Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center. Reed alumni include 123 Fulbright Scholars, 73 Watson Fellows, and three Churchill Scholars. Its 32 Rhodes Scholars are the second-most for a liberal arts college. Reed is ranked fourth in the United States for the percentage of its graduates who earn a PhD.
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum, which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees through all 11 colleges. It has the seventh-largest engineering college in the nation for 2023. Undergraduate enrollment for all colleges combined averages over 32,000 while an additional 5,000 students are engaged in post-graduate coursework through the university. In 2023, over 37,000 students were enrolled at OSU – making it the largest university in the state. Out-of-state students typically make up over one-quarter of the student body. Since its founding, over 272,000 students have graduated from OSU. The university is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1: Doctoral University with very high research activity.
The Northwest Conference (NWC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in the states of Oregon and Washington. It was known as the Pacific Northwest Conference from 1926 to 1984.
The University of Portland (UP) is a private Catholic university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1901 and is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross, which also founded UP's sister school, the University of Notre Dame. UP enrolls approximately 3,730 students.
Willamette University is a private liberal arts college with locations in Salem and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest college in the Western United States. Originally named the Oregon Institute, the school was an unaffiliated outgrowth of the Methodist Mission. The name was changed to Wallamet University in 1852, followed by the current spelling in 1870. Willamette founded the first medical school and law school in the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century.
Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1846 when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It has an enrollment of roughly 1,000 undergraduate students.
Pacific University is a private university in Forest Grove, Oregon. Founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy, the original Forest Grove campus is 23 miles (37 km) west of Portland. The university maintains three other campuses in Eugene, Hillsboro, and Woodburn, and has an enrollment of more than 3,000 students.
Marylhurst University was a private applied liberal arts and business university in Marylhurst, Oregon. Marylhurst was founded as St. Mary's College in 1893 and run for many years by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The former campus is located about nine miles south of Portland, Oregon on the Willamette River. Although Marylhurst University was a Roman Catholic school, it served students of all faiths and backgrounds.
John A.Bogdanski is an American lawyer and academic. He is a professor of law and the Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, United States.
The Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, is an American Bar Association-approved private law school in Portland, Oregon.
Jay Locey is an American football coach and former player. Locey served as the head football coach at Linfield College from 1996 to 2005, compiling a record of 84–18.
Philip M. Schiliro is an American political consultant and strategist. He has spent much of his career on the staff of prominent elected officials, including President Barack Obama.
Paul Thiry (1904–1993) was an American architect most active in Washington state, known as the father of architectural modernism in the Pacific Northwest. Thiry designed "some of the best period buildings around the state of Washington during the 1950, 60s and 70s."
The M. Lloyd Frank Estate, also known as the Frank Manor House, is an historic building on campus of Lewis & Clark College, in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Manor House is currently used as the administrative center for Lewis and Clark college.
York: Terra Incognita is an outdoor monument by Alison Saar, installed near the Aubrey Watzek Library on the Lewis & Clark College campus, in Portland, Oregon. The brass sculpture commemorates York, an African-American explorer best known for his participation with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and was dedicated on May 8, 2010. The 6-foot (1.8 m) statue rests on an approximately 2-foot (0.61 m) bronze base.
The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, or simply Hoffman Art Gallery, is an art gallery and building on the Lewis & Clark College campus, in Portland, Oregon. The gallery opened in 1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson is an American legal scholar and academic administrator who has worked as the dean of the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, from 2014 until August 2024. Johnson specializes in business and securities law.
Khanh Pham is an American politician and activist serving as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 46th district. She assumed office on January 11, 2021.
