Pacific University

Pacific University is a private university in Forest Grove, Oregon. Founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy, the university's original Forest Grove campus is 23 miles (37 km) west of Portland. The university maintains three other campuses in the cities of Eugene, Hillsboro, and Woodburn, and has an enrollment of more than 4,000 students.

Pacific University
Other name
Pacific University Oregon
Former names
DeKeyser Institute of Optometry
North Pacific College of Optometry
Oregon College of Ocular Sciences
Tualatin Academy
Motto
Pro Christo et Regno Ejus
Motto in English
For Christ and His Kingdom
TypePrivate
Established1849 (1849)
FounderTabitha Moffatt Brown & Rev. Harvey Clark[1]
Endowment$74 million[2]
PresidentLesley Hallick
ProvostJohn S. Miller
Academic staff
350[3]
Undergraduates1,900
Postgraduates2,000
Location
Forest Grove
,
Oregon
,
United States

45°31′16″N 123°6′29″W
CampusSuburban
ColorsBoxer Red & Boxer Black
         
NicknameBoxers
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – Northwest Conference
MascotBoxer
Websitepacificu.edu

History
Marsh Hall

Tabitha Moffatt Brown, a pioneer emigrant from Massachusetts, immigrated to the Oregon Country over the new Applegate Trail in 1846.[4] After arriving in Oregon she helped to start an orphanage and school along with Rev. Harvey L. Clark in Forest Grove in 1847 to care for the orphans of Applegate Trail party.[4][5][6] In March 1848, Tualatin Academy was established from the orphanage with Clark donating 200 acres (80.9 ha) to the school.[6] George H. Atkinson had advocated the founding of the school and with support of the Presbyterians and Congregationalists helped to start the academy.[5] Eliza Hart Spalding, part of the Whitman Mission, was its first teacher. Although the university has long been independent of their founding affiliation with the United Church of Christ (UCC), it still maintains a close working relationship with the church as a member of the United Church of Christ Council for Higher Education.

The academy was officially chartered by the territorial legislature on September 29, 1849.[5][7] The reverend Clark served as the first president of the board of trustees and later donated an additional 150 acres (60.7 ha) to the institution.[7] In 1851, what is now Old College Hall was built and in 1853 Sidney H. Marsh became the school's first president.[5] The current campus was deeded in 1851.[8] In 1854, the institution became Pacific University.[6] The first commencement occurred in 1863 with Harvey W. Scott as the only graduate.[5] In 1872, three Japanese students started at the university as part of that country's modernization movement, with all three graduating in 1876.[5] These students were Hatstara Tamura, Kin Saito, and Yei Nosea.[5] President Marsh died in 1879 and was replaced by John R. Herrick.[7]

Marsh Hall was built in 1895 and named for Pacific's first president, serving as the central building on Pacific's campus. Carnegie Library (now Carnegie Hall) opened in 1912 after Andrew Carnegie's foundation helped finance the brick structure.[9] The library was designed by Portland architecture firm Whidden and Lewis.[10] In 1915, the preparatory department, Tualatin Academy, closed due to the proliferation of public high schools in the state.[7] By 1920, the school had grown to a total of five buildings on 30 acres (12.1 ha) and had an endowment of approximately $250,000.[7]

Marsh Hall was gutted by fire in 1975, but its shell was preserved, and the structure reopened in 1977. Dr. Phillip D. Creighton became Pacific's sixteenth president in August 2003 and retired in June 2009.[11] Tommy Thayer, lead guitarist of the band KISS, was elected to the university's board of trustees in 2005.[12] Pacific's seventeenth president, Dr. Lesley M. Hallick, was named on May 19, 2009.[13]

Mascot

In the late 1890s, a bronze Chinese statue was gifted to the university in 1896 by alumnus Rev. J.E. Walker, who was a missionary to China, and by his mother.[14] Qilin (pronounced chee-lin or ki-rin) is a mythical Chinese creature with a lion-like stance, a unicorn-like horn, and deer or ox hooves from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). During this period, qilin were often represented with a dragon head, fish scales, ox hooves and a lion's tail. Said to be a good omen of wisdom and prosperity, the Pacific qilin was nicknamed Boxer by its Chinese and Japanese students as an embodiment of the community's cultural diversity.[14]

In the first half of the twentieth century, the original mascot was the center of informal "Boxer Toss" events, where different clubs and groups would scrimmage for the statue as a tradition of passing its care from one group to another.[15] In 1968, Boxer became the official mascot of the university to replace Benny Badger.[14] The following year, the statue disappeared entirely, and only small pieces of have returned over the years. In the 1980s, the statue was recast as Boxer II; after supposedly enjoying an epic road trip across America, it too disappeared in the mid-2000s.[16]

In 2006, the university commissioned a 12-foot tall sculpture to replace the missing Boxers, which now stands in a central park welcoming students to the residence halls.[14] Shortly thereafter, parts of the original Boxer statue were returned to the university by an alumnus in 2012.[14] In 2018, alumni funded the design and casting of Boxer III by artist Pat Costello, unveiled during Homecoming weekend. Kept in trust as part of the university's art collection, the statue and exhibits on its cultural and community history are on display in the Tran Library.[16]

Academics
Performing Arts Center

Pacific is home to 5 colleges offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.

