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Andrew Bzowyckyj
Andrew Bzowyckyj has been granted indefinite tenure by Pacific University
Hyun Jeong Min
Hyun Jeong Min has been promoted to associate professor of business and granted indefinite tenure by Pacific University
Zhuoming Peng
Zhuoming Peng has been promoted to full professor of business and granted indefinite tenure by Pacific University.
Del Quest
Aisling “Del” Quest has been promoted to associate professor of social work and granted indefinite tenure by Pacific University
Ian O’Loughlin has been promoted to associate professor of philosophy and granted indefinite tenure by Pacific University.
Pacific University sign
Pacific University's Forest Grove Campus is announcing its decision to remain test optional beyond Fall 2021, offering undergraduate applicants the choice to include standardized test scores as part of their application. 
Keli Bruehling BEd '22
As the parent of five, Keli Bruehling BEd ’22 already knows she loves kids. But balancing that family with a job and a college education? That would take love and dedication. Bruehling is in her first year of the Pacific University School of Learning & Teaching bachelor of education program in Roseburg, Ore. “I quickly learned that my family, my employer, my professors and my cohort make an amazing support system and they want to help me succeed,” she said.
Andy Haugen '11, MAT '13
Andy Haugen ’11, MAT ’13 loves seeing his students’ “ah-ha” moments. “You always get a different group of students every year, and you never know what their background or thought processes are,” he said. “It’s always fresh, it’s always unique.” Haugen is a history teacher at Valley Catholic High School, a private school in Beaverton, Ore., where he also is the school librarian.
Luis Garcia Angeles MAT '22
A first-generation college student, Garcia Angeles started his life in a farming community in Mexico. When he was 9, he moved with his family — his “amazing parents who have only a third- and sixth-grade education” — to Oregon, where he started fourth grade as an English language learner. Now, as the first in his family to attend and graduate college, he is pursuing his master of arts in teaching at Pacific, planning to work at a Title I school in or near Hillsboro.
Bryan Cichy-Parker
As a faculty member in Pacific University’s School of Learning & Teaching, Bryan Cichy-Parker is focused on other people’s needs: both his students and the generations of children they will influence. “From the admissions process to graduation, you have someone by your side who thinks about your needs and the needs of the possibly two generations of children that you could end up teaching.

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