For the first time since its founding 12 years ago, all graduates from Oregon State University-Cascades this year will carry away diplomas bearing the name of just one school, Oregon State University, the university said Thursday.

The Bend campus until last year served as a “university center,” at which students completed degree programs from a number of schools, including the University of Oregon, for example, said OSU-Cascades communications director Christine Coffin. OSU-Cascades graduated the last of those students in 2012.

“We could be much more streamlined because we didn’t have to coordinate across multiple institutions,” she said.

The university expects an audience of more than 1,500 family and friends at Les Schwab Amphitheater for commencement exercises June 16. In total, 241 graduates earned degrees at the Bend campus this year, of whom 167 plan to attend the ceremony.

OSU plans to expand the Cascades campus to a four-year university, provided the Legislature approves a $16 million bond package before the session ends in about a month.

The expansion could more than double the enrollment in Bend to 5,000 by 2025, triple the number of classrooms and grow the campus to between 41 and 65 acres, according to recent reports.

“We have some pretty aggressive enrollment goals,” Coffin said.

Keeping with that, the university underscores that the value of a degree earned in Bend is the same as one earned in Corvallis, home of the main campus.

“I think there’s a concept of a branch campus that is not always understood,” Coffin said. “I think a lot of lay people don’t understand that a branch comes with all the same requirements for faculty and for degrees.”

The diploma states Oregon State University, not OSU-Cascades.

“We just want to be clear about that,” she said. “We want to make sure the value of the degree is clearly understood.”

This year’s commencement speaker is Cylvia Hayes, the first lady of Oregon and founder and CEO of 3EStrategies, a Bend-based consultant firm.

Oran Teater, a former Bend mayor, will receive the OSU-Cascades Distinguished Service Award, the third given by the school.

Cascades graduates come from Oregon and 12 other states, according to the university. Fifty-five students of the class of 2013 earned master’s degrees, 185 earned bachelor’s and one a Ph.D. The youngest graduate is 20, the oldest, 61.