Campus Profile: Linfield College

With a busy fall term nearly behind them, Linfield students and faculty have a great deal to both reflect on and look forward to. During the past couple of months, the iVote initiative focused on registering, educating and mobilizing Linfield students, while Make a Difference Day (October 25) saw over 170 Linfield students participate on over 13 community service projects. And it's only the beginning of the 2008/09 school year.

Recently, Linfield hosted representatives from Habitat Guatemala for a week of service, education and fundraising. From this, students and faculty have begun to focus on local and global housing inequities - the theme for this year's Alternative Spring Break program, which will take students on service-oriented trips to Portland, New Orleans and Guatamala. For more information on Linfield's Alternative Spring Break program, click here.

Along this same theme, Linfield has become an active, long-term partner in its county's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. Partnering with this effort has resulted in many community-based learning and research opportunities for students and faculty; Linfield students are currently involved in compiling survey results gathered during the September 25th kick-off event for the 10-Year Plan. The survey collected data around local attitudes toward homeless families and individuals.

Faculty is also involved, including sociology professor, Robert Gardner, who will be leading a January term service-learning course focused on the region's homeless population. For this course students will work in teams to conduct research in each of the county's largest cities. At the end of January, the teams will participate in the first comprehensive county-wide homeless count.

Fast Facts: Linfield College

President: Dr. Thomas L. Hellie
School Chartered/Accredited: 1858/1922

Type: Four year, co-ed, comprehensive, undergraduate, private
Location: McMinnville, Oregon (main campus)
Enrollment: 1,700 (McMinnville campus)
School Mascot: Willy the Wildcat
School Colors: Purple and cardinal

Mission Statement:
Linfield College advances a vision of learning, life, and community that

* promotes intellectual challenge and creativity,
* values both theoretical and practical knowledge,
* engages thoughtful dialogue in a climate of mutual respect,
* honors the rich texture of diverse cultures and varied ways of understanding,
* piques curiosity for a lifetime of inquiry,
* and inspires the courage to live by moral and spiritual principle and to defend freedom of conscience.

Linfield College includes:
* A residential campus in McMinnville, Oregon
* A campus in Portland, Oregon, offering majors in Nursing, Health Sciences
* An Adult Degree Program which offers a set of adult degree courses online and at eight sites in Oregon