SALEM, OR (June 3, 2024) – Corban University proudly announces the appointment of two distinguished leaders, Cornelius Williams, Jr., and Lee Roberson, to its Board of Trustees. Cornelius Williams, Jr., an alum (’89) of the University, is celebrated for his achievements both on and off the court. A former basketball player, he has since carved […]
A colorful map rests framed on a wall outside of the International Teachers College’s (ITC) offices. A rainbow of 3,800 tiny pin heads covers its surface. Each one represents a teacher trained and equipped by ITC through a longstanding partnership between Universitas Pelitas Haripan (UPH) and Corban University. “3,800 grads have gone all over the […]
“For the longest time, I didn’t really know what a ‘veteran’ truly was,” says Andrew Holbert, a Corban alum and executive director of Courtney Place Veterans Housing in Salem, Oregon. “It wasn’t until I first experienced my own struggles after getting out of the Marine Corps that I began to understand what that title meant.” […]
From April 8-10, ten Corban student researchers representing the math and science departments travelled down to Long Beach, California to present research at the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), the nation’s largest undergraduate research conference for the sciences. Held at California State University — Long beach, the conference welcomed over 4,000 student researchers, […]
Thanks to a generous donation by Corban alumni Mark Newman and Andy Tyssen, Corban University’s science department is now in possession of a unique scientific instrument called a Gas Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometer. Newman is the president and founder of Precision Analytical, Inc., a research laboratory located in nearby McMinnville, Oregon, that specializes in advanced […]
While the Pacific Northwest weather did not deliver sunshine, the bright smiles on the faces of hundreds of new Corban graduates more than made up for the rain. On May 4, all of Corban University celebrated as the class of 2024 took definitive steps across the Psalm Center stage, and their first steps into the […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Corban University is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) and completed a Year-Seven Comprehensive (Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness (EIE)) in 2022 for continued accreditation. The comprehensive self-study was followed by an onsite evaluation in October 2022. In February 2023, Corban received reaffirmation of its accreditation for 7 years. Corban University’s last Mid-Cycle Evaluation was fall 2018, and its Policies, Regulations and Financial Review (PRFR) was completed in fall 2021. As of our most recent evaluation, Corban University is compliant with the Standards, Policies, and Eligibility Requirements of the NWCCU.
