CommunityFaculty and student involvement in public and professional activities focuses on the development of community citizenship.
Faculty are actively involved in professional organizations and services in an effort to serve the community at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Faculty also maintains a strong presence in local planning education and training activities. The wide variety of professional organizations and societies represented by faculty membership include:
- American Collegiate Schools of Planning
- American Institute of Certified Planners
- American Planning Association
- American Psychological Association
- Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
- Egyptian Architectural Society
- Egyptian Planners Society
- Environmental Design Research Association
- Gerontological Society of America
- International Planning History Association
- Society for City and Regional Planning History
- Transportation Research Council
- Urban History Association
- Urban and Regional Information Systems
- Urban History Association
Portland Institute for Metropolitan Studies
The Institute for Metropolitan Studies, a service and research center at Portland State University, serves as a "front door" for the University to identify crucial issues and trends confronting Portland-Vancouver metropolitan communities. Current activities of the IMS that build on community-university relationships include:
- New Economy Observatory
- Regional Investment Board
- Silicon Forest Family Tree
- Community Geography
- Regional Roundtables
Learn more about these and other current IMS projects.
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