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Together with university leaders, the Oregon State University Foundation publicly launched Oregon State's first comprehensive fundraising campaign, The Campaign for OSU, on October 26, 2007, with a goal of $625 million. [52] Donors exceeded the goal in October 2010 nearly a year ahead of schedule, resulting in a goal increase to $850 million.
The largest university in the state is Oregon State University (OSU), with an enrollment of just over 36,000 (2023). [3] OSU has branch campuses in Portland, Bend and Newport. The largest institution of higher education in the state is Portland Community College, based in Southwest Portland. The college serves the state's largest metropolitan ...
Oregon State University's College of Liberal Arts is a liberal arts college at Oregon State University. The college is located on the Corvallis, Oregon main campus and offers students 66 academic programs. [2] The college of liberal arts awarded just over a thousand undergraduate degrees in 2023, the second most of OSU colleges. [3]
This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...
The OSU-Cascades campus in Bend, OR. In August 2012, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education approved OSU's plan to expand the campus into a four-year school. [3] Oregon State University planned to add freshman and sophomore level classes to the Cascades campus as early as 2015, though it was not decided if the current location would be used or if a new campus would be built. [3]
The college was founded in 1932 as the Oregon State University School of Science. The creation of the college came as a result of a statewide reorganization of the Oregon State System of Higher Education in the same year. [6] OSU paleontologist Earl L. Packard became the first dean that year. However, science coursework dates back much earlier ...
The Oregon State Beavers football team represents Oregon State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team first fielded an organized football team in 1893 [2] and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Their home games are played at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon.
Shortly after Oregon was established, state leaders secured federal funding from the Morrill Land-Grant Acts to support the school, making it Oregon's designated agricultural college. Since its inception, Oregon's first public college has seen over 20 presidents and transformed from a single building to a 577 acres (2.34 km 2 ) campus with over ...