lusiness School acquires microcomputers PSU adopts new academic organization Portland State PresidentJoseDh Formal ded cat on ceremon es were ne d n May for PSU's new Ear e A Cntles M~crocomputer Center. Even before the dedication, however, an esttmated 180 Portland State business students In upper division classes were using the eleven new computers an average of 45 hours per week, testimony to the intense demand for the equipment. The computerized classroom is located in two converted faculty ce spaces in East Hall, where the Slness Schwl is located. The Jtpmentwas obtalned and talled with a $50.000 grant from Chiles Foundation. -he sophtsticated IBM computers were purchased from one of four bidders. Computerland Stores of Oregon, a hrm founded by PSU student, Terry Ashton. According to Associate Professo~ Willtam Mannlng, the computer roo has changed the student-teacher o for the better. Old frustrations j long waits necessary to use nputer fac~lities ttuated elsewhere campus used to make students reluctant to do their computer newoik as faculty members were Blumel nas announcea pans for a malor lntemal reorgan zatlon of the J n versttys acaaemtc strJctLre, to b ePectlve n the fa of 1982 lncluocd In the reorganizaton plan wh cn Has oecelopeo ny a Un~vers h, mmmlrtee an0 approved ear ler lhls year by tne PSU Fac~ltyScnatP 15 tne comb nar on of three ex FI ng cot eqes anc estaoltshment 01 a new scnool wlthtn tne Un vers rv offi Bu eqr Ins the 1 The planned reoraanizailon will create a more traditTonalacademic the liberal aris and scjences. Pres~dentBlumel indtcatedthat the reorgan8zatlon nvotves no new programs or neh optons or codrses. an0 ooes not reau rc chanoes n tnc list Eerle A. Chiles (left) opates ,. .-.l-l. .,.,. --..--.., .". .,., ..rst rlme aunng brmal dedicationceremoniesof new Earle A. Chiles Mlcmcornpuflng Center in PSU's School of BusinessAdministration. Assfsting is Robert E. Good, professor ot marketing. substance of PSUs acadehtc rati anr cor on as hot financial remrds, the studa Home education. home security. to conduct a feasibility stuc ?ctmnic mail and inter-office at convening the record-ke -,.., .- . ... amos, links to cable N programs < . ~ U . not the nialn reasons lor the 3ss1gn11. $OW,Students cz .%analcomputer ir own programs n oroblems muc mmputer-based system. In thts way, the bustnes invests a small amount of r effort to see whether the state-of-the-art record-keel cretanal work, word pmces&ng. -"ij;:yur major elements of the >ry writing and edltlng -all are reorganization are: atures of the comtng era of the 1) Comb~nationof the current lrsonai computer, according to College of ARs and Letters, College annlno of Sclence. and Colleae of Social TO i r Pet the OW eas 1 in learn the language, write i, and solve thei~ h faster and se i owner SB time and fe. P C ling M, student ;ier than before. The computers have ~mmediate ~cticai applications In the nmunity. too. In Manning's anagement Informatton Systems" 55, for Instance, h ~ students are ~ e dto vistt a local business, such a service station or small grocety re, and then tnteNtew the owner. er bemm~ngfamillar wlth the ner's method of manually entering procedure Instituted by Lhg can help improve buslness operation in the comlng years. Mann~ng estimates that 80 percent of Portland-area businesses currently employ manual record-keeping systems and could benefit lrom such a student analysts. "This is the wave of the future, In terms of business," says Manning. "There's no doubt in my mlnd." Sc~ence,Into a s~ngle%ollegeof Ltberal Arts and Sc~encesunder one dean 2) Establishment of a separate School of Performing Arts whlch will include the current oroarams In Ed School helps children beat reading problems pra cor "M cla ask as Chodrcn who have d flrculty leamlng to reao are De ng he*pedIn a oroaram at PS, s Scnoo of Enafneerlna and ADDlted Sclence larketing faculty published I top professional journals the chtld's readlng dlfflculty,- tndlvldual tutor~nqa, nd development rhe he98162 school year has been ,ear of accompl~shmenftor PSU's partment of Marketing, part of the iversltv's School of Buslness Harmon has also had a manuscript. "Situational Influences on Source Credibility and Persuas~ont:he Case of Buy vs. Lease." accepted for publ~cationiin the Journal of Markefing Research. Acceptanceof three of the manuscripts by the Journal of Markeftno olaces PSU in a of a parent rLn &me tuturlng pan The p'ogram rntch rLns cfght to none Heeks. IS open to famflles n the oreater Portlano aces reoard ess ol ihe aoe of the chlld ~heieis a $15 , .- 1 the an1 Re art! ! ,,...,, ".,"..",. The two top academic journals in field, the Journal of Markefing the Journal of Marketma fee 1 6 test~nqand lnstructlonal . D mng the rbn 01the program the parent and cnold meet weedy w tn a oraourc st.den1 in teacner eoucatlon search, have accepted f&r cles from PSU faculty to be illshed Authors and the~rartrcles three-way ire wlth the Un~versityof Pennsylvan~a nd the University of Chicago for most arttcles accepted durlng the year by the pubitcatton, based upon the university association of the lead author. Other h e Darent aarees to tutor the ch~ld -.d Al Resn~kand Bob Harmon - "Consumer Compialnlng and Managerlal Response: A Holistic Aooroach." Marsha Richins - at home for <specified number of days using a program specifically deslgned to tmprove the read~ng skllls of the indlvldual child. unlversltleswlth two artlcies - New fleadlna lmorovement ~~s;allsfied Consumers;" and Peter accepted ~ncludeNorthwestern. Program sess~Gnsbegln each Bloch and Marsha Rtshins - "A Columb~a.UCLA Toronto and academic term wtth a ihmited number Theoretical Model fo: the Study of Haward of opentngs for chlldren. For Product Importance information contact Colin Dunkeld. PSU School of Education. 229-4621
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc4NTAz