Oregon Humanities

Humanity in Perspective Celebrates 10th Graduating Class

Oregon Humanities’ free college course for low-income adults marks anniversary.

10 March 2011 | Permalink

Humanity in Perspective (HIP), Oregon Humanities’ free college humanities course for low-income adults, will graduate its tenth class at Reed College’s Vollum Lounge, 3203 SE Woodstock Ave., Portland, at 3:00 p.m. on April 10, 2011. The ceremony and reception to follow are free and open to the public.

Kim Stafford, poet, essayist, and professor at Lewis & Clark College, will deliver the commencement address.

The 2011 class of fifteen brings the total number of graduates since 2001 to one hundred and fourteen. Another thirty-five students have completed one semester of the two-semester course, which is taught by Reed College professors. A second course, taught in Salem by Willamette University faculty, was launched in 2009. HIP students have gone on to study at Portland Community College, Portland State University, and Marylhurst University.