About 2,800 new students from Oregon began classes at the University of Oregon this week, along with students from every state in the U.S. and from nearly 100 countries around the world.
Total enrollment is estimated at 24,000 – similar to last year's total, and part of a strategic decision to maintain quality of the educational experience for UO students.
The University of Oregon and its Office of International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) welcomed more than 700 new international students from all over the world as part of the 2013 International Student Orientation (ISO) program.
During the course of one week, international undergraduate and graduate students get the chance to explore their new surroundings, receive academic advising, conduct placement testing, meet with other new students and learn about cultural adjustments.
The western United States is home to a vibrant community of business law scholars. To foster this community and promote intellectual exchange, the University of Oregon School of Law is proud to host the inaugural Pacific West Business Law Scholars Colloquium from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, in the Wayne Morse Suite of the White Stag facilities in downtown Portland.
Warm welcomes and drier-than-expected weather were the orders of the day Sept. 30 as UO and community leaders welcomed students back to neighborhoods near campus.
That buzz you feel is the energy of a new year starting today – Sept. 30 – at the University of Oregon.
UO officials and others are welcoming back students living off campus with the 2013 UO Community Welcome walk, which runs from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Leaders including UO President Michael Gottfredson, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and others will go door to door in near-campus neighborhoods to meet students, share tips on keeping them and their belongings safe and encourage them to be good neighbors.
For years, the university's parking and transportation services were housed with public safety, in Straub Hall facing 15th Avenue.
The two departments have split, and both have moved – Straub Hall is being renovated and will be used for academic purposes when it reopens.
UOPD moved its patrol and operations base to a station at 15th Avenue and Walnut Street in 2011. Parking and Transportation moved in June 2013, when the Straub remodel began.
The current locations:
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Michael Hames-García has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, effective July 2014.
Hames-García, a professor in ethnic studies, grew up in Portland and left after high school to attend school and work in New York, Indiana, Alabama and California. He returned to Oregon in 2005 and began working in the ethnic studies department at the UO. He served as department head from 2006 to 2011.
The University of Oregon's traditional convocation ceremony will mark the start of the academic year at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29, at Matthew Knight Arena.
The ceremony will welcome both the new UO class of 2017 and faculty members who are new to the university.
UO President Michael Gottfredson, Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Scott Coltrane and Associated Students of the University of Oregon President Sam Dotters-Katz each will speak at the event.
