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“God is at work in shaping us and moving us toward an era of growing

innovation and globalization.”

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From the President

A year filled with milestones

In October 2012 we celebrated 110 years since our institution’s founding as Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School.

In May 2013 we graduated the last class to earn diplo-mas embossed with the name “Northwestern College.”

And at the turn of the calendar to close our 2012–13 academic and fiscal year, on July 1, 2013 we launched a new era as University of Northwestern – St. Paul.

A vibrant past, an exciting future

In January 2012 I introduced to our faculty, staff and student leaders a concept we refer to as 7 & 1 by 21, a strategic plan with intentional goals to sustain and enhance our mission to reach a total student popula-tion of 7,000 students and a Northwestern Media listener base of one million listeners by the year 2021.

On the media side, as you’ll see in this report, that one-million mark has already been met, demonstrating growth that exceeds our most ambitious expectations. We praise God for the lives being touched through this ministry!

For the university, we seek to reach people through Christ-centered education as we expand graduate offerings, online learning, and innovative dual degree and dual enrollment programs. We are pursuing exciting global partnerships that will build bridges for our students and faculty to learn, serve, and study abroad and to bring more international students to our campus.

As you read highlights from our last year as a college, you will see how God is at work in shaping us and moving us toward an era of growing innovation and globalization.

Alan S. Cureton, Ph.D.President

u n iver S ity o F n orthweStern miS Sion S tatement

University of northwestern – St. paul exists to provide Christ-centered higher education equipping students to grow intellectually and spiritually, to serve effectively in their professions, and to give god-honoring leadership in the home, church, community, and world.

n orthweStern media miS Sion S tatement

northwestern media exists to lead people to Christ and nurture believers in their spiritual growth through Christ-centered media.

President Cureton prays with students and employees during University celebration day.

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nursing Program up and running

Northwestern’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) officially launched in May 2013 after years of prayer, months of preparation and a green-light from the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

Students learn in state-of-the-art facilities that include an eight-bed clinical lab and more.

The 16-month program helps students to save time and money and enter their careers faster, with no compromise on the level of preparation. The program is rigorous and unique in four key areas, offering:

• Blendedlearningformatthatincludesface-to-faceandonlinelearning

• Christ-centeredapproachtoserviceandcare

• Inter-professionalcollaborationwithhealthcareprofessionals

• Clinicalimmersionswithcross-culturalandpopulation-basedlearningopportunities.

Learn more about Nursing at unwsp.edu/nursing.

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AcAdemics increasing dual enrollment

Helping students achieve their educational goals in a way that’s efficient and affordable is a vital strategy in higher education today. Northwestern’s dual enrollment, dual degree, and Degree in Three programs meet this need head-on.

Dual enrollment refers to courses taken by high school students (typically juniors and seniors) that count toward high school graduation and concurrently for college or university credit. Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program is UNW’s largest dual enrollment venue. In 2012–13, more than 1,100 students took PSEO courses online, on site in Christian high schools, or on campus, making Northwestern Minnesota’s largest private school provider of PSEO courses.

Other dual enrollment venues include College in the Schools (CIS) in private Christian high schools in other states or countries and

Early College discounted online courses. CIS programs in Texas and Ecuador have met with great success.

Degree in Three is available for select undergraduate majors to help students chart a course to graduating in three years, while the unique B.A./M.Div. track for ministry allows students to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in just five years.

The benefits are clear. Through these strate-gic programs, students are graduating sooner and with less debt.

develoPing leaders in and outside oF the classroom

Northwestern’s Leadership Development Program (LDP) is an out-of-classroom experience designed for students interested in leadership. The program takes place over four semesters and culminates with a certificate of leadership. Since its start in 2007, LDP participation has increased dramatically, jumping from 18 participants in 2009 to 143 in 2013.

One component of the program is participation in the twice-yearly Leadership Advance Conference, open to all and attended

by more than 200 students. Additionally, in spring 2013 a group of LDP participants planned and implemented a High School Leadership Conference on campus—now an annual event.

LDP participant Andrew Hershey ’16 noted, “The Leadership Development Program allowed me to better understand myself, the gifts God has given me, and the way I lead, and has given me a passion to lead, influence and develop leaders all around the world.”

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theatre on Purpose takes hard look at tough topics

Theatre can be so much more than entertainment. In 2013 Northwestern’s Theatre Department took that to heart and launched Theatre on Purpose (ToP).

Directed by professional theatre artists, ToP brings together a small ensemble of Northwestern student theatre artists who write and perform original pieces about important social issues. The inau-gural production in 2013 focused on the tragedy of human trafficking and its unprecedented growth in Minnesota and the world.

