Programming and Events

Learn about upcoming CSTL programming and events.

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Engaged Scholarship Programming

This transformative year-long initiative empowers faculty and graduate students to integrate community engagement into their research and teaching. The program offers interactive workshops, guest speakers, and shared learning opportunities that strengthen campus capacity for community-engaged scholarship.

The 2024 cohort focused on advancing economic development and addressing racialized disparities through Community-Based Research (CBR); a collaborative approach that connects scholars and community partners to create meaningful social change.

2024 SU PACE Fellows

  • Dr. Amanda Heffernan, College of Nursing
  • Dr. Andrea Holtan, Albers School of Business
  • Dr. Julius Moss, College of Arts & Sciences

2025 SU PACE Fellows

  • Dr. Robin Narruhn, College of Nursing
  • Dr. David Feinstein, College of Education

Together, PACE Fellows lead projects that address community-identified needs and promote a more just and sustainable world.

The Engaged Scholars Lunch and Learn Series invites faculty into reflective dialogue and collaborative learning focused on community-based research, vocational discernment, and mission-aligned scholarship. Each session provides space for connection, reflection, and practical strategies, with flexible participation options designed to foster broad engagement.

Fall Quarter 2025

Thursday, November 13 
Advancing Mission Through Engaged Scholarship
Discover how your scholarly work can become a powerful vehicle for advancing Seattle University's Jesuit mission and values. This session explores how to embed mission alignment into research design, community partnerships, and dissemination strategies, and examines how engaged scholarship can transform both academic outcomes and community impact.

Thursday, December 4
Co-Creating Knowledge with Communities
Community-engaged scholarship thrives when community partners are collaborators, not just participants. This session explores participatory methodologies that center community wisdom, build equitable research relationships, and produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and socially meaningful. Learn how to design projects that share authority, amplify community voice, and lead to sustainable impact.

Advocacy and Civic Engagement Programming

Food Justice Summit

The Center for Social Transformation and Leadership and Wellness and Health Promotion Program host the Annual Seed Stories: Feeding our Future, Seattle University’s 2025 Food Justice Summit.

With 46 percent of SU’s undergraduate students facing food insecurity, it is imperative to educate the campus on food justice and challenges facing our students and the communities of which we are a part.

Join us as we challenge our campus community to engage critically and create radical solutions to solve our community problem.

* Official Event Schedule Release: Feb. 15

SU SDG Launch

Since 2016, SU has joined 1000+ universities and colleges that use the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS). STARS facilitates the assessment of our campus’s sustainability performance and our contribution to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals through operations, programs, actions and policies.

Seattle University’s aspiration to lead on sustainability and environmental justice was reinforced by the “Reigniting Our Strategic Directions (2022-2027)” foundational goal to institutional participation in Pope Francis’ Seven-year Journey toward Integral Ecology through the Laudato Si' Action Platform, putting concrete action behind the goals outlined by the Pope in his 2015 Encyclical.

SU SDG Launch is one of such programs that supports our Laudato Si’ Action Platform.

LSAP All Goals Wheel

Our 4th Annual United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals training to our campus will be held in Fall 2024. This program educates students about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and gives them the skills and training necessary to mobilize action. The program focuses on empowering both undergraduate and graduate students to be changemakers by educating them about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and giving them the skills and tools to mobilize around them. Once you complete this interactive program, students will receive a certificate and badge to add to their resume and professional development journey!

  • Official Event Schedule Release: September 1

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