October 5, 2009

Faculty and staff invited to Go Green

Making students feel welcomed, riding mass transit to work, or wearing PSU colors on Fridays are just a few ways to "Go Green" for Portland State. How you Go Green could win you a T-shirt, pizza or iPod nano.

PSU Office of University Communications is sponsoring a contest asking faculty, staff, and students to create a short video showing "How I Go Green." Submit an entry to www.pdx.edu/gogreen by Nov. 12; the first 75 will receive a free T-shirt. An iPod nano goes to the individual grand winner and a $150 Hot Lips Pizza gift certificate goes to the group grand winner.

Examples are already set on the Go Green Web site. See videos of President Wim Wiewel, PSU Recyclers, the PSU Community Garden, the PSU Cycling Club, and head football coach Jerry Glanville. For entry information, visit Go Green contest rules. 

Summer Session receives award for Capstone

Every summer hundreds of Portland State students help people with disabilities at the Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp. Many students say it is a life-changing experience. Others view it as the best type of community-based learning.

The Western Association of Summer Session Administrators recently presented PSU Summer Session with a notable Best Credit Program Award for its contribution to the University's Senior Capstone with the camp. Holly Campbell, Summer Session coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of PSU and the Graduate School of Education. Read more > 

Valuing equity and ecology

People might not associate business with terms like environmental stewardship, social equity, and transparency, but Scott Marshall would add yet another word to that list: success. Marshall teaches sustainability-inspired approaches to business in PSU's MBA+ and Master of International Management programs, using class work, case studies, and guest speakers from forward-thinking companies to show students a better approach to business. Read more about Scott Marshall >

Film on Portland airs next week

The University is hosting a free, public screening of Portland: Quest for the Livable City, a documentary that chronicles the city's attempts to reduce its carbon footprint and grow more densely within the urban growth boundary. The event takes place Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. at the Columbia Falls Ballroom in University Place, 310 SW Lincoln.

A welcome from President Wim Wiewel will precede the film, and a panel discussion will follow the documentary. Panelists are representatives from the film's producers, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Northern Light Productions, as well as PSU professor Ethan Seltzer. See the trailer >

Internationalizing through study abroad

Did you know that only 2 percent of PSU students study abroad while pursuing their education at PSU? As part of President Wim Wiewel's initiative to internationalize Portland State University, faculty, departments, and students are encouraged to work together to make studying abroad more accessible.

Please announce in classes and encourage students to attend PSU's Annual Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Smith Union Ballroom, third floor. At the fair, students will explore international opportunities that match their academic, personal, and professional goals.

Portland State joins ocean observation association

The University has accepted an invitation to join the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems, which covers the coastal oceans of Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. As one of 11 associations, the Northwest Association contributes to the U.S. Integrated (and Sustained) Ocean Observing System. Chris Mooers, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, will represent PSU on the association's executive council. Read more > 

Israeli writer on campus this fall

David Ehrlich, Israeli fiction writer, commentator, and former journalist, will give a free reading and talk Oct. 8 at 1 p.m. in the Women Resource Center, basement of Montgomery Court. Ehrlich is writer-in-residence this September and October in the University's Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. Read more >

Faculty Senate ad hoc committee being formed

The PSU Faculty Senate approved, last June, the creation of an ad hoc committee to propose changes to the constitution that bring it more in line with the Senate's current composition and circumstances. The Committee on Committees (ConC) is now in the process of appointing committee members. Faculty interested in serving, should contact their division representative on the ConC by October 12.

Learn about the 2010 health plans

The PSU Office of Human Resources is offering a presentation on the new PEBB statewide plan Tuesday, Oct. 6, noon to 1 p.m. in 228 Smith Union. Help with online enrollment is scheduled Wednesday, Oct. 7, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 1: 30 p.m. in the computer lab in 450 Neuberger Hall. For a full schedule of events, visit Human Resources' Enrollment Events Web site. 

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