The Oregonian
By Andrew Theen
May 18, 2016
Portland State's Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting next Wednesday with one item on the agenda: Hear from the university's students.
Pete Nickerson, the PSU trustee's chair, sent an email to all students Tuesday describing the meeting. "This will be an extended opportunity to share perspectives, insights or concerns about the University and to hear back from trustees," Nickerson wrote. "The Board has scheduled no other business for this meeting, other than to hear from and talk with students."
The meeting will occur less than two months after the trustees' March meeting was completely shut down at one time by a group of vocal students and community activists. The trustees disbanded that meeting, then reconvened in a separate basement conference room across campus, where they voted on a tuition increase with no students present.
That was the third consecutive meeting of the volunteer governing board disrupted by a group of students.