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University of Oregon
File:Uoseal.gif
Latin: Universitas Oregonensis
MottoMens agitat molem (Latin)
Motto in English
The mind moves the matter
TypePublic flagship
Established1876
EndowmentUS $ 566 million[1]
PresidentDavid B. Frohnmayer
Undergraduates16,475
Postgraduates3,919
Location
Eugene
,
Oregon
,
USA
CampusUrban
MascotThe Oregon Duck
Websitewww.uoregon.edu
UO sign near the corner of Franklin Blvd. and Agate St.

The University of Oregon (UO) is a public, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The second oldest public university in the state, and the flagship school of the Oregon public university system, UO was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Oregon as a "high research activity" university. Former Oregon Attorney General David B. Frohnmayer is the president of the university. The UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization. In 2007, the school was ranked 108th (tie) in the national university category by U.S. News and World Report's annual college rankings.[2]

Institution

View of the Memorial Quad, facing south. The Knight Library can be seen in the distance.

Colleges and schools

The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.

School of Architecture and Allied Arts

The School of Architecture and Allied Arts (called "triple-A" or "AAA") was founded by Ellis F. Lawrence in 1914.[3] The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture, art, including digital arts, arts and administration, art history, historic preservation, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and planning, public policy and management, and product design. The school also offers an architectural program, digital arts program, and product design program in Portland, Oregon.

The school offers the only accredited degree in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture in Oregon. The National Architectural Accrediting Board accredits both the undergraduate bachelor of architecture five-year degree and the master of architecture. Other nationally accredited degrees include the planning and public administration, landscape architecture, and interior architecture programs.

College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) covers a large array of departments in the arts and sciences. The creative writing graduate program is nationally recognized as being among the best in the nation—fewer than four percent are admitted out of 400 applicants each year.[4][5]

North facade of the Lillis Business Complex.

Charles H. Lundquist College of Business

The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business (LCB) was founded in 1884 and offers programs fields such as accounting, decision sciences, finance, management, and marketing. It is also home to the industry Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, the "premiere sports education and research program in the world."[6] and the University of Oregon Investment Group. The College is housed in the Lillis Business Complex.

College of Education

The College of Education was established in 1896 as a branch of the Department of Philosophy and later merged with the Department of Science and Arts in 1900. It wasn't until 1910 that the School of Education was established as an independent college. In 1908, this college was accredited by the Northwest Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.[7] According to the U.S. News & World Report 2008 edition of "America’s Best Graduate Schools," the College of Education ranked 5th overall and 2nd among public universities.[8] For the 8th consecutive year, the UO special education program ranked third in the nation.

Robert D. Clark Honors College

Main article: Robert D. Clark Honors College

The Clark Honors College is a small college intended to complement the existing majors already in place at the university by joining select students and faculty for a low student to teacher ratio (25:1 maximum).[9] Admitted students in 2005 held a mean unweighted GPA of 3.93 and a mean SAT score of 1355 (out of 1600).[10]

School of Journalism and Communication

The School of Journalism and Communication is one of the oldest journalism schools in the United States,[11] beginning as a department in 1912 and later becoming a professional school 1916, receiving accreditation from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.[12] It currently runs the Oregon Documentary Project and Flux magazine, a student-produced publication. Eight of the nine Pulitzer Prize winners from the University of Oregon graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication.[13] It also awards the annual Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.

School of Law

Main article: University of Oregon School of Law

The School of Law was formed in 1884 in Portland and relocated to Eugene in 1915.[14] It was admitted into the Association of American Law Schools in 1919 and received accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1923.[15]

School of Music and Dance

The School of Music and Dance was initially just the Department of Music in 1886, and developed into the School of Music in 1900. It was admitted to the National Association of Schools of Music in 1928. The school offers over 20 ensembles in vocal and instrumental music, giving approximately 200 public performances a year.[16] Renamed in 2005, the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building is the physical home of the school, named after current University of Oregon President Frohnmayer's mother, a 1932 alumna of the School.[17] Beall Concert Hall, the primary performance hall within the school, was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence.[18]

Library system

North facade of the Knight Library

The multi-branch University of Oregon Libraries serves the campus with library collections, instruction and reference, and a wide variety of educational technology and media services. The UO is Oregon's only member of the Association of Research Libraries. The main branch, Knight Library, houses humanities and social sciences, Learning Commons, Music Services, Government Publications, Maps and Aerial Photos, Special Collections & University Archives, Media Services, and the Center for Educational Technologies. Other branch locations are the Architecture and Allied Arts Library, the Portland Architecture Library, the John E. Jaqua Law Library, the Science Library, the Mathematics Library, and the Loyd & Dorothy Rippey Library at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.

