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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

Notable staff

Rankings

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 *, 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). *

External links

Universities and colleges in Oregon | Liberal arts colleges | Portland, Oregon | Education in Portland, Oregon | Lewis & Clark College

 

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