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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Celebrate Research Week
May 3-7 is Research Week at Portland State, a celebration of the researchers, scholars, and artists who help make PSU great. This week-long series of events honors and calls attention to the exceptional work of PSU students, faculty, and staff. This year, Research Week is going virtual with a series of events that highlight the research, scholarship, and artistry of PSU faculty, staff, and students. Learn more about this week’s events at the Research Week website.
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Re-Enter and Rebound: Experiences of Justice Impacted Students at PSU
On Friday, May 7 at 4 p.m., join the Transfer and Returning Student Resource Center (TRSRC), The Justice Impacted Student Group, and PSU’s Higher Education in Prison Program for a special panel featuring justice-impacted undergraduate and graduate students at Portland State University. In this event, formerly incarcerated students share their experiences pursuing education, and talk about the barriers they face, the support resources and systems they found helpful, and what they found lacking. Together we will explore areas of opportunity for institutional support and growth within the justice impacted community at PSU. You can register for the event via Zoom.
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Free Food Market Next Week on May 10
The Oregon Food Bank and PSU's Committee for Improving Student Food Security are hosting a Free Food Market for all PSU students, staff, and community members. Free Food Market is held on the South Park Blocks near Shattuck Hall on the second Monday of the month rain or shine from 9:30-11:00 am (or until they run out). No identification or proof of income is required. Free Food Market asks that all patrons adhere to safety and physical distancing protocols. For questions, email foodhelp@pdx.edu.
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ReImagine PSUProvost Susan Jeffords has invited faculty and staff to submit proposals that address Portland State’s key challenges — from lower enrollment, to new competencies needed for the world of work, to how to be an equity-centered university — in order to craft the university of the future. Accepted proposals will receive up to $25,000 starting this summer and available throughout the 2021-22 academic year. Learn more, including how to apply, on the ReImagine PSU webpage.
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Registration Open for Virtual Family Friendly CommencementThe Resource Center for Students with Children is thrilled to announce the 2021 Virtual Family Friendly Commencement, a program that honors the accomplishments of PSU’s graduates and their families. This commencement ceremony will be pre-recorded and posted online. All graduates will receive a FREE diploma frame to commemorate your achievement! Registration is required in order to participate. Learn more about events and services for student parents on the RCSC website.
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PSU Bookstore Closed Through May 9
The PSU Bookstore will be closed from April 28 through May 9 as they transition operations to Barnes & Noble College Bookstores. They will open Monday, May 10 from 10 a.m to 2:00 p.m. In the meantime, the best way for students to reach the PSU Bookstore during the transition is to send an email to sm8396@bncollege.com or by leaving a message at 503-205-8114.
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Practice Eating More Mindfully with This Guided Meditation
“Have you ever looked down at your food only to shockingly notice that it’s gone? I’ll admit—my bowl of Ben & Jerry’s often disappears before I can say “Cherry Garcia.” Like many daily activities, eating is often done on autopilot, especially when we are busy. Many of us spend our days eating, driving, scrolling social media, and even showering without much attention. We tend to go just through the motions out of habit. Today, I’m inviting you to slow down and make one of your automatic activities—eating—more deliberate."
To read this guided meditation for eating more mindfully, visit PDX CampusWell.
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|  A special 75th anniversary edition of Portland State Magazine hit alumni’s mailboxes last week. To read some of the content online, visit the PSU Magazine website.
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If you work in student affairs, or even more generally in higher ed, it is likely that at some point you have taken the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). Based on a series of multiple choice questions, this instrument divides us all into categories: Introvert/Extrovert, for example, is one of the differentiating binaries. In a recent Atlantic piece, authors Julie Beck, Amanda Mull and Katherine J. Wu note that the period of relative isolation that many of us have experienced during the pandemic may have given us all a better sense of which of these typologies best fits our own self-understanding. They predict,"In the coming months, much of the country will exit this pandemic with a better sense of how they’d like to spend their time. They’ll divide into two camps...Team Yes, who will sign up for more concerts and parties and weddings and casual hangs and after-work drinks, and Team Couch, who will take the opportunity to slow down from their pre-pandemic social calendar, wondering if maybe there were some benefits to this whole social-distancing thing." How has your approach to planning for post-pandemic life been shaped by the last year?
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