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President Dan Bernstine won the 2005 Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award in recognition of his work in internationalization in higher education. The National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges’ Commission on International Programs selected him from a group of 30 nominees.

The commission lauded Bernstine for Portland State’s nearly 50-percent increase in international enrollment since 1999—more than 1,100 international students from 94 countries attend PSU. In addition, over the past two years the number of students participating in study abroad programs has also increased by 50 percent.

During Bernstine’s tenure he initiated a series of outreach activities aimed at strengthening the Middle East Studies Center and the University’s relationship with the more than 800 PSU alumni who live in the Middle East. He also helped form a pioneering relationship with the Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources to offer land-use training and to bring computer science and engineering programs to China.

Bernstine was instrumental in helping the Hatfield School of Government develop environmental and community-based learning projects in Vietnam—a collaborative project with the World Wildlife Fund. He continues to lend his personal attention to the School of Business Administration’s Master of International Management, the only program of its kind in the U.S. focused solely on Asia.