Linfield College

Linfield College has established the Linfield Center for the Northwest, a program enhancing undergraduate education through the active cultivation of a collaborative experiential learning community.  Center activities include Northwest-based 1) internships, 2) service learning opportunities, and 3) student-faculty collaborative research projects.  Linfield seeks to support the proposed three-year Keck Community-Engaged Research-to-Classroom Program, focused on research meeting identified needs in the Pacific Northwest.  The project expands Linfield’s current campus-wide research initiative by offering students opportunities to apply academic theory in community-engaged research experiences each summer.  Students engaged as summer researchers will subsequently serve as peer instructors, working collaboratively with faculty to integrate their investigations into course redesign initiatives.  A series of dissemination activities will focus on project best practices and research outcomes.  LCN will provide the unique intersection of academic research, course curricula and community interests that will impact 15 faculty researchers, 30 student researchers and approximately 250 Linfield students between the 2011-12 and the 2013-14 academic years.