PSU Magazine Spring 2005

The Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute at Portland State unveiled this photograph, "A Great Day in Portland," in a poster cele– brating the city's vibrant jazz legacy and kicking off the institute's annual jazz week, May 1-10. The photograph, inspired by the famous 1958 portrait "A Great Day in Harlem," features 169 Portland musicians-from elder statesmen to young women to international artists. Noted Portland photographer Owen Carey took the photo. The 24 by 35 inch exhibit qual– ity poster is available through the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute Web site at www.lvji.pdx.edu . Funds from the sale of posters and a limited edition photographic print will support the institute's education programs. PSU featured in Colleges with a Conscience According Lo The Princeton Review and Campus Compact, Portland Stale is one of the nation'.s best colleges in fostering social responsibility and pub– lic service. PSU was selected from a pool of 900 colleges to be featured in The Princeton Review'.s forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement (Random House/ Prince– ton Review Books) and is the only public university in Oregon selected for the publication Lewis & Clark College is the only other college or university in Oregon recognized. The Princeton Review, a test-prepa– rations company, partnered with Cam– pus Compact, a national organization committed to the civic purposes of higher education, Lo choose the schools featured in the book. Criteria included the college's admissions prac– tices and scholarships rewarding com– munity service; support for service learning programs, student activism, and student voice in school gover– nance; and level of social engagement of its student body. Available in bookstores on June 21, the book has two-page profiles on each college. Education earns national award for diversity This winter the Graduate School of Education received the 2005 "Best Practice Award in Support of Diversity" by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The school was honored for its commitment to making an "lntemion– ally Inclusive Community" comprised of students, staff, faculty, and adminis– trators who support diversity, equity, and social justice. Since 1998, the Graduate School of Education has taken a comprehensive approach to building an inclusive com– munity, including developing a faculty recruitment policy requiring applicants to document their experience in multi– cultural settings; acquiring funding and support for the Bilingual Teacher Pathway Program; strengthening the 15-year Portland Teachers Program, a licensure program for recruiting and supporting teachers of color; and plac– ing all students in multicultural field settings. SPRING 2005 PSU MAGAZINE 3