1. Enhance opportunities for students to engage in Service Learning/Internships locally and regionally 2. Provide opportunities for students to work with faculty and staff on research and service projects

1. Review, update and improve advising policies and practices 2. Implement School initiatives in student tracking 3. Increase scholarship support 4. Increase resources and support to student networking and student groups

Provide incentives and eliminate barriers for underrepresented populations to matriculate at CUPA by stimulating innovative approaches to diverse student recruitment—both freshman and transfer students— expanding scholarship endowments and awards, and meeting the needs of the workforce by improving access to existing professional and leadership development programs

--Hold quarterly town hall meetings for majors to identify problems and opportunities. --Survey majors to identify problems and opportunities. --Maintain Undergraduate Executive Committee, a standing committee of the faculty, including voting student representatives, to manage undergraduate curriculum, processes, and to build community. --Assign all majors to full time faculty for advising. --Support professional development activities of Student Services Coordinator to enhance advising, tracking student progress, and assisting students with staying on track. --Encourage and support a “Community Development Student Group” to enable majors to have a peer support network and for creating partnerships and engaging the field --Review and revise curriculum to accomodate enrollment growth

This initiative represents ongoing work of several TSUSP faculty. Faculty have taken undergraduate students to Nicaragua for a practical community development field excursion and are working toward providing similar opportunities for summer experiences in Uganda and other African countries. At the graduate level, the PSU-China Innovations in Urbanization Program, with Hewlett and Miller foundation support, brokered five summer internships in China with the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and the Energy Foundation. Plans are underway to expand opportunities for student exchanges with Tongji University, the top planning school in China with English instruction in 30-plus graduate planning courses, and with CAUPD, who would like to send mid-career professionals to PSU for non-degree study. We expect to have continued support from the Hewlett Foundation for the China program for the next two years.

Through our internship program, PS places students in meaningful internship programs. Though these are primarily through the state legislature, increasingly students seek placement at city and county governments, with non-profit organizations, and with our congressional delegations. This program has been in place many years, and is sustained through the leadership of our senior faculty. Under the direction of Richard Clucas, the program has grown in recent years.

The Center provides PSU a leadership position in the arena of women's leadership and public policy advancement. The Center shines a bright light on women's role in politics & policy through faculty research, teaching, and its two award-winning service programs for girls and women: Teens Lead and NEW Leadership Oregon. The Center is sustained through a combination of state, private, and foundation investment.

A new faculty member has designed the internship program with Multnomah County Circuit Courts. Students will be placed with local judges. The program was initiated 2008-2009 through the leadership of Chris Shortell.

The Center for Turkish Studies will sponsor academic research on topics pertaining to Turkish politics, economic, society, and history. Through collaborative efforts that include conferences and lecture series with academics and researchers in other US and Turkish institutions the CTS will promote better understanding of Turkish politics, economy, and society. It will sponsor workshops that will bring together experts from the academia, business community, and local and national government officials on topics that include economic development, watershed management, political reforms, and national security. The Center also serves as the academic coordinating center for PSU’s new undergraduate certificate in Contemporary Turkish Studies which part of the BA in International Studies degree program.

Task force provides an undergraduate and graduate-level, student-lead study of US foreign policy and presents recommendations to relevant policy makers

Conduct a limited curriculum review in preparation for next NASPAA reaccreditation to assess current course offerings, with attention to opportunities in offerings by new faculty in sustainability, philanthropy, health systems.

A major priority for the PA faculty for the coming year is to integrate, inform and welcome our three new faculty into our operations and help them to become fully functional as quickly as possible. Our actions include being as transparent as possible on communicating all logistics, operating policies, procedures; facilitating access to College and University resources to assist the new faculty; and offering mentoring sessions with the Division chair to address relevant. The faculty as a whole feel this is a high priority so that the new faculty can smoothly and quickly become part of the PA, CUPA and PSU communities -- especially since all three are experienced and thus are immediately ready to assume active agendas as faculty members.

We will enhance the position of the Division of PA in facilitating leadership for public service. A major element in this work will be successfully completing the search for a Director of the Center for Public Service who brings academic and community credibility and can work on behalf of the Division and the Hatfield School to help position us as one of the lead units at PSU with respect to public service. We will explore the role of CPS in coordinating and communicating externally-funded opportunities and activities, including exploring how CPS can lead on statewide studies (eg of nonprofit or health sectors), and determine needs and opportunities. We will seek opportunities for new initiatives and ways to engage as many of the PA faculty as possible as well as graduate students. We seek to link CPS activities with the other academic and scholarly activities of the PA faculty so that the efforts are integrated and not seen as working independently or at cross-purposes.

We intend to continue discussions of PA’s offerings in undergraduate education in public service. We will further investigate opportunities for a 3/2 program, an expanded minor, or a new undergraduate major, considering constraints and opportunities. We are working to identify barriers/facilitators to accelerated degree programs. We will be investigating collaborations with existing undergraduate majors to determine the best way to pursue this work.

Create initiatives at local, state, regional, national and global levels that are implemented at the intersection of scholarship and service. Initiatives will be: collaborative, engaged and timely. In addition, we will address the urgent needs of diverse communities, leverage additional funds, and commit to implementation of findings with community partners.

