PSU Magazine Summer 1988

Global economy inspires new program PSU joins H arvard Business School as the only other university in the U. S. to establish a group of researchers exclusively devoted to the study and instruction of a rapidly emerging field in business: cost management. H . Thomas Johnson and Peter B.B. Turney were appointed this spring to newly established teaching posts on the new cost management research team in the U niversity's School of Business Administration. Cost management goes beyond the typical accoun ting reports to provide relevant info rmation fo r managers who must make strategic business decisions in an increasingly com– petitive global economy. It focuses on measuring how efficiently a business consumes resources as it creates the products customers want. H . Thomas Johnson comes to the University from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., where he built a reputation in the new cost management field with four books and more than 25 scholarly articles on the subj ect. He will occupy the Herbert Retzlaff Chair of Cost Management, named after the long– time Portland resident and former treasurer of Fred Meyer, Inc. Peter Turney of PSU's Department of Accounting is the second member of the research team. A PSU faculty member for the past 11 years, Tumey is currently engaged in a major field research project involving the design and implementation of experimental product costing systems. He received the Tektronix Professorship from the Tektronix Foundation to support his new work. Richard Sapp, a veteran of 11 years with the PSU Accounting Department faculty, will work with Johnson and Turney on the new team. Sapp's area of specialization involves strategic planning for the banking industry. He was recently retained by the U. S. Controller of the Currency to advise his regional controllers on the benefits and techniques of strategic planning. Civil Engineering students Mark Patterson and Marcus Ostendorp apply finishing touches to "Viking II," their concrete canoe which won the Pacific Northwest regional competition of the American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe Races at Blue Lake. The Viking II team finished fourth in the national competition held at Michigan State University thisjune. Campus gets new BOOST Clevonne J ackson was appointed new director of the PSU chapter of BOOST - Bettering Oregon's Op– portunity to Save Talent. BOOST helps low-income students complete high school and go on to post-secondary educations in colleges or universities. These students are usually the first in their family to receive an education beyond high school. The program, which is funded by the federal government, recruits from ten Portland-area high schools and serves an average of 700 in– dividuals each year. The BOOST staff consists of Jackson, who holds a master of education degree in speech pathology from the University of Virginia, one counselor and a secretary. Grant writing help at hand Just off the press this spring is the third edition of Getting Funded: A Com– plete Guide to Proposal Writing by Mary Hall, published by Portland State University. . For 16 years this book has been a reference guide for fundraisers seeking government and foundation grants. Now revised, expanded, and rede– signed, Getting Funded (formerly titled Developing Skills in Proposal Writing) gives information on determining funding requirements, searching for the right sources, preparing proposals and making presentations. It offers dozens of critical checklists, sample formats, and examples of both how and how not to go about grant writing. Cost of the manual is $19.95 with a $2 shipping fee. For order informa– tion call (503) 464-4891; toll free in– side Oregon, 1-800-452-4909 ext. 4891; and outside Oregon, 1-800-547-8887, ext. 4891.