it is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics competing in the Cascade Collegiate Conference.
== History ==
The institution was established in 1935 in Phoenix, Arizona, as the Phoenix Bible Institute by Evangelist Leland Entrekin and Roy Bancroft. The college moved in 1946 to Oakland, California, and took the name Western Baptist Bible College, affiliated with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC). In 1969, the college moved to Salem, Oregon. In July 1969, the administrators paid $5,000 as a down payment for the 100-acre campus. The down payment was then adopted as the college's new address: 5000 Deer Park Drive. The transaction was personally overseen and signed by then Oregon Governor Tom McCall.
The school shortened its name to Western Baptist College in 1978. In the 1970s, Western added liberal arts to its ministry programs. Thomas Younger, the college's sixth president, helped institute the School of Education and the School of Business. Reno Hoff became …