The venue is portable and the first ToP ensem-ble shared gripping and thought-provoking perfor-mances with audiences in schools, churches and on campus. The drama is presented on its own or in conjunction with a post-show talk-back where actors and audience explore the issue more in-depth.

Learn more about Theatre on Purpose at unwsp.edu/theatre.

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students students receive gilman, Fulbright Funding to go abroad

Study abroad seemed out of reach for Britany Dumas-Jones ’15, Kou Thao ’14, and Maly Lee ’15, but the award of a Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for each of them opened up doors to the world. The awards were granted in spring 2013. Dumas-Jones spent fall 2013 studying Chinese and history in Hong Kong; Thao and Lee took part in a tri-country internship in Asia.

The Gilman Scholarship Program was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000 and provides

study- and intern-abroad awards for U.S. undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two- or four-year college or university.

Northwestern’s Fulbright tradition also continued in 2013 when Anastasia Pederson ’13 accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Scholarship appointment to teach high school students in Levice, Slovakia. She is Northwestern’s tenth Fulbright scholar since 2005.

athletic accolades

« 84 student-athletes were honored with UMAC Academic All-Conference Accolades

« 70 student-athletes were named to UMAC All-Conference teams.

« Six students were recognized with UMAC Player of the Year awards.

« Four UNW coaches received Coach of the Year awards.

« Football, volleyball and men’s basketball teams clinched UMAC championships.

« Volleyball and men’s basketball teams earned their third straight NCAA Tournament berths and volleyball had its first-ever NCAA Tournament victory and advanced to the regional semifinal round.

an active Force

The Fellowship of Reconciling Cultures Everywhere (FORCE) is a student-led orga-nization that helps students to celebrate their own cultures and learn how to nurture relationships with people of other cultures. FORCE centers around building commu-nity through events focused on racial justice, cultural education and celebration, and bibli-cal reconciliation. During 2012–13, FORCE members hosted or participated in nearly a dozen events on campus, in the community and out of state.

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Sundance Film Festival: a First for northwestern Students

In January 2013, Associate Professor of Communication Ann Sorenson, MFA, accom-panied six Electronic Media Communication students to Park City, Utah, for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, a premier show-case for independent films.

“Experiential learning is especially important in film-making,” said Sorenson.

“We learn by doing, seeing, listening, and participating. It was an amazing oppor-tunity for film students to meet other film students from across the country, see a variety of films and meet with the directors.” Each morning, the group took part in the Windrider Forum, organized and attended by Christians that met to discuss faith and films and listen to filmmakers.

Krista Koester ’14 said, “These films brought up some of the deepest life questions that every human thinks about. It was a bless-ing to have a trusted group of friends to dialogue with about the questions raised.”

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mediA Kansas city station becomes 15th in networK

On May 1, 2013, Northwestern Media assumed ownership of its 15th radio station, KJNW 88.5 in Kansas City.

Sr. Vice President for Media Paul Virts, Ph.D., is exuberant about the challenge and opportu-nities to reach people in America’s heartland for Christ. Virts said that since changing the station’s formatting to Northwestern Media’s programming, Life 88.5 is attracting anywhere from 100,000 to 120,000 different listeners each week, according to Nielsen Audio.

“Kansas City will have the second-largest reach of all our markets,” Virts noted. “It’s approximately two-thirds the size of the Twin Cities and because of the flat geography of Kansas, the signal reaches a 50- to 75-mile radius and has the potential to be heard by 2.5 million people.”

In addition to reaching listeners over the

airwaves, the new KJNW operates on the network’s most robust website platform yet. Web visitors can listen to music, access bibli-cal teaching, and respond to opportunities to serve and pray for those in their community.

one million marKs media milestone

In 2013, Northwestern Media—via the airwaves from 15 radio stations—reached over one million different listeners. Paul Virts, Ph.D., Sr. Vice President for Media, will be the first to tell that numbers aren’t everything but they can help tell a story.

“This is a big deal because our audience is the largest it’s ever been,” explained Virts, “and means we’re able to deliver on our mission to

more people than ever. We attribute this to God’s favor, great on-air hosts who connect well with listeners, well-researched music, and more.”

Virts also noted that Northwestern Media’s flagship station, 98.5 KTIS in Minneapolis/St. Paul, ranks second among all non-commer-cial (Christian, public radio, etc.) stations in the country.

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University of Northwestern faculty members are in constant pursuit of knowledge in the context of faith. As they seek to elevate their understanding and better equip students, God often opens doors of unexpected enlightenment, collaboration and opportunity.

