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Earn a College Online Degree Today! Portland State University |
Portland State University is a public state urban university located in downtown
Portland, Oregon. It has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the
state of Oregon including the largest business and graduate schools. It is also
the only public university in the state that is located in a major metropolitan
city. Portland State is part of the Oregon University System. The current interim President is Michael Reardon, who has held various administrative positions around Portland State. Reardon stands in for former president Daniel O. Bernstine, who took a job as the CEO and president of the Law School Admission Council in June of 2007. The University was established as the Vanport Extension Center in 1946 to satisfy the demand for higher education in Portland for returning World War II veterans. (It became known as "the college that wouldn't die" because it refused to close after the Vanport Flood of 1948.) In 1952 the Center moved to downtown Portland and occupied the vacated buildings of Lincoln High School on SW Broadway street. In 1955, the Center changed its name to Portland State College to mark its maturation into a four-year degree-granting institution. |
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Established 1946 Type: Public President: Michael Reardon, interim Staff: 2,248 Undergraduates: 18,012 Postgraduates: 6,272 Location Portland, Oregon, USA |
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Portland State University's growth for the next couple of decades was constricted
under the ruling that no public university or college in Oregon could duplicate
the programs offered by another, with grandfathered exclusions for the University
of Oregon and Oregon State University. Nevertheless, graduate programs were
added in 1961 and doctoral programs were added in 1968. The institution was granted
university status by the Oregon State System of Higher Education in 1969,
becoming Portland State University. In 1994 PSU did away with the traditional
undergraduate distribution system and adopted a new interdisciplinary general
education program known as University Studies. This program has been controversial
both on and off campus, but it is one of the programs at Portland State that
has garnered national attention. |