PSU Magazine Winter 1987

VII Maurice Lucas, once and current star of the Portland Trailblazers, will serve as the National Chai r for the PSU Annual Fund. The goal for this year's national campaign is S450 ,000. In Apri l, 2,700 members of the Associ – ation of American Geographers came to Portland to attend their annual meeting , hosted this year by PSU's Department of Geograph y. As part of the event, partici– pants were given copies of Portland's Changing Landscape, a collection of essays, nine by members of the Geogra– phy Department and the School of Urban and Public Affairs, that examine the city of Portland and attempt to define its distinctive character. The book was edited by Larry W. Price of the Geograph y Department and published by the PSU Foundation . Students from Portland State's Depart– ment of Urban Studies and Planning helped plan the revitalization a down– town again , this time the City ofTigard's downtown. Members of Stefano Zegretti 's urban design class gathered and analyzed data and offered ideas and advice to help Tigard civic leaders, merchan ts and resi– dents evaluate planning goals and issues. Previously, PSU students donated their services to the City of Milwaukie for a similar study, and this year their talents and training are at work for the City of Estacada. Backon campus, Portland State intro– duced its new alumni magazine with the Spring issue of PSUMagazine, a quarterly with a dynamic, eye-catching format more in keeping with the University's present style and status th an its 25-year– old predecessor, PSUPerspective. The magazine is sent to 31 ,000 alumni and 3,000 fri ends of the University, including members of the University Advisory Board, donors and business and govern– ment leaders. Portland State continues to strengthen its relationships with sister institutions, both public and private. This is now being pursued through several avenues. One is through joint research or aca– demic projects, such as PSU 's cooperative program with Lewis and Clark College providing instruction leading to the Master of Public Administration. Another avenue is the tuition reciprocity agree– ment with Washington schools which allows students from across the river to attend PSUwhile pay ing the same tuition as Oregon residents. In 1986-87 , 378 baccalaureate-level students and 30 grad– uate students from southwestern Wash– ington attended PSU , an increase of 15 % over the previous year. Athird avenue was opened in 1987 when PSU established a branch offi ce at the Rock Creek Campus of Portland Com– munity College, the first of four branch offi ces planned throughout the four– county metropolitan area. The branches will streamline enrollment in PSU's con– tinuing education classes and provide a convenient link between the University and local industries and public agencies. President Sicuro is now working with the presidents of other institutions to establish a Higher Education Council of Greater Portland to encourage a coopera– tive, regional approach to ach iev ing educational goals in the area. Maurice Lucas, National Chair for the PSU Annual Fund, shares a moment at Lincoln Hall with President Sicuro; lee Koehn ('73), member ofthe Foundation Board; and Mark Dodson, State Board ofHigher Education. At the National Level As a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Un iversi ties (AASC ). Presi– dent Sicuro is working fo r favorable action on federal measures affecting Portland State and other institutions of higher education.in the country. Last year, he lobbied on behalf of fu ll funding of the Higher Education Act of 1986 . The Act was passed by Congress and will remain in force through 1991. In January, Sicuro went to Washington. D.C. to join other AASCU board members in fighting threatened budget cuts in federal finan– cial aid programs. He returned wi th assurances from congressmen that the cuts would not occur. Recentl y, Sicuro was appointed to a 12-member AASCU commission assigned to study political issues relating to higher education and to review the positions on those issues taken by candidates in 1988 congress io– nal election campaigns and the presiden– tial campaign . As a member of the Commission on National Challenges in Higher Education , Sicuro helped set a national higher-education agenda for Congress.