Portland State University Alumni Newspaper Fall, 1982 On the inside Yew School at Performing Arts .................. 3 Merger of drama, dance and music puts PSU in limelight 4iumnl Notes ................................................. 4 4lumnl Featurn mArtrst adds color to pencil drawing .......... 5 .Three alums make it in Hollywood ............ 6 4lumnl Fund Annual Report .................. 13-13 4lumnl kholarshlps ................ ..I4 Flve freshmen were brought to PSU by alumni donations \lumnl News ..................... 16-18 *Four traveling on Fulbright awards *Fund honors Hoffmann .Volleyball team winning hlendar ........................... 19 High times aht by Clarence Hein x of indust mrt ushers !-- lnflu ry gifts anc suPF ; PSU into I of enulneerlnu and comm scie~ E or PSU.S englneerl computer science programs, 1982 mi beginning of a new era of rc l state new era Jter arked the ?cognition with and development. It began designation of the School 01 Engineeringand Applied SC (elevating it from its earlier ! division), and continued wit) awarding of financial and e(, -.,...-... grants, and a firm endorsen the new Chancellor of the I System of Higher Educatior E. Davis. "I think it is critical," Chancellor Davis told PSU faculty earlier this fall, "that we have engineering and computer science programs of lience status of 1 the rl ~inrnent lent by itate I, William id internatic lavis has re for high tech ~ n arleputati~ !peated that 500,000 fro1 500,000 fro iwarded national a1 at PSU." [ message to many aualences acrc the state and, to back his verbal commitment, assigned the lion's share of a $1 million statelprivate industry "high tech" development fund directly to program support : development at PSU. Of the $1 million ($! private industry and $ the state), PSU was 2 $400,000 directly to upgrade programs in electronic engineerin and computer science. Another $275,000 was provided to allow Oregon State faculty to be releas from Cowallis to bolster PSU programs pending their full development. The state-wide consortium whic made those allocations said in its report that the major need "is to achieve a more equitable balance of high technology resources being on loca prot ~ss dev~ met TI ". .- hee n accl m pro! ens elec g und Sch Scif 4 earl -- T mot earl :h enh ited near industry. Solving this )lem leads inexorably to the elopment of high technology adllcation programs in the . ropolitan area." his apparent, and welcc ttitude toward program elopment at PSU came Is of announced nation: ,editation of the Univen jrams in mechanical an ineering. Programs in :tricalielectronics engineer~ngare er review this year and the ool of Engineering and Applied m e is confident they also will I accreditation. he $675,000 in development ley from the state will be narked primarily for faculty ancement and support. At the same time, the School of Engineering and Applied Science Portland )me, shift nn thn - ...... 31 iity's d civil
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