--Creation and maintenance of major research initiatives via partnerships with community stakeholders. --Creation of new Master of Real Estate Development proposal(jointly with the School of Business) in response to community interest and need. --Creation and ongoing maintenance of signature service efforts to provide community access to the resources of higher education (Community Environmental Services). --Development of ongoing US/China Sustainable Development Training Partnership (with Portland-based International Sustainable Development Foundation and China's Ministry of Land and Resources and Ministry of Housing and Urban/Rural Development). --Incorporation of Planning Workshop as capstone for MURP degree. --Required internships for MURP candidates. --3-term colloquium for CD majors.

--Support standing recruitment committee (comprised of faculty and student coordinator) to develop new initiatives designed to attract a more diverse student population to our undergraduate and graduate programs. --Increase and improve advising for all programs and for both existing and prospective students. --Support both peer and professional mentors (facilitated by the student alumni groups) to enable students to become more connected to each other, the School, and the field. --Support faculty and students engaged in the McNair Scholarship program. --Develop new scholarships and awards, particularly at the graduate level. --Seek external funding for research on social sustainability projects. --Explore opportunities for exchanges with Chinese students (at Tongji University) and professionals (CAUPD) --Establish a speaker series to bring accomplished planners and advocates for disadvantaged communities to augment instructional activities

Faculty in the School are currently engaged in a wide variety of research projects to monitor, assess and improve the performance of innovations in social and built-form urban technologies and to explore and document the relationships between these technologies and community and governance issues. Examples of research include projects examining the relationship between health and non-motorized transportation infrastructure and green storm water facilities and residents' perceptions and understanding of their environments. Currently pending grant applications in related areas will provide substantial support for graduate students.We will convene presentations and discussions on current research to uncover existing linkages and exploit potential synergies in our work, as well as reexamine our instructional programs relative to faculty research agendas.

To advance student success we propose to enhance the advancing experience of our undergraduate students by expanding hours to see an adviser. We propose to facilitate the transfer of students from community colleges and to work closely with the co-admission or dual enrollment office at PSU. We have expanded a new track in Aging Services with the B.A./B.S. in Health Studies. We would like to maintain and expand our capstones offerings to enhance service learning opportunities to our students. Lastly, we will seek interdisciplinary partnerships such as the ongoing collaborations with the departments of Biology, Sociology, Social Work, and Urban Studies among others to expand in learning and engagement activities for undergraduate students.

The Portland Bridges to Baccalaureate program is an NIH funded proposal between Portland Community College and Portland State University to increase the number of underrepresented minority student pursuing careers in biomedical and behavioral research

The School of Community Health proposes to assess the feasibility of a doctoral program in areas of departmental and institutional strengths such as Urban Health, Sustainability, and Community Engagement. This will be the only degree in the nation structured to blend core rigors of public health, community-based participatory research and sustainability. The proposal will take advantage of ongoing curricular revision in the Master of Public Health degree to better take advantage of existing courses, areas of emphasis in advocacy, aging, physical activity, health behavior, and integrative health. It also enhances student opportunities who are currently engaged in two dual degree programs with the School of Urban Studies and the School of Social Work, MPH/MURP, and MPH/MSW respectively.

The School of Community Health has taken the leadership to represent the College of Urban and Public Affairs as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Urban Health Sustainability. Moreover, the Institute on Aging has received a gift from the JFR Foundation to continue work in Global Aging as part of the Aging Matters Initiative. The School has engaged with the Department of Sociology and the School of Social Work to propose an interdisciplinary center on global health research that is currently evaluated for internal funding through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Other academic collaborations with the Department of International Studies at PSU and Peace Corp will be examined. The School has had 2 faculty with Fulbright fellowships supporting sabbatical work, and currently partners with OHSU and OSU international health academic programs.

Preliminary discussions with the faculty, Office of Extended Programs, and other Academic Units will be carried out to investigate the possibility of offering a limited number of courses completely or partially online.

1) Retention and Graduation Initiative A. INCREASE ADVISING OPPORTUNITIES – i. Develop and make available an Online CCJ Advising Center within the Division website (e.g. instructions on how to run a DARS report iii. All majors mailed or emailed a letter describing CCJ advising opportunities. B. OUTREACH TO UNFINISHED STUDENTS. i. CCJO in partnership with COMPASS is contacting all majors who have not taken a class in the last three years and have not graduated to discuss the online program. C. COMMUNITY COLLEGE OUTREACH - i. Finalize articulation agreements and ensure community college students are completing the right courses for full transfer credits. D. INCREASE STUDENT INTEREST - i. Internship requirement to provide students with direct experience. ii. Promote participation in the National Criminal Justice Honor’s Society. iii. Host the CCJ Forum to showcase outstanding research and policy. iv. Offer CCJ scholarships and end-of-year award ceremony

2) Increase Program Stature: Research, Scholarship, and Partnerships A) CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CJPRI) – i. Increase faculty support and resources for research and community service (e.g. CJPRI Mini-grants). ii. Increase stakeholder awareness of CJPRI, CCJ faculty and research activities (e.g. CJPRI Newsletter) B) PROMOTE GRADUATE PROGRAM - i. Advertise graduate education opportunities in CCJ and Public Administration. ii. Increase support for graduate students, including conference presentations. C) CCJ FORUM – i. Bring to PSU a nationally renowned scholar and practitioner each year to speak to students, faculty, and policy makers about their research. D) VISIBILITY – i. Funding faculty and student to participate in multiple national conferences. ii. Outreach to media outlets to discuss research and policy issues.