardino
  Dr. Peg Hill, San Bernardino County Schools

• CSUSB High School Honor Band & Honor Choir

  This project brings approximately 250 high school students to the CSUSB campus for six hours a week for several Saturdays. The students work with selected CSUSB students, of various majors, to plan, develop and rehearse free concerts presented on the campus in the evening of the meeting days. The high school students are selected by their local band and choir directors. The CSUSB students are studying how to be high school directors of bands and choirs and also visit the students at their local schools. While on campus, the CSUSB students and the High School students engage in games and activities to encourage team building.

  Partners:
  Tamara Craver & Rob Dunham, CSUSB Music Department
  A.B. Miller High School Antelope Valley High School
  Apple Valley High School Barstow High School
  Big Bear High School Bloomington High School
  Canyon Springs High School Eisenhower High School
  Hesperia High School La Quinta High School
  Linfield High School Montclair High School
  Norco High School

• Common Ground: A Multi?Arts Celebration & An Evening of African?American Arts (To be funded for the Next Round of Fellowships)

  This project generates a partnership of local residents and CSUSB students, faculty and staff in creating an "Evening of African-American Arts." Each year the event honors a different ethnic group and different residents and campus members are involved. The primary audience are K-12 students and CSUSB students but many other local organizations and groups are involved.
  

Partners:
Dr. Sarah Boeh & Leslie Bryan, Theater Arts
CommUniversity Dance and Movement Arts Center
E. Neal Roberts Elementary School
E. B. Miller High School
Home of Neighborly Services

• Community Staff Professional Development

  This project utilizes the expertise of several CSUSB clerical staff and College of Education students to conduct a series of Staff Professional Development workshops for the staff of a local community-based organization. The project develops an on-going training process which can be utilized by many local non-profit organizations which are newly organized or suffering from a lack of poor office organization and procedural functioning.

Partners:
Doris SelvaPagan & Dr. Mary Texeira.
Provisional Accelerated Learning Center
Sociology Department
Craig Monroe, Communications Studies
Cherryln Eller, Management

• Service Learning in the Upper Division Writing Course

  This project trains CSUSB students, using the English 306 course, to provide English Composition mentoring and teaching to local high school teachers and students. Also, the CSUSB students enrich the classroom and provide additional resources for the high school teachers to use in their classes. This project dovetails with the current CSUSB Center for English Partnership.

Partners:
Dr. Philip Page, English Department, Chair
Kellie Rayburn, English Department, Lecturer
Dr. Jacqueline Rhodes, English Department, Professor
Diana Roloff, English Department , Student
Beth Highbee, SB County Public Schools
CSUSB, Center for English Partnerships

• Developing Leadership Opportunities for Latino Youths

  This project works with regional Hispanic students, who have an historically high school drop out rate, and provides them a comprehensive college attendance enhancement and information program of motivational speakers, workshops and essential knowledge about college and career choices. The project utilizes CSUSB students who have graduated from this program to serve as staff and leaders.

  Partners:
  Dr. Tom Rivera, CSUSB Undergraduate Studies
  Cynthia Olivo, Inland Empire Future Leaders Program
  Kiwanis Club of Greater San Bernardino

• Citizenship & Career Skills Development in Middle Schools

  This project utilizes CSUSB undergraduates to teach a nationally recognized "Citizenship" curriculum to appropriately 50 inter-city, intermediate public school students. The project assists the learners to work more effectively together and to increase knowledge and skills in conflict management, cooperation and community building. The project also works on increasing the students' writing skills and their awareness of and attachment to the university.

  Partners:
  Nena Torrez, College of Education.
  Two Inter-City San Bernardino Primary Schools
  Dr. Jim Mitchell, National University

• Citizenship & Career Skills Development in Secondary

  This project utilizes CSUSB undergraduates to teach a citizenship curriculum to appropriately 50 San Bernardino inter-city, secondary public school students. The primary goal is to assist the learners work more effectively together and increase their knowledge and skills in conflict management, cooperation and community building. The secondary goal is to increase the students' job development and job searching skills. The students are taught how to research an industry and discover what specific skills are needed to succeed in that industry and how to secure jobs within that industry. Students are divided into writing teams and construct a book regarding the industry which can be utilized by future students.

