National Collegiate Honors Council
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Date of this Version
2025
Document Type
Book Chapter
Citation
A chapter in Honoring the First-Year Seminar: Exploring High-Impact Learning Experiences for the First Year in Honors, pages 33-37
Lincoln, Nebraska: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-9450001-23-9
Abstract
Located in southern Oregon, the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) was founded in 1947 and is Oregon’s public polytechnic university. Its main residential campus is in Klamath Falls, OR; its other locations include an urban campus in Wilsonville, OR; an online campus; and additional sites in Salem, OR, and Seattle, WA. Oregon Tech’s mission is to provide professionally focused applied degrees. It offers forty-nine bachelor’s degrees, eight master’s degree programs, one doctoral program, and several certificates. As of fall 2023, 1,976 students were enrolled at the main campus in Klamath Falls: 51% were male, and 49% were female. Approximately 35% of students are minority students. Oregonians make up 70% of students who attend Oregon Tech. The university has an average class size of seventeen students, and about 36% live on campus in the Klamath Falls residence halls. Oregon Tech has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, and 93.9% of faculty are full-time; 76.6% of full-time faculty are tenured or on a tenure track.
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