INSIDE STUDENT AFFAIRSA weekly insider’s guide for those helping students reach their goals toward optimal health and well-being, engagement with learning, and sense of belonging at PSU
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|  | “Today you could be talking to someone who is trying their best not to fall apart. So whatever you do today, do it with kindness in your heart.” - As seen on a local window
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Campus Rec Trivia NightThis is the last week of winter term Tuesday Trivia Nights. On Tuesday, March 2, test your celebrity knowledge in Campus Rec’s live and on-demand virtual trivia tournament. Live trivia starts at 6 p.m. on Kahoot! and will be streamed on Zoom. Be sure to download the Kahoot! app to your phone before logging into the Zoom call. Open to all, but only PSU students and faculty/staff can win prizes. For more information, visit the event website.
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Parenting Across Race and Culture
On March 4 at 1-2 p.m., join the Resource Center for Students with Children and the Pacific Islander, Asian, & Asian American Student Center on Zoom for a facilitated conversation on parenting in multiracial and multicultural families. Our esteemed panelists include PSU community members from multiracial and multicultural families. Come with questions or just to listen, learn, and build community. All are welcome, including your families, partners, and children! We strive to make our events inclusive and accessible so if you require ADA accommodations, please reach out to us prior to the event at sswc@pdx.edu. At the time of the event, click this Zoom link to join.
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Midnight Breakfast: A Comedy ShowcaseJoin the Portland State Programming Board on Wednesday, March 10 from 8-10 p.m. for some hilarity courtesy of comedians Erin Mohr, Paul Elia (Conan, Marvel's Agents of Shield, TruTV's LaffTracks) and Danish Maqbool (Hulu's Ramy)! Chance to win prizes and have a laugh before finals. We hope to see you there! To RSVP or get the Zoom link, visit the event page at Portland State Connect.
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PSU Day at the Capitol
Portland State students, staff, faculty and alumni will “Zoom” to Salem on Thursday, March 4 to let state lawmakers know about the unique role the University plays in Oregon and about the pressing need to keep a college degree affordable. Training and preparation is provided; you will be contacted shortly after you sign up. Register for PSU Day at the Capitol here.
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Seeking Workshop Proposals for QSoCC
The 10th Annual Queer Students of Color Conference (QSoCC) will be held May 28-30, and workshop proposals are being accepted through March 26. New this year: All workshop proposals that are both submitted AND presented will be entered into a raffle that will have (6) $50 prizes. Individuals can only be entered in the contest a maximum of two times but can submit up to five workshops. Also new this year: PSU students who register to attend will be eligible for a raffle of one of six $50 prizes. Learn more on the QSoCC webpage.
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Forming New Habits (It’s Easier than You Think)"Want to break a bad habit that’s not working for you? Want to substitute a new habit that will help you be happier, healthier, or more productive? Here’s how: Make the unhelpful behavior less convenient. Make the goal behavior more convenient. Yes, it may be that simple. Behavioral research shows that we are way more likely to do what’s convenient and way less likely to do what’s inconvenient. Making an action even a little more or less convenient has a significant effect on our behavior."
Visit the PDX CampusWell to learn how to put this behavior into practice and break destructive habits.
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PSU Music and Theater's presents a free, virtual production of White Nights through March 6. In its exploration of social isolation and the desire for human connection, this play poignantly speaks to familiar concerns in these COVID-19 times. Don’t miss the PSU production of this delightfully enchanting and surprisingly pertinent work by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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This year, we've been talking a lot about the importance of students' sense of belonging to their persistence and ultimate long-term success. While sociologist Lisa M. Nunn agrees with its importance, she warns that it is bad advice to put the burden only on students to "find their place" on campus. In College Belonging: How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life (Rutgers University Press), Nunn writes that the traditional approach puts too much of the onus for belonging on the new student, which is particularly bad for first-generation college students. Nunn offers several alternate suggestions for campuses-- here are a few:
1.) Eliminate both discourse and thinking that encourages students to “find their place.” Replace it with welcoming messages based on the assumption that the entire campus is their place. The university exists because students exist.
2.) Resources should be amply funded, run by highly skilled staff and located in visible, central locations on campus.
3.) Instead of just reaching out, we need to find ways to reach in. We need to create structures where someone knowledgeable checks in on individual students and helps them problem solve without being asked.
-Michele
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