About Finance and Administration:
Mission: The Finance and Administration Division (FADM) serves Portland State University by:
- Keeping students at the core of our work; honoring the University’s commitment to access, affordability, and inclusion.
- Embracing innovation, creativity, and collaboration to serve the University’s academic mission and strategic goals.
- Supporting the full engagement of FADM employees in their work as stewards of the University’s financial, human, and physical resources.
- Maintaining the highest standards of accountability and transparency.
- Ensuring the long-term viability of the University’s financial and physical resources.
- Creating a safe and healthy campus for students, faculty, staff, and guests.
Vision: Finance and Administration supports the people and place that are Portland State University, an institution committed to impacting the community as a vibrant center for learning, scholarship, research, creativity, and community engagement.
Values:
- We promote inclusion and equity in all aspects of our work.
- We value our employees.
- We strive for excellence in our stewardship of institutional resources.
- We accept challenges and embrace change.
Services:
- Budget Office: The University Budget Office is responsible for the financial planning for the University. It provides guidance and assistance to the university community around the effective and efficient planning for and use of institutional financial resources.
- Campus Public Safety: The Campus Public Safety Office ensures that PSU is a safe, respectful, positive environment for students, faculty, and staff to learn, live, work and achieve their goals.
- Financial Services: University Financial Services (UFS), also known as the Controller Department, supports the University’s mission of instruction and support by providing efficient and effective accounting and finance services and support for PSU faculty, staff, and students.
- Human Resources: The HR team is committed to providing quality service in recruitment, retention, and related areas that enable faculty and staff to contribute at the highest level to support the mission of the University.
- Office of Information Technology: The Office of Information Technology (OIT) empowers students, faculty, and staff through technology; they focus on promoting student success through employee success. OIT has repeatedly been recognized in national rankings among the best places to work in IT.
- Planning, Construction and Real Estate: Planning, Construction and Real Estate (PCRE) provides leadership and oversight of the planning, development and operations of PSU’s physical environment. Click here and here to learn more about some of PCRE’s latest innovative initiatives.
- Risk Management: Risk Management minimizes the risk exposures of PSU by providing risk consulting and risk services to the PSU community, embodying a commitment to stewardship of the human, fiscal, and physical resources entrusted to PSU.
- Student Finance: PSU works to keep tuition as low as possible and financial aid as high as possible so that students can focus on their education and graduate with more money for their future.
- University Place Hotel: University Place Hotel and Conference Center is Downtown Portland’s only economical hotel and affordable conference center. UPH is owned, operated and located on the PSU campus and is open to the public.
About the Institution:
Portland State University (PSU) is Oregon’s largest urban university, located in Portland, Oregon. PSU enrolls over 22,000 students and offers programs for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. PSU is an internationally recognized university known for excellence in student learning, innovative research, and community engagement. PSU contributes to the economic vitality, environmental sustainability, and quality of life in the Portland region and beyond. Employees describe Portland State University as a vibrant, diverse, progressive place to work and an environment that welcomes process improvement and innovation. Portland State’s 50-acre downtown campus is located in the heart of the city; a hub of culture, business, and technology, and just 90 minutes from mountains and the Oregon Coast.
Portland State is composed of 10 constituent schools and colleges, offering undergraduate degrees in 123 fields and postgraduate degrees in 117 fields. Schools at Portland State include The School of Business, College of Education, School of Social Work, College of Urban and Public Affairs, College of the Arts, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Combined OHSU/PSU School of Public Health, the Graduate School, and the Honors College. The athletic teams are known as the Portland State Vikings and compete at the NCAA Division I Level, primarily in the Big Sky Conference. See www.pdx.edu for additional information about the institution.
Portland State University is committed to providing access and excellent education to students from all backgrounds.
- PSU is a national College of Distinction, a mark of excellence earned for its pioneering University Studies program, a four-year pathway to undergraduate success.
- U.S. News & World Report ranks PSU as the No. 1 school in Oregon for social mobility due to the institution graduating the highest number of economically disadvantaged students and No. 1 in Oregon for Service Learning.
- PSU was among the first universities in the country to garner the community engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation in 2006 and has just been recognized again for its exceptional commitment.
- Portland State has been named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024.
- For the second year in a row, PSU has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
- In 2022, PSU became an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), and in fall 2023 received a five-year grant under its Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) designation.
- PSU recently joined more than 300 institutions nationwide as part of the College Cost Transparency Initiative, making it easier for students and families to navigate the financial aid process.
As President Ann Cudd recently remarked, “PSU is truly an anchor institution: We are a powerhouse for education and the arts in this region. We are woven into the fabric of this city. We are an innovative hub of research, much of it trained on addressing Oregon’s current and future challenges. And our students — our wonderful, creative, and passionate students — will take their education out into the community and make lasting change.”