Western Oregon University received Tree Campus USA recognition in 2015, 2016 and 2017 from the Arbor Day Foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
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Points of Pride<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n(verified\u00a08\/2018<\/span>)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \t- Western Oregon University is fully accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University was recognized in 2018 as being the top four-year university in Oregon for Criminal Justice and Corrections careers by Correctional Officer.org.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University was recognized in 2018 as the No. 73-ranked best regional universities in the West by U.S. News and World Report and No. 22 among best public universities in the West.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University was recognized in 2016-2017 as the No. 11-ranked university for gerontology, according to online source Great Value Colleges. It is the only university Oregon that offers a bachelor\u2019s degree in gerontology.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The university also is in compliance with the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, which authorizes teacher preparation programs offered by Oregon higher education institutions.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The SafeWise Report ranks Monmouth as No. 12 on the 2018 list of the top 20 safest cities in Oregon.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Ackerman Hall, built in 2010, was the first LEED Platinum residence hall in the U.S. The Western Oregon University campus has multiple buildings built to LEED Gold and Silver standards.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University has been designated as a Military Friendly School since 2012. In, 2018, the university\u2019s status improved from silver to gold.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University\u2019s chapter of Student Veterans of American won the \u201cBest Chapter in the Nation\u201d award in 2018 from that organization.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University is among the top 200 colleges for Native Americans according to \u201cWinds of Change\u201d magazine\u2019s 2018 college edition.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University has had 21 NACADA The Global Community for Academic Advising awardees since 2008.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University is the top mainland university for Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students according to a February 2017 report in the Chronicle of Higher Education.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The 2015-2016 Western Oregon University men\u2019s basketball team went to the NCAA Division II Final Four.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The 2017-2018 Western Oregon University men\u2019s basketball team reached the regional championship game in NCAA Division II and was ranked No. 3 nationally.<\/li>\r\n \t
- In 2008, then-WOU softball player Sara Tucholsky and two players from Central Washington University won the \u201cbest moment\u201d ESPY award for a viral video about sportsmanship. Clips from the video are still used today in campaigns by national companies to demonstrate the nature\r\nof kindness in the human spirit.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The Western Oregon University baseball team held the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship for 16 of the past 17 years.<\/li>\r\n \t
- The Western Oregon University 2017 men\u2019s cross-country team won the Great Northwest Athletic Conference title.<\/li>\r\n \t
- In 2017, the Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Conference executive board selected Western Oregon University to be the permanent home of the event, which gathers 2,000-plus Latino\/a students to learn leadership skills.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Western Oregon University received Tree Campus USA recognition in 2015, 2016 and 2017 from the Arbor Day Foundation.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1255\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}