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ACCELERATING

INNOVATION PHIL AND PENNY KNIGHT’S CONTRIBUTION OF $500 MILLION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IS THE LARGEST SINGLE DONATION IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES. Obtaining this gift took over a year but is now coming to fruition in the shape of a sciencebased campus.

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Robin Holmes served as VP for student life for 10 years. (Emerald Archives)

VP FOR STUDENT LIFE ROBIN HOLMES LEAVES FOR UC SYSTEM

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Tuesday marked Robin Holmes last day as vice president for student life after serving at the University of Oregon for 25 years.

She accepted a position as the vice president for student affairs with the University of California system, according to her announcement.

Her position will temporarily be filled by Kevin Marbury, the current director of physical education and recreation at UO. Marbury earned his Ph.D. in higher education administration at the University of North Texas in 1992. Holmes was formerly the director of recreation and wellness at Old Dominion University and vice president for student life at Edward Waters College.

The Emerald could not reach Marbury for comment.

The vice president for student life office encompasses many departments outside of the classroom. These departments include the Career Center, the Counseling and Testing Center, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Erb Memorial Union, the University Health Center, the Holden Center for Leadership and Community Engagement, University Housing, and the Department of Physical Education

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and Recreation, according to the Division of Student Life.

In an interview with the Emerald, Holmes said she sees the move to the UC system as an upgrade because she hopes to influence youth to pursue higher education in a way that reflects shifting demographics.

“Holmes said the future of student life will be ‘less clear and direct’ because of staff turnover.

However, she’s confident in the abilities of her successor.”

Among her notable achievements as vice president for student life, Holmes listed building a strong strategic plan. Holmes said the school had an “almost anti-strategic plan” when she accepted the position of vice president for student life 10 years ago.

“Although that leads to a lot of creativity and

innovation and a feeling of freedom, it doesn’t lead to much success,” she said.

Holmes also united various departments at UO and pushed the effort to renovate the Erb Memorial Union and the Student Recreation Center.

Holmes said she wishes her time at UO would have allowed her and the administration to build a stronger and more fluid relationship with the student government.

“We’ve had years when it’s been really tough,” she said.

Holmes responded to the Shasta Lake littering incident earlier this year, which made national news and sparked outrage. She said she thinks there are missed opportunities in fraternity and sorority life and wishes she was able to do more to push students to use student life as leadership experience.

Holmes closed her Eugene clinical therapy private practice, which consulted with universities and corporations on diversity issues.

She said the future of student life will be “less clear and direct” because of staff turnover, but said she is confident in the abilities of her successor.

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THE $500 MILLION IDEA

A digital representation of The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. (Photo courtesy of Around the O)

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University of Oregon President Michael Schill came to Eugene 15 months ago with a vision.

He brought together faculty from multiple disciplines and told them to dream big, as if money were no concern. The result of this vision may create a paradigm shift in scientific research.

The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is funded by the largest single financial endowment to a public university in history — a $500 million donation given to the UO Foundation by the Knights. “The initial idea was to consider how the impact of scientific research done on campus could be amplified,� said Karen Guillemin, a biology professor and member of the initial group. “When we were doing this planning,

it seemed like a complete pie in the sky, so the actual reality that we got the gift was pretty mind blowing.�

Public universities rarely receive gifts on this scale. Earlier this year, Knight gave $400 million to Stanford as the founding gift for the Knight-Hennessey Scholars Program. In 2015, he gave OHSU $500 million on the condition it raise another $500 million. Last year, John Paulson, an American hedge fund manager, donated $400 million to his alma mater, Harvard, to support its engineering school.

This donation gives UO a chance to branch out in new ways. UO is breaking from the traditional mold with a focus on how the science is done as opposed to why. “The scale of the gift is unprecedented,� said

“The initial idea was to consider how the impact of scientific research done on campus could be amplified�

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Patrick Phillips, the acting executive director of the Knight Campus. “These are gifts we are used to seeing going to Stanford, Harvard or CalTech ‌ . It makes you think, ‘What does this mean for UO?’â€?

The UO Foundation could have built and staffed a medical or engineering school, focusing on a specific science. Instead, it chose to reinvest in the culture of innovation at UO. According to chemistry professor Jim Hutchison, even in the early stages of planning, the idea of building an engineering or medical school was never a consideration. The UO wanted to build upon existing strengths of the university — using fundamental science to help inform public policy, shape new technologies and solve social issues. “We laid a foundation for this already and this gift really helps us put that on steroids,�

Hutchison said.

The university started the initial conversation

with the Knights over the winter of 2015 and got a response in spring. The university and the Knights signed a formal gift agreement on Oct. 8, 2016.

When scientists make discoveries, they do deliberate things to translate those ideas, Hutchison said, and those translations have impacts that emerge in two ways: as ideas for new research projects or resources that help draw research grants. This is called an impact cycle.

“Each time you cycle through that impact cycle, it gets stronger and stronger,” Hutchison said. “That was the idea we pitched … our emphasis on that impact is what we took to [the Knights].”

The Knight Campus is designed to maintain excellent research while improving the applications of new findings for practical use.

The Knight Campus proposes a new way to approach scientific discovery: one that is focused on the how — incubating ideas and innovations broadly rather than working toward a specific goal.

“We have been so rooted in fundamental science we didn’t want to anchor ourselves to only one way to solve, but a whole way of knowing and doing,” Hutchison said. “This will change the culture of how we do science here. It’ll have the biggest impact because we are focusing on the process, the methods by which everybody does this across many different topics rather than focusing on just one problem.”

The feeling a new era is emerging in Eugene is felt nationwide as major publications such as the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have published stories about the historic donation.

