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Consultant: Christopher Nayve
| Name: | Christopher Nayve |
| Title: | Associate Director, Swearer Center for Public Service |
| Department: | Center for Community Service Learning |
| Organization: | University of San Diego |
| Phone: | (619) 260-4217 |
| Fax: | (619) 260-7835 |
| Email: | cnayve [a] sandiego.edu |
| Address: | 5998 Alcala Park Maher Hall 218 San Diego, CA 92110 |
Brief Biography:
Christopher Nayve, J.D., M.B.A., is currently the Associate Director for the Center for Community Service-Learning at the University of San Diego, and advisor to the Center for Awareness, Service, and Action. His area of responsibility includes training and developing staff to manage over 1,000 students engaged in the community. Additionally, Chris manages the annual social issues committee that has an annual conference that brings over 1,000 participants. Chris was most recently the co-chair of the Inclusion and Diversity committee under the President's Strategic Direction Initiative. Chris is a consultant and trainer in the areas of conflict management, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, organizational change and corporate social responsibility development. He has long partnered with universities to develop their students, leaders and staff. Some of the organizations he has consulted with include Loyola Marymount University, University of Texas at El Paso, San Diego Museum of Art, University of San Diego, the Executive Leadership for the Mayor for the City of San Diego, and Washington Mutual. He holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law and a Masters in Business Administration from the School of Business at USD. His legal background focuses on civil rights and social justice education, and his business interest include establishing corporate social responsibility development and management. Chris has extensive community development experience that includes working with the United Nations in Bosnia and coordinating grants from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Chris also volunteers with the Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law teaching high school students about the law, civil rights, and hate crimes.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- Community partner
- Student leader
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
2. Types of Consulting
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Technical assistance
- Interactive presentations
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- National service programs
- Social entrepreneurship
- Alternative spring breaks
- Community-based work-study
- International engagement
- Deliberative dialogues
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
- Political engagement
- Engagement integrated in graduate programs
- Community organizing
4. Related knowledge
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Asset-based community development
- Faculty development
- Student development
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Partnership development
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Institutional change in higher education
- Reflection
- Facilitation techniques
- Risk management
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Conflict resolution
- K-12 education
- Poverty
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- Immigration / migration
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Environment
- Legal aid
- Racism
- Community / economic development
- International / global citizenship issues
- Public arts / theater
- Civil rights / human rights
- Housing / homelessness
- Literacy
- Voting / advocacy
6. Types of campuses
- Two-year
- Urban
- Public
- Liberal arts
- Religiously affiliated
- Four-year
- Hispanic serving
- Private
- Research university
7. Academic areas
- Consulting Corps Education
- Consulting Corps Business / management
- Humanities
- Interdisciplinary programs
- Law and public policy
- Social sciences
I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC.
-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader
