Why UO

A woman on a viewpoint looking over a forested urban area in bright sunlight.

We are

Change makers and big dreamers, with our hands in the dirt and our eyes on the cosmos. We're solutions oriented and community focused, resourceful and collaborative, and we don't shy away from a difficult problem.

We believe

In the power of stories and of data, in upending the conventional while learning from our history. We appreciate our commonalities and celebrate our differences, and we value those who challenge our assumptions.

We are Ducks

We are

Change makers and big dreamers, with our hands in the dirt and our eyes on the cosmos. We're solutions oriented and community focused, resourceful and collaborative, and we don't shy away from a difficult problem.

We believe

In the power of stories and of data, in upending the conventional while learning from our history. We appreciate our commonalities and celebrate our differences, and we value those who challenge our assumptions.

We are Ducks

Oregon Tribes at a ceremony in the ampitheater at Erb Memorial Union

Honoring Native Peoples and Lands

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, Kalapuya descendants are primarily citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and they continue to make important contributions to their communities, to the UO, to Oregon, and to the world.