Environment &
Natural Systems
Read a landscape. Ask better questions about the systems that sustain it.
Explore the divisionAlderwick College · Eugene, Oregon
A closer kind
of college
experience.
Study beside people who know your questions. Build work that reaches beyond the classroom.
2,400students, with room
to know one another
to know one another
12undergraduate
majors to explore
majors to explore
68acres of campus
and possibility
and possibility
1978the beginning
of our story
of our story
A small college. An expansive education.
There is more to learning
when you look closely.
At Alderwick, a question raised in a seminar might lead to a field notebook, a studio wall or a conversation with the person sitting beside you.
Our independent, residential college in Eugene brings the liberal arts into everyday practice. You will find a shared core, twelve distinct majors and faculty who make time for the work in between.
Get to know AlderwickAcademics at Alderwick
Follow a question.
Find your direction.
Environment &
Technology
& Design
Bring technical understanding and creative practice into the same room.
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People
& Enterprise
Explore how people learn, organize and care for one another.
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The world is part of the classroom.
Some questions
ask you to step
outside.
At Fern Creek, students turn a stretch of water into a practice of close observation. In the Community Studio, a useful question becomes a shared project.
Fieldwork is a way to test an idea, learn a method and return with something worth discussing.
A teaching day at Fern Creek
Life between classes
A college day
has plenty of
room in it.
A quiet corner in Rowan Library. A shared table at The Commons. A club meeting that turns into a new friendship. There is more than one way to feel at home here.
The Alderwick journal
What is taking
shape here.
New work, everyday discoveries and the people making them possible.
Read our fieldwork storyPicture yourself here.
Walk the quad. Sit in on a conversation. Bring your questions.