Northwest Nazarene University

In 1913, under the leadership of Eugene Emerson, the founders of Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) were motivated by a desire to educate their own children to organize an elementary school. In the ensuing two years, both high school and college courses were added to the curriculum. Thus began the foundation for Northwest Nazarene University, a fully-accredited, co-educational, Christian comprehensive university of the arts, humanities, sciences and professions.