| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 74.87 |
| Liaison | Daryl Pierson |
| Submission Date | March 5, 2020 |
Portland State University
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.97 / 4.00 |
Heather
Spalding Sustainability Leadership and Outreach Coordinator PSU |
Number of students enrolled for credit:
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The Student Sustainability Center's (SSC) mission be an accessible hub that connects sustainability and the student experience through transformational learning opportunities. The SSC hosts the following programs:
EcoReps - Practice your leadership skills by building community, sharing resources, and designing creative projects that promote sustainability within campus departments.
Sustainability Volunteer Program
- Choose to participate in one of the following task forces for one term or more.
---> Bee Task Force - Create a bee friendly campus by maintaining hives, tending plants that support pollinators, and designing educational events and workshops.
---> Cultural Sustainability Task Force - Explore how culture can strengthen sustainability by developing events and resources and advocating for accessibility.
---> Garden Task Force - Care for PSU’s campus gardens through seasonal maintenance, workshops, and creative visioning.
---> Marketing and Social Media Task Force - Create innovative outreach initiatives that include the “Shades of Green” podcast, tabling, marketing materials, and social media.
---> Waste Reduction Task Force - Help host quarterly clothing exchanges, reuse fairs, and waste audits. You may also help maintain the PSU ReUse Room and Supply Studio.
Student Sustainability Leadership Council - Join this community of student leaders to support sustainability efforts across campus and practice leadership activities.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Leadership fellows - Some leadership positions are eligible to participate in a year-long group that helps students explore their understanding and knowledge of leadership while earning a small scholarship and optional class credits.
Field trips - Join us to explore sustainable organizations in the Portland area each term.
Events - Attend a skill share, workshop, tour, film screening, or other meetup.
Professional development - Envision your future, refine your resume, build your network, and strengthen your skills.
RESOURCES
Seed library - Free seeds to plant, grow, harvest, and share!
Campus gardens - Get maps, contact info, tips, and learning activities.
Self care - Strengthen your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Students may apply for a variety of opportunities in the SSC:
Student Staff (paid positions): Students apply for one of seven hourly student positions. Positions are posted online and shared through campus networks. Interested applicants submit resumes and cover letters and are selected by a committee of students and staff. These students are then trained and help provide peer-to-peer training to the variety of volunteer programs hosted by SSC.
Sustainability Volunteer Program (SVP) - Students apply for volunteer positions offered for fall, winter. Participants commit to 2-4 hours per week of service and training for at least one term in one of five task forces Applicants select a first and second choice of task force and are placed in a task force after attending orientation. These student then host a variety of events and other outreach opportunities to engage students across campus in sustainability. Application link: go.pdx.edu/ssc
Student Sustainability Leadership Council - Students are selected to represent initiatives and organizations from across PSU. Delegates attend one two hour meeting every other week to influence the direction of sustainability at PSU, network and share initiatives, connect with administration, and practice leadership skills. Link to online application: go.pdx.edu/ssc
EcoReps - Student residents apply for one of up to 15 positions in fall term and commit to participating in EcoReps for fall, winter and spring term. EcoReps commit to 2-4 hours of service per week for the academic year. Link: go.pdx.edu/ssc
Leadership Fellows - Fellows apply in the spring for the following academic year. Link: https://www.pdx.edu/student-sustainability-center/ssc-leadership-fellows
Field Trips - Each term, SSC hosts a field trip that is open to all students. Students apply via RSVP. Past field trips have included visits and service at Mercy Corps, Portland Development Commission, The Columbia Gorge, Silver Falls State Park, Learning Gardens Laboratory, Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Application link: https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_eP3CXfdo0qQLy5f"
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Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
SCEC is the center for service leadership and volunteerism at Portland State University. SCEC is most known for its group of 20 students that serve with community partners in Portland and work to connect the PSU community to volunteer opportunities. Additionally, SCEC also facilitates monthly and annual days of service, plans several alternative break trips, and coordinates the Alder Elementary mentor program.
Students have opportunities to participate in a variety of programs with various levels of commitment:
Short term/one day service opportunities:
- Portland State of Mind Service Day
- MLK Jr. Day of Service
- Earth Day of Service
- Serve Your City: Group Service Day!
- Campus service events (often in partnership with SSC)
Longer term/more than once a month:
- Alder Mentor Program
- Village Building Convergence
- Alternative Spring Break
Committed for the academic year:
- Student Leaders for Service Members
- Interfaith Leadership Team
- MAPS Mentors
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
SCEC is designed to intentionally build students' leadership capacity and civic engagement skills by serving and learning with non-profit and community organizations in the Portland metropolitan region. SCEC members serve as a key link between the university and the community, making manifest PSU's motto: Let Knowledge Serve the City.
Trainings for student educators:
- Orientation and retreat at the beginning of the year
- Weekly meetings that incorporate a mixture of leadership development and skill building
- Leadership conference 1x/year
For the MAPS mentors:
- Orientation at the beginning of each term
Student Leaders for Service Member Learning Outcomes:
- Student participants will become increasingly self aware, reflective and ethical leaders that promote social change within their various communities.
- Students will critically reflect on engagement experiences
- Students will increase their understanding of issues underlying social problems; students will understand themselves as agents of social change
- Students will have a heightened understanding and value of personal difference and commonality
- Students will sharpen their abilities to solve problems creatively and work collaboratively
students will serve as leaders for increased community engagement with PSU students, faculty & staff
Student Leaders for Service Community Partner Outcomes
- SLS member placement and programming will assist Community Partners in having increased assistance to broaden delivery of existing services or to begin new ones
- SLS member will aid Community partners in having additional approaches to solving problems
- Community partners will have increased access to resources (be made aware of ways to partner with CBL courses, additional PSU volunteers, and get projects completed through service days)
- SLS member placement and programmatic involvement will assist in diversifying the community partner setting, therefore increasing appreciation for personal difference and commonality
- Day of Service Participant Outcomes
- All service learning programs/experiences are structured around best practices informed by service-learning theory.
- Students involved in a service-learning program will critically reflect on the community engagement process.
- Students involved in a service-learning experience will demonstrate increased awareness of social problems underlying our community.
- Students involved in a service learning experience will report increased awareness of and value in diversity
- Service-learning participants will collaborate with others."
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Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):
EcoReps are sustainability leaders within our residence halls and departments. They promote socially just and environmentally responsible lifestyles. EcoReps distribute resources, design innovative projects, and create, coordinate, and host activities in their residence halls. They promote the philosophy that we can, and do, make a difference!
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
The EcoReps program is a year long commitment with roughly 15 available positions and include students who live in on-campus residential halls, focusing on sustainable living, and students EcoReps in Campus Recreation and the Smith Memorial Student Union.
The first term, students go through a rigorous training. In winter term, student host a variety of events providing information to students. The spring term, the students complete a innovative project that helps support sustainability and provide education to the student body.
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