Uncommon Good
by Dave Frohnmayer
The University’s outgoing president reflects on the university as an enduring institution and considers future challenges and opportunities for the UO.
PHOTO BY IAN BRADSHAW
Numbered Days
by Harold Toliver
Live and learn? In the winning essay of the 2009
Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest Harold Toliver ’54 considers how differently he’d view the world if he’d paid better attention as an undergraduate.
CREATIVE COMMONS PHOTO BY JEFF WILCOX
¿Podemos?
by Alice Tallmadge
Latinos are the most rapidly growing group in Oregon’s K–12 school system. Can we attract them to and keep them in our state universities?
PHOTO BY JOHN BAUGUESS
Hope, But Verify
by Todd Schwartz
As president and CEO of Portland’s Urban League, Marcus Mundy has plenty of reason for hope, but he’s still in the accountability business.
PHOTO BY TIM LABARGE
