Linfield University is a private liberal arts college with campuses in McMinnville, and Portland, Oregon.

The group included William Dawson, James McBride, Newby, and Adams, and they bore the major part of the expenses of starting the school.

Linfield offered buyouts to 13 professors in liberal-arts programs with shrinking enrollment in 2019, shortly after President Miles K. Davis arrived.

"Linfield has used an image of an acorn as part of its logo design since 2010, and a representation of an oak leaf in years previous to that.

Davis denied the allegations in a letter to the Anti-Defamation League, which has suggested an investigation into the claims as well as anti-Semitism and bias training for institutional leaders.

One of the faculty members filed a complaint with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, claiming religious retaliation and harassment by Davis and Baca.

[20] The college fired one of the whistleblowers, a Jewish tenured professor, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner,[21][22] who filed a lawsuit against the school.

Its most popular majors, based on 2023 graduates, were:[31] Linfield has a dual enrollment agreement with Portland Community College.

[34] In 2023, Linfield signed a memorandum of understanding with Sias University in Zhengzhou, China, which calls for the development of a joint-supervision dual degree program and mutual student exchanges.

Washington Monthly identifies Linfield as one of the top liberal arts colleges nationally, including it on its ranking lists from 2019-2023.

[45] Also in 2015, Linfield was ranked among the best in the Pacific Northwest when it comes to admitting students from disadvantaged families and helping them move up the economic ladder.

[47] Linfield University was included in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's annual list of "10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" in 2022.

[48] Linfield's efforts towards sustainability earned it a place on Princeton Review's "Guide to Green Colleges" list from 2010-2024.

"[54] Pioneer Hall, the oldest building at Linfield University, opened in 1883 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[57] In February 2021, Linfield opened a 20-acre campus in northeast Portland, acquired from the University of Western States, to house its nursing school.

Top athletics alumni include former New York Yankee Scott Brosius, who was the head baseball coach at the college for eight years until 2015;[66] former San Diego Charger Brett Elliott, the quarterback of the 2004 championship team; and former Miami Dolphins general manager, Randy Mueller, quarterback of Linfield's 1982 NAIA Championship squad.

The Associated Students of Linfield University (ASLU) or the Wildcat Entertainment Board (WEB) sponsor all clubs and student-led activities.

[70] In 2021, the publication received 10 awards from the Pacific Northwest Association of Journalism Educators for its website and individual pieces of content by the student staff.

[71] Outgoing editor Maddie Loverich was received the 2021 Region 10 Mark of Excellence Award for sports writing (small division) for her article, "Freshman makes big impact for Linfield softball.

"[72] This student-run club promotes the creation, production and recording of original podcasts by Linfield students and employees.

The Linfield Pawdcat Network is run out of the Student Media Center in Renshaw Hall, the location of the former student-run radio station, 90.3 KSLC.

[73] Kendall Harrison and Nathaly Sanchez received honorable mentions in the NPR Podcast Challenge in April 2021.

[75] Linfield's McMinnville campus has a patch of camas growing on it that faculty and students have restored and hope to propagate.

[75] The festival features tours of the Cozine Creek area where the camas grows, as well as other educational and cultural tables and activities.

This recurring event was named in honor of Congresswoman Edith Green, who served as a trustee for Linfield College starting in 1970.

Guests have included chef Susan Feniger, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Steve Kurkjian, photographer Joey Terrill, Warner Brothers Discovery executive Peter Clem, Dark Horse Comics CEO and founder Mike Richardson, and filmmaker and composer Liz Lachman.

[56] The symposium evolved out of a lecture series organized by Bill Apel, then the campus chaplain and religious studies professor, who had coordinated smaller events on the topic of world peace.

Past Nobel Prize winners who have spoken at the symposium include Elie Wiesel in 1988, Franco Modigliani in 1989, Oscar Arias in 1998, Jose Ramos-Horta in 2000, and Harold Kroto in 2011.

This includes: Notable graduates of Linfield University include Scott Brosius, former New York Yankee and 1998 World Series MVP; Kenneth Scott Latourette, scholar of Christianity and Chinese History; Douglas Robinson, translation theorist; First Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, pilot in Operation Vengeance; actress Aparna Brielle; and Joe Medicine Crow, Native American historian and the only Linfield University graduate to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Among those who attended but did not graduate from Linfield are Amy Tan,[82] the award-winning author of The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Kitchen God's Wife; and Mark Few, head basketball coach at Gonzaga University since 1999.