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A college-sized gift
UO's $1 billion gift will create a new engineering college
Phil and Penny Knight's latest donation is set to establish the Knight College of Engineering, adding a college-sized commitment to a field UO has been building through the Knight Campus.
A single gift will create an entire engineering college at the University of Oregon. Phil and Penny Knight are giving UO $1 billion for the new Knight College of Engineering, according to an early-morning university announcement reported by Lookout Eugene-Springfield. The university described it as the largest gift made to a comprehensive public university.
The scale is easier to grasp beside the recent history: since 2016, the Knights have already given $2 billion to create and expand the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. That campus houses UO's bioengineering work and graduate technical training; the new college is a much larger institutional step.
The announcement is still early. UO had not yet published the full program map, enrollment timeline, faculty plan or budget breakdown on its public news pages when this edition was checked. Those details will decide what the gift means for students, hiring and Oregon's engineering workforce. The billion is real; the blueprint is still arriving.