  Partners:
  Denise Benton, CSUSB UPWARD BOUND
  Two Inter-City San Bernardino High Schools
  Dr. Jim Mitchell, National University

• Development of Environmental Quality Paradigm for the Inland Empire

  This project utilizes university faculty, university students and community experts to identify, analyze and spell out key parameters to be used as measurable indices to evaluate the over-all quality of the regional environment in the University's service region. These parameters are utilized to generate an "Environmental Report Card" for the region which are employed to collect data and then report to the general public.

  Partners:
  Dr. Lal S. Mian, Health Sciences Department
  Pamella Bennett, Chief, Division of Environmental Health,
  San Bernardino County Public Health Department
  Dr. Major Dhillon, District Manger, Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control District, Riverside County
  Eldon Heaston, Deputy Air Pollution Control Officer, Mohave Desert Air Quality Management District, San Bernardino County
  HSCI 352, 401, 402, 322 students

• Early Childhood Intervention Program: CSUSB and Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC)

  This project brings together the multidisciplinary expertise of CSUSB faculty, researchers, students, and regional medical processionals and is develops an early childhood intervention project which addresses the priority health concerns outlined by the Children and Families Commission of San Bernardino County. The project develops and implements a multi-disciplinary early childhood intervention program to increase parenting skills, increase school readiness, facilitator cognitive and emotional development and provides a coordinated, non-overlapping case management services to children and families. CSUSB students are the primary staff for the implementation of the project serving under the leadership of campus and community leaders.

  Partners:
  Robert LaChausse, Health Science and Human Ecology
  Dr. Cindy Paxton, Chair, Health Science and Human Ecology
  Prof. Mary Molle, Nursing
  Margaret Brasch, Sponsored Projects
  Ann Ivey, SB County Department of Public Health, Ret.
  Dr. Gerald Green, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
  Dominic Nigro, Director, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
  San Bernardino County DPSS and Molina Health Care

• Community University Partners in Educational Technology

  This project provides educational technology assistance to the Provisional Accelerated Learning Center (PAL), a local community-based organization which assists high risk individuals gain vocational education and GEDs. The project further enhances the PAL Center's computer and educational technology. CSUSB students and ACM staff assist in the development of the following: networking all classrooms; installation and set up of video projection units, installation of production enhancement software; training programs for the PAL Center faculty/staff in the use of related computer software and instructional technology; and computer laboratory management and Local Area Network administration.

  Partners:
  Mike Ross, CSUSB Academic Computing and Media Department
  Jo Thompson, Profession development Coordinator, ACM
  Father Bob Miller Holy Rosary Academy
  Carmen Carswell, Operations Specialist, ACM
  Dr. Mildred Henry, The Provisional Accelerated Learning Center
  
  The CSUSB Division of Information Resources and Technology
  Steve Budick, ACM Student Technician
  David Alaniz, Operations Specialist, ACM
  College of Education Students (graduate and undergraduate) and Faculty
  Department of Science, Math and Instructional Technology
  ETEC 546, Computer Based Technology in Education Students

• 1999 Summer Egyptian Arts Camp:

  This was a partnership with the CSUSB Fullerton Museum, CSUSB College of Education, three SB middle schools and the most outstanding Art Education teacher in the State of California. It brought 60 disadvantaged middle school students to campus for a week during the summer to study Egyptian Art, Egyptian History and explore the CSUSB Fullerton Museum and was totally funded by CUP. It produced a cohort of students who are more fully aware of Egyptian history, a mandatory subject in all California schools, enhanced the students' inter-racial communications and exposed disadvantaged students to cultural and artistic environments they would have never normally experienced. The process also exposed these students to the potential benefits of staying in school, graduation high school, and of eventually seeking higher education.

• Horizons Partnership:

  This is a Partnership with the City of San Bernardino, Channel 3, three high schools, Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire, Valley College and CUP. It uses local high school students to develop a TV series on home buying, renovation and maintenance. Students used academic classes to develop content, wrote the script, partnered with construction companies, and remodeled a home in San Bernardino. The entire process was video taped in a "This Old House" format. Taping finished in June for broadcast in July, 2000.

