PSU has garnered the following awards and recognition for our many engagement efforts:
Taillores Network Campus - PSU is honored to be a select member of the Talloires Network, an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education.
2018 Technology Association of Oregon Tech Champion winner. The Technology Association of Oregon named Angela Jackson, co-founder and managing director of Portland Seed Fund and director of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, as the recipient of the 2018 Tech Champion Award.
2018 U.S. News & World Report 10 most innovative universities (third year in a row). The magazine ranks colleges annually in many categories from indicators of academic excellence, including surveys of administrators at peer institutions, student retention and graduation rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving. Its rankings are at www.usnews.com/colleges.
Ashoka U Changemaker Campus - PSU is honored to be an Ashoka U Changemaker Campus, the leading designation for social innovation in higher education.
2016 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award – awarded by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities for PSU’s partnership with City of Portland. Partners in Practice-Partners in Policy (video) »
Carnegie Community Engagement Classification – Community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching »
InBIA Dinah Adkins Incubator of the Year Award (Technology Focus 2015) – This prestigious award evaluates incubator performance by looking at resident company jobs created, capital raised from public and private sources, annual growth rates. The award honors the accomplishments and contributions of founding InBIA member and pioneer, Dinah Adkins, its inaugural president/CEO.
UBI Global Top 25 University Business Incubator – Stockholm-based UBI Global ranked the PSU Business Accelerator one of the top university incubators in the world, based on performance data analysis from 300 university incubators in 67 countries. The index analyzes jobs created, growth rates, capital raised and post-incubation performance of resident companies (2013).
US Small Business Administration Growth Accelerator Award - Awarded $50,000 and named one of the top 50 growth accelerators by the US SBA. Economic performance and team diversity of resident PSBA companies were considered in the awards (2013).
Portland State receives the 2013 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award » presented by The Washington Center and the New York Life Foundation Recipients were chosen based upon their leadership and innovation in civic engagement.