For professionals and PSU masters and doctoral students
- Interactive online format
- Five courses
- Five terms
- Start any term
- 16 graduate credits
- Undergraduate degree required
- Non-certificate students can participate
Collaboration skills are in high demand
Public agency leaders consistently rate collaborative skills as among those skills they value most. Government officials, nonprofit employees, community leaders, business leaders, mediators, and PSU graduate degree students can build their careers by meeting the growing demand for people who can help diverse stakeholders collaborate on solutions to public issues.
Designed for busy professionals and students
Core courses are offered in an innovative and highly interactive online format providing flexibility for busy schedules. Our course offerings allow you to complete the certificate in just over a year, even while you work full-time. Non-certificate students may also opt to take one or more courses individually.
Benefits
You will get:
- Practical, high-level training from some of the country's leading collaborative governance experts
- Online lectures, discussions, and coordinated group exercises using video conferencing, live chat, and other technologies that foster interaction
- Opportunities to work on real-world collaborative governance projects or a problem in your own workplace or community
- Access to a network of collaborative governance practitioners
You will learn to:
- Build and strengthen multi-organization and cross-sector partnerships to shape public policy and solve problems
- Design and manage collaborative processes that maximize participation and seek agreement
- Conduct negotiations and manage conflict in two-party, and multi-party settings
- Identify power differences and address issues of equity
- Employ computer and web-based consensus-building and communication tools
- Integrate relevant technical information into collaborative processes
- Secure broad-based financial and in-kind resources
- Negotiate policy-making that addresses community needs, industry needs, economic health, the environment, and more
Learn from the experts
Our interdisciplinary certificate faculty is led by the National Policy Consensus Center, an internationally recognized leader in the practice and teaching of collaborative governance. Learn more about the center's collaborative projects at its program websites: Oregon Consensus, Oregon Solutions, and Oregon's Kitchen Table.
Accreditation
Portland State University is fully accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Learn More
Visit the following webpages for more information about the certificate program:
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Contact
For program information and student advising:
Kristen Wright
(503) 725-9078
kjwright@pdx.edu
For registration and admissions:
Public Administration Department, Main Office
T (503) 725-3921
F (503) 725-8250
publicad@pdx.edu