Tag: ASPSU

In the final months of summer, the Associated Students of Portland State University are recruiting students to fill the remaining voting seats on 23 all-university committees by the beginning of fall term. The students chosen will represent the rest of the student body at PSU and actively participate in university policy-making.

The Associated Students of Portland State University have been given the monumental task of selecting and recommending a student candidate to serve on PSU’s new Board of Trustees, which, according to the nominee application, will serve as a “policy and decision-making body.”

An investigative committee of student government representatives from all over the state met for the first time on Friday to explore the possibility of a merger between the Oregon Student Association and the Oregon Community College Association.

As spring gave way to summer term, Associated Students of Portland State University President Harris Foster and his executive members assembled for their first executive meeting on Wednesday, June 19, to discuss where they’ve been and where they’re going.

Associated Students of Portland State University President Harris Foster and a student government committee have begun filling executive staff positions amid concerns of cronyism within the hiring process.

In 2012, students across the Canadian province of Quebec went on strike. Hundreds of thousands of students marched against government legislation that would have led to an increase in tuition rates. The student protests quickly gained momentum as thousands—largely liberal groups, ranging from workers unions to leftist political parties—joined a common cause.

Harris Foster and Yesenia Silvia-Hernandez were elected as student body president and vice president, respectively. The pair garnered 287 votes, or 50 percent of the votes cast. A new constitution, proposed by former Vice President Ethan Allen Smith, failed, with 47 percent voting against it, 28 percent voting in favor and 25 percent abstaining. The 569 votes cast in the ASPSU election represent a 3 percent voter turnout, down from last year’s 9.3 percent turnout, which one expert called “terrible.”

As student government elections were drawing to a close last week, the Associated Students of Portland State University stayed focused on business in recent meetings. They chose new members for the judicial review board, considered student fee committee bylaws and weighed student leadership awards.

With a burgeoning grassroots campaign that garnered almost 170 Facebook likes in three days, a last-minute write-in candidate emerged in the few days before voting closed on Friday in the Associated Students of Portland State University presidential race.

Portland State students have one more day to vote in the Associated Students of Portland State University elections. The most contentious item on the ballot this year is a proposed new constitution.