ORCC Student Engagement Mini-grants Awarded

Two Portland universities will receive mini-grant funding from Oregon Campus Compact to support student engagement efforts.

Concordia University’s Teacher Corps program, which provides tutoring services to K-12 students in the community surrounding the University, will receive $500 in funding. During the 2007-08 school year, Concordia’s Teacher Corps served over 343 K-12 students at 16 tutoring sites. This year, mini-grant funding will help support these tutoring sites and Concordia students’ efforts to address the learning achievement gap within their community.

University of Portland will also receive $500 in funding. UP’s student-initiated group, Response to Global Hunger, provides students with resources to address local and global hunger issues, such as escalating food prices, international trade laws, food security and poverty. This group, in its pilot year, will use mini-grant funding to support educational and action-oriented events on campus.

The Oregon Campus Compact Student Engagement Mini-grant opportunity was extended to Oregon colleges and universities as a way to promote and support issue-based student engagement. The grant was released during the first annual Oregon Campus Compact CAPITAL (Campuses Advancing Public Investment Through Active Learning) Conference on October 11, 2008.