PSU Magazine Winter 1997

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION TO DONORS A year of remarkable accomplishments PSU's 50th anniversary year of 1995-96 will be long remembered as a banner year for the generosity of PSU donors, for the extraordi– nary national recognition the University earned, and for the innovative programs and partner– ships that have established PSU as a national model for the urban uni– versity. A record $2.8 million was donat– 5 PoRTIAND STATE UNNERSITY ed to the PSU Foundation– nearly double that of 1994- 1995. PSU's 19 46 • 1996 innovative gener- al education pro– gram, University Studies, garnered national recognition. The Kellogg Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts honored Portland State for it innovation in institutional transformation and its leadership in renewing undergraduate education. The Meyer Memorial Trust awarded PSU a $1 million chal– lenge grant to endow the School of Business Administration's Food Industry Management Program. Portland State also launched the Centennial Society, a program designed to a sist and honor indi– viduals wishing to support the Univer ity through deferred gifts to the PSU Foundation. Continued on page 2 1 9 9 5 - 9 6 Focused on thefature I n the 1990s, a person is less likely to be tied to one career for life. That's certainly the case with many Portland State students, who are here to pursue new directions in careers and in life. Judy Lacy, one of three undergraduate recipient of the 1995-96 PSU President's Associates Community Service Scholarship, represents a not– so-atypical profile among PSU students. More than a decade ago, she attended college at Seattle's Shoreline Community College. She later worked 12 years as a dental hygienist. It was a rewarding career, but Lacy wanted more. She wanted to go to med– ical school. Her first step: coming to PSU to pursue an undergraduate Continued on page 2