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NNU FORENSICS TEAM EXPERIENCES GREAT SUCCESS AT REGIONAL TOURNAMENT

Northwest Nazarene University’s Forensics team recently attended the Regional Tournament at Pacific University, in Oregon state, with great success. The team competed against 13 other schools including Boise State, Oregon State, Whitworth and Utah State. Junior...

NNU SPONSORS THE IACTE RECEPTION FOR LEGISLATORS

Late January 2024, Northwest Nazarene University sponsored the Reception for Legislators, hosted by the Idaho Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (IACTE). The event was designed to build communication and relationships between university-based educator...

GRAND OPENING OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CLINIC

Northwest Nazarene University recently announced the opening of the University Medical Clinic on February 5, 2024. This fully-staffed clinic provides routine primary care services, can bill most insurance providers and is conveniently located on the NNU campus at 823...

NNU TO LAUNCH ENGLISH TH.D. IN SUMMER 2024

Northwest Nazarene University recently announced the launch of a new English Th.D. in Practical Theology in the summer of 2024. NNU is the first institution of the Church of the Nazarene in the United States or Canada to offer Th.D. and Ph.D. in theology degrees....

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,...

NNU HOSTED 18TH ANNUAL HISPANIC YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

Northwest Nazarene University welcomed over 700 students from 30 different schools to its campus for the 18th annual Idaho Hispanic Youth Leadership Summit. Young Hispanic students came from across the Boise Valley, some from as far away as Gooding, Buhl and Wendall....

OPENING THOUGHTS: HABITS

By: Joel Pearsall, NNU President Habit: “A settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up…” Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford Press 2010, 2017 I really love words! I am fascinated by words, their meaning(s), and their origins. Most...

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...

PROFILES: ZOE D’ORAZIO, UNDERGRADUATE 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 Zoe D’Orazio, our undergraduate student profile for Summer 2023. MAJOR: Graphic Design FUTURE PLANS: My future...

PROFILES: DR. ROBIN GILBERT, FACULTY

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 Dr. Robin Gilbert, our faculty profile for Summer 2023. NAME: Robin R. Gilbert PROFESSION: Educator HOMETOWN:...