When exploring past decades of UP life while paging through the Log Yearbook (available in the Clark Library Digital Collections), the vibrant, photo-filled spreads of student dances are sure to jump off the pages — Frosh/Soph Dance, Junior Prom, Senior Prom, Musicians’ Ball, Sweetheart Ball, Military Ball, Biologists Ball, Engineers’ Barn Dance, Homecoming Dance. The […]
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The Bells of UP
The University Bell Tower is the tallest structure on the Bluff. At nine a.m. (the beginning of whose day?) the bells begin to strike, dividing the working hours in stately, measured stages. Standing tall, the Tower recalls the words of the Alma Mater, ‘high over the Willamette, the spires of learning reach up to the […]
International Soccer, 1961
The University of Portland Soccer program has deep roots. The present program has been continuous since 1971, flourishing under coaches drawn from home and abroad (Clive Charles, London, UK; Nick Carlin-Voight, Kalamazoo, MI; Michelle French, Fort Lewis, WA, UP Class of 2000). But it is worth noting that 1971 is more or less the fourth […]
Homecoming Hospitality
Tailgating is coming back to UP! The Athletic department is spotlighting tailgating for five 2025 soccer games this fall. For the sake of soccer, for Homecoming, for gathering together outside office or department, beyond a division, student club, team. Gathering as a group! Gathering for a social event wrapped around a sporting event. Giving PortLog […]
Roots and Growth: from 1905
The 2025 Alumni Reunion is a part of a venerable tradition of the extended UP Community gathering on campus to remember, reconnect, and renew. And because this action has had many forms during the years, formal and informal– Homecoming, Campus Day, Reunion — it is difficult to assign a Series Number to the 2025 Reunion. […]
2025 Retiring Faculty
At the end of the 2024-25 academic year, nine members of the University of Portland faculty will retire after many years of service to this institution and making a difference in the lives of untold numbers of students. The University gives thanks to our retiring faculty for their dedication and commitment to teaching and learning […]
Lost and Overdue
As the center of University of Portland’s academic and research hub, the Clark Library has over 195,000 print volumes, 785,000 eBooks, 128 databases, and over 94,000 online journals, and during the 2023-2024 academic year, over 18,000 items were checked out. During that same period, the library recorded nearly 260,000 encounters with students, faculty, staff, and […]
Campus Buildings, History and Fun Facts
For the University’s 2024 All-Alumni Reunion, a collaborative effort between the Museum, Archives, Digital Lab, Digital Collections, Marketing, and Clark Library created a fun activity for visiting alumni. Yard signs with QR codes were posted outside various buildings to guide visiting alumni. The QR codes connected to a collection of building photographs through the years. […]