George Fox University History

       

      In 1893, the college was incorporated as a joint-stock company and became a four-year school in 1925.[9] Herbert Hoover's uncle Dr. H. T. Minthorn served as the school's first president, and Hoover was an early on student at the senior high. The school's name was changed to George Fox College in 1949 to honor George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement.

From 1991 to 2010, George Fox provided each traditional undergraduate student with a computer.[citation needed] In 1996, the college or university merged with European Evangelical Seminary to create George Fox University.[10] Dwight Kimberly, a co-employee professor of biology, received the Carnegie Foundation's Oregon Professor of the Year award in 2k. Rhett Luedtke, an associate professor of Theatre, was one of just three faculty associates chosen nationally to get a National Directing Fellow Prize from the John Farreneheit. Kennedy Center this season.

The university student body has exploded more than 500% since 1986, when enrollment was 549. Using more than 4, 100 students in Newberg, Portland, Salem, with other teaching sites in Oregon, George Fox has become the second-largest private school in Oregon.

In 2014, prompted with a housing dispute concerning a transgender student, George Fox University sought and received an exemption from Title IX's requirements with respect to transgender students.

In 2015, the school completed structure of a new property hall, Brandt Hall, known as honoring former school director David H. Brandt and his wife, Melva. Construction work also started out in 2015 on a new eating hall, Canyon Commons, that opened in late 2016.