Under this initiative we will expand curriculum offerings to broaden and deepen student understanding of environmental problems and enhance their capability for development of solutions. We will critically review the existing ESM curriculum, identify curricular gaps, and develop a focus strategy for new hires that builds upon existing courses and core competencies in the department. We will hire two new tenure track faculty to strengthen our faculty. We will further develop our Departmental Honors program, incorporate more field experience in existing courses, and expand existing international courses to include graduate students. Existing departmental faculty and resources will be used for curriculum review, development of Departmental Honors, and modification of current courses. New resources will be required for new faculty hires to fill curricular gaps.

We will develop a Professional Science Masters degree that gives our students the professional skills necessary to achieve environmental science and management leadership positions in government, industry and other organizations. Working with our PSM advisory committee, we will identify the additional skill requirements for the PSM degree. We will survey existing PSU and OUS programs to identify potential courses that partially or completely fulfill the additional requirements. For those additional skills that do not have adequate existing PSU or OUS courses, ESM will develop and staff new courses. We will strive to make as many courses as possible available online or as "hybrid" courses with online and classroom components. We will also identify and secure internship opportunities in the private and public sectors for the PSM students to give them practical experience in environmental science and management.

The department will increase the quality of graduate education in ESM by: 1) developing peer mentoring among graduate students, 2) creating a database for internships and practicum opportunities; 3) providing new graduate student orientation; 4) holding an annual research colloquium to showcase student research; 5) providing opportunities for students to interact with faculty at organized events quarterly, 6) providing a research seminar in collaboration with the School of the Environment, 7) offering a research seminar course each quarter, 8) provide TA and RA salaries that are competitive and that provide an adequate level of support for graduate students, 9) increasing the number of TAs and RAs, 10) requiring weekly meetings of TAs and responsible faculty to ensure adequate support of TAs, 11) publicizing scholarships and travel awards, 12) providing international research and education opportunities.

We will increase external funding of research in ESM, including but not limited to sustainability research, by recruiting new hires in areas that are likely to be well-funded in the future, exploit unique opportunities, build on currently funded programs, and where current research capacity is limited. Potential areas include limnology, invasive species, urban agriculture and ecology, and ecosystem services management. Climate change is implicit in all research activities in the department and may be explicit for some new hires. New hires may be partial FTE tenure-track lines. All faculty will maintain a funded research program that includes graduate student or research assistant/associate support, or will write a minimum of two grant proposals each year. We will increase collaboration with SERC, USGS, and STRI. The department will average one peer-reviewed publication per tenured or tenure-track FTE each year. We will also provide mentoring support to tenure-track faculty.

We will increase retention and quality of incoming freshmen Env. Science and Env. Studies majors by increasing access to departmental advisors, maintaining an advising database and requiring regular advising appointments, providing new student orientation/welcome, attracting top quality students by targeting AP Environmental Science high school students statewide, providing opportunities for interaction with faculty and environmental professionals at intellectually stimulating, informal events year round, developing a mentoring program, encouraging membership in the student-run Environmental Club, and publicizing the Croy and Commoner Awards.

To develop and expand outreach efforts to attract a more culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse student population to the Women's Studies program.

The department is developing a robust and proactive advising program for the major and minors by engaging more full-time faculty in the undergraduate advising and by establishing a position of a full-time departmental undergraduate adviser.

Increase academic component of the Women's Studies practica experiences; provide more student leadership opportunities within the local/regional community.

Enhance student research opportunities to work with WS faculty (including WS affiliated faculty, if appropriate); support faculty research projects, initiatives, and activities in the areas of feminist/queer studies and pedagogies; examine opportunities for cross-departmental faculty research seminars and workshops.

