About
Contact Us:
Emily Hoffer, Program Coordinator: ehoffer@pdx.edu or (503) 725-8132
Sarah Simpson, Student Development Team Lead: sesimpso@pdx.edu
Amber Lang, Marketing and Outreach Team Lead: alang@pdx.edu
Where You Can Find Us:
The Student Leaders for Service office is on the third floor of Cramer Hall in room 359. Feel free to stop by, call us at (503) 725 9727, or e-mail studlead@pdx.edu.
What We Do:
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.
