"The Proposed Merger?" pamphlet on plans to merge Pacific University and Albany College

Identifier

PUA_RG3_106_001

Title

"The Proposed Merger?" pamphlet on plans to merge Pacific University and Albany College

Description

A pamphlet issued in December 1916 by the "Albany College Bulletin" (Vol. 51: No. 2) criticizing a proposed merger between Albany College, which was later renamed Lewis & Clark College, and Pacific University, both located in Oregon.

The proposal called for closing Albany's campus and moving its students and equipment to Pacific's campus in Forest Grove. The authors of the pamphlet argue against the merger, citing differences in religious affiliation as one of their top concerns, with additional points against Pacific's location and facilities also being listed. Although the Bulletin's masthead notes that it was published "by the Board of Trustees" of Albany, based on context, it is likely that the authors of this text were Albany students and/or faculty.

This merger ultimately failed, but Albany College did leave its original campus, moving to Portland between 1934-38. Albany College was renamed Lewis & Clark College in 1942. It should be noted that several claims concerning Pacific's religious affiliation within this text were incorrect; while Pacific was founded by Congregationalists, it had never been under the formal control of a denominational board, and had held "unsectarian" values for recruitment of students since the tenure of its first president, Sidney Harper Marsh.

Date: Year(s)

1916

Date: Display

December 1916

Is Part Of

Pacific University President Charles J. Bushnell Records (RG.3.106)

Subject

Albany College

Lewis & Clark College

Pacific University

Place

Albany, Oregon

Extent

1 v.

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

English http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/