The UO Libraries hosts Scholars' Bank, an open access (OA) digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of the University of Oregon. Scholars' Bank uses the open-source DSpace software developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard.

The Libraries' Educational Video Group maintains the UO Channel, which uses streaming media to provide access to campus lectures, interviews, performances, symposia, and documentary productions.

The UO is the founding member and host of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, a consortium of academic and research libraries in Oregon and Washington. The combined collections of the Alliance exceed 20 million volumes and can be searched via the Summit union catalog.

Campus

Main article: University of Oregon campus
Campus trees.

The campus is spread over 295 acres and holds sixty major buildings,[19] as well as providing a home for more than 500 varieties of trees.[20] Eugene is located near many prominent geographic features such as the Willamette River, Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Also within a two-hour drive is the Portland metropolitan area.

Based on Ellis F. Lawrence's vision, many of the University's buildings are planned around several major quadrangles, many of which interact with the pedestrian 13th Street.[21] The university is known for being the site of a pioneering participatory planning experiment known as the Oregon Experiment, which is also the subject of a book of the same name that evolved into the well known book A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. The two major principles of the project are that buildings should be designed, in part, by the people who will ultimately use them with the help of an "architect facilitator", and that construction should occur over many small projects as opposed to a few large ones.

Although academic buildings are spread throughout the campus, the majority are located along 13th Street, with heavy pedestrian traffic at the intersection with Kincaid.[22] Student recreation and union centers are located toward the center of the campus, with residence halls on the east side of campus. Sports facilities are grouped in the southern-central part of campus with the Autzen Stadium complex across the Willamette River. The university also owns several satellite facilities, including a block in downtown Portland.

There has also been a push for sustainable buildings on campus with a development plan that requires any new building or renovation to incorporate sustainable design.[23] The Lillis Business Complex was the catalyst for the policy. The building, completed in 2003[24] has earned a LEED Silver rating, the highest rating of any college business building in the United States.

Old campus and memorial quad

Deady Hall

The oldest section of campus is located in the northwest area of the current campus. The university's first building, Deady Hall, opened on October 161876 when the University had an enrollment of 177 students. It was originally known as "the building" before being named after Judge Matthew Deady in 1893. The second building on campus is known as Villard Hall and is home to the Theater Arts Department. Completed in 1886, the hall was named after railroad magnate Henry Villard, who provided financial aid to the university in 1881. Before its naming, it was known as "the new building." Both Deady and Villard Halls were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.[25]

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall

Just south of Old Campus is the Memorial Quad which runs north and south along Kincaid St, capped at both ends by the main campus library, Knight Library on the south side and the Lillis Business Complex on the north. It is flanked by Prince Lucien Campbell Hall on the west, which is the tallest building on campus, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the east, which was remodeled and reopened on January 23, 2005. Also adjacent to Memorial Quad is Chapman Hall, which houses the Robert D. Clark Honors College on its third floor.

Central campus

Johnson Hall

The center of campus houses a mixture of academic buildings, an administration building, and student recreation buildings. Just to the west of Memorial quad, facing 13th St is Johnson Hall where offices for higher administration and trustee offices are found, including the offices of the University President. Directly across 13th St, facing Johnson Hall is the Pioneer statue, a likeness of a bearded, buckskin-clad pioneer cast in bronze by sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor in 1919.[26] In 1932, Proctor's "Pioneer Mother" statue was dedicated in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle on the other side of Johnson Hall; the two statues are aligned so that they can "see" one another through the large windows of the hall's main floor.

Lawrence hall is located at the end of hardscape walkway, directly north of the intersection of 13th and University. It houses the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and is named after its first Dean, Ellis F. Lawrence in 1957.[27] Allen Hall, opened in 1954, is located adjacent to Lawrence Hall and houses the School of Journalism and Communication.[28]

The Erb Memorial Union is the student union, which provides many various student life amenities and sits on the southeast corner of 13th and University. It contains a food court, restaurants and cafes, a post office, student groups, meeting rooms and performance spaces, the campus radio station 88.1 KWVA, and offices for administration.

South of the Erb Memorial Union across a small quad is the Student Recreational Center which is an exercise and recreation facility. It includes fitness equipment, rock climbing walls, a swimming pool, racquetball courts, an indoor elevated running track and basketball courts. Covered tennis courts and several turf fields, and outdoor tennis courts within a running track are located near the recreation center.

