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{{Infobox university
| name = Linfield College
| image_name = Linfield College (emblem).png
| motto = ''Connecting Learning, Life, and Community''
| established = 1858
| type = [[Private university|Private]]
| affiliation = Historic and symbolic ties to [[American Baptist Churches USA]]
| endowment = $103.5&nbsp;million (2014)<ref>As of June 30, 2014. {{cite web |url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2014_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf |title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2013 to FY 2014 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute |year=2015 |access-date=January 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150129213112/http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2014_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf |archive-date=January 29, 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| students = 2,282 (2017)<ref name=Information/>
| undergrad = 1,683 (McMinnville Campus)<br /> 347 (Portland Campus) 436 (Adult Degree Program)<ref name=Information>{{cite web |url=http://www.linfield.edu/about/facts-and-figures.html  |title=Facts and Figures |accessdate=2015-06-06 |publisher=Linfield College}}</ref>
| city = [[McMinnville, Oregon|McMinnville]]
| state = [[Oregon]]
| country = USA
| coor = {{coord|45|11|56.4|N|123|11|55.3|W|display=inline,title|type:edu}}
| campus = Rural, {{convert|193|acre|ha}} (McMinnville)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linfield.edu/about.html |title=About Linfield College |accessdate=2015-06-06 | publisher=Linfield College}}</ref>
| athletics = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]]
| colors = Purple and red {{color box|#441166}} {{color box|#DD1144}}
| nickname =  [[Wildcat]]s
| website = [http://www.linfield.edu/ linfield.edu]
| faculty = 157<ref name=Information/>
| affiliations = 
}}

'''Linfield College''' is a [[Private university|private]] college in [[McMinnville, Oregon]].  It also has a campus in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] and an adult degree program located online and in eight communities throughout the state. Linfield Wildcats athletics participates in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] [[Northwest Conference]].  There are a combined 2,282 students at Linfield, which employs more than 150 full-time professors.

==History==
[[File:PioneerHall1.jpg|thumb|left|[[Pioneer Hall (Oregon)|Pioneer Hall]], built in 1882.]]
Linfield traces its history back to 1849 when the Oregon Baptist Educational Society was created in [[Oregon City, Oregon|Oregon City]].<ref name=Oregon>Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. [[Binfords & Mort Publishing]]. p. 148.</ref> That group organized in order to start a Baptist school in the region, which started as [[Oregon City College]] in 1849.<ref name=Oregon/> In 1855, [[Sebastian C. Adams]] began to agitate for a school in McMinnville. Adams and his associates were members of the Christian Church, and so the school became a Christian School. To begin, {{convert|6|acre}} of property were donated by W. T. Newby and a group was formed to establish the school. The group included William Dawson, James McBride,  Newby, and Adams and they bore the major part of the expenses of starting the school. These men built a building and convinced Adams, who was a teacher, to operate the school.  After about a year and a half and because of the difficulty of running the school alone and funding problems, Adams suggested that the school be turned over to the Baptists who were attempting to start up the West Union Institute that had been chartered in 1858 by the Oregon Territorial Legislature. The Adams group imposed the condition that the Baptists keep at least one professor employed continuously in the college department.<ref>Bancroft, Hubert Howe, "The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft", Volume XXX: "History of Oregon", Volume II, The History Company, San Francisco, California. 1888. pgs. 684 & 686</ref> Other accounts indicate that the Baptist group purchased the land in 1857 in order to start their school.<ref name=Oregon/> The Baptist College at McMinnville was chartered in 1858 by the [[Oregon Territorial Legislature]], and later became McMinnville College before acquiring its current name.<ref name=Heritage>{{cite web|url=http://www.linfield.edu/explore/ |title=Pioneer Heritage |accessdate=October 31, 2008 |publisher=Linfield College |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801091946/http://www.linfield.edu/explore/ |archivedate=August 1, 2008 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
[[File:MelroseHall2.jpg|thumb|left|Melrose Hall, built in 1929, is the administrative center of the college.]]
In 1922, the name was changed to Linfield College in memory of a Baptist minister, the Rev. [[George Fisher Linfield]] whose widow, [[Frances Linfield|Frances Eleanor Ross Linfield]], gave a substantial donation to the college to promote Christian education and as a memorial to her late husband.  Mrs. Linfield served as Dean of Women from 1921 to 1928, and sat on the Board of Directors from 1922 to her death in 1940.  Her gift included real estate in Spokane, Washington, valued at $250,000.  In his 1938 book, ''Bricks Without Straw: The Story of Linfield College'', Professor Jonas A. "Steine" Jonasson quotes from the minutes of the college's board of trustees to explain Mrs. Linfield's motivation for her large land gift to the college: "Mrs. Linfield's dual purpose in making the gift to McMinnville College was to 'perpetuate the name, scholarly attainments and Christian influence of her late husband, Rev. George Fisher Linfield, and to promote the cause of Christian education.{{' "}}<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Jonasson | first = Jonas A.
  | title = Bricks Without Straw: The Story of Linfield College
  | publisher = Caxton Printers
  | year = 1938
  | url =
  | id = ASIN B000881X28  }}
</ref>

