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Portland State students in search of emotional refuge are about to gain access to several new university organizations and services tailored to their needs.
Dean of Student Life Michele Toppe and her staff are instituting many additional student resources this fall. The majority of those resources were created to provide a safe place for students to share concerns or make the process of finding help simple and stress-free.
Portland State is known as a bellwether of the sustainability movement. Hoping to further that reputation, President Wim Wiewel has established a task force addressing the sustainability movement that colleges and universities across the country have joined: eliminating plastic water bottles.
The grand project to build the world’s first energy neutral, high-rise, urban building here in Portland is in need of a lifeline from the city and the state legislature—and it might get one, provided stakeholders can demonstrate that Oregonians won’t go broke paying for it.
Do you look at your bill each term? Or are you, like many students, averting your eyes from the balance sheet until you graduate and are forced to pay back the thousands of dollars you owe the federal government?
Portland State is expanding in more ways than building new dorms.
This summer, PSU hired Erin Flynn as its new associate vice president for strategic partnerships, a position based out of the Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships. Flynn is charged with creating a network of expansion for the university by connecting PSU with local companies and establishing mutually beneficial partnerships.
College Station—the new student housing facility located at the corner of Southwest Fifth Avenue and College Street—has reached the halfway point of construction, and is set to be complete by fall term of 2012.
La Casa Latina, Spanish for “the Latino House,” opened in early June as a resource center for the Latino community at Portland State, as well as an educational facility for all students interested in Latino culture.
This year, the Portland State Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics decided to implement placement tests for several of its courses.
In the past, prerequisites for introductory math and statistics courses were not enforced. Beginning winter term 2012, students will need to satisfy prerequisite requirements in order to register for select lower-division courses in the department.
Dr. Woon Do Choi, an internationally recognized scholar at the Northeast Asian History Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, will be presenting a free lecture sponsored by the PSU Center for Japanese Studies, taking place tonight at 6 p.m. in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 327/8.
Ooligan Press is a key component of the curriculum in Portland State’s graduate publishing program. Dennis Stovall, who founded the nonprofit, student-run publishing house, coordinated both Ooligan and the publishing program for 10 years; he retired Oct. 1.
It has been a little over a year since the Portland State radio station lost its AM signal and was forced to accept alternative methods of broadcasting. Since then, KPSU has shifted its focus toward online streaming and found its voice in the students who continue to push the group forward.