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Five-Step Guide to Writing About African Children: A Satirical Homage to Decolonizing Our Minds and Challenging Stereotypes
No full textThis essay is a work of satire, in the style of the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa” and Bright Alozie’s “How to Write About Nigeria” and “How to Write About African Women.” In this satirical homage, we explore the pesky stereotypes that often accompany Western perceptions and writings about African children. We hope that stereotypes satirically highlighted in this piece shed light on the dangers of a single story while advocating for the recognition of the humanity, agency, voices, and dignity of African children
Portland State University Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
Get PDFThis record contains Portland State University\u27s Promotion and Tenure Guidelines. The guidelines govern the promotion and evaluation of Faculty at Portland state including but not limited to promotion, tenure, post-tenure review, merit, and more
A History of the \u3ci\u3eDeutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFThe number of post-secondary German immersion programs in the United States has decreased from eleven to three since their heyday in the 1960s and the 1970s. The remaining three include: the German Immersion Program at Middlebury Language Schools (est. 1915), the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik (est. 1958), and the Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico (est. 1975). These programs provide post-secondary students with immersive German-learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate credit during a summer session each year. Of these schools, the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik stands alone in not having an accessible written history available to the public, which this thesis aims to resolve. To begin, I organized the boxes of Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik archives held in storage for years in the Portland State University Department of World Languages and Literatures. I then used available documents to research the establishment of the school, spoke with academics who helped shape the program into what it is today, considered the general structure of the program, and formed a better understanding of enrollment trends. Through these findings, I wrote an overview of the history of the school from 1958 to present, illustrating the significant and enduring impact that the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik has had on German studies in the United States
Re-Indigenizing and Collaboratively Tending Urban Greenspaces
Get PDFThis work details the active process of land tending with the intention of re-Indigenization in the Pacific Northwest at several Portland sites; The Native American Student Community Center, PSU Oak Savanna, and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Land tending is an intuitive process, one rooted in love and respect for life of all forms as well as becoming the perpetual student; land tending is not a skill to be mastered, only practiced. Unlike environmental management, tending cannot be done separate from the earth, in a classroom or otherwise. Connections are what tending is built on top of: the foundation; effort must go into actively creating and maintaining our relationships, not through screens but with hugs, embraces, and close admiration.
Just like tending, my thesis is holistic in nature. There was no innate question I felt called to, as my collective experiences and lessons cannot be untangled and studied. I\u27d like to share the experience of learning the Earth and the projects that I\u27ve been fully involved in thanks to this new, profound know-how
Oregon State Rank Assessment for Pt. Reyes Bird\u27s-beak (Chloropyron maritinum ssp. palustre)
Get PDFOregon state conservation status assessment for Pt. Reyes bird\u27s-beak (Chloropyron maritimum ssp. palustre) using NatureServe methodology, 2024
Piloting a Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in Downtown Portland
Get PDFThe Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) was awarded a nearly $2 million Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) in Fall 2023 to pilot the country’s first regulated Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in downtown Portland and test digital infrastructure tools. This project will test an innovative set of incentives and regulations to better understand what technology and strategies municipalities can use to support and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the freight sector.
While other cities in the United States have piloted voluntary Zero-Emission Delivery Zones (ZEDZs) to encourage the transition of commercial fleets to zero-emission modes, Portland is the first U.S. city to pilot a regulated ZEDZ. The regulated ZEDZ will be active during a demonstration period of approximately six months beginning in late summer/early fall of 2024. During this temporary demonstration period, the parking rules for all truck loading zones within the project area will be changed to prioritize access for zero-emission vehicles only.
This pilot project will also test a variety of partnerships and incentives to accelerate the movement of “clean goods.” This could include diverting existing deliveries into the ZEDZ to local fleets of electric-assist cargo trikes and electric vehicles, vans and trucks, or supporting local delivery companies in transitioning their own fleets to zero-emission modes.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar/1255/thumbnail.jp
Let Knowledge Serve the City! A Decade of Better Block PSU Projects
Get PDFBetter Block PSU works with Planning and Civil Engineering students to bring community ideas to life! Over the last 10 years, the pathway has resulted in many real world pop ups and capital projects implemented by volunteers and PBOT.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar/1259/thumbnail.jp
The Impacts of a Multimodal Safety Project on North Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon
Get PDFNorth Lombard Street/US-30 Bypass is a critical corridor in North Portland, serving both commercial and residential interests. This corridor is also ranked 11th in terms of fatal and serious injury crashes in Portland. The Oregon Department of Transportation and the Portland Bureau of Transportation undertook a reconfiguration to improve multimodal safety and accessibility for all users. The reconfiguration happened between North Fiske Ave and North Boston Ave. Improvements included additional curb ramps that meet ADA standards, safer crosswalks with fewer lanes to cross, buffered bike lanes, new pavement and center turn lanes, traffic signals, and RRFBs and median refuge islands.
This seminar will present the results of a before and after evaluation focused on vehicle-pedestrian conflicts, pedestrian crossing volumes, pedestrian delay, vehicle throughput and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), vehicle speed, and vehicle travel time.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar/1262/thumbnail.jp
Story of Your Lazy Function\u27s Life: A Bidirectional Demand Semantics for Mechanized Cost Analysis of Lazy Programs
Get PDFLazy evaluation is a powerful tool that enables better compositionality and potentially better performance in functional programming, but it is challenging to analyze its computation cost. Existing works either require manually annotating sharing, or rely on separation logic to reason about heaps of mutable cells. In this paper, we propose a bidirectional demand semantics that allows for extrinsic reasoning about the computation cost of lazy programs without relying on special program logics. To show the effectiveness of our approach, we apply the demand semantics to a variety of case studies including insertion sort, selection sort, Okasaki\u27s banker\u27s queue, and the implicit queue. We formally prove that the banker\u27s queue and the implicit queue are both amortized and persistent using the Rocq Prover (formerly known as Coq). We also propose the reverse physicist\u27s method, a novel variant of the classical physicist\u27s method, which enables mechanized, modular and compositional reasoning about amortization and persistence with the demand semantics
Reversing the Legacies: Asset-Based Discourses for Racialized Social Workers
No full textSocial work has a lengthy history of ignoring and invalidating the assets that racialized practitioners bring to their work. This article seeks to shift the discourse in social work away from invisibility and diminishment toward visibility, positive valuing, and asset-rich perspectives. The rationale is rooted in original research, theory, and experience. We close the article with concrete recommendations for change. Research conducted in [state], USA, partnered with four culturally specific organizations and the university research team. An in-person Delphi study identified a set of 25 assets that these organizations agreed were pronounced within their workforce, and that contributed to the wellbeing of racialized clients. Defined as “staffing assets,” these experiences were then affirmed by a sample of 505 clients. To help organize the 25 assets into more standard constructs, we identify six domains in which to embed the assets: culturally grounded worldview and beliefs, effective advocate, invested in long-term community wellbeing, demonstrated respect and recognition, organic problem solver, and relationally focused. We then theorize these assets, drawing from previously published work. Closing with recommendations for improvements in the field, we prioritize workforce diversification, social work education reprioritizing, supervision improvements, building inclusive workplaces, infusing equity into research, and a shifted discourse within social work that foregrounds practitioners of color as holding essential assets for the wellbeing of racialized clients and communities. This contribution is a mere opening – as a field, we must dedicate scholarship and practice to building out practice frameworks that include social workers of color