The Linfield Division of Continuing Education (Adult Degree Program) began in 1975. Today it serves eight communities in Oregon as well as online degree programs giving working adults the opportunity to complete a bachelor's degree or certificate program.

In 1982, the Linfield College-Portland Campus was established when the college entered into an affiliation with [[Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center]] and began offering a bachelor's degree program in nursing.

==Portland Campus==
The Portland Campus, home of the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, was established in 1982  and is located in historic [[Northwest District, Portland, Oregon|Northwest Portland]] adjacent to the Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/nursing/|title=Good Samaritan School of Nursing {{!}} Linfield College Research {{!}} DigitalCommons@Linfield|website=digitalcommons.linfield.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-26}}</ref> The Portland Campus became the successor to the Good Samaritan Hospital Diploma School of Nursing, established by Emily Loveridge in 1890.

==Accreditation==
[[File:NorthupHall.jpg|thumb|right|T.J. Day Hall (formerly Northup Hall), built in 1936, was the library through 2003.]]
Linfield College is [[Regional accreditation|regionally]] [[Educational accreditation|accredited]] by the [[Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities]]. Specialized accreditation is granted to individual programs. The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing is accredited by the Oregon State Board of Nursing and the [[Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education]]. The education program is approved for training of education and secondary teachers by the State of Oregon's Teachers Standards and Practices Commission. Linfield College's music program is accredited by the [[National Association of Schools of Music]], and its athletic training program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education.

==Academics==

For six consecutive years, as of 2006, Linfield was named the No. 1 college in the western region by ''[[US News & World Report]]'' for the Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor's category.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.linfield.edu/press/detail.php?id=698 |title= Linfield ranked number 1 by U.S. News for sixth consecutive year |work= Press release |accessdate= October 31, 2008 |date= August 18, 2006 |publisher= Linfield College |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080504050236/http://www.linfield.edu/press/detail.php?id=698 |archive-date= May 4, 2008 |dead-url= yes |df= mdy-all }}</ref> In the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings for 2007, Linfield College was recategorized and ranked as a Liberal Arts College in a restructuring of rankings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no%3D225254 |accessdate=October 9, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613235009/http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=225254 |archivedate=June 13, 2008 }}</ref> In 2011, it was ranked 121st among liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{cite news|last=Siemers|first=Erik|title=UofO 101st, OSU 138th in U.S. News rankings|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2011/09/uofo-101st-osu-138th-in-us-news.html|accessdate=February 4, 2012|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=September 14, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/mcminnville-or/linfield-college-3198/@@Admissions_overview.html| title=Linfield College |accessdate=May 28, 2011| publisher= U.S.News & World Report| work=College Rankings & Lists}}</ref> Linfield has been named by [[The Princeton Review]] as one of the Best Colleges in the Western Region.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.theprincetonreview.com/SchoolList.aspx?id=763 |title= Best Western Colleges |accessdate=October 31, 2008 |publisher=[[The Princeton Review]]}}</ref> 93 percent of Linfield professors have the highest degree in their field.<ref name=Information/>  In 2009, Language Professor Peter Richardson was awarded Oregon Professor of the Year.<ref>http://www.linfield.edu/feature-detail.php?id=21{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2010 the ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' named Linfield a top producer of Fulbright Scholars; as since 1999, 36 graduates have won [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] grants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.linfield.edu/presidents-report/|title=Linfield College President's Report|website=www.linfield.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> A 2015 study from ''[[The Economist]]'' ranked Linfield 27th nationally out of 1,275 colleges and universities when it came to the economic value of a degree.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-university|title=Our first-ever college rankings|work=The Economist|access-date=2017-10-23|language=en}}</ref> Also in 2015, Linfield was ranked among the best in the Pacific Northwest when it comes to admitting students from disadvantaged families and helping them move up the economic ladder. The study, "The Equality of Opportunity," was conducted by researchers from [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[Stanford University]], [[Brown University]] and the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Department of the Treasury]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/index.html#college|title=The Equality of Opportunity Project|website=www.equality-of-opportunity.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-23}}</ref> Linfield also ranked as the top liberal arts college in Washington and Oregon in ''Washington Monthly''<nowiki/>'s "Best Bang for the Buck" list in 2016 and 2017. Washington Monthly also identifies Linfield as one of the top liberal arts colleges nationally, ranking it 81st out of 240 liberal arts colleges overall<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017college-guide|title=2017 College Guide and Rankings|website=Washington Monthly|access-date=2017-10-23}}</ref> Linfield has a dual enrollment agreement with [[Portland Community College]].<ref>{{cite news|title=PCC, PSU renew co-admission agreement|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/01/23/pccpsu-renew-co-admission-agreement.html |newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=January 23, 2012}}</ref>

