Student Leaders for Service -- Leadership Fellows Class

Student Leaders for Service -- Leadership Fellows Class

Initiative
SA Seattle Fall '24
Status
Approved
Call notes

August 15: left message, sent email

Call date
Book Sent
August 1, 2024
Taught By Relation
Title

Coordinator, Student Community Engagement Center

School Name

Portland State University

School
Department

Student Activities & Leadership Programs

Engagement Description

All sorts -- we have students working with nonprofits that focus on food security, houselessness, environmental justice, educational equality, domestic violence, social services for families, racial justice, and more. I could imagine that students will bring their passion for these issues into the brainstorm about what issue to focus their campaign on. I would plan to have them narrow down some ideas so that there are multiple students per campaign.

Experience

In our leadership classes we teach about social change and the spectrum of social change, so we dig into topics of social justice and social action on a theoretical level. However, most of what we've taught has been more about building knowledge/awareness rather than practice-focused. Students' service in their communities is often with established organizations and not focused as much on social action. I'd love to deepen my skillset in teaching social action in a more practice-based way.

Interest

I teach a Service Leadership class to students who are partnered with community organizations for 4-6 hours/week of service for an entire academic year. For the past six years, we've had them work in cohorts on some sort of community engagement project as part of their leadership role -- whether service projects, donations drives, awareness campaigns etc. We've had more interest from students in learning more about the advocacy side of the equation and it seems like our cohort projects could be a good avenue for this -- but my background is volunteer management and service events, not advocacy & social action-based campaigns. This seems like the ideal institute to help me get that skillset to be able to offer students the opportunity to dig into more substantive cohort projects during their class.

How did you hear about opportunity

In an email to a service learning listserv that I am on.

When Taught

Depending on timing, would try and implement this year (Fall - Spring), but it may be the following year if I need more lead time to actually figure out how to pivot the curriculum.

Semester Teaching
Fall '25
Grant Category
Course Plan
Existing Course
Community Engagement
Social Action
Syllabus?
Publish?
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Breakout Group
Leadership
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