Portland Community College
EN-8: Shared Facilities
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Stephania
Fregosi Sustainability Analyst Academic Affairs |
8.1 Publicly shared facilities
Does the institution provide free or low cost access to the meeting or event space?:
Description of the institution’s publicly accessible space for meetings or events:
The college offers a variety of facilities to rent including classrooms, event space, performing spaces, and specialty spaces. The college offers a lower-rate for non-profit organizations. If sponsored by a PCC department, the rental fee is waived.
Does the institution have at least one on-site facility that helps people meet their basic needs and is publicly accessible?:
Does the institution provide free or low cost access to the basic needs facilities?:
Description of the institution’s publicly accessible facilities that help people meet their basic needs:
Two of our campuses, Cascade and Southeast offer Albina Headstart, a program which is free to qualifying families. In addition, the Rock Campus campus accepts CCAMPIS grants and ERDC which can be accessed by low-income families.
Albina Head Start (AHS) offers free early childhood services to families that meet income qualifications. In addition to education services, all enrolled children receive developmental screenings and assessments as well as, health, nutrition, dental, vision, and hearing services.
Financial assistance is available for students, including the college-wide Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grant funded by the US Department of Education.
Does the institution have at least one on-site facility that provides cultural services and is publicly accessible?:
Does the institution provide free or low cost access to the cultural service facilities?:
Description of the institution’s publicly accessible facilities that provide cultural services:
Portland Community College is home to four art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, the Helzer Gallery and the Southeast Gallery, each located on one of our four comprehensive campus locations in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.
All art galleries are open to the public.
- Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery
- Rock Creek Helzer Gallery
- Southeast Gallery (The Southeast Gallery is on pause through the 2024-2025 academic year.)
- Sylvania North View Gallery
PCC’s art galleries regularly host sustainability themed exhibits on a regular basis and hold engaging programming that highlight the work and sustainability and justice themes. For example, in February of 2025, the Sylvania Art Gallery held an exhibit of Phyllis Trowbridge’s work, Painting in Time. This work features the Pacific Northwest landscape; she often returns to the same place multiple times in a year to complete a piece. PCC is fortunate that she also is offering her plein air painting workshop in conjunction with the Washington Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference that we are hosting March 5, 2025. Another example Listening to the Land Panel Conversation and Community Discussion on Art, Nature and the Written Word held at the PCC Cascade Campus in November of 2024 held at the Paragon Arts Gallery in conjunction with the Epiphany Couch Before the Fire Lit My Dreams exhibit on Connections to Land, Shared Humanity, and Cycles.
PCC has libraries located on each of the four main campuses: Cascade, Rock Creek, Southeaast and Sylvania. Libraries also contain computer labs.
Members of the community who pay taxes to support the college, PCC Alumni, and retired PCC staff may register for community patron cards.
PCC Library participates in the Oregon Library Passport Program. This is a free service that lets patrons check out items at any participating library across the state. The following libraries, among many others are participating: Portland State University, Multnomah County Library, and Mount Hood Community Colleges. See the complete list of participating libraries.
Borrowers from other institutions can request a passport patron card to use at PCC Library by presenting their library card from a participating library and photo ID at the checkout desk. Privileges will be the same as community patrons.
Does the institution have at least one on-site facility that provides recreational services and is publicly accessible?:
Does the institution provide free or low cost access to the recreational service facilities?:
Description of the institution’s publicly accessible facilities that provide recreational services:
The Rock Creek Environmental Studies Center has a trail system that are generally open to the public during PCC open hours. (PCC does require the purchase of a daily parking permit most of the year.)
The 95-acre Rock Creek Environmental Studies Center (RCESC) is an outdoor, educational facility that serves as an essential part of several PCC academic programs as well as a place of learning and connection for the wider community. Considered to be an important natural history area by the Portland Audubon Society and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the RCESC includes approximately 28 acres of upland conifer forest, 11 acres of ash forested wetland, 35 acres of emergent and shrub-scrub wetland, 19 acres of wet prairie, and 2 acres of Oregon white oak woodland. Several smaller unique ecosystems are also present in this area, including several springs and a small pond, all of which serve as an irreplaceable setting for ecological and cultural learning. These areas provide habitat for several groups of wildlife including nesting areas for waterfowl, quail, pheasants, and songbirds; as well as being homes to mammals such as deer, beaver, muskrat, mink, raccoon, elk, bobcat, and coyote.
To learn more about this natural area, visit this StoryMap link: Welcome to the Rock Creek Environmental Studies Center
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