==Athletics==
The Linfield Wildcats football team has the longest streak of consecutive winning seasons across all levels of college football. {{as of|2018}}, the team has had 63 consecutive winning seasons. Linfield has won four national college football titles ([[NCAA Division III National Football Championship|NCAA Division III]]: 2004, [[NAIA Football National Championship|NAIA]] Division II: 1982, 1984, 1986) and have played in a total of seven college football national championship games (NAIA runner-up in 1961, 1965, 1992). In addition, the school has won three national titles in baseball (NCAA Division III: 2013, NAIA Division II: 1966, 1971). The Linfield Softball team won two NCAA Division III Softball Championships in 2007 & 2011, and were runner-up in 2010 & 2012.

Top athletics alumni include former [[New York Yankees|New York Yankee]] [[Scott Brosius]], who was the head baseball coach at the college for eight years until 2015;<ref>{{cite news|title=Scott Brosius leaves Linfield baseball|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/small-colleges/index.ssf/2015/05/scott_brosius_leaves_linfield.html|accessdate=2015-10-28|work=The Oregonian|date=2015-05-23}}</ref> former [[San Diego Chargers|San Diego Charger]] [[Brett Elliott]], the quarterback of the 2004 championship team; and former [[Miami Dolphins]] general manager, [[Randy Mueller]], quarterback of Linfield's 1982 NAIA Championship squad.

Linfield offers varsity sports in Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, [[Cross country running|Cross-Country]], Football, Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Women's [[Lacrosse]], Women's Soccer, Men's Soccer, [[Softball]], Swimming, Women's Tennis, Men's Tennis, [[Track & Field]], and Women's Volleyball.

Linfield also offers thirteen intramural sports opportunities.

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|colspan=8 align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"|<big>'''Linfield College Wildcats National Championships'''</big> <br/>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071115002252/http://www.linfield.edu/sports/statistics.php Linfield Sports Statistics]
|-
|align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"| '''Year'''
|align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"| '''Sport'''
|align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"| '''Coach'''
|align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"| '''Location'''
|align=center bgcolor="#e5e5e5"| '''Association/Division'''
|-
| 1966
| Baseball
| [[Roy Helser]]
|
| NAIA Division II
|-
| 1971
| Baseball
| [[Ad Rutschman]]
| Municipal Stadium, Phoenix, Arizona
| NAIA Division II
|-
| 1982
| American Football
| Ad Rutschman
| Maxwell Field, McMinnville, Oregon
| NAIA Division II
|-
| 1984
| American Football
| Ad Rutschman
| Maxwell Field, McMinnville, Oregon
| NAIA Division II
|-
| 1986
| American Football
| Ad Rutschman
| Maxwell Field, McMinnville, Oregon
| NAIA Division II
|-
| 2004
| American Football
| [[Jay Locey]]
| [[Salem, Virginia]]
| NCAA Division III
|-
| 2007
| Fastpitch Softball
| Jackson Vaughan
| Moyer Sports Complex, Salem, Virginia
| NCAA Division III
|-
| 2011
| Fastpitch Softball
| Jackson Vaughan
| Moyer Sports Complex, Salem, Virginia
| NCAA Division III
|-
| 2013
| Baseball
| [[Scott Brosius]]
| Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton, Wisconsin
| NCAA Division III
|}

