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Service learning nowhas aprominent home in hundreds ofdiverse campuses across the nation. Developing service-learning expertise and other community-campus partnership enhancement strategiesforfaculty requires innovation. Recently, Portland State University's Center for Academic Excellence received the Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate ofExcellence for Community-University Partnerships. This chapter outlines the center's three-tiered approach to supporting and sustaining civicengagementpractices thatare sensitive to individualneeds oncampus and in the community, while also working toward ongoing departmental and institutionaltransformation.