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Linfield Magazine Volume 15 Number 1 Fall 2018 Article 4 Fall 2018 Linfield Digest Linfield Magazine Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfield_magazine Recommended Citation Linfield Magazine Staff (2018) "Linfield Digest," Linfield Magazine: Vol. 15 : No. 1 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfield_magazine/vol15/iss1/4 This article is brought to you for free via open access, courtesy of DigitalCommons@Linfield. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@linfield.edu. Linfield Digest Linfield DigestFa l l  2018    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  4 Fa l l  2018    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  5Civic engagement          Linfield hosted two gubernatorial candidates to discuss civic engagement and political participation in October, one week before election day. Students and community members met with Nick Chen, Libertarian Party candidate,Oct. 29 and Rep. Knute Buehler, Republican Party candidate, Oct. 30. All of Oregon’s gubernatorial candidates on this year’s ballot were invited, including the incumbent, Gov. Kate Brown. Gubernatorial candidate Nick Chen, right, and political science Professor Nick Buccola answer audience questions.What happens when scientific revolution meets human depravity? The Linfield Theatre Program, in its 99th season, explored that question with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in early November. The production included a post-show question-and-answer session with the designers and director along with a roundtable on “Monstrous Psychology and Biology” featuring faculty from the departments of English, biology, psychology and theatre. Professor Janet Gupton directedthe 13-member cast.Linfield acquires 20-acre Portland campusLinfield College has agreed to purchase the University of Western States campus in Northeast Portland.University of Western States will lease back the facilities until May of 2020, when Linfield will take possession. The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nurs-ing has been located at Northwest Portland’s Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center since 1982, and the nursing program will continue to operate in that location for the remainder of this academic year and the next.“This was a once-in-a-century opportunity for us to expand in Portland,” said Miles K. Davis, Linfield College president. “It guarantees that our school of nursing will have a secure home, and it gives us additional opportunities to expand in the state’s largest metropolitan area.”The facilities at the existing Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing are at full capacity, leaving the college’s nursing programs with long waiting lists.“Our new campus will allow us to significantly expand to meet the health-care needs of Oregonians. The timing of our new campus is critical as one quarter of Oregon’s registered nurses and one half of Oregon nursing faculty plan to retire in the next decade,” said Kim Dupree Jones, Linfield’s dean of nursing. This investment represents Linfield’s most significant expansion since 1998, when Linfield acquired 115 acres next to its McMinnville campus through a gift- and-purchase agreement with the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. The University of Western States campus has 10 buildings, including a new lecture hall and a state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory, and is zoned for educational purposes and student housing.New program aids first-gen studentsLinfield is offering a new program for students who are first–generation college students. The Linfield First Scholarship program aims to address the unique challenges first-generation students face. It includes scholarships, mentoring, early-arrival programs and more. Learn more at linfield.edu/first-scholarship.Linfield earns accoladesLinfield received top rankings from national news outlets this fall.Money magazine released its rankings for the “Best College for Your  Money” in 2018, and Linfield occupies the No. 1 spot among liberal arts  colleges in Oregon.  For the third year in a row, Linfield holds the top place among Pacific Northwest liberal arts colleges for “Best Ethnic Diversity,” according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings.Linfield’s Online and Continuing Education program earned a designation as one of the “25 Best Bachelor’s in Proj-ect Management Online” in the United States for 2018 by TheBestSchools.org.See page 51 for a full listing.Rain or shineA new weather station began post-ing real-time atmospheric conditions from Linfield this fall. The station, located on the south end of the McMinnville campus, records temperature, dew-point temperature, relative humidity, wind, rainfall, atmo-spheric pressure and solar radiation, and calculates a UV Index. The station is maintained by theEvenstad Center for Wine Education,and will be used campus wide to learnabout climate, says Greg Jones,director of the center and a researchclimatologist in the Department ofEnvironmental Studies. Learn more at linfield.edu/weather.Combined bachelor’s-master’s degreein wine offeredThe U.S. college with the first in-terdisciplinary wine studies degree will now be the first U.S. college with a five-year program leading to both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in wine studies. Linfield is teaming up with Ecole Superieure d’Agriculture (ESA) in An-gers, France, for the initiative. Students who complete the program will receive a bachelor’s degree in wine studies from Linfield and an international vintage master’s degree from ESA.