Outreach Programs:
Global problems demand a global vision.
From violent conflict prevention research and education to focusing on early childhood development issues,
the School of Social Sciences' community outreach programs take a global approach to solving global
community issues. Locally, our research centers provide professional public presentations by recognized
political and social figures as well as public intellects and scholarly experts. At the national level,
our Social Science scholarship contributes to public policy developments in issues of great relevance to
California and the nation. On a global scale, our faculty and students spend many hours each year
contributing their expertise to improvement of local, state, national and international communities and institutions.
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The Ambassador's Council has been created
to promote and enrich the School by supporting new and existing
school-wide/department projects. It collectively will act as
an official student voice in discussing and program development
with administrators and department chairs/faculty. |
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The Citizen Peacebuilding Program at
the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a distinctive
international clearinghouse for research, education, and
action on public peace processes. The Program focuses on
how citizens participate in these activities to prevent violent
conflict and, if violence occurs, to promote reconciliation
and sustainable peace. The purpose is to significantly contribute
to the theory and practice of conflict resolution. |
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The School of Social Sciences is hoping
to connect its academic and human capital with selected underrepresented
schools within Orange County. Through in class lectures & inter-active
lessons we hope to introduce students to the concepts and
realities of global markets, post-cold war political identities,
borderless social issues ( literacy, hunger, AIDS), international
organizations ( the World Bank, the United Nations) and the
multi-dimensional themes of globalization. |
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HABLA is a broad-spectrum Latino-focused
educational outreach program based in the School of Social
Sciences at UCI and created by Dr. Virginia Mann in June
2000 with the support of the Orange County Children and Families
Commission. Its purpose is to increase the school readiness
of disadvantaged children aged two-to-four years, by uniting
faculty and students at UCI with the Santa Ana Unified School
System, local Families Resource Center, Americorp/VISTA,
FACT and the national Parent Child Home Program (PCHP). |
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Jumpstart was founded in 1993 at Yale
University at the intersection of two national trends: the
public need for quality early childhood programs and the
emerging national service movement recruiting thousands of
college students to community service. Jumpstart connects
these trends by recruiting, training, and supervising college
students to work with Head Start and other early childhood
programs in low-income neighborhoods to provide one-to-one
attention to young children struggling in preschool. |
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