All posts tagged: christian higher education

Not me!  I’m not necessarily new to NCU.  I hold two degrees from the University, and I was on staff for nine years prior to moving to the Portland area in 2009.  Now, I’m back!  And I’m excited to share with you the new career development things I’ve been working on this summer. You’ve probably…

Being a camp representative for Northwest Christian University over the summer was never seen as a heavy burden to me. I viewed the position of NCU Camp Rep as an opportunity to encourage youth to pursue their Christian walk in a community filled with a future of ministry opportunities. (Of course, you can’t forget the…

Four of my five immediate family members have graduated from this University. My wife Ginny, in fact, graduated three times, earning her associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s. Three family members were in school at the same time (an impossible feat without considerable scholarship support, as one can imagine). The personal friendships, nurture and direction received while…

Like any other discipline or profession, librarianship has its own unique set of issues, questions, dreams, frustrations, and particular language. Topics as lofty as intellectual freedom and information literacy mix with subjects as mundane as overdue fine amounts and cataloging minutia in our conversations with one another. The challenge, often, is finding opportunities to have…

Years ago I had the opportunity to hear Kelly Monroe-Kullberg speak about the motivations that led her to found The VERITAS Forum at Harvard in 1992.  I was profoundly stuck by what she proposed as the highest mission for higher education: “the search for truth in response to the most important questions of life.” She…