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MEMO TO: Faculty Senate and PSU Faculty
FROM:
Sherril Gelmon, PSU Faculty Representative to PSU/OHSU Strategic Partnerships Task Force
RE:
Input on Academic Collaborations Matrix
The Academic Subcommittee of the PSU/OHSU Strategic Partnerships Task Force has been working on building a matrix of various
kinds of academically-related collaborations that either already exist or are being suggested as potential future collaborations.
The information that the subcommittee has assembled is based on submissions from faculty as well as points raised at various public
meetings. Given the amount of information covered, it is impossible to offer every detail on every item, so most points are listed very
briefly.
Please review the matrix, and offer any editorial comments (additions, clarifications, corrections) – ideally using the “track changes”
function in word. Send your comments to Sherril Gelmon (gelmons@pdx.edu) by July 1, so that she can synthesize the additions and
ensure that the version of the matrix that is incorporated into the Task Force report represents a broad range of input. We realize this
will probably never be a complete document, but would like to reflect as much information as possible.
The Task Force will be developing a draft report over the summer, and will soon announce the date of a public hearing to discuss the
report. This hearing will be held in September after faculty return to campus, and the report will be made available in advance.
Thank you in advance for your input.
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Broad Topic
Academic Course
& Program
Offerings
Graduate Student
& Post-doc
Teaching
Specific Collaboration & Benefit of
Collaboration
 PSU faculty teach medical students on
health reform, policy, social
determinants
 Oregon MPH program
 MD/MPH pathways
 Joint postgraduate training with MPH
in family medicine, preventive
medicine, internal medicine,
psychiatry
 3+2 program for B.S. in Computer
Science from PSU and an M.S. in
Medical Informatics from OHSU
 Joint MBA in healthcare management
 Physics (PSU) and Radiation Medicine
(OHSU) on “Physics in Medicine”
 Social work/psychiatry
interdisciplinary seminar
 Graduate Certificate in Addictions
Counseling
 Potential school of public health
 Basic Sciences opportunities
 History of Science and Medicine;
access to archives
 Biomedical and health care ethics
 Foreign Languages and Applied
Linguistics (English for health care
workers, medical interpreting)
 Biostatistics
 Allied health program developments
 Bioinformatics
 Body mapping (music)
 Courses in molecular biophysics
Potential Barriers
Recommendation/Feasibility/Risk (cost)
Administrative issues (including:
tuition disparity, transfer of
credits) current teaching load of
PSU professors, clinical/research
obligations of OHSU professors,
faculty members receiving the
correct credit at their home
institution
Establish models for administrative issues based
on existing programs (i.e. collaborative masters
in public health, nursing model of Oregon Center
for Nursing Education).
OHSU graduate students and post-docs
teaching/mentoring in education at PSU
PSU students mentoring at OHSU
PSU graduate students have
teaching assistantships as part of
tuition reimbursement
Organizational issues of tenure,
contracts, union, shared
governance, representations
Different registration and financial
aid systems, learning management
platforms, and budgetary
structures and processes all make
it difficult to design and delivery a
joint program.
Joint shell/model for financial and administrative
issues.
Create clearinghouse made up of representatives
from both institutions to go through potential
overlap and gaps in course offerings
Linkages and articulations with community
colleges (health workers, bachelor’s degrees, prehealth professions)
Would need to develop a system of prioritizing
PSU students to teach but offering any remaining
spots to OHSU students
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Opportunities
Academic
Support/
Professional
Development
Faculty Support/
Development
Professional development for enrolled
students/career counseling
Tutoring
Mentorship opportunities
Student Housing
Academic advising (building pipeline to
the sciences)
Collaboration between Office of Diversity
(some existing joint meetings/ pathway
for diversity
Rural outreach
Urban underserved
Urban opportunities for medical students
PSU student access to social/public
health research
Current joint appointments
 Chemistry
Current affiliate appointments at OHSU:
 Family Medicine
 Psychiatry
 Public Health and Preventive
Medicine
 Nursing
 Emergency Medicine
 Surgery
 Internal Medicine
 Medical Informatics
 Biomedical Engineering
 Neurology
 Physiology
 Pharmacology
Current affiliate appointments at PSU:
 Public Administration
Providing PSU students housing
first.