College of Arts & Sciences

Organized into 3 schools—Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences—the college offers over sixty undergraduate degree options, including unique options in Asia-Pacific Studies, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing, Music Therapy, Outdoor Leadership, Nonprofit Leadership, Social Work, and a suite of sustainability-centered art and science programs. The low-residency Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program, one of the earliest in the nation having begun in 2004, has been ranked by Poets & Writers magazine as one of the top five low-residency MFA programs in the United States every year in which rankings were established.[17] Pacific also opened a Master of Social Work program, based in Eugene, in 2014.[18]

College of Business

One of the newest colleges, founded in 2013, it offers Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, International Business, and Marketing, as well as an MBA.[19]

College of Education

In 1994, the School of Education, now the College of Education, was established through reorganization of the professional teacher education programs that had been part of the College of Arts and Sciences.[20] In 2004, the College of Health Professions was formed, now including 4 undergraduate programs in Education & Learning, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Teaching & English Language Learning (BEd), and Communication Sciences & Disorders; and 7 graduate programs comprising Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Master of Arts in Education (MAEd), Master of Education (MEd), Visual Function in Learning (MEd), Education & Leadership (PhD), Communication Sciences & Disorders (Post-Bacc), and Speech-Language Pathology (MS).

College of Health Professions
Further information: Pacific University Health Professions Campus

Founded in 2006 (though several of its programs date back further), the College includes 13 different degree programs—Applied Psychological Science (MA), Athletic Training (MSAT), Audiology (AuD), Clinical Psychology (PhD/PsyD), Dental Hygiene (BS), Education & Leadership (PhD), Health Science (BHS), Healthcare Administration (MHA), Occupational Therapy (OTD), Pharmacy (PharmD), Physical Therapy (DPT), Physician Assistant Studies (MS)—as well as a certification in Gerontology. Most courses and clinics are located on the Hillsboro campus, where the curricula focuses on interprofessional cooperation, and students gain practice in caring for underserved populations.[21]

College of Optometry

One of the oldest colleges, programs include Optometry (OD), Vision Science (BS/MS/PhD), Applied Vision Science (BAVS), and Visual Function in Learning (MEd). The College is one of 21 schools in the United States and Canada offering a doctorate in optometry.[22] Pacific's program dates back to 1945, when Pacific merged with the North Pacific College of Optometry. Pacific's College of Optometry also offers a master of vision science degree and operates eye clinic and eyeglass dispensaries in communities throughout the Portland area.[23]

Campuses
Carnegie Hall

Pacific University is located on four campuses across the state of Oregon in the cities of Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Eugene, and Woodburn.[24] It also maintains satellite locations in downtown Portland and Honolulu, Hawai'i. Pacific's Eugene Campus is a single building which houses a portion of the College of Education; in 2013, Pacific opened a campus in Woodburn to provide further undergraduate and graduate programs in Education.

Forest Grove

The Forest Grove Campus features several historic buildings. Old College Hall is the oldest educational building west of the Mississippi and today serves as Pacific University's museum.[25] Carnegie Hall, the university's first dedicated library building, was constructed in 1912 and today is home to the undergraduate Psychology Department.[26] Marsh Hall, at the center of campus, houses several classrooms and faculty offices, in addition to administrative offices and a small auditorium. The Forest Grove Campus opened a new residence hall, Cascade Hall, in 2014.[27]

The Forest Grove Campus is home to a number os sustainability initiatives in its infrastructure, earning a Silver Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating in 2019.[28] There are several buildings with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, including the Tim and Cathy Tran library, built in 2005 and remodeled with more study rooms and makers space in 2019. The LEED-certified Berglund Hall,[29] houses the College of Education and a community preschool, and the additional LEED Gold-certified residence halls, Burlingham and Gilbert.[30]

The Bill & Cathy Stoller Center is home to all of the university's intercollegiate athletic teams, athletic offices and the Department of Exercise Science. It features more than 95,000 square feet of floor space, including team rooms, locker rooms, classrooms, a wood-floor gymnasium, a weight and fitness center and the Fieldhouse, the first indoor practice area in the Northwest Conference and the only one with FieldTurf.[31] Outside the Stoller Center is the entrance to Hanson Stadium, which includes a FieldTurf soccer, lacrosse and football surface, a nine-lane track and grandstands.[32] A new roof was built to cover the stadium grandstands in 2014.[33] The stadium is part of the Lincoln Park Athletic Complex, built in 2008, which also houses the baseball complex, Chuck Bafaro Stadium at Bond Field, the softball complex, Sherman/Larkins Stadium, and natural grass fields for soccer and track throwing events, and is part of the City of Forest Grove's Lincoln Park, also home to a fitness trail, playground equipment, a BMX course, a skateboard park and picnic areas.[34]

