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Rose Hill
November 21st 2025

Portland State to honor life, service of Native elder and advocate Rose Hill

Portland State University is honoring the life and service of Native elder...
Members of the PSU campus community gathered for the Time to Act celebration
March 5th 2025

‘The time to act is always’: PSU celebrates successes of equity plan

In 2020, at the height of a national and local racial reckoning, Portland...
Native graduates wrapped in honor blankets at an Honor Day ceremony
November 20th 2024

PSU gets $1.8M to bolster career pathways for Native communities

Portland State has been awarded $1.8 million for two workforce development...
Ame Lambert on stage talking to audience at symposium
November 7th 2024

PSU leaning into its majority-BIPOC future

Since its founding in 1946, Portland State has been many things: An institution...
Rose Hill seated in center, surrounded by friends, family, community members and city councilors
October 31st 2024

Street outside Native center to be named after beloved Indigenous leader and student advocate

The street outside Portland State’s Native American Student and Community...
Three students sitting on a couch inside the Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian Student Center
October 10th 2024

PSU receives diversity award for third consecutive year

Portland State received the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity...
Faculty and graduates at Portland State’s Commencement.
January 12th 2024

Sloan grant will help PSU graduate more diverse STEM doctorate students

Portland State is home to Oregon’s most diverse undergraduate student population...
Fall 2023 Convocation
January 2nd 2024

PSU named among the best workplaces for diversity in the U.S.

Portland State has been named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest...
Students at the Cultural Resource Centers’ Multicultural Graduation
October 19th 2023

PSU receives top diversity honor for second consecutive year

For the second year in a row, Portland State University has received the...
Students doing homework at the Pacific Islander, Asian and Asian American (PIAAA) Student Center
October 4th 2023

PSU nets $2 million to expand support for Asian American and Pacific Islander students

Portland State has been awarded a nearly $2 million federal grant to expand...