Each semester, the Amy Love Memorial Scholarship provides an award up to $500 in memory of Amy Love, longtime educator and student/community advocate, to freshman and sophomore students in any English major. These applicants have shown that they have contributed to the public good through community service learning (CSL) classes or other work/activism in their communities. Congratulations to Maddux Eckerling, Malachi Perkins, and Tamanna Shirol!

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“Studying at the University of Amsterdam has been a fantastic experience. I’ve learned to love walking and to accept that the weather can (and will) change at any moment, so I carry a raincoat everywhere. All of my friends are from different countries, which makes the soccer– I mean– football games intense and the potlucks delicious. Courses are challenging but also deeply interesting, and the classrooms overlook the canals. The people here are well-traveled, like techno music for reasons I’ll never understand, and will smile at you when you’ve both just finished biking up a steep hill. Grateful to have had this opportunity. Best, Ava”

​Working together in secondary grade-level committees, students in ENG 655 create a bulletin board that visually represents a thematic unit focused on an Essential Question. The unit includes four different kinds of texts (YA, informational/non-fiction, visual, and an anchor text) and three shorter supporting texts to provide students with background information. The bulletin boards also list student learning outcomes, relevant Common Core State Standards, sample learning activities, and a description of the unit’s culminating assessment.

MA English Literatures candidate and Ingalls Travel Award recipient Kristine Van Dusen traveled to Portland, Oregon to attend the 120th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference to present her work on nineteenth century poet Matthew Arnold. Other SFSU students, alumni, and faculty in attendance included Sally Casanova Scholar Saramanda Swigart, Lisa Ludden Perry, and Professor Meg Schoerke.

• Amy Love Memorial 

  • Maddux Eckerling

  • Malachi Perkins 

  • Tamanna Shirol 

• ASW 

  • Jordaye Huntley 

• Ellanore and Maurice Bassan 

  • Aidan Alberts 

• Debra Plousha Moore 

  • Meilani Clay Solomon 

• Gail E. Weinstein Fellowship in Community Literacy Education 

  • Hannah Gradowski 

• Gant Family Pathways to MA TESOL Award 

  • Christine Xiong 

  • Andrea Martin  

• Jim Brogan-Jack Post 

  • Mina Raeisi 

• Michael Krasny Award in English Literature 

  • Skylar Grey 

• R. Joel Dorius Memorial 

  • Rafe Kassim 

• Stephen Arkin Distinguished Student Award Endowment in English Language and Literature 

  • Gabriela Pires 

  • Aziah Griffin 

• TESOL Convention 

  • Chester Diaz 

  • Hui Yu Wu  

• TESOL Legacy Fellowship 

  • Chester Diaz 

  • Hui Yu Wu 

• Cunningham Scholarship in Literature 

  • Jo Haupt 

• Vincente Narciso Marcelo Scholarship in English 

  • Javier Angel-Lazaro

Congratulations to Project SHINE on another semester of collaboration with CCSF and SHINE coaches. Thanks to Ariana Chavez and Ana Maria Abarca, both enrolled in our grad TESOL program, and our CCSF leader, Wynn Newberrry (SFSU TESOL alum) for leading the way! Pizza, Milano cookies, and enriching conversations about language learning, self-discovery, and 

Fall 2023 Coaches:  April Crescencio, Jennifer Guerrero Sandoval, Katie  Underwood, Lila Holman, Minwoo Noh, Yaneli Guadalupe Lopez, Aziah Griffin