Willamette University
Willamette University | |
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motto | Non nobis solum nati sumus |
founding | 1842 |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Salem , Oregon , USA |
president | Stephen E. Thorsett |
Students | approx. 2,800 |
Employee | 870 |
including professors | 370 |
Annual budget | approximately $ 124 million |
Foundation assets | approximately $ 230 million |
University sports | NCAA Division III Northwest Conference |
Website | www.willamette.edu |
The Willamette University is a private university in Salem , the capital of the US state of Oregon . The university has about 2,500 students, of which about 700 are in postgraduate programs. The university has faculties for art, law, economics and teacher training.
history
The university describes itself as the first university in the US American region West , it traces its history back to a high school founded in 1842 for the children of local missionaries and settlers, which has called itself a university since 1853, initially Wallamet University . Founded in 1883, the law school is the oldest in the Pacific Northwest , and the medical school now merged with the University of Oregon was also the first in the region.
Well-known graduates
- Jay Bowerman 13th Governor of Oregon
- Sam Farr , politician
- Theodore Thurston Geer , tenth governor of the state of Oregon
- Melvin Clark George , politician
- Edith Green , politician
- Mark Hatfield , 29th Governor of Oregon
- Willis C. Hawley , politician and President of the University from 1893 to 1902
- Matthew Hindman , political scientist
- Fern Hobbs
- Jay Inslee , politician
- Harry Lane , politician
- Richard Laymon , horror novelist
- Conde McCullough , civil engineer
- Lisa Murkowski , American politician
- James W. Mott , politician
- Merrill Moores , politician
- Dale Mortensen , Nobel Prize in Economics 2010
- Bob Packwood , politician
- Frederick Schwatka , United States Army lieutenant and explorer in Alaska and Canada
- Vic Snyder , politician
- Dick Weisgerber , American football player
- Richard Williams , politician
- John N. Williamson , politician
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Willamette University: University Quick Facts (English). Accessed November 11, 2011
- ^ Willamette University: History of Willamette (English). Accessed November 11, 2011
Coordinates: 44 ° 56 '9 " N , 123 ° 1' 53" W.