China
The Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Training Program was established in early 2003 through a five-year agreement with China’s Ministry of Construction. Delivered in cooperation with the International Sustainable Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon, the Program focuses on land-use planning and zoning, urban renewal, green buildings, nature in the city, consensus building and citizen participation.
The program has been coordinated by the College of Urban and Public Affairs. This year the program co-directors are Dr. Connie Ozawa, faculty member in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and Dr. Marcus Ingle, faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and the Executive Leadership Institute.
Since the inaugural session in March 2004, 60 officials from China’s Ministry of Construction, representing fifteen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have participated in this intensive seven-day program in Portland.
In June 2000, the China-U.S. Sustainable Land-use Training Program was initiated through a cooperative agreement between the Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources and Portland State University in cooperation with the International Sustainable Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon.
The training curriculum focuses on sustainable land-use planning and governance practices, protection of agriculturally and ecologically sensitive lands, fair markets for land transaction, and citizen participation in land use decision-making and planning processes.
The program has been coordinated by the College of Urban and Public Affairs. This year the program co-directors are Dr. Connie Ozawa, faculty member in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and Dr. Marcus Ingle, faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and the Executive Leadership Institute.
As of 2006, 348 Chinese officials from central, provincial and local agencies, representing 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have participated in this intensive seven-day program in Portland.
This is a faculty and student partnership between Lanzhou University and Portland State University. These institutions have agreeed to encourage educational cooperation by enrolling students from one university at the other, sharing academic publications, visiting the faculty and students at the other university, and promoting activities that will enhance the above goals.
The northeastern province of Jilin and the city of Chang Chun have sent seven groups of higher education administrators to participate in training programs at PSU since 2001
In July 2002, the Portland State University Library established a Sister Library relationship with the Soochow University Library for the purposes of promoting information exchange and resource sharing between American and Chinese academic libraries, advancing the library profession, and developing friendship between libraries across the world.
We agreed to pursue collaborative activities that are mutually beneficial to both institutions, including facilitating visiting scholar and research cooperation activities where possible, and collaborating in the areas of academic exchange, technology exchange, exchange of library materials, access services, exchange of librarian visits and training, and library research, when possible.
