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Northwest Nazarene University

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Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nampa, Idaho, U.S. [1]

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A. Gordon Wetmore

Arnold Gordon Wetmore (June 24, 1931 – June 9, 2016) was an American theologian who was president emeritus of the Nazarene Theological Seminary and a former president of the Northwest Nazarene College.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Athletic nickname

The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bible college

Bible colleges (sometimes referred to as Bible institutes or Theological Institute) are Protestant Christian institutions of higher education that prepare students for Christian ministry with theological education, Biblical studies and practical ministry training.

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Black

Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Caldwell, Idaho

Caldwell is a city in and the county seat of Canyon County, Idaho, United States.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America.

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College of Idaho

The College of Idaho (C of I) is a private, residential liberal arts college in the western United States, located in Caldwell, Idaho. Founded in 1891, it is the state's oldest private liberal arts college, with an enrollment of 1,140 students. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The C of I has produced seven Rhodes Scholars, three governors and four NFL players. Its PEAK Curriculum allows students to study in the four knowledge areas of humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and a professional field, enabling them to earn a major and three minors in four years. For sixteen years, from November 1991 until October 2007, the C of I was known as Albertson College of Idaho.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) is a higher education association of more than 180 Christian institutions around the world.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Donna Fletcher Crow

Donna Fletcher Crow (born 1941) is mystery writer known for historical Christian fiction.

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Eastern Nazarene College

The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a private, coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Boston, in the New England region of the United States.

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Educational accreditation

Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met.

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Fred J. Shields

Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

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Gentlemen's agreement

A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Great Northwest Athletic Conference

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) is a collegiate athletic conference which has historically operated in the northwestern United States, but also currently includes four schools in areas not usually considered part of that region—two in Alaska (neither of which is located in Southeast Alaska, an area often considered part of the Northwest), one in eastern Montana (almost never considered part of the region), and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia (an area included with the Northwest U.S. in the larger Pacific Northwest region).

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Henry Orton Wiley

Henry Orton Wiley (1877–1961) was a Christian theologian primarily associated with the followers of John Wesley who are part of the Holiness movement.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Inside Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed is a media company and online publication that provides news, opinion, resources, events and jobs focused on college and university topics.

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John E. Riley

John Eckel Riley was a Nazarene minister and president of the Northwest Nazarene College (NNC) from 1952 to 1973.

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Joseph G. Morrison

Joseph G. Morrison (1871–1939) was an American minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Kenneth H. Pearsall

Kenneth H. Pearsall (1918–1999) was president of the Northwest Nazarene College from 1973 to 1983.

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Kent R. Hill

Kent R. Hill is the Executive Director of the Religious Freedom Institute (DC).

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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.

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Lori Otter

Lori Otter (née Easley) (born January 4, 1967) is an American educator, author, and former beauty queen who has served as First Lady of Idaho since 2007.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Michael Lodahl

Michael Lodahl is a theologian in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

Mildred Olive Bangs Wynkoop (born September 9, 1905 in Seattle, Washington died May 21, 1997 in Lenexa, Kansas) was an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, who served as an educator, missionary and theologian, and the author of several books.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Nampa, Idaho

Nampa is the largest city of Canyon County, Idaho.

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National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs, primarily across the United States but also outside the US.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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NCAA Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC) is the United States' regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation for all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten to the doctoral level.

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Nighthawk

A nighthawk is a nocturnal bird of the subfamily Chordeilinae, within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, native to the western hemisphere.

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Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the United States Department of Education since 1952 as the regional authority on educational quality and institutional effectiveness of higher education institutions in the seven-state Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

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Olive Winchester

Olive May Winchester (1879–1947) was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom,.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Point Loma Nazarene University

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a Christian liberal arts college.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Private university

Private universities are typically not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Richard Hieb

Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions.

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Russell V. DeLong

Russell Victor DeLong (1901–1981) was a Nazarene minister, evangelist, and college president.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Softball

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Thomas Jay Oord

Thomas Jay Oord (born November 10, 1965) is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multidisciplinary studies who teaches at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Nazarene_University

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