The department is developing a mandatory Placement Exam System in the introductory Mathematics and Statistics courses such as Mth 95, 105, 111, 211, 251 and 261 as well as Stat 243. Both in-house and commercially available tests are being examined.

develop and implement advising plan for the program; increase the visibility of the WS program to PSU classes, area high schools, community colleges, and overseas students; prepare to survey students in WS classes regarding retention issues; expand publicity on curriculum and career possibilities associated with WS; explore opportunities for contribution to the PSU Challenge and LINK programs, as well as connections with communities overseas.

establish a collaborative relationship with the Chicano/a Studies program, Dept of Black Studies, and Native American Studies program to explore the feasibility of creating an interdisciplinary school of study within CLAS. In doing so, we will also work with appropriate community constituencies.

Building on the success of the recent faculty investment in this area the department is seeking an endowment from the Massiah Foundation to hire three prominent mathematicians/statisticians to build a nationally recognized research and educational program in Computational Mathematics/Statistics and to expand and enhance departmental interdisciplinary research capabilities. It is planned that the positions will support the recent university initiative in sustainability, in particular, such priority areas as energy efficiency and/or renewable energy, transportation infrastructure or sustainable finance where mathematical modeling, simulation and computational methods are especially relevant.

Recognizing the unique community leadership role Portland State University plays, the department has focused its attention on developing and expanding our outreach-oriented educational programs such as the MS in Statistics and the Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences in which Statistics is an important part. Building on the tremendous success of these programs and responding to the ever growing needs of the business community in Portland, especially in the financial sector, we will be working to develop a new undergraduate program in Statistics. This initiative will require development of a new 300/400-level sequence in Statistics and expansion of 400-level and 500-level course offerings. In addition, it will also require re-establishing the Statistics Consulting Lab. A new faculty member to teach these new courses and to provide extra support for the rapidly growing MS in Statistics program will also be needed. Our long term goal is to develop a new Ph.D. in Statistics program

The department will continue to support existing partnerships with the Leaders Roundtable (Community ESL Practicum), Atkinson Elementary School and OHSU where we provide leadership for English as a Second Language education. We will also seek out one or more additional partnerships within the greater Portland metropolitan area and beyond, where appropriate. Under this initiative, our goal is two-fold: (1) is to increase capacity in our community-based learning courses so that more students can combine study in Applied Linguistics with community-based learning and (2) provide leadership in areas where organizations are facing language related issues (e.g., issues of language rights, language policy issues, language maintenance issues, working with second language learners of English in the schools/workplace, understanding dialect differences among individuals in organizations).

The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually; The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills; The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional Research as a basis for planning; The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students; The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. We will use departmental resources for this, except getting the data from OIR, and covering the released time for the dedicated faculty adviser. We are anticipating a 1 - 2 course reduction. That would need to be covered by adjuncts. The funding for that would come from CLAS.

Develop departmental honors program that would be integrated into the current departmental curriculum.

• Continue commitment to high quality scholarship • Space: o As the Department’s external funding has expanded, the pressure on space in the department has increased:  Recover rooms currently allocated by CLAS for CLAS purposes and History  Review internal space use • Continue seeking external and internal funding o Currently faculty self found course releases for grant preparation. We will work with OGSR to fund course releases for grant writing to rotate among faculty. These discussion would start Fall 2009 o Grant administration is currently a significant burden both on the departmental support staff and on PIs. We will actively work with OGSR and CLAS to improve grant administration, including arranging for training of PIs. Start in Fall 2009. o Restricted travel funds make it difficult for faculty to attend conferences, present research findings, and network. We will continue fund-raising to build a departmental development fund that could find travel.

We will renew our five year cooperative agreement with the National Park Service (NPS), which also involves us in the federal Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. The agreement is the framework for NPS funded contracts in ethnography and archaeology across Northwestern North America as well as our archaeological field school at Ft. Vancouver. We will also continue our cooperative work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Chinook tribe on the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. This relationship currently supports public outreach, student internships and funded research. We will explore a cooperative agreement for applied anthropological work with the Mountain Institute which will support outreach, internships and research in Applied Anthropology and environmental sustainability. A relationship with the Mountain Institute will extend our engagement beyond the Pacific Northwest since they have global involvements.

