Dec. 11, 2025 | University leaders say the unification would expand academic pathways by giving the universities’ roughly 6,000 students access to opportunities across both institutions, writes the Forest Grove News-Times.

Dec. 11, 2025 | Pacific University's leaders say the move could position the two schools for the future, writes the Portland Business Journal.

Dec. 11, 2025 | “We are at a defining moment where we need to be thinking about doing things differently,” Pacific President Jenny Coyle told The Oregonian. “So can we have this larger university system that can navigate change and be more fluid, with greater resources, with more people power and more brain trust?”

Dec. 11, 2025 | Oregon’s two oldest private universities say their plan to consolidate will benefit students, the state’s workforce and help future-proof the institutions, writes OPB.

Dec. 11, 2025 | The Salem Reporter outlines plans between Pacific University and Willamette University to explore creating the largest private university in Oregon.

Dec. 3, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times profiled Boxer Food Share, Pacific's food bank on the Forest Grove Campus, and the service it provides to students and staff facing food insecurity.

Nov. 26, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times writes about Pacific's Indigenous Student Alliance, which took part in a wapato planting project with Friends of Trees at the Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Gaston on November 22.

Nov. 26, 2025 | Living808 on Honolulu's KHON-TV featured Pacific University and how Pacific provides a second home to students from Hawai'i. Donna Ramos Barsana '08, associate director of undergraduate admissions, and T.C. Campbell '14 talked about how the university makes Hawai'i students feel welcome.

Nov. 13, 2025 | Professor of Politics & Government Jules Boykoff was quoted in a Portland Tribune story on the difference between the administration's perception of violence in Portland and arrest data. "There has long been a significant mismatch between what Trump administration officials claim is happening in Portland and what is actually happening."

Nov. 6, 2025 | Associate Professor Of Criminal Justice, Law & Society Aimee Wodda and co-author Allyn Walker write about their book "Abolition & Queer Justice," with a light on recent protests of actions by the Trump Administration.