Skills For Being an Effective Collaborator

The ability to collaborate is increasingly recognized as an essential professional and personal skill. In addition, solutions to some of the most critical and pressing issues confronting our communities are only possible when diverse stakeholders are able to come to together to collaborate.  Students will have the chance to further deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills in collaboration as they work in teams to study a specific case where a collaborative approach was used to solve a community problem. This term, students will take a field trip to southern Oregon to interview stakeholders involved in a multi-sector collaborative project facilitated by the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University to develop an alternate energy source (a biomass facility) for the region.

Mari Saint-Pierre, msaintpierre@clear.net