Linfield Center for the Northwest

Overview

The LCN is a center created in 2010 at Linfield College which connects undergraduates students to the Pacific Northwest through Internship, Service-Learning, and Collaboriative research, on issues central to the region.

Mission:

The Linfield Center for the Northwest (LCN) enhances undergraduate education through the active cultivation of a collaborative and experiential learning community. The Center facilitates regionally-based internships, community service and service learning opportunities.  Regionally relevant partnerships yield rich opportunities for training, research, service learning, and cultural/artistic exchanges that promote undergraduate learning, student engagement, and produce real-world change. 

Objectives:

• Establish long-term experiential learning practices with students which focus on local, regional and global intersections with the Pacific Northwest.
• To foster regionally-based internships: First Federal Internships and Kemper Internships.  
• To facilitate regionally-oriented community service and service learning opportunities. 
• To promote field experiences and collaborative research projects that are oriented toward issues in the Pacific Northwest or that have regional implications and/or applications. 
• To invite visiting scholars who have regional research interests or who share research concerns that have implications for Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.