Integrative Science Complex and east campus

The Integrative Science Complex comprises multiple science buildings to the east of Lawrence Hall, on the north side of 13th Street. Willamette Hall's Paul Olum atrium is the center of the university's hard sciences complex. The construction of the $45.6 million additions of Willamette, Cascade, and Streisinger Halls to the complex was completed in 1989.[29] The Lokey Laboratories houses the Nanoscience Research Center and was dedicated to Lorry I. Lokey in February 19, 2008 for his $25 million donation toward the project.[30] It is located underground to minimize vibrations, beneath the quad between Heustis and Deschutes Halls.

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Oregon Hall

East campus is the primary location for residence halls on campus. However, the north edge of east campus is the future home of the Alumni Center and the new basketball arena. Already at the north edge adjacent to the Science Complex is Oregon Hall, which houses administrative offices including the Office of the Registrar and Office of Admissions.

Carson Hall, located near the Erb Memorial Union, provides dining services and a mail room along with dormitories. Just south is the Living-Learning Center, opened in 2006. It is a collection of functions including dormitories, classrooms, study areas, dining rooms, and recreational rooms to provide a single location for many student activities.[31]

South campus

The center of south campus is where much of the on-campus athletic facilities reside. McArthur Court, the home of the Ducks basketball team sits just south of the Recreation Center. Hayward Field, home to the Ducks track and field program, sits in the eastern area of the athletic facilities. It has hosted a number of prominent track and field events such as the US Track and Field Olympic Trials, the NCAA Track and Field Championships, and USATF Championships.[32]

To the west of the athletic facilities lies Pioneer Cemetery and further west is where the current facilities for the College of Education exists, in the southwest corner of campus. The Education Annex and the Frohnmayer Music Center in the vicinity are expected to be completed in 2008. The Knight Law Center is located just opposite of Hayward Field in the southeast corner of campus. Also in the area are the Many Nations Longhouse and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Other Areas and Satellites

The Riverfront Research Park is a small facility maintained by the university, located across Franklin Boulevard from the main campus, next to the Willamette River. The park is used for creating new technologies, such as research about artificial intelligence at the Computational Intelligence Research Lab, and it is the home of the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), the zebrafish model organism database.

The complex for the Ducks football team is located north across the Willamette River. It includes the football stadium (Autzen Stadium), an indoor practice football field (Moshofsky Center), an outdoor practice field (Kilkenny Field), and a center including offices, locker rooms, weight rooms, a film review theater, and a treatment center (Casanova Center). A baseball stadium is planned to be built on the parking lot of Autzen Stadium.

The university also owns and operates a Center in downtown Portland in the Willamette Block Building. It provides an urban study environment for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Law, and the College of Business.[33]

University media

Main article: University of Oregon Media

The University of Oregon has a diverse array of student-run and student-created media, including the Oregon Daily Emerald, the Oregon Voice, the Oregon Commentator and the Insurgent. The University is also home of two radio station: KWAX and KWVA.


Athletics

Main article: Oregon Ducks

The University of Oregon is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference and Division I-A of the NCAA. The athletic programs have garnered 14 NCAA team championships,[34] as well as 60 NCAA individual champions in various track and field events.[35] The two primary rivals of the Oregon Ducks football team are the Washington Huskies and the Oregon State Beavers. The football rivalry with Oregon State University is one of the nation's oldest, known as the "Civil War". Every year, the two teams face off in the last game of the regular season. The two teams have faced each other nearly every year since 1894 with the exception of five years. Games were not held in 1900, 1901, 1911, 1943, and 1944.[36]

Not including club sports, the university competes in 14 sports: football, men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, track and field, baseball, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse, and women’s volleyball.

With 12 NCAA championships between them, cross country and track and field are the two programs at the university that have enjoyed the most success. The programs have produced many world-class athletes including Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar. Nike had been formed by the former track and field head coach Bill Bowerman and former University of Oregon track runner Phil Knight. The successes of the programs have given the name of Track Town, USA to Eugene.

Created in 1893, the football team played its first game in 1894 and won its first Rose Bowl in 1917 against the University of Pennsylvania. Then nicknamed the “Tall Firs”, the men's basketball team won the first-ever NCAA basketball tournament in 1939, defeating Ohio State in the championship game.[37]

Originally recognized as an official sport at the university in 1908, baseball was disbanded in 1981 due to concerns with Title IX. In 2007, the athletic director Patrick Kilkenny announced plans to reinstate baseball and to drop wrestling while adding women’s competitive cheer.

