Carter Partnership Award 2008
PSU wins the Carter Partnership Award!
June 3, 2008 National JRCPA winner announced by President Jimmy Carter & Mrs. Roslynn Carter in Atlanta!
Portland State University, and 112 community based organizations in Oregon, win the National-Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus Community Collaboration for the Watershed Stewardship Program. The announcement was made at the National Conference of Corporation for National & Community Service at the world Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This program has led over 27,000 community volunteers donating a quarter million hours to install 80,000 plants and restore 50 acres of watershed along two miles of river. Individual projects have been led and supported by 700 students working as part of class projects, resulting in two master's theses and three research articles.
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration (JRCPA) is one of the programs of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF) and it honors one award recipient in a state where there is a program that addresses critical areas of public need undertaken by a college or university in partnership with a community group. The award is named for President and Mrs. Carter as a tribute to their lifelong efforts to develop and support safe, healthy, and caring communities throughout the world. In public office and in their daily lives, they have consistently supported public improvement efforts based on cooperation, mutual learning, and shared responsibility. More information about this program and other programs of the foundation is available at www.jrcpf.org
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration (JRCPA)
This "hallmark" program of JRCPF recognizes best practices in campus - community partnerships already in existence, in which there is shared decision making and academic integration of service. Winners will be announced in early June, and will receive the Carter Trophy, a Monetary Award and a Carter Partnership Certificate, signed by President & Mrs. Carter.