The 2012–13 academic/fiscal year saw faculty engagement create such opportunities in the form of unique research projects and new classes, exploration trips to pave the way for global student experiences, and continued strengthening of important international affiliations.

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Philosopher & Biologist

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Professor of Philosophy Walter Schultz, Ph.D., and Professor of Biology Lisanne Winslow, Ph.D., both view their scholarly work as an expression of love for the redeeming God of the Bible. In 2012, a casual conversa-tion by the copy machine led to an opportunity to conduct research that joined their areas of academic expertise.

Their biology/philosophy collaboration led to research carried out partially inside the class-room through a spring 2013 course called

“Metaphysics, An Interdisciplinary Quest for a Christian Understanding of Mechanisms in Science.” They chose one very specific mech-anism in biology to study—protein synthesis (how human bodies make protein)—and

determined to try to understand every piece of it and the powers that drive the molecules.

“There’s this whole world of nature that scien-tists explain without God,” said Winslow.

“Walter and I came at it from biblically grounded faith, asking, ‘Where is God in the actual molecular world?’” This question placed them inside a very new field of study, Christian philosophy of biology, also called the philosophy of scientific mechanisms. It was so new, in fact, that no scholarly papers in this area had been published yet.

They decided to be the first and proposed to describe this activity in the universe as “divine compositionalism.” They have subsequently written two papers on divine compositionalism and presented at the Association of Christians and Mathematical Science meeting at Bethel University and at the International Conference on Occasionalism held at Harvard University.

Photo: PuShing the boundarieSthe complex ideas explored in the interdisciplinary metaphys-ics class reflected graduate-level course design. Walter Schultz, ph.d., said, “ We pushed students way beyond traditional under-graduate expectations.”

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China Exploration

Tripgroundwork For oPP or tunit y

With mutual interest in China and passion for global education, four UNW professors went on a two-week China exploration trip in May 2013. The purpose of this joint ven-ture between the Departments of Education and World Languages & Cultures was to investigate opportunities for University of Northwestern students in mainland China.

While there, the team met with representa-tives from more than 10 different schools and educational organizations. According to Education Department Chair Susan Johnson, Ph.D., they clearly achieved their primary goal to lay the groundwork for an ongoing relationship with one or more cooperating schools in China that could host University of Northwestern students for global teaching experiences.

Significant progress was also made toward other trip goals, such as establishing ways to earn degree credit toward licensure programs through a global study and teaching experi-ence, exploring opportunities for Chinese teachers and students to engage in programs at UNW, and pursuing the possibility of UNW students studying the Chinese language at the university level in China.

Pamela Solvie, Ph.D., found the trip to be both exhausting and enjoyable. “We had a rigorous schedule of meetings—and each meeting was wonderful!” Solvie said. “I am excited about the opportunities [education] students will have to meet program require-ments within the context of an international experience.” She added that students grow-ing in intercultural competence as a result of international experiences will strengthen teacher candidates’ skills in working with and teaching others.

Johnson indicated that some new programs resulting from this trip may begin as early as 2014.

Photo: exPloring chineSe cultureleft to right: feng-ling margaret Johnson, ph.d. (World languages & Cultures),ying W. Shen, ph.d. (education), Susan Johnson, ph.d. (education), and pamela Solvie, ph.d. (education).

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Global Opportunities

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Last spring when President Alan Cureton, Ph.D., announced that Northwestern College would become University of Northwestern – St. Paul, he explained the name change’s im-portance in a global context. “In many places around the world, the term ‘college’ actually means high school,” Cureton explained in a press interview.

“University status is also important to sup-port Northwestern’s global initiatives, which include expanding relationships with Daystar University in Kenya and Karunya University in India, as well as our historical partnership with a program in Ecuador,” Cureton said.

Tim Kowalik, Ed.D., professor of communica-tion, and Director of Global Initiatives Garry Morgan, D.Miss., have both spent sabbaticals in recent years teaching at Daystar University in Kenya.

Both faculty members are firm believers in expanding global opportunities and cross-cultural experiences for students and faculty. “The

joy of traveling overseas is tremendous,” said Kowalik, who in addition to his Daystar stint, ministered through a biker ministry in South Africa and helped establish a College in the Schools/dual enrollment partnership (see article, page 5) in Quito, Ecuador.

Morgan points out that beyond faculty exchanges, Northwestern’s primary collaboration with Daystar has been through student

exchanges. This unique program allows stu-dents on either continent to pay the regular tuition of their home institution plus airfare.

“In terms of global interaction we get a double benefit,” Morgan explained, “since UNW students who can’t go abroad get to interact with students from Daystar while they are studying here.”

