NNU PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

In a letter to the Northwest Nazarene University Board of Trustees, President Joel K. Pearsall announced plans to retire in the summer of 2025. In a June 4 video call with the Board of Trustees, Chair Mike Zahare expressed gratitude to President Pearsall and his wife,...

NNU ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

Northwest Nazarene University has announced the appointment of Zach Marble as NNU’s new Director of Alumni Relations. Marble has been at NNU since 2019, most recently serving as NNU’s Associate Director of Alumni Relations for the past five years. “I have no doubt...

STANDS NAMED NNU’S 2024 L.E. WESCHE OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR

Geoffrey Stands, Director of Safety and Behavior in the West Ada School District in Meridian, has been named this year’s L.E. Wesche Outstanding Educator by Northwest Nazarene University. The award was presented at a private reception on Tuesday, April 16, 2024....

LEADING IN ADVERTISING

By Ryan Cork, Class of 2008 As I began my college search in late high school, NNU was, quite frankly, not on my radar. I had lived in southern California and my sister had attended Point Loma Nazarene University—and that seemed like a pretty ideal school situation....

A LIFE AND CAREER OF CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE

When Molly (Mull) Kling showed up at Northwest Nazarene University in the fall of 2002, she did not know the impact that her time in Nampa would have and continues to have on her life to this day. Growing up in a small town outside of Portland, Kling went to a small...

2023 ALUMNI AWARDS

The 2023 Alumni Awards will be presented during Homecoming Chapel at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 10. Dr. Reginald Finger, Class of 1976 2023 Alumnus of the Year Award Dr. Reginald Finger grew up as an only child with dedicated Christian parents who modeled service,...

PROFILES: LEON NIESSEN, GRADUATE STUDENT

Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Leon Niessen, our graduate student profile for Summer 2023. MAJOR: MBA FUTURE PLANS: Working as an independent...

UNIQUELY TRANSFORMATIVE 
IN THOUGHT & DEED: REGARDING CHANGE

There are many facets of Christian higher education, and at NNU, nuances of faith and learning play out in the classroom, in chapel and in the dining and residence halls. NNU’s beauty is in its various shades of experience—worldview shaping; faculty and staff with...

UNIQUELY TRANSFORMATIVE 
IN THOUGHT & DEED: A REFLECTION ON LANDSCAPE

There are many facets of Christian higher education, and at NNU, nuances of faith and learning play out in the classroom, in chapel and in the dining and residence halls. NNU’s beauty is in its various shades of experience—worldview shaping; faculty and staff with...

THE LONG ROAD

A Journey to Christian Higher Ed Nazarene higher education is part of my heritage. My grandparents graduated from Point Loma, and my parents, aunts and uncles graduated from Northwest Nazarene University. Both my parents worked for NNU when I was a kid. I basically...

LIVING INTO GOD’S STORY

Why a Theology Course Might Make All the Difference I’m in my 30th year of getting to teach Christian theology to general education students at NNU or other Christian universities. I love all my classes, but teaching Intro to Theology to a room full of diverse...

OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING ALUMNI THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY NNU has a 61-year history of providing a quality engineering and physics education. Beginning in 1955 by Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Gilbert Ford, the Department of Engineering and Physics provides a multidisciplinary degree focusing...