Lewis & Clark College
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Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Under the name Albany Collegiate Institute, it was founded in 1867 by a group of Presbyterian pioneers in the Willamette Valley town of Albany, 46 miles south of Portland. The College has been coeducational since the first class, which graduated in 1873.
By 1938 enrollment had outgrown the original Albany campus, and all operations were moved to Portland. 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 Southwest Portland.
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.
The school is traditionally strong in Biology, International Affairs, Psychology and Environmental Studies.
Notable alumni
- Earl Blumenauer ('70, '76), US Representativehttp://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=494
- Markie Post ('75), actresshttp://www.nndb.com/people/102/000025027/
- Ronald A. Marks ('78), former CIA officialhttp://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/marks_ronald.html
- Serena Cruz ('89), Multnomah County Commissionerhttp://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/cruz.html
- Monica Lewinsky ('95), presidential paramourhttp://www.lclark.edu/~piolog/archive/980123/home.html
- Ever Carradine ('96), actresshttp://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/carradine.html
- Genevieve Gorder ('96), television personalityhttp://www.lclark.edu/dept/chron/class1990sw04.html
- Myah Moore ('02), Miss Oregon USA 2003http://www.lclark.edu/cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1040071740.2
Notable staff
- Bob Pamplin Jr., entrepreneur, philanthropist, trusteehttp://www.cowcreek.com/media/s06_giving/a95-art07.html
- Kim Stafford, writerhttp://www.lclark.edu/~krs/
- William Stafford, poethttp://www.lclark.edu/~lotl/volume5issue5/stafford.html
- Mary Szybist, poethttp://www.lclark.edu/dept/english/creative.html
Rankings
- 81st Best Liberal Arts Colleges by US News & World Reports
- 5th Most Politically Active by Princeton Review
Housing
All students are required to live on campus for the first two years. Residence complexes include SOA (Stewart-Odell-Akin), Forest, Togetherzfeld, 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-female], Manzanita, and Alder). Hartzfeld is an extended quiet-hours community and requires sophomore standing or higher to live in. East Hall, Roberts Hall and West Hall are a series of on-campus apartments and require junior class standing or higher to live in.For more information, please see [Department of Residence Life]
Transportation
The college pays an outside company (Raz Transportation) to operate shuttles to and from campus. The most notable of these shuttles travels between the college and Pioneer Square (called the Pio Express, or just Pio for short). 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.
References
- Lewis & Clark College (2005). ["Academics"]. Retrieved July 26, 2005.
- Princeton Review (2006). [link]
External links
- [Lewis and Clark College]
- [Lewis & Clark Law School]
- [Graduate School of Education and Counseling]
- [The Pioneer Log] - Lewis & Clark's weekly newspaper
- [Associated Students of Lewis & Clark College] - Student Government
- [Lewis & Clark College Shuttle Bus Schedule] (pdf)
- [Lewis & Clark College Common Data Set] Lots of information about the college, all in standardized form.
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