At an Oct. 29 meeting, the Educational Stipend Review Committee decided to make 5-percent increases for Student Fee Committee-funded student stipend positions effective as of Jan. 1. The stipend committee, which is charged with reviewing the stipend policy and meets about every two years, initially discussed the possible increase at several of its 12 meetings from April to July of this year.
SFC Update: $12 million gets ready for disbursement Fall term of every year is a time when Portland State student groups and university departments are very busy.
Students attempting to make a quick pit stop or grab their mid-morning coffee from Food For Thought Cafe in the basement of the Smith Memorial Student Union yesterday arrived to an unpleasant surprise: All restrooms had been closed, and all food services were shut down for the day. Some hours later, the SMSU was locked to students and faculty from the first floor to the basement, with limited access to the second, third and fourth floors of the building. The reason? A broken City of Portland sewage pipe.
Researchers at Portland State will soon have over 100 million sources of information at their fingertips. The Summit Catalog, the collaborative collection of 9 million volumes from 36 northwest colleges and universities, will converge with the WorldCat platform this winter, allowing Portland State users to access over 107 million resource materials from around the globe.
Many public and private colleges around the country, such as Portland State University, rely on SAT and ACT scores as an important factor contributing to admission decisions for millions of students. Similarly, organizations that award major scholarships, most notably the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, utilize PSAT scores in determining candidates worthy of the financial award. The National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC), however, called these long-standing testing procedures into question when it convened in Seattle on Sept. 22 to produce the 2008 Testing Commission Report.
The title “associate dean” initially evokes images of stodgy tweed, an intimidating, mahogany desk and a phonograph with Chopin’s Sonata in b-flat minor playing softly in the corner. Then there’s Dr. Grant Farr, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, whose office and persona blast those images to bits. His office is painted in a soft orange hue, and he has a painting produced by a Portland State student hanging on the wall above his desk.
Among the attendees of Party in the Park Thursday was a one-year-old red tail boa constrictor. The eight-inch long snake sat comfortably in Saudi Student Club member Ahmad Kalali’s hand. As throngs of students cleared the path for the tiny reptile and his warm-blooded friend, the pair absorbed the sights and scents of the PSU’s annual kick-off celebration, now in its 18th year. More than 100 student groups had booths that lined the South Park Blocks.