Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.86
Liaison Briar Wray
Submission Date March 5, 2025

STARS v3.0

Portland Community College
PRE-3: Institutional Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Stephania Fregosi
Sustainability Analyst
Academic Affairs
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Institution type:
Associate/Short-cycle

Institutional control:
Public

Narrative outlining the institutional boundary used to complete this report:

4 campuses - Cascade, Rock Creek, Southeast & Sylvania,

6 centers - CLIMB, Newberg, Swan Island & Willow Creek, Opportunity Center at 42nd formerly the Portland Metropolitan Workforce Training Center, and the Columbia County Center.

We use the operational control method for sustainability and GHGs and therefore have not included buildings where we are tenants: the Hillsboro Training Center and the Vanport building (where we are a tenant of Portland State University.)


Which of the following features are included within the institutional boundary?:
Farm larger than 2 hectares
Museum
Satellite campus)es)

Locale:
Large city

Climate zone:
4 - Mixed

Gross floor area of building space:
237,722.25 Square meters

Full-time equivalent of employees:
2,979

Full-time equivalent student enrollment:
17,857.38

Percentage of students that live in campus housing:
0

Percentage of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
47.80

Optional documentation

Notes about the information provided for this credit:

For employee figures, we relied on information provided by HR. 

This includes students who are taking non-credit courses.

Full-time student enrollment is calculated using information from Enrollment Reports. The numbers here were takein from 2022-2023. https://www.pcc.edu/institutional-effectiveness/reporting/enrollment/term/

In future years, we will be using this resource: https://www.pcc.edu/institutional-effectiveness/quick-facts-pcc-students-2023-24/

The Rock Creek Learning Garden is 3.5 acres.

We have facilities for training both nurses and veterinary technicans.


Additional documentation for this credit:
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