SALEM, OR (May 1, 2024) – On Wednesday, May 1, Corban University celebrated a historic occasion with the official inauguration of the institution’s 11th president, Dr. John Mark Yeats. Dr. Yeats was officially named to the position on March 14 of 2023 and has served in an official capacity for the entirety of the 2023/24 […]

Assistant Professor of Education – ESOL Director asotelo@corban.edu B.A. Elementary Education & Psychology with additional endorsement in middle school history – Bethel University (College) M.S.Ed. in ESOL Education – Western Oregon University Administrative License – Portland State University Professor Sotelo has been an educator for more than two decades with experience as a teaching, as […]

Assistant Professor of Business kmedyanik@corban.edu B.S. Management, Minor in Finance – Old Dominion University MBA – University of Phoenix DBA – North Central University Throughout her career in higher education, Dr. Medyanik has accumulated extensive experience building professional development programs for faculty and students. In the professional sector, she has grown two successful businesses from […]

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology pcarter@corban.edu B.S. Health and Human Kinetics – Warner Pacific University M.S. Exercise Science and Health Promotion – Pennsylvania Western University CSS, Certified Speed Specialist – NASE PES, Performance Enhancement Specialist – NASM Professor Carter has worked with all populations in improving movement quality and health all the way up to elite […]

“I’ve always been a builder, simple as that,” says Terry Williams, his workman’s hands folded together in front of him. Throughout his nearly 50-year career coaching basketball at virtually every age-group and level imaginable, Williams has built up program after program—practice by practice and shot by shot. In doing so, he has built more than […]

“It’s true that you get rejected far more than you get accepted,” Corban student Savannah Busby says. Rejection was what she was expecting as she refreshed her email inbox for the third time. When she first came to Corban, Savannah thought she hated poetry, until she was dragged “kicking and screaming” into Dr. Tennant’s poetry […]

“I think people traditionally think of students as 18 to 22, looking forward to the rest of their lives, but we tend to forget there are other people out there looking to learn, no matter their age or what they’ve done in the past,” says junior accounting major Emanuel Muange. When Emanuel first arrived at […]

When Ryan Harris’ father sent him a posting for a new head baseball coach position all the way in Oregon, he thought it was a joke. “I asked if he was crazy,” Harris remembers. “He said to me, ‘God has a plan, you never know.’” After spending the past five years coaching in Georgia at […]

“Nurses meet people at very emotionally and physically vulnerable points in their lives,” says Sheryl Rasmussen [Ruhlman] (’86). “I never would have imagined the close and quick connection that often comes with this profession. We have the privilege of caring for everyone, without judgment—in their best times and their worst times—in their living and their […]

SALEM, OR (February 26, 2024) – Corban University is launching a new nursing program which will offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN) to undergraduate students beginning Fall of 2024. The new BSN program will fall under the Department of Math and Sciences and aims to help increase the number of competent, caring, […]