He oversaw its growth into a degree-granting senior college and graduate institution.
The university is composed of seven degree-granting colleges and has a student body of 25,000 with over 225,000 alumni.
During his time as president Multnomah came to reside on its current campus, and became a degree-granting college.
It was accredited in 1972 as a degree-granting college.
By 1922 the school had been chartered independently as a four-year, degree-granting college.
It became a degree-granting four-year college complete with a training department in 1952.
The biggest transition came in 1992 as Hilbert moved to a four-year bachelor's degree-granting college.
This school began as a business institute, but now is an accredited degree-granting college.
On July 9, 1994, the federal and provincial governments agreed to maintain it as a non degree-granting college.
First, the school must eventually become a degree-granting college.