Each year the University of Portland is able to tout the quality and promise of the arriving First Year class. Each year the University is at pains to distinguish that our measure of ‘quality’ is not derived from GPAs or SAT test scores (http://www.up.edu/admissions/default.aspx?cid=10642&pid=2165; http://www.up.edu/shownews.aspx?id=5211). The University of Portland’s measure is the whole person, and that person’s character in academics, community, and service. Here is an announcement from 50 years ago, sent out in the Alumni Bulletin reflecting on the qualities and measure of the Pilots who had arrived in the fall of 1965.
