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Portland State’s Center for Online Learning is beginning to feel growing pains. The center, which designs online and hybrid courses at PSU, has accumulated a $2 million surplus, generated by the Online Learning Fee. It is now planning to spend the revenue on renovations for a new location, hiring staff and providing additional services for faculty and students.
Central City Concern, the subject of a study being conducted by Portland State professor of community health Stephanie Farquhar [“PSU Professor receives $50,000 grant” Feb. 8], is a Portland nonprofit agency that provides aid to people experiencing homelessness, addiction and poverty. It is one of the only agencies in the U.S. to offer residential housing, primary and mental health care, addiction counseling, detoxification services and employment training all within the same overarching system.
The internationally recognized leader of soy sauce and food seasonings will be visiting PSU next week.
On Friday, April 13, the Center for Japanese Studiesa will host an event titled “Japanese success stories doing business in Oregon: Kikkoman’s global business.” Yuzaburo Mogi, the honorary CEO and chairman of the board of Kikkoman Corporation, will speak at noon in the Multnomah Falls room of University Place.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that every year there are 19 million new infections of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. This trend causes significant personal burdens to those who are infected, and it costs the U.S. health care system about $17 billion annually.
Credit and debit cards nationwide potentially compromised, PSU officially partners with Smithsonian Institution, State government establishes stand on education reporting, University librarian candidates to visit PSU, Panel to discuss the role of the student press in reporting campus controversies
Oregon Mathematics, Engineering, Science and Achievement recently received a $216,000 grant from the Portland-based Lemelson Foundation to expand its focus on invention education. MESA programs provide early pathways for the next—and future—generation of engineers and scientists, giving support and tools to Oregon middle and high school students. Its programs teach students in the early stages of their educational careers about degrees that could help them pursue work in the engineering and science fields.
As TriMet’s town-hall style public forums and meetings regarding its $17 million budget deficit and subsequent systemic changes come to an end, Portland-area communities could soon see how their input factors into TriMet’s proposed changes.
Citing low retention rates and communication barriers within the current student government body, the Associated Students of Portland State University’s Vision and Reform Committee is proposing to restructure student government. If approved by the judicial board and senate, the revised structure will be placed on the student elections ballot this May.
The Portland State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a single staff member: Executive Director Shelley Gunton. But with extensive experience in growing businesses from ideas, Gunton knows how to get things off the ground, and her sights are set on launching the new center, which will act as a hub for students, faculty, staff and anyone seeking to start a business.
The materialization of the Oregon Sustainability Center, what would be the nation’s first “living building,” hit a wall last month when the Oregon Legislature denied essential state bonds to help finance it. However, the team leading the project hasn’t lost hope of seeing it come to life.
Monica Rimai VP of Finance and Administration gives a presentation to ASPSU about recent budget cuts.