Hawaii Visit

The Orientation team just returned last week from Honolulu, Hawaii. We really enjoyed meeting with students at the high schools and at our reception at Morton's. We also enjoyed meeting the students and parents at the Fall Orientation and are looking forward to seeing everyone on-campus this September!

Congratulations PSU Men's Basketball!!!

Viking basketball fans rushed the court Wednesday night to celebrate a Big Sky Tournament Championship. They are headed to the NCAA Tournament - a first in Portland State history! Congratulations to the PSU Men's Basketball team! We are so proud of your accomplishments!

Photos credit of Fang-zhou Zhou

Visit the Campus

We have two more PSU Friday programs. PSU Fridays are half-day visitation events for prospective freshmen and transfer students. Attend the event to learn more about how to be admitted, student support services, housing, financial aid, take a campus tour with a current PSU student, and more!

April 11 and May 9 are the remaining PSU Fridays. The program starts at 12:45 with a campus tour and concludes by 5:30

We hope to see you at PSU Friday!

You can sign-up here: http://www.pdx.edu/admissions/psu_fridays.html

Congratulations

We would like to congratulate the students who were selected to serve on the Orientation Leader team! We are looking forward to working with you!

You'll be able to meet the new Orientation Leader team, as we update the blog throughout the year! Stay tuned!

Orientation Leader Selection

We're recruiting the new Orientation Leader team! Position descriptions and applications are on our website, www.pdx.edu/orientation. We are also offering four information sessions, where you can come and learn more about the position.

Information Sessions:
Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Applications are due Feb. 20 at 5:00 p.m.

Notable Alumni

We’ve got an interesting blog for today – our first look at some of PSU’s most notable alumni – from a basketball player to a troubled rock musician…these stars, athletes, and successful professionals were once college students just like you!

The name Carolyn Davidson may not sound familiar, but you’d certainly recognize her artwork. Davidson, while studying at Portland State University in 1971, created a small “swoosh” design that caught the eye of Phil Knight – a professor in PSU’s Accounting department at the time. Knight offered Davidson $35 for use of the swoosh logo, which later became the insignia for Nike, Inc. Davidson worked for Knight’s company for multiple years, before retiring to focus on hobbies and volunteer work.

Portland State University was also home to Mike Richardson, who serves as the current president of Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse publishes such popular comics and graphic novels as 300, Sin City, Æon Flux, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and many, many more! Richardson is also president of Dark Horse Entertainment, the production company that created the action-adventure films Mystery Men, The Mask, and Hellboy.

She’s been called “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”, but before she took to the stage, Courtney Love was sitting through classes at Portland State University. Although Love didn’t graduate from PSU, she did enroll in classes while living in the Portland area.

Basketball fans will recognize this one: Ime Udoka, a current team member of the San Antonio Spurs, was once a star on PSU’s basketball team (note: Udoka graduated from nearby Jefferson High School). Udoka’s former teams include both the New York Knicks and Portland’s very own Trail Blazers.

Thanks for visiting the Portland State Admissions Blog!
We’re looking forward to a great 2008!

We're Baaaaaaack!

We hope you and your families had a great holiday season! We’re back to blogging, bringing you the most important information for all PSU students.

Here’s a great opportunity to check out the campus first-hand: This week, we’re offering one of our first of four PSU Friday sessions of the year. On Friday, January 18th, we invite you and your families to join us for a day on campus.

You’ll have the whole afternoon to explore PSU’s diverse, urban campus while meeting with current students and faculty members. Breakout session topics will include an Overview of University Honors Program, University Studies Program, Study Abroad opportunities, Financial Aid & Scholarships, Housing and more!

Spots are filling up for this week’s session! Check out http://www.pdx.edu/admissions/psu_fridays.html to sign-up for the event online, or feel free to give us a call at (503)725-5555. If you can't make this Friday, we have three other dates to select!

We look forward to seeing you then!

-Campus Visits

Win FREE stuff

Last blog post of 2007!!! Before this year comes to a close, we'd like to offer our blog readers (that's you) the chance to win some awesome PSU gear! We're talkin' a PSU T-shirt, PSU decals....any PSU gear we can find around here that we can also fit into a reasonably sized shipping envelope!!

Interested in this PSU prize pack?...We knew you would be! To enter for a chance to win, send your name, mailing address and a college-related topic you'd like to see covered on the blog in 2008 to orientation@pdx.edu.

On the morning of January 7th, we'll randomly draw a name from the entries, and ship that awesome prize pack off to the winner! Best of luck! We look forward to hearing from all of you!