Closure
How Cascade College ended in 2009, and how the campus found its way back to Columbia Christian in 2012.
2009
Facing enrollment and financial pressures, the boards of Oklahoma Christian University and Cascade College decided to end bachelor's programs on the Portland campus at the close of the 2008–09 school year. For students, faculty and staff, the news came as a shock. Cascade held its final semester that spring.
2012
Columbia Christian Schools, which sits right next to the old college campus, began raising money to buy the property soon after the closure was announced. In June 2012, it purchased the campus, bringing the land back into the family of the school where the whole story began in 1947.