We will hire faculty that contribute to reducing university-wide time-to-graduation rates by increasing capacity in our popular lab-based Science in the Liberal Arts courses for non-science majors. The non-science BS students will have more access to science course specifically designed for them. Increased capacity in SLA courses will also reduce the number of non-science students who are inappropriately enrolled in course for science majors, which reduced educational quality for both groups.

Increase current graduate student enrollment in Chemistry from 50 students to more than 100 (averaging an incoming class of 20). Use existing resources (30 teaching assistantships, which will increase 1 a year) and current grant support ($3 million increasing to $5 million with 7 ADDITIONAL faculty hires). Aggressive national and international recruiting strategies to increasing applicant pool to more than 100 per year. Continue to explore shared recruiment and graduate student education by partnering with departments at OHSU.

Our research themes will continue to align with PSU (notably sustainability and renewable energy), OHSU (diagnostics, drug development and delivery), the three Oregon Signature Research centers (ONAMI, OTRADI and BEST), and other partners both within the greater Portland Metropolitan area and the Pacific Northwest (including PGE, art museums, K-12, local industries). These focus areas will permit the department to capitalize on investments, infrastructure, local opportunities and expertise to accomplish engaged research that is not only regionally relevant but internationally recognized.

This initiative seeks to (1) position the Department of Applied Linguistics as a leader and resource on campus for the language educational needs of students who speak English as a second language, both within the IELP and for students in the general student population and (2) increase the number of international students within the department and (3) develop partnerships with international organizations or educational institutions.

This initiative seeks to improve student success within our program and beyond. As part of this initiative, we will: 1. Improve tracking of ALP undergraduate majors and minors through the program and strengthen advising process for these students. 2. Realign curriculum with the department's newly revised BA curricular goals. 3. Restructure course offerings to optimize student completion. 4. Develop a plan for assessment of the BA curricular goals. 5. Revise/restructure the culminating experience for undergraduate ALP majors to include necessary professional development skills.

Department of FLL serves many different functions within the University and have many different audiences including the 2-year FL requirements and the master programs. We will conduct self-study in order to review the current status of this academic unit and explore ways in which it can enhance its effectiveness and productivity. In the first year (09-10) we will make preparations for an external evaluation to be conducted in the second year (10-11).

This initiative seeks to enhance department resources and procedures related to research within the department. It has several parts: 1. Create process and structure within the department that allows us to increase our capacity for research. 2. Develop Ph.D. program in Applied Linguistics Under this initiative, we seek to increase the integration of research activities into academic programs while maintaining current high level of external funding in department. Additionally, we will seek to increase the number of students involved research activities, at all levels of our program. Funds have been allocated from the Dean's office for personnel (faculty lines) for developing the Ph.D. program. The program is in review by the university level administration.

This initiative will seek to increase attendance/retention of under-represented students in Applied Linguistics classes. Initially, it seeks, through the new Revitalizing Endangered Indigenous Languages Certificate program, to focus on increasing enrollment of Native American students and first generation college students in our programs. The certificate program has been recently approved, and will be carried out with existing faculty resources.

The department of Applied Linguistics will review current courses that contain on-line components, and explore where online course offerings can be enhanced. We will also review the curriculum to explore the possibility of offering one or more courses completely online.

Multiple SINQ courses will offer a gateway into Global Perspectives through an exploration of the culture and society of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. In each SINQ course students will be introduced to a common set of concepts. The themes and content will also offer an orientation for upper division courses in the Global Perspectives cluster. All Global Perspectives SINQ courses will engage with the four University Studies goals as appropriate given each course’s regional content and have a common template for instructional activities.

To improve our capacity to carry out research and outreach in applied psychology.