==Student Life==
[[File:Melrose Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Melrose Hall from the academic quad.]]Linfield College offers over 40 organizations on campus and over 300 leadership positions. The Associated Students of Linfield College (ASLC) or the Linfield College Activities Team (LCAT) sponsor all clubs and student-led activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.linfield.edu/admission/learn/student-life.html|title=Student Life {{!}} Linfield College|website=Linfield College|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-26}}</ref>

===Campus Media===
In addition to clubs and organizations, there is an active media presence on campus, in the form of a college radio station and newspaper, both of which include student involvement.

====''KSLC''====
{{main|KSLC}}
[[KSLC|90.3 KSLC]] is an entirely student-run [[college radio]] station with reception throughout town and the immediate vicinity. The full-time student-staff consists of ten members, who work under the guidance of one faculty advisor. All work for KSLC is on a volunteer basis, but credit is also available through the electronic media practices and broadcast practices courses at Linfield. It plays a wide variety of music and also broadcasts Linfield Wildcat sporting events and there are specialty shows every weeknight. The station was housed in Pioneer Hall until 2007 when a new facility was completed in the basement of Renshaw Hall. Additionally, the radio station promotes its student ran shows as podcasts.

==== ''The Linfield Review'' ====
{{main|The Linfield Review}}
''[[The Linfield Review]]'' is Linfield's student-run weekly campus newspaper. The newspaper is staffed only by students of the college and funded mostly through the Associated Students of Linfield College.  According to the March 16, 2007, issue of the newspaper, the ''Linfield Review'' took third place in the Best in Show contest at the [[Associated Collegiate Press]] national college newspaper convention in Portland.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.linfield.edu/linfield-review/archive-detail.php?article_id=3125 |title= Review receives national award |accessdate= October 31, 2008 |publisher= [[Linfield Review]] |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100528124331/http://www.linfield.edu/linfield-review/archive-detail.php?article_id=3125 |archivedate= May 28, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}</ref>

==Greek organizations==
[[File:RileyCenter (Linfield College).jpg|thumb|right|Riley Center, location of the Associated Students of Linfield College and the College Bookstore;]]
{{as of|2017}}, there are four fraternities and four sororities at Linfield College.  The sororities are [[Alpha Phi]] (ΑΦ), [[Zeta Tau Alpha]] (ΖΤΑ), Sigma Kappa Phi (ΣΚΦ), and [[Phi Sigma Sigma]] (ΦΣΣ).  The fraternities include Delta Psi Delta (ΔΨΔ), [[Kappa Sigma]] (ΚΣ), [[Pi Kappa Alpha]] (ΠΚΑ), and [[Theta Chi]] (ΘΧ).  Sigma Kappa Phi and Delta Psi Delta are both local organizations and have no national affiliation. The sororities at Linfield College do not have housing.

==Notable people==
{{main|List of Linfield College people}}
Notable people who have attended or taught at Linfield College include athletes such as [[Scott Brosius]], former [[New York Yankees|New York Yankee]] and 1998 [[World Series MVP]]; [[Kenneth Scott Latourette]], scholar of Christianity and Chinese History; [[Douglas Robinson (academic)|Douglas Robinson]], translation theorist; [[Amy Tan]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Linfield Going Global|last=nzen{{verify source|date=May 2011}}|first=Robin|date=March 7, 1996|work=[[The Oregonian]]}}</ref> the author of ''[[The Joy Luck Club (novel)|The Joy Luck Club]]'', ''[[The Bonesetter's Daughter]]'', and ''[[The Kitchen God's Wife]]''; First Lieutenant [[Rex T. Barber]], pilot in [[Operation Vengeance]]; actress [[Aparna Brielle]]; and [[Joe Medicine Crow]], Native American historian and the only Linfield College graduate to receive the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].

==Notes and references==
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