“This program provides an accel-erated pathway for students to gain both a bachelor’s and master’s degree, and to gain important work experiencein the heart of Oregon’s wine country and in three or more European coun-tries,” said Greg Jones, director of the Evenstad Center for Wine Educationat Linfield. linfield.edu/fall-2018-videosLinfield Digest Linfield DigestFa l l  2018    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  4 Fa l l  2018    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  5Civic engagement          Linfield hosted two gubernatorial candidates to discuss civic engagement and political participation in October, one week before election day. Students and community members met with Nick Chen, Libertarian Party candidate,  Oct. 29 and Rep. Knute Buehler, Republican Party candidate, Oct. 30. All of Oregon’s gubernatorial candidates on this year’s ballot were invited, including the incumbent, Gov. Kate Brown. Gubernatorial candidate Nick Chen, right, and political science Professor Nick Buccola answer audience questions.What happens when scientific revolution meets human depravity? The Linfield Theatre Program, in its 99th season, explored that question with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in early November. The production included a post-show question- and-answer session with the designers and director along with a roundtable on “Monstrous Psychology and Biology” featuring faculty from the departments of English, biology, psychology and theatre. Professor Janet Gupton directed  the 13-member cast.Linfield acquires 20-acre Portland campusLinfield College has agreed to purchase the University of Western States campus in Northeast Portland.University of Western States will lease back the facilities until May of 2020, when Linfield will take possession. The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nurs-ing has been located at Northwest Portland’s Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center since 1982, and the nursing program will continue to operate in that location for the remainder of this academic year and the next.“This was a once-in-a-century opportunity for us to expand in Portland,” said Miles K. Davis, Linfield College president. “It guarantees that our school of nursing will have a secure home, and it gives us additional opportunities to expand in the state’s largest metropolitan area.”The facilities at the existing Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing are at full capacity, leaving the college’s nursing programs with long waiting lists.“Our new campus will allow us to significantly expand to meet the health-care needs of Oregonians. The timing of our new campus is critical as one quarter of Oregon’s registered nurses and one half of Oregon nursing faculty plan to retire in the next decade,” said Kim Dupree Jones, Linfield’s dean of nursing. This investment represents Linfield’s most significant expansion since 1998, when Linfield acquired 115 acres next to its McMinnville campus through a gift- and-purchase agreement with the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. The University of Western States campus has 10 buildings, including a new lecture hall and a state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory, and is zoned for educational purposes and student housing.New program aids first-gen studentsLinfield is offering a new program for students who are first–generation college students. The Linfield First Scholarship program aims to address the unique challenges first-generation students face. It includes scholarships, mentoring, early-arrival programs and more. Learn more at linfield.edu/first-scholarship.Linfield earns accoladesLinfield received top rankings from national news outlets this fall.Money magazine released its rankings for the “Best College for Your  Money” in 2018, and Linfield occupies the No. 1 spot among liberal arts  colleges in Oregon.  For the third year in a row, Linfield holds the top place among Pacific Northwest liberal arts colleges for “Best Ethnic Diversity,” according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings.Linfield’s Online and Continuing Education program earned a designation as one of the “25 Best Bachelor’s in Proj-ect Management Online” in the United States for 2018 by TheBestSchools.org.See page 51 for a full listing.Rain or shineA new weather station began post-ing real-time atmospheric conditions from Linfield this fall. The station, located on the south end of the McMinnville campus, records temperature, dew-point temperature, relative humidity, wind, rainfall, atmo-spheric pressure and solar radiation, and calculates a UV Index. The station is maintained by theEvenstad Center for Wine Education,and will be used campus wide to learnabout climate, says Greg Jones,director of the center and a researchclimatologist in the Department ofEnvironmental Studies. Learn more  at linfield.edu/weather.Combined bachelor’s- master’s degree  in wine offeredThe U.S. college with the first in-terdisciplinary wine studies degree will now be the first U.S. college with a five-year program leading to both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in wine studies.  Linfield is teaming up with Ecole Superieure d’Agriculture (ESA) in An-gers, France, for the initiative. Students who complete the program will receive a bachelor’s degree in wine studies from Linfield and an international vintage master’s degree from ESA.“This program provides an accel-erated pathway for students to gain both a bachelor’s and master’s degree, and to gain important work experience in the heart of Oregon’s wine country and in three or more European coun-tries,” said Greg Jones, director of the Evenstad Center for Wine Education  at Linfield. linfield.edu/fall-2018-videos

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