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If you build it, he will come,” goes the famous line from the 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams. But according to the results of a study by two Portland State professors on the city’s uncanny ability to attract and retain young, college-educated students, a better tagline for Portland might be “Don’t build much of anything at all—they’re just going to keep coming anyway.”
Titled “Is Portland Really the Place Where Young People Go To Retire?”—a reference to the popular comedy Portlandia—the recently-released study finds that these young, college-educated (YCE) individuals continue to flock to Portland despite high unemployment, lower pay and a propensity for those who are employed to find only part-time work or work in “non-college” occupations, such as food service.

After a long search, Portland State’s publishing program has found a new leader.

Emblazoned in gold letters on the Montgomery Street pedestrian bridge on campus is the slogan “Let Knowledge Serve the City.”

Academic fieldwork typically debuts in wordy scientific journals that hold little appeal for most, but Portland State Professor Jan Haaken, a clinical psychologist, has found a way to engage a broader audience through.

Portland State’s Higher One contract won’t be up for renewal until October 2014, but renewal discussions will start this January.

You may recognize Higher One as the company behind the debit and identity cards issued to all students, and used in the optional free checking account for financial aid disbursals. Higher One is a national third-party financial aid distributor providing service to 830 schools and 6.2 million students.

The first time Melody Rose ever stepped onto a college campus was on move-in day at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a first-generation college student from a poor family in Los Angeles, the odds were stacked against her.

New Viking Vets center opens
They’ve put down their flack jackets and night vision goggles, their helmets and M16 rifles. Now, they’re in classrooms studying and reading, being students.

This year, more veterans than ever are attending Portland State.

cross the country, organic gardens are being worked into the campus landscape. In the Northwest alone, rows of veggies are tucked in a five-acre plot at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. The Urban Farm at the University of Oregon is 1.5 acres.