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Western Oregon University was founded in 1856 as Monmouth University. [8] In 1865, it merged with another private institution, Bethel College , in Bethel and became Christian College . In 1882, the Oregon State Legislature approved the college's bid to become a state-supported teacher training (or " normal ") school, Oregon State Normal School .
Western Oregon University (WOU) is the oldest public university in the state, which was established in 1856. Central Oregon Community College (COCC) was founded in 1949 as part of the Bend School District and is the longest-standing community college in the state.
The 1980s and 1990s saw two more name changes with the addition of liberal arts and science degrees and a full range of programs, first to Western Oregon State College, then to Western Oregon ...
This was Peatross and Marlowe's first season coaching the Western Oregon’s women’s basketball team. The team finished 10-19 overall and 3-15 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
The Western Oregon Wolves (also WOU Wolves) are the athletic teams that represent Western Oregon University, located in Monmouth, Oregon, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) since the 2001–02 academic year.
Western Oregon University women's basketball coach Jessica Peatross and assistant coach DJ Marlow were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed Jan. 29, 2025, by former basketball players.
The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland 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 Indian Reservation in Western Oregon.
Western Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to mean the part of the U.S. state of Oregon within 120 miles (190 km) of the state’s coastal region, on the west side of the crest of the Cascade Range. [1]