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23-645: The University of Washington Tacoma ( UW Tacoma ) is a campus of the University of Washington and located in Tacoma, Washington , United States. It is one of the three campuses of the public university . The UW Tacoma campus opened its first classrooms in repurposed warehouses in downtown Tacoma in 1990 and opened its permanent campus in 1997. Following the establishment of The Evergreen State College in Olympia in 1967, interest in additional higher education opportunities in

46-485: A Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1774. The field separated Princeton from the small nearby town. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called

69-793: A Hilltop site, an area adjacent to the Tacoma Community College campus, and a rural site near Interstate 5 in Fife . The Hilltop and Fife sites were eliminated by the Board of Regents in March 1990, while a smaller downtown site near Union Station was added to the list of finalists. The Union Station site was ultimately chosen for the permanent branch campus in November 1990. The University of Washington Tacoma campus began classes on October 1, 1990 in downtown Tacoma's historic Perkins Building . The 8 story structure

92-500: A campus, another called a field, and still another called a yard. The tradition of a campus began with the medieval European universities where the students and teachers lived and worked together in a cloistered environment. The notion of the importance of the setting to academic life later migrated to America, and early colonial educational institutions were based on the Scottish and English collegiate system. The campus evolved from

115-519: A permanent collection that includes work from artists such as Mary Cassatt , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Edgar Degas , Robert Henri , Edward Hopper , Robert Rauschenberg , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Jacob Lawrence , John Singer Sargent , and Andrew Wyeth . Nearly seventy percent of the collection consists of works from Northwest artists such as Guy Anderson , Morris Graves , Jacob Lawrence , Jared Pappas-Kelley , Akio Takamori , Mark Tobey , and Patti Warashina . Untitled - Stone Wave ,

138-540: Is a collaboration between the UW Tacoma and the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties. The Y is a 73,000 square foot facility that includes recreational and fitness spaces, an NCAA regulation gymnasium, cardio and weight training equipment, indoor track, and locker rooms. The facility is also a student center which houses student organization space, programming, and event spaces, as well as a student lounge and social spaces. The Ledger

161-537: Is an art museum in Tacoma, Washington , United States. It focuses primarily on the art and artists from the Pacific Northwest and broader western region of the U.S. Founded in 1935, the museum has strong roots in the community and anchors the university and museum district in downtown Tacoma . The Tacoma Art Museum developed out of the Tacoma Art League, an informal gathering that began around 1891. In

184-572: Is the Chihuly Bridge of Glass . The Chihuly Bridge of Glass is a pedestrian walkway that crosses over Interstate 705 and leads to the Museum of Glass . UW Tacoma offers 60 undergraduate majors and 15 graduate programs. Degrees are offered through the university's seven schools and one institute: Student on-campus housing is offered at UW Tacoma's Court 17 Residence Hall. The residence hall provides housing for 290 students. The University Y Student Center

207-451: Is the independent student-run newspaper of UW Tacoma. It publishes an eight-page edition every Monday during fall, winter, and spring academic quarters and posts content online. Campus A modern campus is a collection of buildings and grounds that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic. Examples include the Googleplex and Apple Park . The word derives from

230-596: The 1930s, it was renamed the Tacoma Art Society, before finally becoming the Tacoma Art Museum in 1964. The museum is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting the visual arts of the American Northwest, with the mission of bringing people together through art. The museum's permanent collection includes the premier collection of Tacoma native Dale Chihuly ’s glass artwork, on permanent public display. In 1971,

253-607: The L. T. Murray family (owners of the Murray Pacific Northwest timber company) gave the Tacoma Art Museum a three-story building at 12th Street and Pacific Avenue. Built in 1922, the building at 1123 Pacific Avenue previously housed the National Bank of Tacoma . In May 2003, the Tacoma Art Museum moved into a 50,000 square foot (4,650 m ) building located at 1701 Pacific Avenue, which was designed by Antoine Predock . The $ 22 million steel and glass structure nearly doubled

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276-649: The South Sound continued to grow. In 1986, the Higher Education Coordination Board suggested branch campuses for both the University of Washington and Washington State University . Tacoma and Bothell were chosen as new UW campus sites, and three locations were selected for new WSU campuses: Vancouver , the Tri-Cities and Spokane . The initial goal of the new campuses was to provide further education for

