August 31. 2011
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Residence Halls Open at Concordia
In a flurry o f back-to-school e x ­
citem ent, 500 students m oved into
residence halls at C oncordia U n i­
versity in no rth east P ortland on
Friday.
C o lle g e P r e s id e n t C h a r le s
S c h lim p e rt, O r e g o n ’s lo n g e s t-
standing university president, b e­
gan his 29th y ear at C oncordia by
jo in in g the m ove-in crew to w el­
com e new and returning students
and their fam ilies.
C oncordia U niversity anticipates
a n o th er y e ar o f re c o rd -b re a k in g
enrollm ent grow th with nearly 3,000
students attending the school this
fall.
A lso in 2011, the U niversity will
fin ish c o n s tru c tio n on its new
C oncordia U niversity & C om m u ­
nity A thletic C om plex. M eanw hile,
in dow ntow n B oise, Idaho, co n ­
struction will also be com pleted this
y e ar on the C oncordia U niversity
School o f Law and G eorge R. W hite
Law Library.
C oncordia U niversity is a p ri­
vate, C hristian, liberal arts univ er­ Back to School at northeast Portland’s Concordia University brings in students and unpacked boxes. Concordia President Charles
sity.
Schlimpert (left) joined the move-in crew to welcome new and returning students.
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PCC Southeast Expanding to Full Campus
Minorities
make site
more diverse
W alk through Mt. T ab o r Hall at
P o rtla n d C o m m u n ity C o lle g e 's
Southeast C enter and you m ight
encounter long lines or crow ded
study areas.
T he cen ter at S outheast 82nd
A venue and D ivision, w hich opened
in 2004 after m oving from another
S outheast 82nd A venue location,
has experienced the m ost rapid en ­
rollm ent grow th o f any PC C loca­
tion.
C ollege officials say the site w ill
eventually accom m odate m ore than
20,000 students annually, up from
nearly 11,000 now . T he center has
recorded a 31 percent increase in
students since 2008.
T he population has not only g o t­
ten larger, but also it has becom e
m ore diverse. M inorities m ake up 39
percent o f the student body (11.4
percent A sian, 11.3 percent A frican
A m erican and 8.5 percent H ispanic)
up from 35.8 percent three years
earlier.
C onstruction from a property tax
bond levy approved by P C C district
voters in 2008 w ill double size o f
Portland
Community
College biology
student Mike
Kempf analyzes
fluid during a
recent lab with
fellow student
John McCall at
the college's
Southeast
Center.
classroom space and ex p an d the
S outheast cam pus to m ake it a full-
service com prehensive cam pus - the
fourth one in the PCC district. G round
w ill be broken on the $39 m illion
project this spring.
The class and program additions
will allow students to earn degrees
w ithout having to leave the cen ter
for another PC C cam pus. C urrently,
the cen ter has 26 classroom s and
the bond will double the space d e ­
voted to classroom s, labs, study
space, gathering areas and library.
"Since w e don't have a library w e
have no real area fo r students to
h a v e a q u ie t p la c e ," said L u is
R odriguez-G arcia, academ ic ad v is­
ing coordinator. "W e have a m ix o f
activities in o u r G reat Hall, from stu­
dents studying to others ju s t h a n g ­
ing out. It's hard to balance those
activities for som e students."
A key co m p o n en t o f the expansion
will be adding m ore science labs for
biology, chem istry and physics classes
as w ell as career training facilities,
classroom s, and a library, co m p u ter
resource and tutoring center.
T his w ill go hand in hand w ith e x ­
pansion o f all student services and
resource d evelopm ent d epartm ents,
including a new ch ild care facility.
"O ur Southeast P ortland c o m m u ­
nity w ill be b etter served as a result o f
the ex pansion o f the cen ter into a
cam pus," said C raig K olins, Extender
Learning C am pus president.
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