PSU Magazine Spring 1997

Industry Management Program, which u e · money from industry and grant to meet industry requests for better educated workers. Equally impres ive i the Busine s Outreach Project, also funded by bu ·ine ·sand grants. The project, in which PSU students provide technical and managerial assistance to small businesses, has been so successful that the city recently underwrote an expansion. Roger Ahlbrandt, dean of the choo l of Business Admini tration, also counts in his partnership portfolio increased internships, the expanded Busine Advi ory Council, the orporate Associates Program, and the industry Advisory Board. And, he ·ar, the future ho ld more. An indu try reque ted and funded upply and Logistic Management Program is ready for launching. "And I'd like ro raise an endow– ment for the Food Industry Management Program," Ahlbrandt ay-. "Beyond those, l don't have a specific game pl an, but accounting and information ·y tem both could benefit from partnerships, and I'm sure there arc more to be identified-you can't teach business without being actively involved in the community." Vice Provo t hcrwin Davidson, who also erves as dea n of the choo l of Extended S tudi es, ove r ecs what i essentially P U's large ·t collect ion of community partner hips, including the PSU Salem Center; the O regon Community D velopment Training Institute; and a partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide train– ing for HUD executives in the western United tate . Davidson also oversee the grant– funded Center for Academic Excel– lence, which could be termed the University's partnership with its faculty and the future because it offers profes– sional development to PSU's 750 full – and part-time facu lty and he lps them develop partnerships in the community. Ambitious as the e program arc, Davidson i finalizing details of an even more far-reachi ng partner hip with the School of Social Work-offering a Master of Social Work via closed– circuit television in Ashland, Bend, Eugene, LaGrande, and O ntario. And the Center fo r Academic Excellence is providing grant to facu lty to help them develop partnership projects for the cap tone segment of the Univer ity tudie program. "Our mis ion is to develop program based on the needs of the constituen– cies we work with in the community and on campus," says Davidson. " As those needs change, so will we. " (Melissa teineger, a Portland freelance writer, wrote che anicle "Talking 'bow My Generation," which appeared in the winter 1997 P U Magazine. Clarence Hein '65 is manager of PSU Community Programs.) Join the Party AND BID FAREWELL To PRE IDENT JUDITH RA MALEY WEDNE DAY, M AY 28 4-7 P.M. • PARK BLOCKS An international student celebration with food and entertainment; free. 7-9 P.M. • HARRlSON H ALL Mu ic by PSU faculty and students, multimedia pre entation, me sage from the president, and a champagne and chocolate reception; $20, call 725-3711 for tickets. ,"PRING 1997 P U MAGAZINE 9