Oregon State University-Cascades
Oregon State University-Cascades records
1982-2018
RG 315
3.00 cubic feet, 213 GB
3 boxes, including 138 CDs, 7 Zip discs, 1 3.5-inch floppy disc, 1 USB drive
Materials in English.
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, 97331-4501
Phone: 541-737-2075
Email: scarc@oregonstate.edu
Web: http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/findingaids
The Oregon State University-Cascades records document the decision and creation of an Oregon State University (OSU) branch in Bend, as well as the development of the campus over the years, educational programs, student life, and marketing. OSU-Cascades first opened in 2001, after a grassroots effort by Central Oregonians to bring a university to the region.
There is a significant amount of electronic records in the collection. These materials have been migrated and are available upon request.
Historical Note:
Oregon State University-Cascades opened its doors in September 2001, after a grassroots effort by Central Oregonians to bring a university to the region. In 2000, the Oregon University System selected OSU to build and manage a campus that would serve as a capstone to Central Oregon Community College, offering upper-division and graduate coursework towards bachelor's and master's degrees. When the new university branch opened its doors, it had more than 300 students and eight majors. As of 2025, the campus serves more than 1,300 students and 34 degree programs.
In its early years, OSU-Cascades was a unique partnership between OSU, Central Oregon Community College, and the University of Oregon. It offered both OSU and UO degree programs. The branch continues to offer a 2+2 partnership with COCC offering lower-division and prerequisite coursework that can be used toward a bachelor's degree. In 2016, the campus began offering full, four-year degrees.
In 2018, the Oregon legislature approved a bond to expand the campus. OSU-Cascades purchased a former pumice mine and former demolition landfill, bringing the campus size to 128 acres. The expansion is projected to serve upwards of 5,000 students by 2034. The campus is working towards a net zero energy, water, and waste campus.
Oregon State University-Cascades
Campus planning--Oregon--Corvallis.
College publicity--Oregon.
Marketing
Universities and colleges--Oregon--Corvallis--Marketing.
Advertising and Marketing
Bend
Colleges and Universities
Electronic Records
Oregon
Student Life
Transferred by Oregon State University-Cascades.
Collection is open for research.
Oregon State University-Cascades records (RG 315), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
The Special Collections and Archives Research Center has several oral histories from people who worked at the Cascades Campus. They can be found in History of Oregon State University oral histories and sound recordings (OH 003) - Becky Johnson; Oregon State University sesquicentennial oral history collection (OH 026) - Ed Ray, Paul Risser, Henry Sayre, Becky Johnson, Clara Pratt, and Natalie Dollar; Oregon State University Libraries and Press oral history collection (OH 041) - Sami Kerzel and Sara Thompson; and Oregon higher education oral histories collection (OH 046) - Shirley Metcalf.
Other records generated by the university related to the Cascades Campus include Student Academic records (RG 053 - SG 2), President's Office records (RG 013), and Office of Multicultural Affairs records (RG 225).
Ben Westlund (MSS Westlund) served as a State Legislator and State Senator from central Oregon and was instrumental in establishing Oregon State University-Cascades.
The Oregon State University-Cascades records document the decision and creation of an Oregon State University (OSU) branch in Bend, as well as the development of the campus over the years, educational programs, student life, and marketing. It includes articles and clippings, Board of Advisor meetings, campus photographs, commencement photographs, program brochures, recruitment advertising and mailings, and material that would be provided for enrolled students (such as welcome folder, student services, and class schedules). There are several folders related to the establishment of the Cascades branch, which university (OSU or UO) would operate it, proposals, and agreements.
There is a significant amount of electronic records in the collection. These materials have been migrated and are available upon request.
Series 1
Cascades Campus records
1982-2018
1.01
About OSU-Cascades
2007-2010
1.02
Ads
2005-2007
1.03
Ads
2006-2009
1.04
Agreements University Center contracts
1995-1998
Alumni
2006
15 files.
Alumni party and Deschutes Brewery
2011
1103 files.
American Red Cross heroes breakfast
2009
9 files.
