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NNU OPENS NOMINATIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
NNU has officially opened its search for the next University president and is now accepting candidate nominations. FaithSearch Partners, a national executive search firm, is actively identifying potential candidates and facilitating the nomination process. To...
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NNU OPENS NOMINATIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
NNU has officially opened its search for the next University president and is now accepting candidate nominations. FaithSearch Partners, a national executive search firm, is actively identifying potential candidates and facilitating the nomination process. To...
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By: Josh Burkholder, Director of Athletics Communication Over the past five years, the Northwest Nazarene softball program has been the most successful team on campus. One could make a great case for it being the best run of any NNU squad since the move to NCAA...
SEEK YE FIRST
By: Grant Miller, University Chaplain, Class of 2010 There’s a story that’s told from time to time on our campus about an early moment in our University’s history. As the account goes, in the spring of 1919, then-president H. Orton Wiley was walking our campus, deep...
MOTHERHOOD & NURSING: A BALANCING ACT
By: Honoria Piña Fernandez, Class of 2025 I am the first of seven children in my family to attend college and the second to graduate high school; never in my life had I imagined I would have come this far. I held back a few years after I graduated high school because...
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Northwest Nazarene University admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs and athletic and other school-administered programs.