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Dec. 11, 2025 | "We really want to be an institution that can nimbly respond and provide what our future students need, and what our state needs," Pacific President Jenny Coyle told KGW in Portland.

Dec. 11, 2025 | KOIN-TV in Portland covers the proposed merger between Pacific and Willamette.

Dec. 11, 2025 | Inside Higher Ed reports Pacific and Willamette have signed a letter of intent to merge.

Dec. 11, 2025 | Forbes covers the potential merger of Pacific and Willamette universities.

Dec. 11, 2025 | Each university would maintain separate admissions requirements, academic programs and athletics, but students will be offered preferred admissions for advanced degree paths once enrolled, writes University Business.

Dec. 11, 2025 | The Statesman Journal covers the potential merger of ������Ƶ and Willamette University.

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 | ������Ƶ'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.