Peace studies began at the University of Portland in 1975. Fr. Joseph Powers, C.S.C., the then Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, acting as impresario. This program of Interdisciplinary Studies was at first an academic concentration terminating in a certificate, it continues today as the Social Justice Minor, a program of undergraduate study. […]
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Campus Archaeology: On the Shoulders of Giants
At the completion of Dundon-Berchtold Hall landscaping is one of the final phases, squaring off the green-space-quad joining Dundon-Berchtold, Romanaggi, Swindells, and Waldschmidt Halls. While scraping away gravel and going some inches below the top layer of grass and soil when dressing what has been the construction-workers’ staging site, the excavators excavated an unexpected find. […]
2019 Retiring Faculty
At the end of the 2018-19 academic year, four 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 […]
Brushes with Fame: Buzz Aldrin
Fifty years ago during the summer of 1969 human-space flight reached, and humans walked on, the surface of the moon. The next year we scored the SECOND person to walk the lunar trail as UP commencement speaker. Not Neil Armstrong, but Buzz Aldrin spoke to the 1970 graduation class, commissioned the new AFROTC cadets, and […]
Buckley Center at 50
Buckley Center is fifty years old, dedicated February 7, 1969. When new, Buckley Center met a major need on the UP campus for faculty office space, general-use classrooms, and nursing and communications labs. The Alumni Bulletin (January 1969) touted the advantages of the new faculty and classroom building, “a modern facility in every sense of the […]
Pilot Potpourri
These four figures are found around campus – inside or outside, for better or for worse. No judgement here. Just the question, can anyone identify them? Sort of a trivia / treasure hunt tour of campus. Location anyone? Take a look, each tells a (forgotten) story from UP history. A. Figure Striding, The Beacon October […]
Four Corners meet at the Center
A University is a cross-roads and intersection. We mix intellectual disciplines in Schools of Business, Engineering, Nursing, Education, Arts and Sciences and hold to core competencies in the education of every student moving forward toward a University of Portland degree. We also mix and meet a diversity of students. The life-experiences and the family, geographic, […]
Dr. Art Schulte: A Life on the Bluff
Dr. Art Schulte, arrived in 1958, appointed Instructor in Business Administration; retired 1996, appointed Executive Vice President Emeritus and Special Assistant to the President. A good and faithful servant.
In Memory: Dr. Arthur Schulte, Jr., March 15, 1928 – September 24, 2018
Dr. Arthur A. Schulte, Jr., died September 24, 2018 at age ninety in his sixtieth year as a Pilot. Which is not to say that his priorities were strange, though there is a hint of madness topping the list when asked in 1998 how he would choose to be remembered and Dr. Schulte confessed: “Well, […]
Spires of Learning Reach Up to the Sky
In our earliest documents, when the University Catalogue describes the situation and advantages of the young University it hits grace notes that are still found in the words of the Alma Mater (Upon the Bluff, high over the Willamette. . ..) The basic text from 1902 – alongside course offerings, program sequences, fees and tuition […]
Welcome to College
The fashions and rituals of the First Day of School at UP have repeatedly changed through the years since 1901 when Fr. Edward Murphy, our first president, uttered the auspicious and memorable phrase, ‘I guess we should start. Ring the bell.’ (https://sites.up.edu/upbeat/from-our-past-first-first-day-of-school-sept-2-1901/); see James Covert, A Point of Pride: The University of Portland Story: p. […]
Rose Festival Parade at 110
Summers in the city of Portland have temperate temperatures and sporadic spats of rain, or not. Yet regardless of the weather, for over a century June in the City of Portland means the Rose Festival, highlighted by the Grand Floral Parade. For the 50th anniversary, the 1958 Rose Parade called for the featured floats to […]
Thank you Bill Reed
Bill Reed, Director of University Events, will retire this summer after years of service to his alma mater. Bill is rooted on the Bluff. Rooted. Hooked. A fixture. From the simple beginning of coming to UP for college, and then after the usual it-seemed-like-no-time-at-all-flash, graduated in 1972 with a B.A. in Education. And teach he […]
2018 Retiring Faculty
At the end of the 2017-18 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 […]