Building the Experience

Where you learn affects how you learn. Thanks to donors, Oregon’s beautiful, 295-acre campus is not just an arboretum with more than 3,000 trees. It’s a productive, functional home for students to live, learn, and grow. Academic buildings improve the lives of students from many different disciplines. New research facilities enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. Student centers promote friendships. And this impact is multiplied over the years, with each new generation of students benefiting from the foresight of donors and campus planners.

Over the past decade, donor-supported facilities have transformed our Eugene campus. New classrooms, laboratories, and spaces for students and faculty members continue to enhance the Oregon experience. Gifts for capital projects don’t just help create exciting new facilities. They also make an incredible impact.

The University of Oregon has been an active member of the Portland community for nearly 150 years, attracting academically gifted students, securing millions of dollars in funding, fueling the state with discovery and creating tens of thousands of jobs.  We are thrilled to invite you to be a part of an ambitious new phase of growth for our state’s flagship institution, as we transform the former site of Concordia University into the University of Oregon Portland.
 
The purchase of the 19-acre campus in Northeast Portland was made possible by an extraordinary $425 million lead gift from Connie and Steve Ballmer. Our expansion marks a significant milestone. For the first time, we will have undergraduate and graduate students on a residential Portland campus with welcoming community and living spaces, shared maker spaces for interdisciplinary collaboration among programs, and more. We are growing our research efforts and community partnerships to fuel Oregon’s workforce and revolutionize industries that support our economy and well-being. The University of Oregon Portland will be a hub for collaboration and equitable solutions that impact our lives locally, nationally, and globally, including the groundbreaking Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health.