Photo: building relationShiPStim kowalik, ed.d., (second from left) enjoyed interacting with students in and outside of the classroom during his sabbatical teaching experience at daystar University.

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Follow this

Leaderalumna ProFile

Dalynn (Morton ’94) Hoch quickly ascended in her ca-reer in the financial services industry, but she will never claim she got there alone:

“People have taken me under their wing and given me ev-ery opportunity to succeed.”

In October 2012, Hoch was named chief financial officer of Zurich North America. Zurich North America, based in Schaumburg, Ill.—which celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2012—is a major provider in several lines of business for the U.S. property/casualty market, as of 2013. In North America, Zurich is the fourth largest commercial property-casualty insurance company, the third-largest writer of fidelity and surety and the largest insurer of franchised auto dealers.

The daughter of a Minnesota farmer who supplemented the family income selling insurance, Hoch notes the foundation of her success was shaped by her father and his emphasis on making a difference in people’s lives. “He sat me down—I still remember it—and he said, ‘You know, Dalynn, success is not measured by who you are or what you have, but by where you’ve been and who you’ve touched,’” she says. “I often go back to

my father’s definition of success in my role as CFO. We have an opportunity to touch and impact many people’s lives.”

The Road to Insurance

At Northwestern, Hoch enrolled in the inter-national business program while also taking a number of accounting courses. “I didn’t plan to be an accountant … but as I took classes, they really clicked and it brought out my pas-sion,” she says.

Hoch eventually got the opportunity to work internationally when she took part in a Northwestern program, funded through a grant from 3M, that focused on doing busi-ness in Japan and the Japanese language. She also interned in Japan with Cargill, Inc.

“Experience in Japan—and really for anyone working overseas—helps you find your own strength and who you are. For me, it gave me

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mba offers opportunities for business leaders

Building on decades of sending successful business graduates into the marketplace, University of Northwestern – St. Paul will launch a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program in fall 2014.

The MBA is designed for those who want to achieve greater levels of responsibility and leadership within their chosen profession. Graduates will be equipped to successfully address the challenges of today’s global business environment while integrating a Christian perspective.

Students will learn through a flexible blended-learning format that includes reduced class time once a week plus online coursework, assignments and projects.

MBA instructors will include members of Northwestern’s Business Department and adjunct faculty who are Minnesota business leaders. Students will have access to their professors’ extensive business connections and have opportunities throughout the program to develop a robust professional network of Christian business leaders.

More information is available at unwsp.edu/mba.

a perspective of working globally in a differ-ent culture,” she says.

Upon graduating, Hoch was recruited by KPMG, LLP. There she was admitted to the partnership in 2004 and spent approximately the next five years in the firm’s insurance practice.

It was an industry friend and former colleague who pushed her to the next level of leader-ship, recruiting her to lead the Planning and Performance Management function at Zurich North America in Schaumburg.

Leading Beyond the Numbers

In her career and especially as a CFO, Hoch has learned to employ all her skills: “I bring to the role all of who I am. I bring the fact that I am a finance professional and I bring my passion,” Hoch adds. “But I also bring the fact that I’m a woman and the fact that now I’m a mother and farmer’s daughter. You bring all these things together, and then blend them into the diversity of who you are, not what you are.”

about the articlebased on “follow this leader” by Christopher Westfall, FinancialExecutive magazine (may 2013). find a link to the original article at unwsp.edu/annualreport.

photo courtesy of Zurich north america, rich malec, photographer

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photography: Josh Stokes, guy magno, keely Joy photography, rich malec, gabby pyle, roxanne holmberg ’16, and emily herlinger ’15.

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alan S. Cureton, Ph.D., President

Megan Doyle

Mary C. Edwards, MPH

Stan Erickson

Ginger Ewing, J.D.

ronald r. Halverson

William J. Hamel, M.Div.

George Kenworthy, D.Min.

Carole Lehn, MBa

Lauren D. Libby, MBa

arnold (Bud) Lindstrand ’54

Michael Meloch

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russell r. reynolds, MBa

Sara robertson ’54, Ed. D., Secretary

Grover Sayre III, J.D., Vice Chair

Daniel E. Stoltz, MBa

Stewart S. Van Duzer

David Venberg ’89

PrESIDENT’S CaBINET alan S. Cureton, Ph.D., President

Janet B. Sommers, Ph.D. Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Paul H. Virts, Ph.D. Senior Vice President for Media

amy Bragg Carey, Ed.D. Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Matt Hill ’89, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Life & Athletics

Douglas r. Schroeder, CPa Vice President for Business/CFO

Timothy a. rich, PHr Director of Human Resources

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