To encourage and sustain learning communities that spontaneously coalesce around important topics of passionate interest to clusters of faculty and students.

To offer an undergraduate program well supported by an emphasis on improving student learning through skilled teaching and a strong advising system. + Offer opportunities for full and part-time faculty, and graduate instructors to mentor and learn from each other about teaching. + Create sequences and concentrations of courses for undergraduates that enable increasing comprehension of psychological specialties as well as career planning. + Provide multiple opportunities for participation in research projects. + Provide strong advising in multiple formats at appropriate turning points.

To work with graduate students in an apprenticeship model as junior colleagues. + Create a developmentally-sequenced program that challenges students to learn how to do high quality applied research. + Foster close collaboration with faculty, research teams, and community partners in research. + Institutionalize opportunities for grad students to plot their own individual career trajectories. + Support a strong peer community among graduate students across many generations.

The proposed Masters will engage students in analysis of global social, cultural, economic and political issues and in community-based internships pertaining to sustainable environmental and human development. It is designed as an interdisciplinary program of study and will complement and draw on resources of existing Masters degree curricula in CLAS (Anth, Econ, Soc, School of the Environment), the Graduate School of Education, Urban and Public Affairs and the School of Business (and potentially Engineering). It will have a comparative orientation, but initially focus on the regions where current International Studies faculty have the greatest expertise: Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. This proposal requires the creation of a fixed-term position (including rolling up some adjunct slots), normalizing a variable .7 to 1.0 tenure line and adding a tenure-line with expertise in international development, ideally in Africa.

The International Studies Curriculum Committee will review degree requirements and current course offerings with the goal of improving the ease and success with which students complete the different components of the major, 2) considering the potential of selected courses for delivery in a large-enrollment format or on-line. International Studies as a whole, with support from the Director and Academic Adviser, will define ways to improve communication about the major and its opportunities and requirements, and enhance curricula for the regional studies tracks.

The Ph.D. degree program in Pacific Northwest Studies will be housed in the History Department, but it will draw on other disciplines in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and College of Urban and Public Affairs. The program of study will focus on the historical relationships between the Pacific Northwest region and the world. The program of study will require coursework in history and related fields, completion of written and oral examinations, and writing an original dissertation. In addition, it will include courses and internships in applied history because the intended audience are individuals who will apply their studies in practical work environments. The Ph.D. program will also emphasize the integration of geography and anthropology disciplines with history as an adaptable and solid foundation for regional studies. For details see the full proposal at: http://psucurriculumtracker.pbworks.com/

In conjunction with our new Ph.D. program in Pacific Northwest Studies, we propose to hire two new tenure-line positions: Asian-American history, and Canadian history. In order to expand our curriculum in World History, we will also work toward the hire of two new tenure-line positions in the major areas of the world that we do not currently cover: the history of India and Southeast Asia, and the history of South America.

In spring 2009 the History Department Curriculum Committee undertook a review of the undergraduate major requirements and proposed a number of significant changes, including a reform of our senior seminar requirements that we have now submitted as a proposed catalog change, and a number of other reforms still under consideration at the departmental level. This curricular review process will continue as we examine our graduate program, with a focus on our two specialized tracks leading to the MA in Public History and the MA in World History. We will also work with the CLAS Advising Office to develop a more comprehensive set of online advising materials.

Historical research is highly dependent on access to primary source documents as well as the scholarly literature, and thus on the quality of the library collection. In the past the History Department has been handicapped by the small size of the Millar Library's print collection and the small space available for housing it. Increasingly, however, this problem is being solved through the acquisition of new digital research collections, including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Early English Books Online, Early American Imprints Online, Early American Newspapers Online, and JSTOR. In coming years the History Department will work with the Millar Library and other curricular units to find the funding for new digital acquisitions, including Making of the Modern World, Patrologia Latina and the expanded edition of Early English Books Online, as well as the acquisition of the additional software that enables all titles in these collections to be integrated into the library catalog.

