Become a Sponsor

FELLOWSHIP OFFERINGS

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.

The Oregon Summer Fellowship


Sponsors pay $11,816 (FY25-26) to onboard currently-enrolled Master’s and Ph.D. students for 10-week placements during their summer break from regular enrollment. This allows sponsors a low-cost, low-risk way to competently address areas of need, while also identifying talent for possible recruitment.

Oregon Summer Fellowships

The Hatfield Fellowship


Sponsors pay $48,420 (FY25-26) to receive an eight-month residency fellow who has recently graduated from their Master’s or Ph.D. program and is looking to launch their career. This longer-term fellowship allows more meaningful, reciprocal opportunities for both the fellow and sponsor.
For federal agencies, the estimated 2025-26 Hatfield Fellow Sponsor Fee is $54,500 (based on a 33.5% IDC rate). Any additional expenses required to perform the work outlined in the scope of work, such as travel, would require pre-approval by PSU and may affect the Sponsor Fee.

The Hatfield Fellowships

How We Recruit

The Center for Public Service set out to build a continuous pipeline of talent from the leading graduate schools of public affairs across America. There are now more than 60 graduate institutions from which we recruit — leading universities such as Harvard, Duke, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Cal-Berkeley, USC, and Texas—as well as Oregon’s own UO, OSU, Willamette, and, of course, PSU. 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.

In recent years we have expanded our recruitment strategy to address the growing desire for diversity (in racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, multilingual skills, work and life experience), and to capture ancillary disciplines such as I.T. and data science, business and finance, industrial engineering, and, very recently (mindful of the threat of the 9.0 Cascadia earthquake), students with specializations in emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, resilience, communications, and public health.