Only a few weeks away from a special election on Jan. 26, the Portland State Alumni Association and ASPSU are working together to bring voter attention to Measures 66 and 67. A voter education forum will be held today, Friday, Jan. 8, in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom at 5 p.m.
A former Portland State laborer, who worked for Facilities and Planning, said he was intimidated by a supervisor who appeared to be threatening the laborer with termination.
Feeding Oregon’s largest university is no easy task, but someone has to do it.
From 1999 until 2005, the job belonged to Aramark, a Pennsylvania-based company known for providing hospitality services to many health care facilities and universities. In 2005, when Aramark’s contract with Portland State expired, they were outbid by Sodexo (then called Sodexho) for the rights to provide food services on campus.
The Park Blocks will be empty. The library, cafeteria and halls will be silent. Lights will go down and so will the thermostat. Except for the sound of an accountant working hard to get holiday paychecks out, Oregon’s largest university will be like a ghost town.
Portland State and Oregon Health and Science University are the leading partners in the forthcoming Life Sciences Collaborative Complex, to be located on the South Waterfront.
Sustainability at Portland State took a big step forward on Tuesday, Oct. 13 with the inaugural EcoDistrict Summit.
When Will Shortz is the keynote speaker at an event, don’t expect the audience to just sit still.
For the past 19 years, the PSU Alumni Foundation has welcomed thousands of students, alumni and community members to Portland State for a series of events known as PSU Weekend.
Portland State recently inked a new contract with Higher One—the financial institution charged with handing out millions of dollars in financial aid reimbursement to students—after a long search process for other vendors that began last fall term.
Over $5 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward the hiring and rehiring of Oregon law enforcement officers, according to the offices of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden.