Initiatives

Goal 1

Prepare our most vulnerable students and graduates of 2020-2023 for security and success in the post-pandemic economy

  • Portland Internship Experience – Student Recovery Corps University of Oregon

    The Portland Internship Experience initiative provides undergraduate students with summer stipends to pursue internships with pre-selected internship sites, promoting career readiness for students while supporting local employers in the process. Access to internships, particularly unpaid work experiences, is often skewed, excluding students who cannot pay or need to work over the summer. The initiative addresses this disparity by funding student work in at-need organizations, providing a broad coalition of students with real-world job experience and employer connections that often prove key in finding post-graduate employment.

Goal 2

Support and partner with our communities and government in an inclusive recovery through and after COVID-19, focusing on displaced workers, adult learners, PK-12 systems, economic development, community health and COVID-19 support

  • Oregon Public Health Corps University of Oregon

    Oregon Public Health Corps is the natural successor to the Corona Corps, where the University of Oregon will more permanently develop a program to teach, train, and deploy the next generation of the public health personnel. The program will equip the state and a student workforce prepared to respond to a range of future public health challenges. With an initial focus on Southwest Oregon, the Oregon Public Health Corps will: strengthen Oregon's public health infrastructure through student education, training and deployment; reduce health disparities by providing equitable access to public health support; and expand the entire state’s future public health workforce.