About

Student Leaders for Service (SLS) 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. SLS members serve as a key link between the university and the community, making manifest PSU's mission: Let Knowledge Serve the City. 

• SLS members act as volunteer coordinators for nonprofit and community organizations in the tri-county area by recruiting PSU students, faculty, and staff to engage in volunteer service.
• Members serve five to ten hours per week at a community-based organization for an entire academic year, acting as quasi-staff members at the organization.
• Members work with university faculty to help students in community-based learning courses reflect on service-curricular connections and on their roles as democratically involved citizens.
• Members assist faculty, staff, and students in finding service opportunities, planning service events, and other aspects of integrating community-based learning into course curricula.
• Members plan and lead special service day activities on no fewer than three nationally recognized days of service, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and Earth Day.
• Members network with area colleges and universities to plan joint service community initiatives, workshops, and trainings for students and community-based partners.
• Members collaborate with the university administration as advisors to the Community-University Partnerships office which supports service and other campus-wide, community-based learning, and civic engagement initiatives.
• Members promote the importance of diversity, civic engagement, and community-based learning in creating a well-rounded, informed, and empathetic body of student citizens.

Learn more about past work at our SLS community partner sites.

If you have any additional questions call Jessica Conley at 503-725-8132 or email jrc5@pdx.edu.

The Student Leaders for Service office is on the mezannine of Smith Student Union (Room M113C). Feel free to stop by, call us at (503) 725 8132, or e-mail studlead@pdx.edu.

Contact Us:

Jessica Conley, Program Coordinator: jrc5@pdx.edu or (503) 725-8132
Stephanie Sasse, Team Lead: studlead@pdx.edu
Will Wright, Team Lead: wwright+sls@pdx.edu