Portland State student government’s judicial board is asking the Associated Students of Portland State University’s student fee committee to provide evidence that meetings they held over the last year complied with Oregon’s Public Meeting Law and the ASPSU constitution.
Portland State’s already contentious budget process became more complicated Friday after the PSU student government judicial board invalidated Wednesday’s Associated Students of Portland State University student senate meeting.
Portland State’s student-government-run food pantry is looking rather bare, with no more than a dozen or so food items now occupying its shelves.
To combat low inventory, the Food Systems Task Force of the Sustainability Leadership Center is putting on a canned food drive to help supply and promote the Associated Students of Portland State University’s food pantry.
Pleasant conversations abounded between smartly dressed young women seated around white-clothed tables last week in the Smith Memorial Student Union.
The next women leaders of Portland State were getting their start in politics on a rainy Wednesday afternoon on campus.
Because of declining enrollment, a flat student fee and the creation of new fee-funded services and programs such as a Veterans Resource Center, the Student Fee Committee chose to decrease funding nearly across the board. Student leaders, such as publications editors and managers, will see dramatic pay cuts during the 2013-14 academic year.
Change is in the air for students who receive subsidies for their child care costs from Portland State. Key stakeholders at the Helen Gordon Child Development Center, the Associated Students of Portland State University Children’s Center, the Resource Center for Students with Children and the ASPSU student fee committee have been in talks to redesign the distribution of students’ incidental fees to prioritize giving direct aid to student parents who need help paying for child care—on and off campus.
Technological advancements are revamping higher education, and Portland State is next. The Provost’s Challenge, now underway, is set to accelerate the development of proposed technology-based changes to college programs and resources at PSU.
Support is growing in Salem for tuition equity, an idea that would, for the first time in Oregon, grant access to in-state tuition to undocumented high school graduates who meet certain requirements.
The Oregon legislature opened for business on Monday, and Gov. John Kitzhaber is expected to implement sweeping educational reforms. The reforms are part of the Oregon 40-40-20 goal to see 40 percent of Oregonians with a four-year degree by 2025. Because of the weighty and unprecedented nature of the reforms, many Portland State and Oregon University System administrators are unsure exactly how this will happen or what the effects will be.
ASPSU Member Zack Shannon and Legislative Affairs Director David Coburn talk with the Vanguard about their student survey efforts in response to proposed changes to the Campus Public Safety Office.
On Wednesday the Associated Students of Portland State University met to discuss the initial draft of the student government’s budget for the fiscal year 2013–14.