299-554: The available space, allowing the museum to exhibit more of its permanent collection. In designing the building, Predock drew inspiration from the region's light and its relationship to the water, Mount Rainier , the Thea Foss Waterway , and the neighborhood's industrial history and character in what is now known as the Tacoma Museum District. A $ 15.5 million building project expansion designed by Olson Kundig Architects

322-428: The broader world, with most representing several different contemporary and historical styles and arrangements. The meaning expanded to include the whole university institutional property during the 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. In the early 1990s the term began to be used to describe a company's office building complex, most notably when Apple 's Infinite Loop campus

345-714: The campus library formerly served as the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company's transformer house. Building names such as Mattress Factory and West Coast Grocery recall the structures' earlier uses. Transportation within the downtown area was improved with the addition of Sound Transit 's 1.6-mile Tacoma Link light rail line in 2003. Following several years of transfer-only undergraduate admissions, UW Tacoma admitted its first freshman class of just under 200 students in Autumn of 2006. UW Tacoma expects to continue to increase enrollment and add additional buildings. In March 2011,

368-451: The campus opened the renovated Russell T. Joy Building, the last of the formerly blighted warehouse buildings along the campus' Pacific Avenue boundary. The campus purchased Court 17 Apartments in 2016 as a dorm that now houses 290 students. As of September 2016 the campus had 5000 students. Tacoma School of the Arts (SOTA) students use UWT classroom space for their humanities classes. In return,

391-551: The cloistered model in Europe to a diverse set of independent styles in the United States. Early colonial colleges were all built in proprietary styles, with some contained in single buildings, such as the campus of Princeton University or arranged in a version of the cloister reflecting American values, such as Harvard's. Both the campus designs and the architecture of colleges throughout the country have evolved in response to trends in

414-734: The design of the campus, the UW Tacoma honored the traditions of the Northern Pacific Railway and its part in establishing the city of Tacoma. Located on the east side of the campus across Pacific Ave are the Washington State History Museum , the Tacoma Art Museum , the beautifully reconstructed Union Station, and the Children's Museum of Tacoma. On the north side of the Washington State History Museum

437-506: The growing numbers of community college transfer students, as well as "time bound, place bound" students with limited access to educational opportunities in programs with "demonstrated regional needs." The University of Washington Board of Regents selected four finalist sites for the Tacoma-area campus in September 1989 out of a pool of 20 reviewed sites: a 79-acre (32 ha) downtown site,

460-552: The university uses SOTA's artistic resources for evening classes. The 46-acre campus is located on a hillside at the southern edge of downtown Tacoma, overlooking the Port of Tacoma and Mount Rainier . Set in the historic Union Station District, UW Tacoma renovated century-old, brick buildings that were built by businesses that depended on the railroad in the late 1880s and early 1900s. The university has earned architectural awards for transforming these buildings into modern classrooms. In

483-441: Was chosen in part for its capacity; during UW Tacoma's early years and construction of the permanent campus further south, enrollments comprised a maximum of approximately 401 juniors and seniors. During this time, downtown Tacoma's appearance and local reputation began to change. The current campus celebrated its long-awaited opening on May 29, 1997. Since the opening of the first building, several others have been renovated. Part of

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506-580: Was completed in November 2014. The expansion, which houses the Haub Family Collection of Western American Art, added approximately 16,000 square feet (1500 m ) to the museum. TAM's current Executive Director is Andy Maus who began in 2023 one month before the museum board voluntarily recognized the employee organized union after heavy controversy. The museum exhibits more than 5,400 pieces in its collection, two-thirds of which are classified as Northwest art. Since 1934, Tacoma Art Museum has built

529-847: Was first built, which at the time was exclusively for research and development. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington , is another example of this usage, although it was built in the 1980s, before the term was applied to company property. In the 21st century, hospitals and even airports sometimes use the term to describe the territory of their respective facilities. The word campus has also been applied to European universities, although some such institutions (in particular, "ancient" universities such as Bologna , Padua , Oxford and Cambridge ) are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in university town -like urban settings rather than sprawling park-like lawns in which buildings are placed. Tacoma Art Museum The Tacoma Art Museum (TAM)

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