In response to a popular demand, we have submitted a proposal to offer a major in Arabic. Hiring of a new faculty member was approved and funded by Jackson Foundation. Yasmeen Hanoosh has been hired and will start in Fall 2010.

The Spanish section is the largest section in the Department and has been thinly staffed with 5.5 tenure related faculty. The Department has received permission to hire a tenure-track position, and the search has begun.

We have designed an undergraduate major in conflict resolution that is intended to attract and retain new students, as well as existing students at PSU. In the short run, existing faculty are teaching virtually all of the courses required for the major, so we will not need additional resources for starting the major. In the long run, we will need a few tenure-track positions to bring in qualified people from the CR field, preferably above entry level. This is crucial for long term student retention and program development.

The Department conducts search for the position of Computer Assisted Language Learning specialist.

The Department received the federal funding for the Russian Flagship program, whose aim is to implement a language instructional program to achieve advanced language proficiency. The grant was awarded in 2008-09, and the program has been implemented. Anna Yatsenko has been hired. It also started the immersion dorm where Russian is spoken by the students on a selected floor. The program offers content-based courses in Russian. We plan to offer a CBL course and collaborate with K-12 teachers through workshop to meet the needs of immersion program.

This is a federally funded project to implement online course material for interpretation (Japanese) and translation (Arabic). The funding was awarded in 2008-09, and this year continue to work on the project.

With the recent addition of MA in Japanese and ever-increasing undergraduate enrollment, the Japanese section needs to expand. The Korean faculty member, whose position was .5 Korean and .5 Japanese. Due to difficulty to find such a qualification, we decided to hire for 1.0 Japanese. We received approval to hire a tenure-track faculty for Japanese. The search has begun and will complete by the end of this academic year.

Over the next several years, the Geography Department will be integrated as an autonomous unit into the School of the Environment. This provides the opportunity to increase collaboration with other departments in the School while the developing an expanded Ph.D. program. The environmental culture of the Pacific Northwest puts the Department in the position of achieving national and global recognition while focusing on both on local and regional research and continuing national and international projects.

The Geography Department currently offers three short-term study abroad programs (in Spain, Italy, and Nepal). These courses are taught using existing resources and faculty. 2009-10 will be a maintenance and planning year, where we will retain existing programs, improve advertising and promotion by working directly with academic units and departments, and plan for program expansion in 2010-11. As we develop the programs, we will focus on three goals. First, we will work on a coordinated curriculum focus on comparative international sustainability. Second, we will enhance and expand efforts to engage students in meaningful research with our international community partners. Third, we will work with OIA and departmental faculty on fiscal strategies needed to achieve transition to new faculty involvement in order to maintain the programs over the long run.

The Geography Department currently offers several classes in hybrid and fully online formats. In order to minor in Geography, a student must take three required courses (GEOG 210, 230, and 380) that are not currently offered in online versions. Over the next two years, we plan to offer hybrid and then fully online versions of these classes. In addition, we will expand our existing fully online classes in physical, human, regional, and techniques courses so a student can complete the 16 additional elective credits (with some flexibility) needed for a minor.

Most Latino students in post-secondary education are concentrated in community colleges. Research shows that few Latino students manage to transfer to a four-year institution. To increase the representation of Latino students at PSU, the Chicano/Latino Studies (CLS) will develop a program called Caminos: Community College Transfer Program for Latino Students. The goal of Caminos will be two-fold: first, to provide services that facilitate the transfer of community students to PSU; secondly, to collect data and investigate best practices. As a starting point for this initiative, CLS will utilize an inventory of existing programs at PSU that target Latino students. This inventory is currently being compiled as part of a university-wide effort to improve Latino student outcomes at PSU. The goal of Caminos will be to complement what is presently being done on campus. To support Caminos, CLS will be seeking outside funding.

