 Founded by the Oregon Business
Council in 2002, the Oregon
Performance Internship (OPI) is a unique opportunity for the nation's best graduate
students in public affairs, public policy, and public administration to spend
a summer in Oregon helping improve the performance of public and nonprofit
agencies.
OPI is co-hosted at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland
State University with the overall goals of improving the quality of analysis,
management and leadership throughout the state's public and nonprofit
sectors ö not just during each summer program, but well into the future.
 Students
begin OPI with a week-long performance
measurement seminar taught at Portland State University by Dr. Robert
Behn from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. They then intern at state,
municipal, and nonprofit organizations applying what they have learned while
working on comprehensive performance projects.
Students
participating in the OPI program hail from the nation's top 25 universities
in public policy and public administration including Harvard, Princeton,
Syracuse, UCLA, Duke, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana, Berkeley (public
affairs and business schools), the University of Oregon, Oregon State
University, Portland State University, and Willamette University.
The Oregon Performance Internship is assisted by a group of experienced
governmental leaders with a demonstrated commitment to public sector policy
and performance initiatives. Advisory Board members include Duncan Wyse
(President, Oregon Business Council), Ron Tammen (Director, Mark O. Hatfield
School of Government, Portland State University), Barbara Roberts (former
Governor of Oregon), Jeff Tryens (Director, Oregon Progress Board), and
Charles Lewis (Founder & Executive Director, Ethos, Inc.).
To learn more about OPI, please visit the
Oregon
Performance Institute website.
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