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UO Athletics Logo

The mascot of the University of Oregon is the fighting duck. The popular Disney character Donald Duck has been the mascot for decades, thanks to a handshake agreement made between Leo Harris and Walt Disney in 1947.[38] The mascot has been challenged more than a few times in its lifetime. The first came in 1966 when Walt Disney died and the company realized there was no formal contract written for the use of Donald’s image. A formal contract was written up in 1973.[38] Potential heirs Mallard Drake and Mandrake challenged Donald’s position in 1978 and 2003 respectively,[38][39] though both were unpopular and discontinued.

The fight song is ‘’Mighty Oregon’’, written by a student in 1916 though it has undergone several changes since its original performance.[40]

Academic co-curriculars

Forensics

In addition to its athletic teams, the university also has a competitive intercollegiate Speech and Debate team, directed by professor of rhetoric David Frank.[citation needed] The University of Oregon Forensics program was founded in 1876, at the same time as the university. Initially the program consisted of two student-formed forensic societies, which developed into "doughnut league" inter-dorm competitions in the 1890s. In 1891, the UO began intercollegiate competition with a debate on the topic of labor against Willamette University in nearby Salem. Forensics continued to grow as a staple of the university's community and by 1911, the team was so successful that they could charge admission to debates.[citation needed] Money raised during these events was often donated to the fledgling University of Oregon football program.

Parliamentary debate was integrated into UO Forensics in 1998-99 and the team has been competitive since. In 2001, the UO's Alan Tauber and Heidi Ford claimed a national title, winning the first ever National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE). In 2003, Damon Martichuski and Kevin Stone finished in the country's top four, finally losing in the semi-finals at the formidable National Parliamentary Debate Association National Tournament. In 2008, the team of Ben Dodds and Jon McCabe, made it to finals at the NPDA National Tournament in 2008.

As of 2007, the team is coached by Aaron Donaldson, who debated for Carroll College 1999-2003, and Luke Landry, who won the 2007 NPTE while debating for William Jewell College. In the 2006-2007 season, the team won first place in the Northwest Forensics Conference's overall sweepstakes, due to regularly strong showings in both individual events and parliamentary debate.

Notable alumni

Main article: Notable University of Oregon Alumni

In popular culture

The film National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was filmed on the university campus and the surrounding area. The building used as the exterior of the Delta House (which belonged to the University of Oregon Phi Sigma Kappa chapter) was demolished in 1986, but the interior scenes were shot in the Sigma Nu house, which still stands today. The Omega house belonged to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and still stands today. The sorority house, where Bluto climbs the ladder to peek in on the coeds, was actually the exterior of the Sigma Nu fraternity.[1] Other buildings that were used during filming include Johnson Hall, Gerlinger Hall, Fenton Hall, Carson Hall, and the Erb Memorial Union, in which the Fishbowl was the site of the famous food-fight scene. The Knight Library and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art can also be seen in the movie. Other films shot at the university include Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Five Easy Pieces (1971), Stand By Me – shot primarily in nearby Brownsville, Oregon (1986), and Without Limits (1998).[41]

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  10. ^ Fact Sheet: Admissions: Clark Honors College
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  12. ^ "Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications ~ List of Accredited Programs".
  13. ^ "Campaign Oregon ~School of Journalism: Great Beginnings".
  14. ^ History - University of Oregon
  15. ^ http://www.law.uoregon.edu/prospective/history.php
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  19. ^ About the UO - University of Oregon
  20. ^ Office of University Planning (1996). University of Oregon Atlas of Trees. University of Oregon Books. ISBN 0871142937.
  21. ^ http://www.uoregon.edu/~uplan/CampusPlan/CampusPlan1991/1991_LRDPIntro.pdf (PDF)
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  23. ^ http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/BUS/docs/UofO.pdf (PDF)
  24. ^ LCB News
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  31. ^ Living Learning Center: LLC 2006
  32. ^ Track & Field - Track Town Info - GoDucks.com—The University of Oregon Official Athletics Web Site
  33. ^ http://pdx.uoregon.edu/?p=directions UO Portland
  34. ^ Schools with the Most NCAA Championships
  35. ^ Leadership and Legacy - Athletics and the University of Oregon | Topics
  36. ^ OSU Alumni Association - Greatest Civil War
  37. ^ Leadership and Legacy - Athletics and the University of Oregon | Timeline
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  40. ^ Neuman, Steven (November 13, 2006). "'Mighty Oregon' sings of the past". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
  41. ^ "ACME Animal House Film Locations".

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