There’s a certain nervousness when new teachers enter a classroom and start applying their learned skills and techniques. North Pacific Union is in its third year of offering a layer of support for new graduates, second-year teachers and second-career teachers. “This is giving teachers opportunities to collaborate with their peers across the union and discuss [...]
Beginning this fall quarter 2023, Walla Walla University is the first Seventh-day Adventist college to offer degrees in both cybersecurity and game development. These new programs aim to prepare ethical, Christian experts to join these growing fields. The world of computing is rapidly changing, and WWU is expanding its degree offerings to prepare students for [...]
Earlier this summer, 40 Walla Walla University students traveled to Jordan, Israel, Turkey and Greece for this year’s Bible lands tour. The biennial tour offers students the opportunity to explore and learn from the ancient biblical world. Under the instruction of tour leaders Carl Cosaert, School of Theology dean; Jody Washburn, Hebrew and biblical studies [...]
Walla Walla University received a $235,000 collaborative grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to fund undergraduate research into harmful algal blooms. Alongside researchers from University of Portland and Willamette University, the researchers hope to better understand and more quickly detect the algal blooms, which can produce toxins harmful to people and animals. The goal [...]
In 1903, the Parmele family decided to build a school along Drift Creek. Using hand-sawn lumber, they built a one-room schoolhouse and hired their very first teacher, Charles Butterfield, to teach a dozen students. Over the years, Lincoln City Adventist School went through several iterations and moved several times before finally landing where it currently [...]
The words “summer school” don’t often incite excitement, but they did for many students who attended classes this summer at Walla Walla University’s Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory. During July and August 2023, around 30 students took undergraduate courses or completed graduate-level research on the shores of Puget Sound. “Almost every day there is some kind [...]
Walla Walla University has selected two new leaders to support its mission of quality Adventist education. Brooklynn Armesto-Larson has been named dean of students/assistant vice president for student life, and Howard Munson will serve as associate vice president for academic administration. As dean of students, Armesto-Larson will provide leadership in student conduct and government with [...]
On the evening of June 5, 2023, a small crowd gathered to celebrate the opening of a retail space on Walla Walla University's College Place campus designed and built by environment design students. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Well-Designed Goods was the culmination of months of work and many lessons learned. “In the design industry, our graduates may [...]
5,500 educators from North America and Guam-Micronesia went into “student mode” to learn, grow and network at the "Something Better" NAD Educators' Convention held August 7–10 in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the attendees were 575 educators from the North Pacific Union. What are teachers like when they are in the student role? They listened — fairly [...]
For the last five years, the North Pacific Union Creation Study Center has sponsored DinoDig for school groups to learn how to excavate bones and what that means for our faith, but is it making a difference in the lives of those attending? I'm a third-generation Adventist. I don't remember a time when I didn't believe [...]
