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Media Mentions

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Mar. 15, 2025 | The Carpenter Media Group profiled Poeko Waiwaiole '97 as one of its 2025 "Amazing Educators" in Portland. Waiwaiole is a social studies teacher and the head girls' basketball coach at Portland's Cleveland High School.
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Mar. 14, 2025 | In a commentary that he co-wrote for the Oregon Capital Chronicle, Andy Saultz, interim dean of the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ College of Education, explains why more funding for K-12 education in Oregon is important, but alone insufficient.
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Mar. 8, 2025 | Andy Saultz, interim dean of the College of Education, appeared on WGTD Radio in Kenosha, Wisconsin to discuss what has happened with federal education policy over the last four years. Saultz conducted similar interviews with the station in 2017 and 2021.
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Mar. 8, 2025 | Professor of German Lorely French spoke with The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) about her work on Romani Holocaust survivor and artist Ceija Stojka. Some of Stojka's works are being shown as part of the "Seeking Warmth" exhibit at Vancouver's Art at the Cave gallery.
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Mar. 5, 2025 | Former Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Libraries Dean Isaac Gilman PhD '23 discusses his tenure at Pacific with the Charleston Hub and his transition to his new role as the executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.
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Mar. 4, 2025 | Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ President Jenny Coyle Ê»90, OD Ê»93, MS Ê»00 was quoted in Andy GiegerichÊ»s column in the Portland Business Journal discussing the challenges facing college enrollment nationwide.
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Feb. 25, 2025 | Source Weekly in Bend, Oregon profiled Joanna Adams PA '13, who overcame a spinal injury to continue her love for skiing at Mt. Bachelor through the efforts of Oregon Adaptive Sports.
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Feb. 25, 2025 | Oregon Public Broadcasting recognizes the 145th anniversary of the Chemawa Indian School, which began as the Forest Grove Indian Training School. The story features research on the school by Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Archivist Eva Guggemos and the work of Pacific's Indigenous Student Alliance to remember those who died at the school between 1880 and 1885.
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Feb. 21, 2025 | The Jamaica Observer profiled Master in Fine Arts in Writing Professor Kwame Dawes and his goals as the recently appointed Poet Laureate in Jamaica. "We will celebrate poetry, remember the legacy of the poets, bring the gift of poetry to our people and encourage our people to recognize poetry in their everyday lives."
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Feb. 20, 2025 | In a Willamette Week article referencing an increase in teachers hired in K-12 in Oregon, Andy Saultz, interim dean of the College of Education, emphasizes that quality is an important as quality in hiring. “In school, a quality teacher is the most important factor.â€