Lorelei Millund sits in the middle row of a 200-person lecture hall, multicolored fineliner pens splayed across the half-empty page of a meticulously color-coded computer science notebook. She pulls out her phone and starts scrolling through Twitter as the instructor struggles with his laptop, his 130-lines of demo code projected onto three large screens at […]
QA With Ellen Weeks, Associate CIO at PSU
As the Associate Chief Information Officer at Portland State University, Ellen Weeks heads a department of 35 developers, the office of project management and several enterprise systems. She has come a long way from her start at PSU, manually processing registration changes as “Office Specialist 1”. Nowadays, her department uses Banner finance software to handle […]
Research
As funding for public universities drops and tuition prices increase, students are questioning the net value of a college education. The 2018 McGraw-Hill Future Workforce Survey found that fewer than half of both graduating students and potential employers feel that colleges are imparting the skills and knowledge students need in order to graduate job-ready. Students […]
Ley Aldinger 