Our Graduate Fellows
Sponsoring agencies, counties, bureaus, departments, and nonprofit organizations can choose from two CPS fellowships: the 10-week Oregon Summer Fellowship (OSF) and the eight-month Hatfield Resident Fellowship (HRF). Fellows are recognized as high-level Project Managers looking to apply their classroom learning and research to real-world projects and are recruited from some of the nation’s top graduate programs in public service disciplines.
Who We Recruit
We actively recruit talent from Portland State University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Willamette University. Our quest for graduate talent also extends to more than 60 leading graduate schools across the country to departments in public administration, public policy, and public affairs, along with other pertinent academic disciplines.
In recent years, we have expanded our recruitment strategy to address the growing desire for diversity (in racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, as well as in multilingual skills, work, and life experience), and to capture ancillary disciplines such as I.T. and data science, business and finance, and industrial engineering. We have also recently expanded our recruitment efforts to include students with specializations in emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, resilience, communications, and public health.
We deliberately focus on graduate students who are committed to public service by virtue of their enrollment in advanced degree programs in public administration, public policy, and public affairs. We also seek to provide a way back to Oregon for students who have left the state to pursue their professional education elsewhere and are now looking for a pathway home.