The intiative seeks to ensure a steady flow of research from the Department of Economics of approximately 10 refereed journal articles per year.

This initiative seeks to improve and grow the existing academic programs of the Department of Economics. This initiative is advanced using existing space, faculty and staff support, but the plan also calls for increased resources in key areas. Time frame is 2008 to 2014

The partnership with the Oregon Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program will provide free infant hearing screenings at the PSU Audiology Clinic and at various other sites within the community. Graduate and undergraduate students in the department will be trained to screen the hearing of infants by means of otoacoustic measurement. The goal of the screening program will be to identify babies with hearing loss and ensure appropriate intervention. Otoacoustic measurement devices belonging to EHDI will be used.

Our goal is to establish a partnership with the Multnomah County Literacy Outreach Program. Our role in the partnership would be to provide speech & language assessment and intervention for adults with literacy issues, with the goal of determining whether their reading disabilities are due to underling speech or language issues. These activities would have bearing on the type of assistance that the individuals would receive.

Continue to expand the master’s degree program in speech-language pathology in response to the high demand for the program by students and the critical state-wide need for our graduates.

Explore the feasibility of establishing a Doctor of Audiology Degree (Au.D.) program at PSU with a funding model based on differential tuition. The study will include a needs-based assessment, both in terms of market demand for graduates of the professional program and the potential in-state and out-of-state student demand for such a program.

Expand and enhance on-campus clinics for speech and language disorders to accommodate the growing number of students in our master’s degree program. Each of our graduate students must complete 50 hours of supervised practicum in our on-campus speech and language clinics. Adding 6 master’s students to our cohort in 2008 and 5 more in 2010 translates into 550 additional hours of clinical experience that we must provide. More clients, support staff and more therapy rooms are needed to accommodate this increase.

Goal: Develop a bilingual certification program for graduate students in speech-language pathology. This program would qualify graduates of our master’s degree program to provide speech and language services to native speakers of Spanish across all age groups. It would involve exchanges of students with educational institutions in a number of Spanish speaking countries, and would potentially attract bilingual students from across North and South America.

Following the launching of our doctoral program in 2008 the Department has embarked on a strategic plan to rationalize our teaching resources to match the demands of our graduate program while continuing to offer an undergraduate program that incorporates new areas of institutional interest such as social and environmental sustainability and health.

Please see attached Draft Strategic Plan for the Center for Health and Social Inequality Research Resources: One Director, a senior faculty member who does faculty service; a Program Planning and Grants Director;

The Department of Economics increases outside support for faculty member research and the core functions of the Department. Timeframe is 2008 to 2014.

Increase linkages to the community through a number of outreach tools.

Initiative seeks to enhance the working and learning environment of the Department of Economics

Plan and approve (if appropriate) offering a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences at Portland State University.

a. Complete BETA test (Biology) for undergraduate information and advising webpage template that provides undergraduates with specific departmental activities, requirements, advising and other information. Roll out to all departments. b. Continue to work with departments to actively reach out to students who have indicated interest in departmental major. Specifically target students as identified through FRINQ questionnaires c. Continue Major Exploration Day. d. Study the 60% Report regarding how it might apply to CLAS and make recommendations. e. Hire Student-Success assistant who will continue Student Success Initiative, including working with CLAS advising to assist and enhance advising in CLAS departments. f. Ensure that CLAS implements mandatory advising as determined by the University

a. Departments submit plans for a sustainable assessment cycle to the CLAS dean by December 1 of each year. b. Departments annually review their assessment plans, findings, and the proposed application of those findings for improved student outcomes. c. Departments implement the online reporting system for departmental assessment results

a.Ensure that every academic department updates its seven-year strategic planning goals to improve and expand the quality and productivity of the unit. b.Ensure that every CLAS academic department or program conduct external reviews every seven years. c.Develop a research infrastructure that serves the strategically defined needs of every department. e.Develop additional disciplinary programs in appropriate to metropolitan area. f. Develop and implement interdisciplinary programs in ethnic studies, enviornment, and Internation Development: g. Document sustainability research through three programs: i. School of the Environment ii. Professional Science Masters on the Environment and Renewable Energy iii. Program on Social Sustainability h. Pursue national accreditation for the Challenge Program through NACEP (National Association for Concurrent Enrollment Programs)

