A graduate certificate in Service-Learning and Community-Based Learning will help you gain high impact and equity-centered strategies for how to teach, coordinate, lead, research, and assess service-learning for educational improvement and community enhancement. Students, faculty, administrators, and community partners from around the world connect with PSU each year to learn programmatic, teaching, learning, and engaged scholarship techniques of service-learning.
The program is for:
- College leaders and administrators who coordinate and direct various forms of volunteer, leadership, and civic engagement experiences
- Faculty, instructors and K-12 teachers interested in integrating academic content with experiential and community-based learning and serving activities
- Community partners and professionals interested in connecting non-profit and government agencies, NGOs, and social service organizations with colleges and schools for the purposes of learning and community change
- Anyone who is interested in learning leadership skills and strategies for equity-centered community engagement in leveraging educational, economic, environmental, and social justice
Check out the courses to take to complete this certificate!
| Program Coordinator | Admissions Advisor |
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Ramin Farahmandpur
askcoe@pdx.edu
503-725-4619 | Stefanie Randol
askcoe@pdx.edu
503-725-4689* *You can text me! |
Portland State University is an internationally recognized leader in community-based learning and civic engagement. As a designated Carnegie Foundation Engaged Campus, students, faculty, administrators, and community partners from around the world visit PSU each year.
- Direct a college office or center for volunteerism, community engagement, service-learning or engaged leadership.
- Lead professional development workshops for faculty, teachers, and community partners focused on evidence-based equity-centered strategies.
- Teach service-learning and community-based courses that holistically integrate academic content with reciprocal community-partnerships that facilitate learning, skill development, and community capacity-building.
- Engage in community-centered research and scholarship that advances academic discipline and professional fields.
- Collaboratively solicit and secure grants and other resources for educational and community enhancement.
- Initiate and coordinate campus and community-wide strategic plans that operationalize democratic mission and vision statements for educational, economic, environmental, and social justice.
- Co-construct K12 school and teacher professional training for anchoring education and community service in learning and serving activities that promote academic competence, identity development, and future democratic engagement aspirations.
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