Western Reserve University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California.
Graduate enrollment peaked during the 1978-79 academic year at 4,568. From 1970 to 1979, 2,614 doctoral degrees were awarded at UO cumulatively.
From 1970 to 1979, 817 UO undergraduate students would go on to earn doctoral degrees at UO or another institution. Despite increases in total undergraduate enrollment since the 60s and 70s, fewer UO undergraduate students would go on to earn doctorates in the 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s.
Prominent UO researchers of this era include Michael Posner, Frank Stahl, George Streisinger and Aaron Novick.
UO experienced state disinvestment in the 1980s during the tenure of president Paul Olum. Further state disinvestment occurred during the 1990s and during the Great Recession. Many programs have been scaled back or eliminated.
=== Recent history ===
In recent years UO's administration and Board of Trustees have approved hundreds of millions of dollars in construction projects. …
