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#Osu cascadea series

If you want to join a tour for prospective students, go to 3.

Because the site is terraced, these buildings appear from the edge of campus to be just one story tall, even lower than the private developments across Chandler Avenue.Ī young woman in an orange OSU-Cascades T-shirt is walking backwards and speaking to a tour group. In the heart of the development is the quiet academic core of the university. So even as the campus master plan was approved in 2018, officials didn’t know exactly what each building in the plan would be used for-or even what topics the students and faculty inside would be studying. And Julie Gess-Newsome, dean of academic affairs, said that for the first decade or so, two to five new academic programs would be added each year. Kelly Sparks, associate vice president for finance and strategic planning, estimated in 2018 that a new building would be constructed every couple of years, as 200 to 300 more students join the ranks. Population growth in Central Oregon has far outpaced student enrollment. The low-slung, modern-style buildings, all clad in neutral colors, recede into the sagebrush and ponderosas.

“We’re specifically designing it so it invites people on campus.”Ī total of over ten miles of soft trails and paved bike paths zig zag across the campus, which is quiet despite the steady stream of students and joggers. It is “a really beautiful campus with lots of space for people to access, whether walking your dog or taking a bike ride or coming for a lecture or maybe some music event,” said Becky Johnson, vice president of OSU-Cascades. Forget about ivy-covered brick walls, this is not that kind of college. Park your car or dock your bike and take a moment to look around. They zoom along bike lanes and paths to avoid traffic jams, occasionally using the boost of an electric engine to arrive at class without breaking a sweat or burning a drop of fossil fuels. Watch out for bikes! Especially the electric ones now preferred by students and faculty.

#Osu cascadea series

Zip around a series of new roundabouts to arrive on campus. If you want to visit the surrounding area of Bend, go to 2.If you want to visit the campus, go to 1.The campus got final approval for its long range development plan in the middle of 2018. Many Bend residents had barely glimpsed the 128- acre site, which housed an old landfill and 100-foot-deep pumice mine, long cordoned off by chain-link fences and berms. In 2015, the university broke ground on a permanent home on the west side of Bend, despite opposition from neighbors concerned about traffic and an already crowded housing market. OSU-Cascades officially opened its doors in 2001, holding classes on the Central Oregon Community College campus.

You drive through Bend, population 150,000, following signs to the local campus of Oregon State University.