Revise requirement for BST Degree (particularly the post graduate certificate) by September 2010 and formalize new courses for permanent course numbers. It is planned to also revise cluster requirements for the Black Studies Major; 2. Brainstorm proposal for new curriculum themes: history of important personalities, events, themes, theories, media, artistic traditions etc in Black studies. Revise and formalize new courses, obtain permanent course numbers etc and brainstorm and proposal for new curriculum themes: events, themes and theories on media, important personalities, artistic traditions and etc in Black studies;

Discuss and revise current student advising scheme for Bst Major; reset new levels of expectation taking - consider background levels of transfer, foreign and out-of-state students; provide continuous student guidance, supervision and progress oversight; compile and collate student Bst course evaluations and examine areas needing attention; Create online advising and individual student assessment questionnaire (Q & A)and information packet to extend student advising beyond curriculum issues; Implement annual whole–day open-house events to involve student groups; Reintroduce the Caribbean Cultural Association (CCA) annual student awards for exemplary students - to raise student levels of performance; draw up plan for student leadership training courses and programs; Review student assessment plan – measurement rubrics etc student performance levels; informational sessions on strategies for sustainable interest and performance.

The department will enhance its long history of providing excellent education in its upper and lower division classes, at the same time as accommodating current and future student enrollment growth at PSU (without compromising research productivity). To be accomplished in a building (SB2), currently undergoing an occupied 2 yr renovation (25% space reduction and multiple moves). Specific steps are 1) identify an honors General Chemistry laboratory, 2) establish a formalized entry and passage through the honors undergraduate research thesis program, 3) continue our successful workshop leaders program, 4) expand the "Foundations of Chemistry" class to assist students struggling in the general chemistry class, 5) Add 2 full time multiyear contract instructor positions (2010 and 2011) devoted to introductory chemistry (100 level), general chemistry (200 level) and organic chemistry (300 level) classes and labs (to bring to instructors to 3).

Nothing has been more crucial for the growth of the Black Studies Department than staffing. Despite this limitation the department has managed to sustain the new Major when it took effect a few years ago. New themes on community development and sustainability, women’s issues, hip hop black youth achievement levels as have been introduced into the curriculum and found to be welcome and will be retained.1. New BST hire as approved in 2009 will be go forward to bring in an FTE 1.0 at the Assistant of Associate Level.2.Bst will propose new additional position for hire full time in the areas of i. Leadership and Community Issues ii. On Gender, Media and Law enforcement to keep up with the needs of the changing social and cultural environment in World Affairs and the expansion of the black experience 3.In 2011 a proposed hire to replacement retiring Faculty will be highly required. Should be in place by the beginning of 9/2012 at the latest.

Implement BST/High Schoos collaborative program/teaching training support;implement African American Film Festival initiative and the North Star Center/Museum Plan;implementation BST-PCC annual African Film Festival;implement Bst collaboration with Portland Development Commission historical markers of Portlandand BST initiative re: the Golden West Hotel Project and the African American Historical monument project; Increase national and international partnerships and collaborative student and Faculty projects eg. field based African and CAribbean overseas programs - and redesign the African Studies Overseas Program) into opportunities for a sustainable student interest in the black experience among communities, field schools; expand the Ghana initiative – collaboration with the Oregon African American Chamber of Commerce; and the Sister City partnership – Portland and Cape Coast; expand PSU/Univ. of Cape Coast educational partnership.

Assign the Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Curriculum a charge to investigate potential benefits and drawbacks of offering online courses in General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry (2009-2010).