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PSU pulls out of Oregon Executive MBA Program University of Oregon revamping 25-year partnership between three universities Miranda Schmidt Vanguard staff
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ortland State will cease to be a part of the Oregon Executive MBA (OEMBA) Program after current program students graduate in two years. The program, which is taught in Portland by faculty from PSU, the University of Oregon and Oregon State, is being restructured to better accommodate business professionals.
For 25 years, the OEMBA has offered an MBA program for working executives. PSU faculty members currently teach about half the courses in the program, and U of O awards the degree. “The idea was to get the best faculty in the state collectively between the three schools to teach the program,” said Scott Dawson, dean of the PSU School of Business. But, according to Dawson, U of O has had a difficult time getting its faculty to Portland to teach classes. Part of the new program structure is a change in scheduling, which will make it easier for faculty to teach at U of O and in Portland. Because PSU is located in the city, its faculty members have had an easier time teaching at
Italian Studies gets a boost from $7,500 grant Assistant professor defies stereotypes with National Italian American Foundation grant Joshua Hunt Vanguard staff
both schools. According to Dawson, PSU faculty often have recent industry experience and are used to teaching older students and working professionals. “The reality is, has been for quite some time, that nobody’s really owned it,” Dawson said of the OEMBA program. Kees de Kluyver, the new dean of U of O’s Lundquist College of Business, seems to be taking on that ownership. In an interview with The Register-Guard last week, he described plans for the new program. The MBA will be broken into five certificates, and students can work toward select certificates or complete all five to get the MBA.
Portland State World Languages and Literature faculty member and Assistant Professor Silvia Boero was recently awarded a $7,500 grant from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). The grant will enable Boero, a native of Genoa, Italy, to increase visibility for PSU programs in Italian language, culture, literature and cinema.
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Board hopes to increase voter turnout, minimize campaign policing
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E-board establishes elections goals
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Though the ASPSU student government elections take place in April, plans are already being made to reach out to students in an effort to increase student voting. Ari Wubbold is this year’s Elections Board chairman. While he was not here for last year’s controversial election, he brings a fresh perspective to the election process. The E-board’s main focus this year is not on policing the campaigning process, but rather on increasing voter turnout, which has been dismal in the last few years. Last year, only 700 votes were submitted. E-BOARD ON PAGE 7
Professors investigate Ft. Vancouver site KARL KUCHS/VANGUARD STAFF
MBA restructuring: Portland State will be pulling out of the Oregon Executive MBA program after its current students graduate in two years.
PSU student opens film studio Nate Brauer-Rieke establishes Ellipsis Studios in Portland Jesse Hansen Vanguard staff
Every year, thousands of Americans apply for a business license in the United States, but according to Business Magazine, only .03 percent of all applicants are under the age of 25. Portland State’s own Nate Brauer-Rieke now falls into that elite .03 percent. On Jan. 11, he and his partners officially received their business license from the state of Oregon, establishing Ellipsis Film Studios
here in Portland. Senior Brauer-Rieke, a 21-year-old political science major, became interested in the film industry over a year ago. “I was originally interested in writing,” he said. “I was looking on Craigslist for anyone who was willing to work with scripts…I ended up meeting my partner, and a year later this is what we’ve ended up with.” Brauer-Rieke’s Craigslist search ultimately led him to Portland filmmaker Christen Kimbell, owner of Sleeping Dog Films. “When I met Nate, I was busy making movies with my company, but I’m not a business person,” Kimbell said. “Nate demonstrated
Discoveries indicate commercial sophistication among the multi-ethnic population Solomon Hanson Vanguard staff
talent in that aspect; it was clearly something he’s interested in.” With the company now established, the real work begins, according to Brauer-Rieke. As with any small business, Ellipsis Studios is still financially struggling, but with several projects already underway, the team is confident in their fledging studio. According to Kimbell, who manages the production end of Ellipsis, they have already completed a series of webisodes and short films to start marketing the company and proliferating the name.
Portland State archaeologists are working at Fort Vancouver and its surrounding sites in an effort to better understand the cross-cultural relationships formed there in the past. Fort Vancouver was not only a center for trading; the village (the lodging area located outside the stockade of Fort Vancouver) was home to a “multi-ethnic population that was the center of culture contact,” according to Doug Wilson, regional archaeologist for the National Park Service and an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at PSU.
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