During the initial planning stages that PSU is
currently in, if interested, OHSU should be
brought into the discussions. The administrative
subcommittee of this task force is also looking
into this issue.
Valuing of contributions (many
done pro bono)
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Faculty Support/
Development
(continued)
Library
Staff support
Community
Engagement
 Social Work
 Sociology
 Psychology
 Community Health
 Chemistry
 Biology
 Mathematics/Statistics
PSU and OHSU faculty currently
collaborate on review of applicants,
interviewing, orientation, mentoring
students and residents; serve on each
other’s advisory committees as well as
masters’ thesis committees
Faculty development (eg. grant writing)
Teaching development opportunities for
OHSU faculty (resources at PSU)
Potential for shared resources (eg. OHSU
archives/PSU archives)
New support for international
researchers, students, fellows, faculty to
comply with labor regulations
Offer OHSU student access to PSU wi-fi
network during extended hours on PSU
campus
Offer PSU student and faculty access to
resources of BICC
Other potential shared resources
Staff development (language competency
development for English Language
Learners [ELLs])
CORAL, a program for low-income
hearing- impaired children in Oaxaca,
Mexico
Social work/global health
Business incubator
High school/junior high pipeline to
science careers (better tracking of
internship programs, follow and mentor
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through undergrad to OHSU)
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Community
Engagement
(continued)
Scholarly
Collaborations
New community outreach programs
 Self-determination for children with
disabilities
 Children with autism
 Education and CDRC
 Geriatric Education Center
 AHEC
 Office of Rural Health
 Oregon Leadership Education for
Neurodevelopmental and Related
Disabilities
 Yoga/exercise programs for various
populations
 Cultural competency and diversity
training/ development
Existing research collaborations
 OHREC (Oregon Health Research and
Evaluation Collaborative)
 HSOG and Center for Evidence-Based
Practice
 Geriatrics (IOA, Nursing, PVAMC,
Medicine)
 Portland Bridges to Baccalaureate
program
 Native American health services
(through NW Indian Health Board)
 ORCATECH (Oregon Center on Aging
and Technology)
 Parkinson’s Center of Oregon
 OHSU Center for Advanced Imaging,
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
and PSU Biology/Chemistry
 Oregon Clinical & Translational
Research Institute (OCTRI)
 Systems Science and Neurology on
Genomics
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Lack of time to discuss common
interests, create and negotiate
ideas for collaboration.
Takes time to develop
partnerships
Takes a long time (years) to
cultivate trust and develop
research collaborations
HSRRC/IRB procedures and
timelines very different
Proposal submission process very
different at the two institutions
Center for Interdisciplinary
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Scholarly
Collaborations
(continued)
Mentoring Research including Social
Work, Sociology, Psychology,
Business, Engineering and Computer
Science, Family Medicine, Public
Health and Preventive Medicine
 Center for Coastal Margin
Observation and Prediction
(computer science)
New research possibilities:
 Life Sciences Building
 PSU Survey Research Lab as resource
for OHSU
 Public Humanities Center
 Architecture and urban planning for
waterfront campus (let alone the
Hill!)
 Social Inequalities Research
(Sociology, Community Health, Public
Administration, Nursing, various
Medicine)
 Interdisciplinary research in
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Paperwork overhead in joint
proposals and subcontracting
Sharing of indirect cost returns
Differences in IDC
Recognition of contributions
Differences in culture and
duplication of effort
aging, interpersonal violence,
mental health, HIV prevention,
academic mentoring, and
addictions
Transportation-health connections
(engineering, urban planning, various
health)
Use of GIS and mapping to study
various health problems (geography,
USP)
PSU Psychology and OHSU
Behavioral Neuroscience
Biomedical Computation and
Bioengineering Institute
Nano-medicine and nano-imaging
lab
Portland Institute for Advanced
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Studies (PIAS), biological and
biomedical engineering and
computing
NW Center for Voice and Swallowing
(OHSU Otolaryngology with PSU
Speech and Hearing)
Center for Sustainable Processes and
Practices
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