Posted Sep 11, 2018, 1:28 AM
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Super-Sustainable Addition to Business School Quickly Becomes Center of Portland State Campus
Even more than its newly renovated home and an expansion next door, the Karl Miller Center’s five-story atrium gives Portland State University a sense of place.
Since its founding in 1946, Portland State University (PSU) has grown from a small commuter school to a population of more than 27,000 students. During that time, PSU has come to enjoy a greater presence in the community thanks to a campus-wide investment in what had been a series of dark, outdated facilities, as well as a curriculum that increasingly reflects Portland’s penchant for sustainable policy and progressive urban planning.
PSU also enjoys an enviable downtown location that is, along with the 12-block public park known as South Park Blocks forming the school’s spine, a leafy oasis. Yet particularly in this perennially rainy climate, students need communal indoor gathering spaces, which the university had always lacked.
Perhaps that’s why the new Karl Miller Center, with its luminescent five-story atrium, has quickly become a kind of living room not just for the School of Business housed there but for all of PSU.
“We actually used to have MBA students practicing presentations in their cars,” recalls Cliff Allen, the business school’s dean. “We also estimate the university may have as many as 1,500 houseless students. Having this welcoming safe place on campus where students can get the support and the camaraderie they need is very important to us. That atrium is packed throughout the school year with students.”
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