College moved to Oregon in 1940 to its current campus in the Mount Tabor neighborhood of Southeast Portland. In 1959, it was renamed as "Warner Pacific College," and in 1961 received full accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The university long sought to expand its campus, most recently (in 2006) pursuing the purchase of a nine-acre portion of city property adjoining the park. In its negotiations, the university was represented by attorney and former Parks commissioner Jim Francesconi, but that deal fell through when the neighborhood association got wind of negotiations and felt that the sale of the public land was improper.
The college was ranked as the sixth best among western regional colleges by U.S. News & World Report in 2016. In 2018, the school changed its name to Warner Pacific University, and (with 30.1% of its student body identifying as Latino or Hispanic) it became the first four-year college or university in Oregon to be designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution …
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