1.05
Articles and clippings (1 of 4)
2001
1.06
Articles and clippings (2 of 4)
2001
1.07
Articles and clippings (3 of 4)
2001
1.08
Articles and clippings (4 of 4)
2001
1.09
Articles and clippings (1 of 5)
2002
1.10
Articles and clippings (2 of 5)
2002
1.11
Articles and clippings (3 of 5)
2002
1.12
Articles and clippings (4 of 5)
2002
1.13
Articles and clippings (5 of 5)
2002
1.14
Articles and clippings
2003-2004
1.15
Articles and clippings
2004-2006
1.16
Articles and clippings
2006
1.17
Articles and clippings
2006-2008
1.18
Articles and clippings
2008-2009
1.19
Articles and clippings
2009
1.20
Articles and clippings
2009-2010
1.21
Articles and clippings
2010-2011
2.01
Articles and clippings
2011-2018
2.02
Articles of interest
2003-2004
Audio advertisements
2001
From OSU-C's grand opening. 3 files.
Bend photos
2004
43 files.
2.03
Board of Advisors
2001 December 6
2.04
Board of Advisors
2002 June 13
2.05
Board of Advisors
2002 August 15
2.06
Board of Advisors
2002 December 10
2.07
Board of Advisors
2003 February 13
2.08
Board of Advisors
2003 April 10
2.09
Board of Advisors
2003 June 19
2.10
Board of Advisors
2004 March 18
2.11
Board of Advisors
2004 July 21
Groundbreaking photo
2002
2 files.
2.12
Board of Advisors
2004 September 23
2.13
Board of Advisors
2004 December 4
2.14
Branch campus business plan
1998-2001
2.15
The Broadside
2007-2009
Student newspaper for Central Oregon Community College and Oregon State University - Cascades Campus. Select issues: 2007 May 2 (v. 54, i. 11), May 23 (v. 54, i. 12) 2008 June 4 (v. 55, i. 16), 2009 April 8 (v. 57, i. 19), April 15 (v. 57, i. 20), May 27 (v. 57, i. 26), September 29 (v. 58, i. 1), October 7 (v. 58, i. 3), October 14 (v. 58, i. 4), October 28 (v. 58, i. 6), and November 25 (v. 58, i. 10).
Brody Swisher
2015
Member of first freshman class at Cascades campus. 13 files.
Campus
2012 February
Art classes, weight class, Cascades Hall interior, HDFS class, psych classes, art, liberal studies, Cascades interior, MAT, Andrew Dans. 3719 files.
Cappelli Miles
2001
"Move" :60 radio spot. 1 file.
Cappelli Miles, OSU Cascades campus radio
2001 October 10
1. Packing, 2. Natural beauty, 3. Natural beauty. 3 files.
Career fair
2005
3 files.
Cascades Campus images
2007-2008
Adventure, anatomy, miscellaneous, students, art, bookstore, business, counseling, miscellaneous, English, forestry, HDFS, library, natural resources, political science, Spanish, TOL. 1871 files.
Cascades Campus color images
2001
6 files.
Cascades Hall
2011
10 files.
Cascades Hall
2014 May 8
97 files.
2.16
Cascades Hall dedication guest book
2022 September 22
2.17
Cascades Hall opening
2002
Cascades TV1
2005
Leopold Ketel & Partners
2.18
Central Oregon Branch Campus: review of proposals and recommendations
2001 February 16
2.19
Central Oregon needs assessment
1998-2000
2.20
Central Oregon State University branch campus proposal (1 of 2)
2000
2.21
Central Oregon State University branch campus proposal (2 of 2)
2000
2.22
Central Oregon State University report
2000-2001
Includes operating budget proposal, strategy for expanding higher education, and requests for proposals.
2.23
Central Oregon State University support
2000-2001
Letters of support, editorials, letters to the editor, and news clippings in favor of Bend campus becoming branch of Oregon State University, instead of University of Oregon.
Ceremony gallery
2010
Public relations photos. 380 files.
Circle of excellence
2011 April 26
310 files.
2.24
The circle of excellence: making a difference for OSU-Cascades
undated
2.25
Commencement photos
2004 June 12
29 photographs.
