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 Brooke Adamson, our faculty profile for Summer 2024.
PROFESSION: Educator of Communication Arts and Processes
HOMETOWN: Born and raised here in Nampa
FUN FACT ABOUT YOU: I have been teaching at NNU since 1998 but became faculty in 2002, which makes me the 16th longest-standing faculty member here!
FAVORITE NNU MEMORY: Playing on the Fall 2021 Intramural Championship flag football team.
Favorite Thing About NNU: One of my favorite things about NNU is our close community. Not everyone can say they look forward to going to work each day, but I do. Getting to spend time with my colleagues and students is such a blessing! Because of our smaller community, we really get to know our students. I still keep in touch with many of them, even years after they graduate.
NNU students frequently express that we do college different. How do you believe NNU does college different? Although high academic standards are important at NNU, the spiritual aspects are as well. As a student, I knew my professors cared about me, but I had no idea the depth until I started working here. There are faculty and staff all over campus in prayer each day over the many students with whom we interact. Not only do we pray for students but the time in prayer with them is so special to me. Getting to walk this part of their journey with students has been one of the best things I have experienced at NNU and sets us apart from other institutions.
How do you see/experience NNU’s motto of “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” lived out on campus? I see this demonstrated in and out of the classroom. No matter what we are teaching, faculty think about ways to connect our relationship to God and how we can turn our focus on Him. I start each class with a devotional and prayer and am able to incorporate ways to acknowledge Him through my discipline of communication. Building relationships, ethical persuasion, nonverbal messages, leadership, all these topics in my classroom make it easy to point back to our main purpose here and what God has called us to do and be in this world. When we seek Him first, our perspective and care for others changes. I am learning each day as I walk onto campus to pray, “Lord what do you want me to know today? What do you want me to do today?”
