Abstract
Almost a decade ago, Portland State University (PSU) launched a significant initiative of comprehensive institutional transformation.3 PSU aligned its curricula, its undergraduate and graduate academic programs, its scholarship and research, and its collaborative community outreach to reflect its commitment to a newly-defined “urban” mission that placed student learning and student experience at the core of the educational enterprise. Located in the heart of downtown Portland, PSU has taken seriously its charge to be in and of the city and the metropolitan region. Its motto, Let Knowledge Serve the City, is visibly embossed on a sky bridge symbolically capturing its commitment to the communities of which it is a part. In Fall 2000, a new year-long series entitled “Great City: Great University” was sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs to engage faculty and community alike in civic discourse by taking stock of our common purpose and what we aspire to become.
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