What makes us special

• Linfield's unique mix of liberal arts and professional programs provides a strong preparation for life and career and helps students find their calling through professional and practical opportunities.
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has included Linfield College in its new classification, Baccalaureate Colleges – Arts & Sciences.  This groups Linfield with the nation’s best liberal arts colleges. 
• More than 50 percent of Linfield students study abroad during their years at the college. Linfield has semester abroad programs in 11 countries, along with January Term, with its popular four-week intensive courses at some 13 international locations.
• Linfield is a powerhouse in the Northwest Conference and NCAA Division III athletics. The Wildcat football team won the national title in 2004. The softball team won the national title in 2007. The volleyball team has qualified for the Division III playoffs in four of the past seven years and the baseball team is a perennial favorite in the conference.
• Linfield emphasizes experiential learning, both within and outside the classroom. Its rich collaborative research program provides students with hands-on research opportunities with faculty across the curriculum.
• Fifteen Linfield College students have received Fulbright awards since 1999. The awards have included study, research and teaching opportunities around the world. Linfield was named a top producer of Fulbright awards for bachelor's institutions in the Chronicle of Higher Education last year.  Five students have received French Government Teaching Awards since 1999.
• Since 1998, Linfield has more than doubled the size of its McMinnville Campus. Thanks to a successfully completed capital campaign, the college has constructed new library, art, theatre, music and residence facilities.
• Typically, more than 90 percent of Linfield graduates are employed or in graduate school within one year of graduation.
• The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, located on the Portland Campus, is a state-wide leader in an initiative to increase the number of minorities entering the nursing profession. The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing graduates achieved a 93 percent pass rate on its licensing examination.
• The Linfield College teacher education program received an outstanding evaluation in 2006 from the State of Oregon for its reaccreditations.
• One-third of Linfield graduates complete an internship for credit, enhancing their classroom learning with hands-on experience.
• Linfield students are active in numerous community service projects, such as spending spring break helping with the clean-up following Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
• Linfield College is home to the Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium, one of only five such symposia in the world. The symposium brings Nobel laureates from a variety of disciplines for public and classroom discussions of global problems and issues. Since it was established in 1985, 20 Nobel laureates and many other distinguished visitors have participated.
• Linfield is one of the oldest colleges on the West Coast, tracing its roots to an institution established in 1849. The college was chartered in 1858.

Student/faculty recognitions:

• David Sumner, associate professor of English and Eric Schuck, associate professor of economics, received Fulbright Awards last year.
• The Linfield Review took third place in the Best in Show contest at the Associated Collegiate Press national college newspaper convention in 2007.
• Robin Cangie ‘06 won for “Best Undergraduate Paper” at Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary society conference in 2006.
• Brett Elliot '05 won both Melberger Award & Gagliardi Trophy for Outstanding Division III Player in 2006.
• Kira Durand '07 was awarded the Budapest Semester in Mathematics in 2006.
• Kelly Peng '08 was one of seven finalists considered for an award for international research from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2007.
• Todd Curtis '07 was one of only 60 presenters chosen nationwide for the Council on Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill in Washington, D.C. in 2007.
• Andrew Pohl '10 of Bremerton, Wash., was chosen to sing at the "Young Artists Debut!" Concerto in 2007 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Pohl was picked from a regional selection of 70 performers and performed with nine other winners at the concert.
• Erin Nooy '05, a social studies teacher at McMinnville High School, is Oregon's recipient of the 2007 James Madison Fellowship. Only one teacher per state wins the prestigious award, which comes with $24,000 toward completion of a master's degree in American history.
• Linfield’s Computer Sciences Department maintains 100 percent job placement for graduates. Graduate of the class of 2006 were employed at Intel, US Air Force Reserve, Micron Technologies, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Fred Meyer, and Weyerhaeuser Company.
• Richard Bourassa, professor of music, received the Ball State University Citation for Achievement Award in April 2007. The Citation for Achievement goes annually to outstanding alumni who have reached high levels of distinction in one of the many fields within music.
• Thierry Durand, associate professor of French, and Brian Winkenweder, assistant professor of art history, presented lectures at European conferences in 2006. Durand presented "'The Non-Seriousness of Edification' and the Depth of the Good" at an international colloquium, A Century with Lévinas: Lévinas-Blanchot, Thinking the Difference, Nov. 13-16 in Paris, France. Winkenweder spoke on "After Words: Intention and the Homometrics of the E-Interview" at the seminar, Artist Participation in the Preservation of Installation Art, in Ghent, Belgium.
• Anne Kruchten, assistant professor of Biology, and Michael Crosser, assistant professor of Physics participated as Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) fellows, joining an estimated 200 colleagues from around the nation at the Project Kaleidoscope national assembly in Chicago, Ill., in October.  Chris Gaiser, associate professor of biology, and Elizabeth Atkinson, associate professor of chemistry, were previously named PKAL fellows.
• Janet Peterson, associate professor of health and human performance, is a fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine.
• Nancy Cornwell, associate professor of mass communication, won first place in the “Best Practices in Teaching the First Amendment” award from the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2006.
• Janet Gupton, associate professor of theatre arts, received a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty development grant to study “Asian Culture Though Theatre” in 2006.
• Brad Thompson, assistant professor of mass communication, was named a Fellow to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) Institute for Journalism Excellence in 2006.