Lewis & Clark College
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| Motto | Explorare, Discere, Sociare (to explore, to learn, to work together) |
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| Established | 1867 |
| Type | Private |
| Endowment | $180.5 million NACUBO |
| President | Thomas J. Hochstettler |
| Staff | 212 (Full Time) |
| Undergraduates | 1,964 (fall 2005) |
| Postgraduates | 1,469 (fall 2005) |
| Location | Portland, OR, USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Mascot | Pioneers |
| Website | www.lclark.edu |
Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. It was founded as the Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867 in the town of Albany, 65 miles south of Portland by Willamette Valley Presbyterian pioneers, and relocated to Portland in 1938. The College has been coeducational since the first class, which graduated in 1873.
In 1942 the College trustees acquired the Lloyd Frank (of the historic Portland department store Meier & Frank) “Fir Acres” estate in Southwest Portland, and adopted the name Lewis & Clark College as a “symbol of the pioneering spirit that had made and maintained the College.” Today, the three schools of the College and their supporting offices occupy a campus of 137 acres (554,000 m²), centered on the Frank estate on Palatine Hill in the Collins View neighborhood of Southwest Portland.
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[edit] Academics
The three schools of the College include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, and the Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
CAS departments include Art, East Asian Studies, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures (French, Chinese, German, Greek, Spanish, Latin, Russian, and Japanese), History, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Theatre, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science & Mathematics, Environmental Studies, Physics, Communication, Economics, Classical Studies, Gender Studies, International Affairs, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and Academic English Studies.
Lewis & Clark has nationally-regarded programs in Biology, International Affairs, Psychology and Environmental Studies, and several Political Science students have recently received prestigious awards in that field.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Earl Blumenauer ('70, '76), US Representative<ref>http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=494</ref>
- Markie Post ('75), actress<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/102/000025027/</ref>
- Ronald A. Marks ('78), former CIA official<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/marks_ronald.html</ref>
- Serena Cruz ('89), Multnomah County Commissioner<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/cruz.html</ref>
- Monica Lewinsky ('95), presidential paramour<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/~piolog/archive/980123/home.html</ref>
- Ever Carradine ('96), actress<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/carradine.html</ref>
- Genevieve Gorder ('96), television personality<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/chron/class1990sw04.html</ref>
- Myah Moore ('03), Miss Oregon USA 2003<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1040071740.2</ref>
[edit] Notable faculty, staff, and trustees
- Robert B. Pamplin Jr., entrepreneur, philanthropist, trustee<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/trustees/</ref>
- Kim Stafford, writer<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/~krs/</ref>
- William Stafford, poet<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/~lotl/volume5issue5/stafford.html</ref>
- Mary Szybist, poet<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/dept/english/creative.html</ref>
- Vern Rutsala, poet<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/~archives/specialcollections/rutsalapoetry.html</ref>
- Cyrus Partovi, senior lecturer<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/faculty/partovi/</ref>
- Stephen Dow Beckham, historian<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/faculty/beckham/</ref>
- Kellar Autumn, biologist<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/faculty/autumn/</ref>
- Greta Binford, biologist<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/faculty/binford/</ref>
- Robert Mаndel, international relations<ref>http://www.lclark.edu/faculty/mandel/</ref>
[edit] Rankings
- Best Liberal Arts Colleges by US News & World Reports 2007 Ranking
[edit] Housing
All students are required to live on campus for the first two years. Residence complexes include SOA (Stewart-Odell-Akin), Forest, Hartzfeld, Platt-Howard, and Copeland. Residence halls open to all students are Stewart, Odell, Akin, Copeland, Platt West, Platt East, Howard, and the Forest Buildings (Ponderosa, Spruce, Juniper [all-chicks], Manzanita, and Alder). Hartzfeld is nominally an extended quiet-hours community, but is in fact treated as a normal residence hall, barring a majority vote on quiet hours from the residents of specific buildings; it requires sophomore standing or higher to live in. East Hall, Roberts Hall and West Hall are a series of on-campus apartments completed in 2003 and require junior class standing or higher to live in.Department of Residence Life
[edit] Transportation
The college operates shuttle buses between campus and downtown Portland. The most notable of these shuttles travels between the college and Pioneer Square (called the Pio Express, or colloquially The Raz). TriMet line 39 also operates between the college and the Burlingame transit center, where students can transfer to buses to downtown Portland.
First year students are not permitted to have cars on campus, though sophomores, juniors and seniors are allowed to pay for a parking permit. Different permits exist for residential, commuting, and carpool students.
[edit] Trivia
The school originally had The Pirates as its mascot, but changed it to The Pioneers in 1946. The student body is grumbling about the Pioneers, and hopes for a switch back to the more ferocious Pirates.
[edit] References
- Lewis & Clark College (2005). "Academics". Retrieved July 26, 2005.
- Princeton Review (2006). [1]
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[edit] External links
- Lewis and Clark College
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- Graduate School of Education and Counseling
- Lewis and Clark College Alumni
- The Pioneer Log - Lewis & Clark's weekly newspaper
- Associated Students of Lewis & Clark College - Student Government
- Lewis & Clark College Common Data Set Lots of information about the college, all in standardized form.
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