During World War Two the UP enrollment numbers crashed. By 1945 we were working with an abbreviated calendar, reduced personnel, and an expanded break between terms. The Commencement exercises of May 27, 1945 bestowed degrees on 32 graduates, of whom 23 were Nursing students, and included four others who received their diplomas in absentia because […]
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Women’s First: Engineering
One picturesque, often employed image used by the University Museum shows a nun in full habit posed behind surveying equipment, with the caption “First woman to enroll in the School of Engineering”. The juxtaposition claims a viewer’s attention. Who is this nun? And what brought her to UP? She is Sr. M. Hildegarde, O.S.B. (Order […]
Taste of UP for Families
The first (annual) Junior & Senior Parents Weekend was 1-3 November 2019. There was food, there was a soccer game, there were Q & A’s with the President and School Deans, there was a social flavor to the whole event. A new and old initiative by the office of Alumni & Parent Relations. In fact, […]
Prophecy and Visions
In the 1940s and 1950s many Humanities majors harbored Law School ASPIRATIONS. Liberal Arts universities can suffer out-sized ambitions too. In the years immediately following World War II, as response and answer to the needs of returned Veterans, surging enrollment had the University of Portland dreaming big dreams. The 1949 State of the University Address […]
The Bells Are Ringing
The classic timepiece with hour and minute-hand worn around the wrist has all but disappeared. Replaced by multi-function cell phones, activity trackers, and smart watches that not only tell time but record steps, spent calories, heart-rate, and more. And while subjective-time differs according to setting and activity (crushing a weight machine in the Beauchamp or […]
In Memory: Rev. Claude A. Pomerleau, C.S.C., August 16, 1938 – July 21, 2019
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. […]
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, […]