Commencement
2005
76 files.
2.26
Commencement photos
2005 June 11
23 photographs.
Commencement
2006 June 17
113 files.
2.27
Commencement photos
2006 June 16
21 photographs.
2.28
Commencement photos
2007 June 16
Commencement
2007
318 files.
Commencement
2008
71 files.
Commencement; Botswana
2008
KOHD - Botswana, KTVZ - commencement.
Commencement and distinguished students
2011
1659 files.
Commencement, alumni portraits
2011
1029 files.
Commencement
2013
2325 files.
Commencement
2015
1438 files.
2.29
Commencement programs
2002-2014
Missing 2003, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Also includes distinguished student awards program for 2014 and 2017.
2.30
Continued education
2011
Three-day executive education courses for hospitality professionals.
Convocation
2015
75 files.
Counseling
2007
70 files.
Counseling
2010 March
Sky view. 230 files.
DVD video recording
2008
Engineering
2013
Chris Hagen. 405 files.
2.31
Enrollment data
2002-2003
Enrollment services
2005
11 files.
Events templates
2005
6 files.
Faculty
2008 October
29 files.
Faculty
2012
110 files.
Faculty
2013
644 files.
Faculty and staff
2008
30 files.
2.32
First Monday lecture series
2004-2005
2.33
Foundation case statement
2003
Preliminary analysis of OSU - Cascades Campus by Schneider & Associates - Consulting.
Governor Kulongoski
2003 January 8
80 files.
2.34
Governor's site visit
2003
2.35
Graduate programs
2010, undated
Graduation
2010
2050 files.
2.36
Handbook
2001
Handbook
2001
14 files.
Headshots
2015
Includes D. McGinnis, D. Siegel, J. Chavez, J. Hotchkiss, K. Handschuch, and T. Fisher.
High-res photos
2014 February 26
216 files.
2.37
Holiday cards
2003-2012, undated
Images used for presentation board
2006
23 files.
Impact
2013 May 13
684 files.
2.38
International business degree
2002 November
International business degree: a 21st Century model submitted by OSU Cascades Campus in partnership with the University of Cooperative Education, Bad Mergentheim, Germany, and Economic Development for Central Oregon. Submitted to the U.S. Office of Education Business and International Education Program.
International ecotourism photos
2003
15 files.
Intro
2013
2.39
It's in the bag! Lunchtime lectures
2007, undated
KOHD, Becky Johnson
2009 January 12
KOHD, Diana Sloane
2008 October 14
Lifestyle/class shoot
2008 January
2698 files.
Loren Irving landscapes
2001
6 files.
2.40
Media clippings
2000-2003
2.41
Memorandum of understanding
1995-2000
Mexico Winter Cascades adventures
2005
96 files.
Mill Point
2012 June
21 files.
Mill Point building
2012 March 26
11 files.
National student advertising competition
2008
Native American radio spots
2008
6 files.
Oregon ways and means
2009 April 29
Cascades Campus meeting.
OSU Banner pics
2009 May
3500 files.
2.42
OSU capital campaign
2006, 2009
OSU Cascades
2008 October
1401 files.
OSU Cascades campus dedication photos
2002 September 22
288 files.
OSU Cascades force lab
2014 May
425 files.
2.43
OSU Cascades Campus Foundation case statement
2007-2010
OSU Cascades student V1
2010
OSU Cascades window dub
2010
2.44
OSU-C search brochures
2003
Includes multiple versions of brochure promoting Cascades Campus and degrees offered.
2.45
OSU-COCC MOU
2001-2002
OSU commercial stills
2010 August
Taken by Lynn Woodward. 483 files.
OSU Day Cascades
2011
OSU graduation
2005
OSU pre-school
2015 October 2
100 files.
OSU President on higher education
2012 April 19
Ed Ray
OSU scholarship initiative
2008 September 10
Campaign for OSU, $100 million for students.
OSU-BOTC check
2016
28 files.
OSU-C
2012 January-2012 February
Photographs from anatomy class, VO2 max testing, and student government. 837 files.
OSU-C Cornell
2010
1526 files.
