Multi-Year
The EDG:E program is a K-12 community-based learning, civic education, and mentorship program housed at Portland State University’s Center for Academic Excellence (CAE), Student Leaders for Service (SLS) program. The core function of the EDG:E program is to increase student success by intentionally building community-focused leadership skills through the implementation of service-learning/civic engagement clubs at ten schools in the Portland Public Schools (PPS) system. Eight of these schools are elementary schools (four in outer Southeast, and four in North/Northeast) which feed into two Portland high schools - Marshall and Jefferson. EDG:E utilizes a “cascading” mentorship model, in which PSU student leaders mentor high school students, who in turn mentor elementary/middle school students.
REAP Inc., a community, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving at-risk youth and underprivileged communities, partnered with Portland State University Black Studies Department to develop a Black Studies/Mentoring class for the African American students at Grant High School. The course offered black studies curriculum, a black professional lecture series, mentoring, study tables, leadership development activities, individual success planning, and peer mentoring.
Project 10-9 focuses on the development of speech enabled information access by police officers from inside, as well as outside their patrol vehicle.
The Ooligan Press is collaborating with the Arlington club members to design, edit, and publish a book about the history of the 140-year-old Portland organization.
The Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Training Program was established in early 2003 through a five-year agreement with China’s Ministry of Construction. Delivered in cooperation with the International Sustainable Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon, the Program focuses on land-use planning and zoning, urban renewal, green buildings, nature in the city, consensus building and citizen participation.
The program has been coordinated by the College of Urban and Public Affairs. This year the program co-directors are Dr. Connie Ozawa, faculty member in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and Dr. Marcus Ingle, faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and the Executive Leadership Institute.
Since the inaugural session in March 2004, 60 officials from China’s Ministry of Construction, representing fifteen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have participated in this intensive seven-day program in Portland.
