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Portland State President Wim Wiewel will honor 10 students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors on May 22 for their work advancing diversity on campus at the Ninth Annual President’s Diversity Awards.

 

Portland State University has awarded $3 million in grants to faculty and staff to advance new ideas and technology that make higher education more flexible, interactive and affordable — including new online teaching tools, courses and degrees.

Jeff Fluhr, president of the Wichita Downtown Development Corp., sees big opportunities in Wichita’s participation in a yearlong program to help the city steer downtown development in a sustainable, cost-effective way. The program is called the Urban Sustainability Accelerator, and it’s part of an innovative effort by Portland (Ore.) State University planning experts to help cities get where they want to go with their city centers. Participating cities will learn from each other and hear about what has worked in Portland, often held up as an example of smart planning.

There is no simple solution to college affordability in this age of declining and stretched state budgets set against the growing demand for a degree. But one thing is certain: Universities can't do it alone.

A team of professors and students at Portland State University’s School of Architecture is about to deploy its first set of green portable classrooms on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Two bills, one setting out the universities' relationship with the new Higher Education Coordinating Committee and the other defining the new institutional boards of regents, have moved through the two houses' relevant committees into Ways and Means, with hearings in its education subcommittee scheduled for next Tuesday. The issues are too complicated, and the time left too short, to resolve all questions, but the Legislature can still make a good start this session.

A Portland Bureau of Transportation map identifies the top-10 high-crash corridors in the city and this year it is focusing on three locations to make them safer. The 10 top locations are where a majority of the accidents involving vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians occur. PSU prof. Chris Moncere comments.

Ashley Echang graduated from Portland State in 2011 with a Bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and received her teaching certificate from the Graduate School of Education in 2012.

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Portland State University is rolling out $2.3 million in grants for new academic programs and approaches solicited from hundreds of faculty members.