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The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has awarded Northwest Christian University (NCU) a grant from its fund for Humanities Research for the Public Good.  The $10,000 grant was awarded to NCU to conduct research to trace the history of Pacific Christian Hospital, founded in 1924 by NCU predecessor Eugene Bible University, now PeaceHealth Sacred Heart…

Northwest Christian University’s (NCU) students and faculty begin classes on Monday, March 30, 2020. All undergraduate and graduate classes will be taught online for the remainder of the semester, ending Friday, May 8, 2020. “After a challenging Spring Break, we are pleased to have everyone back in class,” said NCU President Joseph D. Womack. “The…

More than 40 alumni and guests from the Northwest Christian classes of 1968, ’69, and ’70 visited campus on Sept. 27 through 29, to renew friendships and share stories about their time together on campus. The Class of ’69 hosted the event. Alumni Weekend kicked off on Friday with a casual dinner get together at…

Northwest Christian University (NCU) and Oregon City-based Clackamas Community College (CCC) have signed an articulation agreement creating a pathway for graduates of the community college’s registered nursing program to enroll in NCU’s Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science of Nursing (RN to BSN) program ready to take classes in the major. “Our RN to BSN…

Northwest Christian University starts the 2019-2020 academic year with five new faculty members joining the campus community along with a new lineup of departmental deans. Academic Affairs has implemented a new leadership model with six academic deans (five of whom are new appointees) leading the University’s major academic departments and reporting directly to Dennis Lindsay,…

Britnee Joaquin and Tomás Carradero received Northwest Christian University’s highest student honors for academic achievement and leadership during the University’s 120th Commencement. Joaquin is from Simi Valley, California. She received the President’s Scholastic Award for the highest cumulative grade point average with at least 61 credit hours earned at NCU. She graduated summa cum laude…

For the second consecutive year, Jesse Gerlach, a sophomore communications major from Eugene, Ore., has won the Bash-Whisler Bible Reading Competition and Angela Cusano, a senior communications major from Simi Valley, Calif., was the runner-up. Katy Noel from Eugene, Ore., also a senior communications major, placed third. Established 57 years ago, students from all major…

Angela Doty ’00, M.A.’05, GDCF, has earned the prestigious Certified Career Counselor credential from the National Career Development Association (NCDA). “Angela is recognized by her career development peers as a leader in guiding students to find their professional calling,” said Dennis Lindsay, Dr. Theol., Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. “Earning…

Tickets are on sale for Night of Jazz, produced by the Northwest Christian University Performing Arts Department. The concert will be held on Sat., March 16 at 7pm in the Ross Evans Chapel located on the 2nd floor of the Price Music Building on the campus of Northwest Christian University. Free parking is available at…

NCU’s Ryan Melton, Ph.D., LPC, ACS, director and assistant professor of clinical mental health counseling, is one of five mental health professionals in the world certified by Yale University’s PRIME Research Clinic to use and teach Structure Interview of Psychosis-risk Syndrome (SIPS) to diagnose a patient’s clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis and cases of…