Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Hesburgh Certificate and Portland State University's Faculty Development Approach to Supporting Service Learning and Community–University Partnerships
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Abstract
Service learning now has a prominent home in hundreds of diverse campuses across the nation. Developing service-learning expertise and other community-campus partnership enhancement strategies for faculty requires innovation. Recently, Portland State University’s Center for Academic Excellence received the Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence for Community-University Partnerships. This chapter outlines the center’s three-tiered approach to supporting and sustaining civic engagement practices that are sensitive to individual needs on campus and in the community, while also working toward ongoing departmental and institutional transformation.
This paper has been withdrawn.