Comings and Goings
The university has hired Jenny Duquette to serve as a coordinator for the undergraduate teaching, administrative licensure, doctor of education, and master of education and endorsement programs. She has worked at Mt. Hood Community College for the past 20 years, as a student development technology specialist (2019-20), a degree audit coordinator and encoder (2006-19), a student records coordinator (2001-06) and a testing services coordinator (2000-01). This marks a return to George Fox for Jenny, who earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology/social work in 1994. She lives in Beaverton with her husband, Jon, and daughters Lucy and Gemma. The family attends Beaverton Christian Church.
After serving at Portland Seminary for 12 years, Roger Nam is leaving George Fox to join the Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta as a professor of Hebrew Bible this fall. Roger arrived at the university in 2008 as a professor of biblical studies and has served as dean of the seminary the past two years. The university is working on a succession plan for the dean position and will communicate it when it is finalized.
Laura Hartley, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since the fall of 2013, is leaving George Fox this spring to take the position of provost at Seattle Pacific University.