• Focus 92411:

  This is a Partnership of the Residents of the 92411 Zip Code, Community Hospital SB, SB County Dept. Of Public Health, CSUSB Health Science and Nursing departments. The goal is to improve the over-all quality of life and health for all people who live or work in the zip code. Funded by CA Healthy Cities and Communities, CHSB Foundation, CSUSB, CUP and Catholic Charities. The effort has produced a new non-profit organization, an inventory of all resources in the zip code, a list of all the billboards in the area, a new ATM machine for the zip code, many community events including an annual Holiday Toy Give Away Party for local elementary school children, a job clearinghouse for Census 2000 workers and helped to keep open the two local libraries in the zip code.

• Lutheran Mission Partnership:

  This is a partnership of several departments on the CSUSB campus, with Social Work as the lead, and the Lutheran Mission of San Bernardino. The project utilizes health, education, social welfare, nursing, psychology, etc. students in service-learning activities to provide educational, social and health services to local residents who do not have health insurance.

• Inland Empire Community Benefits Collaborative:

  This is a partnership of all nine regional hospitals in SB and Riverside Counties, three United Ways, and the Health Departments of both counties, CSUSB, and Loma Linda University. The effort has developed a common health agenda for the Inland Empire and coordinated the Community Benefits programs of all agencies into a more unified process. This effort has also developed, with UC Riverside, a proposal for an integrated health data base for both counties which will be housed in the Health Departments and available to anyone via the County's web sites. Planning and implementation funding should be forth coming from the California Endowment.

• Accelerating Community Transformation Project:

  This is a partnership with Loma Linda University Medical Center, the City of San Bernardino, Merck Pharmaceuticals, the Health Forum, Disney Foundation, CSUSB (CUP), and 21 other local agencies including police departments, housing, etc. The effort implements a comprehensive community health agenda for the Inland Valley region and uses common, web-based software to connect all partners into a comprehensive network of providers who work on common concerns in health, economics, community capacity, education, and family development.

• Inland Preventative Services:

  This is a partnership with Inland Preventative Services, CSUSB (CUP) and "Focus 92411" to conduct regional health fairs for needy and uninsured residents of the City of San Bernardino.

• African-American Health Initiative:

  This is a partnership with San Bernardino County Medical Society, IWIN, the Pan American Access Corporation, SB Department of Public Health, Community Hospital of San Bernardino, Supervisor Jerry Eaves' Office, Inland Empire Black Nurses Association, National Sickle Cell Project, the Precinct Reporter, the CSUSB Marking Department, and CSUSB (CUP) and is developing a specific agenda to improve the over-all health status and health outcomes for all African-Americans living in SB County.

• City of San Bernardino Economic Transformation:

  CUP has provided support to the SB Mayor's office in the development of a comprehensive Economic Transformation plan for the entire City. It is funded by the Mayor's office.

• Inland Empire Nursing Enhancement Project:

  This is a partnership with Community Hospital of SB, St. Bernardine's Medical Center, the Foundations of both hospitals, the San Bernardino Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, CSUSB (CUP), and the CSUSB Nursing Program. The project increases the number of nurses graduating from CSUSB, provides CSUSB nursing graduates with more clinical experience in local hospitals, reduces the orientation time necessary for newly hired nurses, increases the number of Hispanic and Spanish-Speaking nurses in the region, and keeps more CSUSB nursing graduates in the local region. It is funded by the hospitals' Foundations. The hospitals also provide funding to support current hospital clinical nursing specialists to teach CSUSB nursing laboratory sections for the Nursing Department so more majors are admitted into the Nursing program.

• Non-Profit Management Partnership (American Humanics):

This is a partnership with American Humanics, the Resource Center for Non-Profit Management, several local non-profit agencies, the CSUSB College of Business and Public Administration, several CSUSB academic departments, the CSUSB Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, and CSUSB (CUP). The develops a seamless series of educational opportunities for enhancement of managers of local non-profit agencies in the San Bernardino and Riverside County area by developing a coordination of extended education courses, extended education certificate programs, Bachelors' Degree recipients with a American Humanics Certificate and an MBA in Non-Profit management. It is funded by the Kellogg Foundation, the Casey Foundation, American Humanics, the CSU Chancellor's Office, CSUSB and CSUSB-CUP.