PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

10 schools will receive $250k each to create 'systemic change' supporting certain minority groups in STEM

On Jan. 11, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the recipients of a $2.5 million grant to attain 'systemic cha…

By Emma Arns '26
Jan 30, 2024

4 weirdest sex fetishes found on campus in 2023

Topics included pornography, abortion, non-monogamous relationships, sex toys, and Shibari rope binding.

By Campus Reform
Dec 31, 2023

Trans activists physically harass Billboard Chris at Portland State University

Chris Elston, popularly known as Billboard Chris, was physically harassed by a trans-female at Portland State Unive…

By Gabrielle M. Etzel
May 8, 2023

Public university's 'Sex Week' features 'Chicanx sexuality’, BDSM gear maintenance

Portland State University annual 'Sex Week' wraps up on March 7.

By Robert Schmad '23
Mar 7, 2023

University separates participants by race in BIPOC discussion series

Portland State University recently hosted the last in a series of events that separated participants by race and ‘c…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Jan 31, 2023

Portland State uses affirmative action to hire new psychology professor

PSU is seeking to hire new psychology professors 'from diverse/historically underrepresented groups' and whose rese…

By Chloe Lawrence '26
Jan 17, 2023

A look inside one university’s ‘Queer Studies’ major/minor

It 'combine[s] women’s studies, sociology, biology, psychology, literature and cultural studies to examine the issu…

By Logan Dubil '23
Sep 14, 2022

Students must pass new 'Race and Ethnic Studies' requirement to graduate

The university prides itself on the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

By Jasmine James '23
Aug 24, 2022

Medical professionals continue 'anti-racism' push in public health schools

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an organization that works closely with a variety of…

By Mahmood Alomar '25 and Ben Cook, PhD
Jul 11, 2022

Fat studies is the field that teaches students to view obesity as 'oppression'

Fat Studies is an academic field that 'confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of ‘fatness’ an…

By Abigail Streetman '23
Jun 24, 2022

Pro-abortion vandalism reported near universities as pro-life students face harassment

Many protests have been peaceful, but there are reports of vandalism across the country including two incidents nea…

By Alexa Schwerha
May 11, 2022

5 Big Questions: Peter Boghossian, former professor who resigned in protest

The former philosophy professor resigned in a shocking open letter that revealed how Portland State University had …

By Angela Morabito
Oct 5, 2021

ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING: Boghossian’s departure signals the need for higher ed’s anti-woke remnant to stand up against intimidation

Peter Boghossian's resignation from Portland State University was a devastating blow to the remnant of academics wh…

By Zachary Marschall, PhD
Sep 19, 2021

As Boghossian leaves PSU, school gets $1 mil for ‘antiracist’ computer science education

A federal agency gave Portland State University $1 million to develop “antiracist” computer science education in Or…

By Ben Zeisloft
Sep 13, 2021

University students will learn about ‘Queer Feelings’ & ‘activist skills’ this fall

Courses like 'Queer Desires' and 'Queer Feelings' will be offered this coming academic year at America's public uni…

By Angela Morabito
Aug 3, 2021

2 OR public universities award $500,000 to advance social justice in medicine through poetry, community outreach

The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health announced a $500,000 fellowship program to fund five proposals relating to ant…

By Katelynn Richardson '22
Jun 24, 2021

Portland State University to fully disarm campus police force before the fall semester

Portland State University will disarm its police form effective September 1.

By Ken Meekins '23 and Adam Sabes
Jun 16, 2021

Move over Congress: Portland State University unveils its own 'COVID Relief Package'

Portland State University unveiled its own "COVID Relief Package" as Congress debates its own bill.

By Addison Pummill '23
Feb 25, 2021

Plans to disarm Portland State campus police on hold after too many quit

Portland State University previously announced plans to disarm campus police.

By Haley Worth '22
Nov 19, 2020

Portland State University disarms campus police amid riots, crime surge

PSU campus police will no longer carry guns on campus starting this fall.

By Jezzamine Wolk
Aug 14, 2020

Portland Black Studies prof: BLM movement has been 'hijacked'

She worries that the message of the BLM movement is being lost as a result of how activists are acting.

By Robert Schmad '23
Aug 10, 2020

PSU prof posts pic of 'queer ecologies' course that 'rethinks the nature of nature'

Portland State University Professor Peter Boghossian tweeted a photo of a flyer advertising a "Queer Ecologies" cou…

By Anthony Leonardi
Dec 12, 2019

PSU women's center holds meetings 'solely' for minority students

Flyers posted on campus advertising a weekly meeting for "Feminists of Color" at Portland State University note tha…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Nov 22, 2019

PSU punishes prof who duped academic journal with hoax 'dog rape' article

Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian and a small team set out to test the legitimacy of academic jo…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Jul 24, 2019

Academic journal falls for prof's prank...and the prof gets in trouble

Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian and a small team set out to test the legitimacy of academic jo…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Jan 9, 2019

'Credible threats' lead to removal of pro-colonialism article

A peer-reviewed academic journal article defending colonialism was removed due to threats of violence against the e…

By Kyle Perisic
Oct 10, 2017

Portland State course aims to 'make whiteness strange'

Students in the class will consider how non-white Americans 'experience and negotiate skin privilege and white norm…

By Peter Hasson
Oct 5, 2015

VIDEO: Socialist group verbally assaults, tries to eject conservative blogger for legally filming meeting at PSU

Dan Sandini, a conservative blogger, tried to film an open meeting held by left-wing students.

By Kat Timpf
Jun 17, 2014