OSU-C and Cornell
2011 January
837 files.
OSU-C counseling
2010 March
614 files.
OSU-Cascades
2005
Includes photograph of Cascades Hall and OSU-Cascades logo. 3 files.
OSU-Cascades display
2005
43 files.
Outstanding seniors
2005 June 10
2 files.
2.46
Photographs
1999, undated
Includes building before OSU, business expo, OSU open house, Benny recruiting, and groundbreaking. 72 photographs.
Photographs CD
2003 May 22
Taken by Bob Barker. 948 files.
Photographs
2004 November 30
Neil Browne's humanities class, female student in green listening, Neil teaching, row of students in class, two students reading, blonde female student in Neil's class, UO anatomy and physiology lab, instructor, students studying bone, female student studying skull, instructor and skeleton, class with skull on table, male student writing on board, UO anatomy and physiology lab, portraits of Ainsley Harlan leaning on railing in Cascades Hall, portraits of Eli Pyke outside Cascades Hall, art students painting in art studio (including Paige Barnes and Jason Lovejoy), Sam Sheeley painting, portraits of Sam Sheeley in the art studio, portrait of male UO student leaning on soccer net, portraits of male UO student by soccer net, portraits of Matt sitting in trees, downtown Bend, Wall Street with scooter, Tower Theatre façade, Wall Street shop signs, Wall Street sidewalk and shops, McMenamins Brew Pub building, Old Mill District, UO female student studying in the library, library, library rotunda, Ainsley at computer in the library, study group in library, male student with laptop, and Allen Evans helping female student in red sweater. 516 files.
Photographs
2014 May
Bio lab, headshots, Matt Orr's class, Kim, Whitney, food carts, Topher, and James. 490 files.
Photos of Cascades Hall
2007 February 6
5 files.
Poster photos vol. 1
2008
34 files.
Professional photographs
2006
104 files.
2.47
Program brochures
2005-2007, undated
3.01
Recruit advertising
2001-2010
3.02
Recruit postcard mailings
undated
3.03
Registration information handbook
2004-2012
Retreat video, Mike Goodwin and Shawn Scoville interview
2011
1 file.
Retreat video, Rick Spinrad research office
2011
1 file.
Retreat video, Ron Adams interview
2011
1 file.
Room schedules
2005
185 files.
Sam Pool
2015 August 20
43 files.
Sandy Brooke art
2010
23 files.
3.04
Schedule of classes
2001-2002
Science Pub
2011 February 15
603 files.
3.05
Science Pub program
undated
A collaboration between OSU-Cascades and the OSU Alumni Association takes science out of the stuffy laboratory and into…your local pub!
3.06
Slides
2001
179 slides.
3.07
Student life
2011, undated
Student profiles
2012
Includes Chris Hagen, Katy Schroeder, Kevin Barnett, and Nick Bozilov. 960 files.
3.08
Student services and enrollment
2000-2001
Student teachers, Juniper and Bear Creek
2009 October
988 files.
3.09
Student welcome folder
2009
Suite poster
2009
1 file.
3.10
Summer learning in Central Oregon
2009-2010
Schedule of classes.
Talk of the Town
2011 January 31
The city of Bend's surface water plan.
Talk of the Town
2012 July 9
OSU-Cascades: what's next? 1 file.
3.11
Time capsule
1982-2016
3.12
Time capsule
2001-2002
3.13
A traveler's journal
2002
TV ad
2004 November 30
1 file.
3.14
Tykeson Hall and new campus
2016
Tykeson press conference
2012
395 files.
3.15
An unquiet mind
2011 October 25
Personal and professional reflections on mental illness event with Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison.
3.16
"UO curriculum"
2001
Original folder name retained.
3.17
"UO humanities"
2000-2002
Original folder name retained.
3.18
"UO stuff"
2001
Original folder name retained.
3.19
Updated Cascades visuals
2010-2011
3.20
Viewbook
2009-2012
Freshman and transfer student admission information.
Wahoo Films
2015
Raw footage with local Bend residents and business owners. Folders labeled as "Cascades Callie" and "OSU Cascades Converted." 87 files.