The Daily Bulletin

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Student Community Engagement in a Changing World," presented by Fletcher Beaudoin and Melia Tichenor of Portland State University, on Tuesday, December 7, at 1:00 p.m. This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community.

Our urban communities are facing a cascading set of vexing challenges that compel further action from university faculty, staff, and students. Portland State University (PSU) is changing its approach to community-based learning and campus-community partnerships to match the needs of its changing region. PSU has long embraced its community-engaged mission, which runs throughout its curricular and extracurricular offerings. This deep experience provides numerous examples of the critical roles that students play in serving their urban community both through their own individual participation in community work that matters most to them and through campus-community projects and relationships. As PSU's ongoing relationships with community partners continue to develop in response to the expanding needs, so will the opportunities for student involvement in these efforts. One strategy being pursued is to spend more time learning from the experiences of students so they can identify places where the institution can enhance or draw from existing student capacities and also where there are service gaps. The core goal is to support students in growing their social agency, which are the interests, skills, and knowledge needed for advancing positive change in the world. This session will explore examples where PSU students are contributing to the health and well-being of the broader community through extracurricular experiences and the critical role of extracurricular activities in building a student’s social agency. In addition, the session will highlight new innovations in extracurricular programming that can expand students' confidence and commitment to advance change in their community.

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Immediately following will be "Best Practices for College Access Past, Present, and National Pandemic," presented by Natissia Small of University of Missouri–St Louis. 

College access providers continue to serve in a critical role for providing supports to promote high school completion and college matriculation. The award-winning UMSL Bridge Program has received state, local, and national recognition for college access supports provided to the St. Louis community. This session will provide attendees with best practices utilized to maintain effective college access supports while enhancing services to middle and high school students.

This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community. Please register online for this webinar and any others in the series you may be interested in.