4th Annual Civic Engagement Awards

Engagement in Sustainability

April 23, 2009

Portland, Oregon  

The Oregon Campus Compact

Excellence Award

  

 

Barry Messer       

College of Urban and Public Affairs

Portland State University

In June 2008, Portland State University’s Community Watershed Stewardship Program, in collaboration with the City of Portland, won the first-ever United States National Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus Community Collaboration.

 

The Community Watershed Stewardship Program has led over 27,000 community volunteers donating a quarter million hours to install 80,000 plants and restore 50 acres of watershed along two miles of waterways within the region’s watershed. Individual projects have been led and supported by more than 700 students working as part of class projects, resulting in several graduate theses and faculty research publications.