Postgraduate Certificate Service – Learning and Community – Based Learning in Postsecondary Education

A graduate certificate in Service Learning and Community Based Learning from Portland State University will help you gain high impact strategies for how to teach, coordinate, lead, research, and assess service-learning for educational improvement and community enhancement.

Students, faculty, administrators, and community partners from around the world connect with PSU each year to learn programmatic, teaching, learning, and engaged scholarship techniques of service-learning.

The Service Learning and Community Based Learning program from Portland State University is for:

• College staff and administrators who coordinate and direct various forms of civic engagement
• K-12 teachers, faculty, and instructors interested in connecting academic content with experiential and community-based learning and service activities
• Other professionals interested in connecting non-profit agencies, NGOs, and social service organizations with colleges and schools.

What can you do

• College Staff and Administrators who (or who want to) coordinate and direct various forms of civic engagement including volunteerism, community service, service-learning and community-based learning.
• Faculty/Instructors at colleges and Teachers in K12 schools interested in connecting academic content with experiential and community-based learning and service activities including how to conduct community-based research, assessment of outcomes, and the scholarship of engagement.
• Community Professionals interested in connecting non-profit agencies, NGOs, and social service organizations with colleges and schools in order to support student learning and community enhancement.