Our Partners

Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change

The Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change promotes evidence-based, academic research on the global impact of skateboarding and other action sports. The center engages local and international scholars, practitioners, and athletes worldwide; industry experts; social media influencers; nonprofit organizations and cultural institutions; corporate sponsors; alumni enthusiasts; and philanthropic partners to help build stronger and healthier communities through skateboarding and action sports.

 

Center for Surf Research

The Center for Surf Research (CSR) is a non-profit research and teaching center housed in SDSU’s Sustainable Tourism Program under the L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. The Center provides leadership in the struggle for sustainability in surf tourism by: (1) Shaping responsible citizens through life-changing experiential learning opportunities for students and the wider community and (2) Creating and disseminating specialist knowledge to governments, the surf industry, tourism developers, destination communities, nonprofits, and tourists.