University of Portland

School mission (as provided by the school):

The University of Portland is a Catholic university guided by the Congregation of Holy Cross that offers premiere undergraduate and graduate degrees in its Schools of Business, Education, Engineering and its College of Arts and Sciences from a beautiful, one hundred thirty acre campus seven miles from downtown Portland, Oregon. This year the University has been nationally recognized as the number one producer of Fulbright scholars and the third for those accepted into the Peace Corps among United States master's level universities. Its faculty and students have earned many Fulbright, Marshall, Mitchell, and Goldwater fellowships, and have received both the Oregon's Governor's Award for more than 10,000 hours of volunteer service annually and Washington Monthly magazine's national top ranking for service to the nation. University of Portland has received several national faculty awards from the Carnegie Foundation, among them the U.S. Professor of the Year and three Oregon Professor of the Year honors. The University is renowned for its extensive study-abroad programs (in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and Europe), its award-winning cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship program, its innovative education, biology, and theater programs, its state-of-the-art nursing and science laboratories, and its booming global business and environmental ethics majors-- the latter the only one of its kind in the U.S -- and its state-of-the art engineering building. A member of the NCAA Division I, there are 13 varsity team sports. The University also sponsors a resource center for freshman support, savors its NCAA national champion women's soccer team (twice in four years), and has been dedicated for more than a century to creating a campus community where 'teachable moments' in and out of the classroom are not only prized but the true epiphanies sparking lifelong learning.