“People are wildly enthusiastic about it,” Bill Harbaugh, Faculty Senate president, said about the atmosphere on campus. “It’s a huge amount for a very sensible thing.”

Some faculty were notified before the announcement.

“They tell people a few days in advance, swear you to secrecy kind of thing,” Harbaugh said. “[It’s] standard practice, makes people feel closer to the center.”

Thanks to the magnitude of the gift, the university has the opportunity to grow without taking away from any other areas such as English or music education, Phillips said.

“The other really important thing about this gift is that it’s big enough to be completely self-funding,” Phillips said. “No existing resources on campus are going to be used to support this.”

This is not the Knights’ first contribution to the university; the name is on multiple campus buildings.

In 1994, the library gained the Knight name after a $27 million renovation was partly covered by the Knights.

In 1996 they donated $10 million toward building the William W. Knight Law Center across from Hayward Field. In the same year they donated $15 million toward the Knight Endowed Chairs and Professorships.

The Knights have donated even more generously to the athletic department. They donated $30 million for the renovation of Autzen Stadium in 2002, $41 million for the Jaqua Center in 2010, $100 million to build Matthew Knight Arena in 2011, $68 million for the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex and the Football Operations Center in 2013, and $19 million for the new Mariota Sports Performance Complex.

With the Knights’ history of giving, the university was expecting a contribution soon; it just didn’t have a plan.

“People knew Phil Knight was going to give money at some point, but there’s been so much turnover in administration, nobody had come up with a coherent plan on how it would benefit the university,” Harbaugh said. “No donor is going to give a few hundred thousand as a ‘trust me’ without a plan.”

The plan for the Knight Campus is to set a new benchmark for university research.

“Every single student, every single staff member, every single faculty member should be excited and proud about what’s going on,” Phillips said. “This does draw recognition to the university that is unprecedented.”

Phil Knight UO Alumnus, co-founder of Nike Inc.

Michael Schill University of Oregon President

Patrick Phillips Acting Executive Director of Knight Campus

Jim Hutchinson Lokey-Harrington Chair in chemistry

Karen Guillemin Biology Professor Director of META Center for Systems Biology Photos courtesy of Around the O and Ryan Kang

KNIGHT CAMPUS BY THE NUMBERS GIFT: $500 MILLION TOTAL FUNDRAISING: $1 BILLION NEW BUILDINGS: 3 SQUARE FOOTAGE: 210,000 TIME TO BUILD: 10 YEARS PERMANENT JOBS: 750-1,000 NEW FACULTY: 30 M O N D AY, O C T O B E R 2 4 , 2 0 1 6

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Cheerleaders and various athletes attending the game wore “BEOREGON” shirts as part of the new movement for inclusion and equality. (Amanda Shigeoka)

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The University of Oregon athletic department is known across the country as an institution that thinks outside the box in all facets. The same can be said for its newest campaign, which launched earlier this school year.

A partnership between Oregon and Nike, the BEOREGON initiative was launched as “a call to action for all Ducks to be their most authentic selves.” Oregon is currently the only school with this student-athlete initiative inspired by Nike’s BETRUE campaign.

“It’s about starting conversations,” said Lisa Peterson, a senior associate athletic director for Oregon. “Sport is that level playing field that breaks down the barriers where everyone is included.”

Whether the conversation involves faith, race, sexual orientation or other diversity issues, the initiative seeks to welcome all students, no matter their circumstances or origin. “[It’s about] having a judge-free zone and accepting people for who they are,” women’s soccer head coach Kat Mertz said. “I’m extremely proud to be at a university that supports diversity inclusion.”

Talks of the initiative began roughly two years ago. Oregon’s community and inclusion committee and Nike worked out the details to make it a reality. The Ducks unveiled the campaign last month.

“We found the right people at Nike; we were able to make those connections and then roll out the idea,” assistant athletic director Katie Harbert said.

Through the partnership, BEOREGON helps to define the culture at Oregon, where everybody is included.

“The intent was internally from our staff to student-athletes that they feel supported and included,” said Peterson. “This seems new, but it’s really just the definition of BEOREGON that is new.”

The initiative is specific to Oregon. The

colors in the logo represent colors of jerseys Oregon sports teams have worn in the past, including different shades of yellow, green, pink and orange.

Many of the messages behind BEOREGON have centered around Oregon student athletes. The initiative has given students a platform to talk about issues of diversity.

“The student athletes have taken it and run … They understand what it means,” Harbert said.

Oregon hopes to incorporate at least one BEOREGON event per month. Peterson said nine Duck teams so far have been interested in incorporating campaign elements for their sports. Women’s soccer and volleyball have participated so far, along with women’s golf wearing the BEOREGON shirts at a recent tournament.

Women’s basketball will have its BEOREGON event on Nov. 22 versus Michigan State, and the men’s team will have its on Dec. 3 versus Savannah State. At these events, guest speakers will talk about what the initiative means to them.

“It’s about building the culture … I’m glad to see the community is getting behind it,” Oregon men’s basketball’s Dylan Ennis said earlier this month at a volleyball game.

Harbert said many schools nationally have reached out to Oregon to learn how they can adapt this initiative for their own campuses.

There is no doubt the wide outreach of Oregon sports has provided a strong platform for BEOREGON’s message to be heard and start public conversation. The overarching goal of the initiative is to make everyone feel included, be it students, staff or members of the community. The initiative hopes to promote a welcoming atmosphere for those who want their voice heard.

“BEOREGON means a lot to our team,” women’s soccer player Bayley Bruner said.

“It can mean different things for different people. It’s something that we hold high to ourselves and we’re proud to represent it.”

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