Oregon Graduate Center
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Former names
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Oregon Graduate Center |
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| Motto | Illegitimi non carborundum |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1963 - 2001 |
| Endowment | US $14.8M |
| President | Edward W. Thompson |
| Provost | Paul Clayton |
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Academic staff
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153 (1995) |
| Students | 1100 (1995) |
| Undergraduates | 0 |
| Postgraduates | 1100 |
| Location |
Beaverton-Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. 45°31′58″N 122°52′46″W / 45.532739°N 122.879448°WCoordinates: 45°31′58″N 122°52′46″W / 45.532739°N 122.879448°W |
| Campus | College town, 75 acres (30 ha) |
| Colors | none |
| Athletics | none |
| Sports | none |
| Nickname | none |
| Mascot | none |
| Affiliations | none |
| Website | http://www.ohsu.edu |
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The Oregon Graduate Center was a unique, private, postgraduate-only research university in Washington County, Oregon, on the west side of Portland, from 1963 to 2001. The Center was renamed the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1989. The Institute merged with the state medical college in 2001, and became the OGI School of Science and Engineering within the medical college. The School was discontinued in 2008 and its campus in 2014. Demolition of the campus buildings began February 2017.
The Oregon Graduate Center for Study and Research (OGC) was incorporated on 2 April 1963 as a university at the behest of Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum and the City Club of Portland, with the help of $2M grant from the Tektronix Foundation. Retired physician Samuel L. Diack of the Oregon Medical Research Foundation was named the first chairman of OGC's board of trustees, and Vollum was a board member. Diack is also noted as a founder of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Physicist Donald L. Benedict of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was hired as the first president of OGC in 1966. The original campus, a former Martin Marietta building, was located at 9430 SW Barnes Road near the intersection of Oregon Route 217 and U.S. Route 26 in an unincorporated area just north of Beaverton next to Tek's Sunset facility. Hatfield was unsuccessful in his attempt to get $1.5M in seed funding for OGC from the state legislature. Financial support was an ongoing problem for OGC, as demonstrated by the brief terms of several of its presidents. Funding in the late 1960s was received from Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, and sought from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Institutes of Health. Other early backers and board members included Douglas Strain of Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), John Gray of Omark Industries Inc. and Ira Keller of Western Kraft Corporation.
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