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Portland State’s Chiron Studies program offered Revolutionary Marxism as a spring 2012 course, which has already drawn notice from well-known conservative figures in America.
Looking ahead to the upcoming fiscal year, Portland State is faced with a disparity between revenue and expenses, resulting in inevitable cuts in spending—including employee cuts. In attempts to prevent some of the anticipated job losses, PSU recently came out of negotiations with the American Association of University Professors with a plan to provide retirement incentives for eligible employees. For every employee who opts to take incentives and retire, PSU administration argues, one less position will have to be cut down the line.
Portland State’s Healthy You program will be sponsoring a women’s self defense seminar on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will take place at the Academic and Student Rec Center, room 430.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden recently proposed a bill to the United States Senate that would require colleges and universities to provide prospective students with information about the costs and benefits of attendance. The Student Right to Know Before You Go Act would create a user-friendly website that helps future students determine the real cost of higher education.
It will be called the Orange line: TriMet’s new Portland-Milwaukie MAX light rail line, projected to open in September 2015, will extend from Southwest Fifth Avenue and Jackson Street, at the south end of the Portland State campus, to Southeast Park Avenue in Milwaukie. In addition to a new bridge to carry the trains across the Willamette, the new line will also have 18 new trains.
Nationwide, there has been a noticeable trend in administrative growth in secondary education. Groups such as the Goldwater Institute and internal university research groups have been examining the impact of this growth over the last 10 years.
Ken Ruoff, Portland State history professor and director of the PSU Center for Japanese Studies, received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction on Monday, April 23 at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
Portland State’s Middle East Studies Center will continue its esteemed Lunch and Learn series on Thursday, May 3, focusing on diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States. The informal event will be held in East Hall, room 109, at noon, and is free to the public. Guests are asked to RSVP on the MESC webpage. Tea and coffee will be provided, and attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch.
As one of a series of public forums and hearings on the proposed education urban renewal area, the forum held at Portland State on April 17 was intended to increase awareness and garner public approval. More than 100 people attended the hearing at PSU’s Urban Center to learn about and discuss the proposed plan. Attendees were able to ask questions and voice concerns or comments that were then answered by PSU President Wim Wiewel and Portland Development Commission Executive Director Patrick Quinton.
After months of seeking solutions for the projected $12 million budget shortfall for the 2012–13 fiscal year, TriMet announced its final budget proposal on April 11. Still citing a stagnant economy, a dip in federal operating funds and continued problems negotiating the Amalgamated Transit Union 757 contract, TriMet scaled back some of the initial service cuts contained in the earlier budget proposals. However, the proposal retains some of the more drastic changes ever seen to the overall service the agency offers.