University of Portland
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Former names
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Columbia University |
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| Motto | Veritas vos Liberabit (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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The truth will set you free |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1901 |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic (Congregation of Holy Cross) |
| Endowment | $140.2 million |
| President | Mark L. Poorman |
| Students | 4,123 (Fall 2014) |
| Undergraduates | 3,654 (Fall 2014) |
| Postgraduates | 469 (Fall 2014) |
| Location |
Portland, Oregon, U.S. Coordinates: 45°34′21″N 122°43′38″W / 45.57250°N 122.72722°W |
| Campus | Residential, 124 acres (0.50 km²) |
| Colors | Purple & White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – West Coast Conference |
| Nickname | Pilots |
| Mascot | Wally Pilot |
| Affiliations |
ACCU NAICU NWCCU |
| Website | www |
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The University of Portland (also referred to as UP) is a private Roman Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross, which also founded UP's sister school the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student body of about 4,000 students. UP is ranked 8th in the west for Regional Universities in 2015 by U.S. News & World Report.
The campus is located in the University Park neighborhood near St. Johns, on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River. With a college of arts and sciences; a graduate school; and schools of business, education, engineering, and nursing, it is the only comprehensive Catholic university in Oregon. It is the largest corporation in North Portland and has an annual economic impact on Portland of some $170 million. More than 13,000 alumni live in the Portland metropolitan area.
The first institution located on Waud's Bluff was Portland University, which was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1891. Amid financial setbacks following the Panic of 1893, Portland University vacated the Bluff Campus to hold classes from 1896 to 1897 in East Portland, where it was joined temporarily by the recently insolvent College of Puget Sound.
According to University of Portland tradition, Archbishop Alexander Christie, the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, saw a large building on the bluff from aboard a ship on the nearby Willamette River. He learned that it was called West Hall and had been unoccupied for several years since the closure of Portland University.
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