Hillsboro

The Hillsboro Campus opened in 2006 with its first building, a five-story LEED Gold-certified building in Hillsboro in 2006,[35] which was dedicated as Creighton Hall.[36] A second building, known as HPC2 and also LEED-certified, opened in 2010.[37] The campus is part of the Hillsboro Health & Education District and is adjacent to the MAX light rail line. Currently home primarily to Pacific University's College of Health Professions, the campus houses several masters- and doctorate-level programs in Health Professions, as well as clinics, open to the public, for audiology, dental hygiene, physical therapy and professional psychology, as well as an interdisciplinary diabetes clinic and an eye clinic run by the Pacific University College of Optometry. The Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center also has a clinic and pharmacy on site.[21]

Eugene

The Eugene Campus opened in 1992 offering undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. In 2014, the College of Arts & Sciences added a master of social work (MSW) program to the site.

Woodburn

Located in one of the most diverse and fast-growing communities in Oregon, the Campus opened in 2012 to offer professional pathways in education with a focus on STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and teaching diverse students. The 5,000 square foot, 14-room Victorian home of Woodburn founder, nurseryman Jesse Settlemier's, is the heart of two degree programs in Education.

Portland

The MFA in Writing program maintains an office in Portland's Pearl District in the period between residencies—during winter held at Seaside, Oregon and in the summer in Forest Grove, Oregon. In addition, 6 locations of the Optometry college-affiliated Pacific Eye Clinic and a mobile unit are dispersed across the Portland-metro area.[38]

180° panorama of the campus in Forest Grove

Student life

Media

In part due to its proximity to the arts scene in Portland, the campus has a thriving writing and performance community.

Radio
  • Boxer Radio: The Sound of Pacific

Publications

In addition to Pacific University Press and its two imprints founded in 2015, Tualatin Books and 1849 Editions, campus-based print publications include

  • Heart of Oak, an annual yearbook (1894–)
  • IJURCA: International Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities, a peer-reviewed, open-access research journal (2010–)
  • The Pacific Index, the student newspaper (1893–)
  • PLUM: Pacific's Literature by Undergraduate's Magazine and writing prizes (2007–)
  • PU Stinker, a humor magazine (1948–1954)
  • Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads, an internationally-distributed literary magazine (2006–)

Greek life
A. C. Gilbert as a young fraternity man at Pacific University in 1902

All of the Greek societies at Pacific University are "local", meaning that they are unique to the campus.[39]

Academic Societies

Fraternities
  • ГΣ - Gamma Sigma (inactive)
  • ΑΖ - Alpha Zeta (inactive)
  • ΠΚΡ - Pi Kappa Rho

Sororities
  • ΑΚΔ - Alpha Kappa Delta
  • ΘΝΑ - Theta Nu Alpha
  • ΦΛΟ - Phi Lambda Omicron

Diaternities
  • ΔΧΔ - Delta Chi Delta

Athletics

Pacific was one of the founding members of the Northwest Conference in 1926. Today, men compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and wrestling. Women's programs include basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, rowing, softball, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and wrestling.

Pacific's women's wrestling program is one of just five varsity programs sponsored by a college in the United States.[40] The team competed as part of the women's division of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association, which began competition in 2007.

One of the most decorated sports at Pacific is handball, begun in 1977 under English Professor Michael Steele. Since 1981, the Boxers have appeared in 39 consecutive collegiate national tournaments and captured numerous individual and team national championships. In 2019, the team added 5 more national titles to its record at the United States Handball Association National Collegiate Championships.[41]

In addition to the amenities of the Stoller Center and Lincoln Park Athletic Complex, Pacific also has indoor and outdoor tennis courts [42] on campus and shares a competition-size pool with the City of Forest Grove.[43]

Reputation

Rankings
University rankings
Regional
U.S. News & World Report[44] 21
Master's University class
Washington Monthly[45] 219

Notable people

Faculty

Pacific's undergraduate faculty includes Jules Boykoff, a political scientist, poet, and activist focusing on the politics of the Olympic games. The MFA faculty has including award-winning writers such as Kwame Dawes, Tyehimba Jess, Dorianne Laux, Marvin Bell, Ellen Bass, and Garth Greenwell, among others.

Alumni

Film Location

Due to the year-round warm weather and idyllic Pacific Northwest greenery made famous in Twin Peaks, Stand By Me, The Goonies, and the Twilight films, Pacific is regularly used as a shooting location for television serials. Described as a ″a picture perfect little town,″[50] works have included

gollark: Except the mobile phone system, which seems to be a horrible convoluted insecure mess.
gollark: Really, users are the weakest point of lots of technological stuff.
gollark: I've heard of that and vaguely looked at using it, but the server stuff still seems very WIP.
gollark: Although Discord has giant servers now, so good luck leaving without missing tons of stuff!
gollark: If you want to move off Facebook you'll probably worry about losing contact with 293848 people you don't have anywhere else, if you want to move off Skype you might just have something like 5 people in a group with you.

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