University Communications and the Multicultural Center are joining forces to put on the Portland State Tweetup and Roots Festival Fair this spring term on Thursday, May 23rd from 10am-2pm in the Smith Union Ballroom. Join students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends for a campus celebration!
This FREE event will feature entertainment, treats and refreshments, music, games, photo booth, prizes, bouncy boxing ring, and more. Get ready to have some fun!
PSU President Wim Wiewel has issued a statement in support of immigration reform, as part of the College and University Presidents Immigration Reform Day of Action, April 19, 2013.
You are invited to an evening with Tim Wise. A presentation not to be missed, Wise is a best-selling author and lecturer on racism and privilege in today’s society.
Wise was recently named by Utne Reader as one of “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World.” He is the author of six books, including his newest “Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority.” He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN, and has been featured on ABC’s “20/20.”
Victor Mena's father figured he had two choices -- work for a Mexican drug cartel or starve -- so he bundled up his two sons 20 years ago and followed a coyote north from Uruapan into California.
Portland State University won the biggest merit award from the State Board of Higher Education for 2011-12 because it graduated more Oregon residents, and more rural and minority Oregonians, than any of the state's six other public universities.
For that, the board awarded PSU a bonus of nearly $1 million Friday.
WHAT Hosted by the Diversity Action Council and facilitated by Dr. Samuel D. Henry -- all PSU students, faculty, staff, and community leaders are invited to join PSU’s Diversity Action Council in this facilitated dialogue aimed at developing better (best) practices on race matters between the University and its communities of color.
Read the original story in the Hood River News here.
“It was never a question that I would go to college,” said Chief Diversity Officer Jilma Meneses of Portland State University. “It was never a question that my daughters would go to college.”
