Leaders of Portland State University and Portland Community College signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday afternoon to establish a formal partnership between the two higher education institutions, with the goal of streamlining transfer pathways and achieving other shared educational goals.
The two institutions have formally partnered on smaller-scale initiatives for years, but this agreement will formalize a broader, long-term partnership with the hopes of encouraging more students to utilize the PCC-PSU pipeline. More broadly, the MOU also seeks to strengthen local career pipelines.
Central to the partnership is the planned development of the Strategic Transfer Excellence Plan, otherwise known as STEP, which will both coordinate programs between the two institutions and align c